Been collecting for a few years and never thought to photograph and post my stuff before now
I’ve been collecting old US coins for years and never thought to check if Reddit had a coin collecting sub! Anyways here is my stuff and descriptions for each pic:
Pic 1: various silver quarters, the two newer ones on the bottom right are proof strike state quarters, but they are still 90% silver for some reason, not sure why. Maybe from a collector set? Both have the San Francisco Mint mark, but I got them from a friend who got them as change from the bank
Pic 2: a sheild nickel, and both versions of the 1883 nickel, the original “V” version and the “V cents” version. I think it’s funny that they had to add “cents” because people gold-plated the “V” ones and passed them off as $5 gold pieces back in 1883
Pic 3: various random buffalos I grabbed here and there over time, they are pretty cool
Pic 4: some old US-occupied Philippines 1 and 5 “Centavos” coins. I collected a few of these since they are technically still US coins
Pic 5: assorted dimes (and a Trime!) some Mercuries and Liberties in there, with a pair of uncirculated late silver dimes
Pic 6: a pair of Silver 1893 Columbian expedition half dollars (to my knowledge, the first official US special edition collectors coin, I could be wrong though)
Pic 7: some walking liberties and franklins. It seems to me that the franklins get overshadowed as being smushed between the much more popular walking liberty and Kennedy style half dollars, it could just be me though
Pic 8: a pair of bicentennial kennedys, left is a regular strike and right is a proof strike.
Pic 9: a small pile of Indian Head pennies, a bicentennial Lincoln penny that had some things stamped into it (I think it came from Washington from a special gift shop thing or something like that), then an uncirculated steelie, and 2 big style (coronet I think?) pennies, one of which was sadly polished by one of its previous owners.
Pic 10: a 3-pack of uncirculated steelies, all 3 mints included
Pic 11: some of my goofy/oddball coins, including a wheat penny pressed into an Iron City Beer token, not sure what it is, maybe like a souvenir from some old bar? Then what I think is a penny blank, it appears to be a penny-sized blank copper circle with a ridge like a penny. Then we have a (fake) double-headed peace dollar from Batman (it’s Harvey Dent’s coin). A couple of majorly off-center strikes, and the Gold Assasin Coin from John Wick (not actually gold)
Pic 12: my work-in-progress silver dollar collection, trying to get every year and mint mark for the peace dollar (also all 3 mints of the 21’ Morgan are there too)
Pic 13: a whole tube of bulk mercury dimes! I love the way these look, so I bought a tube and slowly filled it up over time.
Pic 14: a small tube of only 1964 kennedys, the only year that style came in 90% silver. Most are in really good condition too!
Pic 15: two solid rolls of just wheat pennies.
Pic 16: 186-year-old (at the time of being put in the acrylic case, it’s actually 217 now!) copper coin recovered from the Admiral Gardener that sunk in 1809
Pic 17: one-year-anniversary 9-11 silver dollar passed to me from my late aunt, it’s a .999 silver eagle that’s been printed on, it’s really cool
Pics 18 and 19: and now for The Crown Jewels of my collection: an 1878-s Morgan dollar and a 1921 Peace Dollar, both in uncirculated condition! With the Morgan, I just got lucky, right place right time, I think it was $40 I paid for it. The peace dollar is an even better story, it was clamped inside a $20 junk necklace in the jewelry section of a gold and silver shop (before you ask, I do not believe it was ever polished, the shine looks like the original high-relief luster that 1921s had, and I used my mini coin microscope to study the surface and didn’t see any micro-scratches that a polished coin would have) . I snatched it up right away, removed it from the necklace, and stuck it in that acrylic dish as seen in the pic, it’s a beautiful piece, pics don’t do it Justice.
And that’s my collection up to this point, what do y’all think?