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ColeHW34

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I don't know how many people enjoy coin collecting or stamp collecting around these parts. 

So here we go!

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A Story Story About John the Jackass

 

Long away and far ago when the price of silver was just a fraction of what it is today John the Jackass noticed a financial bubble forming. The Hunt Brothers Inc. were attempting to corner the silver market by acquiring as much of it as they could. Predictably this artificial scarcity inflated the price of silver and the Bros got filthy stinking rich(er) speculating.  Predictably John the Jackass began buying as many rolls of silver dimes as his income (and wife) allowed. Of course all good things have to come to an end. Silver got too expensive to invest in any more. Investors began to notice this. John the Jackass didn't.  He continued to invest, despite the price. I suppose you all know the end of this story.  However every financial catastrophe has a silver lining.  In disgust, John the Jackass began selling off his silver at about its face value. I noticed this and began buying beautiful silver proof coins from all around the world. I cut precisely sized holes in plexiglass sheet to display my collection and it has kept it reasonably free of any tarnish. Now the price of silver is very much more than what it was when I bought the coins. Now I go to sleep every night under a wall gleaming with a galaxy of thousands of dollars of silver. The moral of this story? Don't be a John.

 

BTW : did you pass the marshmallow test ??   

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1 hour ago, Yeast said:

BTW : did you pass the marshmallow test ??   

I'm still waiting for the intended gratification / punchline in order to pass it successfully

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It is much more grand in real life though, 

Imgur loves to screw with my photos.

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I have a mini stamp collection with mostly animal stamps (cats, rabbits, dogs). Let's face it, those are the best ones, especially the Laika stamp :lol: 

 

And I have a collection of Canadian and American Quarters I (especially like the National Park ones), and I've got some Icelandic kronor (those have all sorts of fancy pancy sea-life on them :lol: )

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I have some interesting old coins, which I use as part of my dice arsenal for tabletop gaming.

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I don't even know how it grew atleast 350% in just 2 years.

 

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I have a small collection of coins and foreign currency in a little box that looks like a book and has an old-timey map on the cover. (incorrect/ old maps show up many times in my decorations...)

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On 10/15/2018 at 10:31 PM, CajunAce said:

I have a small collection of coins and foreign currency in a little box that looks like a book and has an old-timey map on the cover. (incorrect/ old maps show up many times in my decorations...)

So do I!

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8 hours ago, ColeHW said:

 

Wait so do I!

Cool! I thought I was the only one who liked those kind of decorations. My parents even bought me a nice travel suitcase with an old world map on it ( I travel a lot)

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Nice collection you have!

 

I collect both coins and stamps, but I prefer non-American. I hope some day to get at least 1 coin and stamp from every nation that has existed in the 20th & 21st Centuries. Kind of hard though when I spend usually nothing (or very little. on getting them. I have about 15 countries in coins but about 60-75 in stamps. I did find out that a good way to get cheap world stamps is from old postcards, you can buy tons of them for sometimes crazy cheap and just have them for the stamp. I need to find a way to get cheap foreign coins though.

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I am looking for SSR's or every communist, socialist, or fascist country's coins or bills.

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That sounds like a cool idea, kind of hard for some of the Fascist ones though, as some of them only lasted a few years. I managed to dig up an Vichy France 2 Franc coin in my backyard a few years ago. I have no idea what it was doing there.

 

I like communist and socialist countries stamps though, they all tend to vary between really cool modern things, heads of Marx, Stalin, etc., or outlandish Socialist-Realist artworks.

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14 hours ago, Aebt said:

I managed to dig up an Vichy France 2 Franc coin in my backyard a few years ago. I have no idea what it was doing there.

Nice find! I found several of my foreign coins in my grandparents' desk, no clue why. And I did once find a coin from Israel on the ground in a park in east Texas of all places

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I like old currency.  I have several two dollar bills from the 1960's and 70's, and a 1950 50 dollar bill.  Also some other old bills from the 50's and 60's.  

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So what do you think about my collection?

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I have a coin/banknote collection, containing all types of coins and banknotes; from euros, to guilders, to notgeld to money from all around the world (e.g. from travelling). I'm not actively collecting anymore however.

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The guilder (gulden) was our local currency before 2002. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the bigger coins (0.5 guilders, 1 guilder and 2.5 guilders) usually depicted our king/queen on one side and its value and coat of arms on the other side, whereas the smaller coins (0.5 cents, 1 cent, 2.5 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents and 25 cents) usually either depicted the coat of arms or king/queen on one side and its value on the other side. There were also some commemorative coins and a regular 5 guilder coins during the second half of the 20th century. However, there is a lot of change and variation throughout time, especially in size and material value.

Notgeld (nootgeld) refers to the local money produced during political/economic crisis. Whereas this was usually paper money, they sometimes also produced coins. The fun thing about notgeld is the amount of variation for each and every commune/region. During and after WW1, communes and regions around Germany and Austria produced loads of small colourful banknotes with depictions of buildings, scenery, folklore, animals, coat of arms, politics, writings and many other things.

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