I like to collect different coins. I don’t have many really old ones; they are mostly just this and that and are usually not too hard to find. ;-)
Unless otherwise stated, I got all of the pictures from the United States Mint’s web site.
I have money from: the U.S. (of course!) | Canada | France | Germany | Italy | Japan | Mexico | Peru | Romania | Saudi Arabia | Spain
United States
50 State Quarters | Golden Dollar coin | Others
Here are pictures of some of the coins I have collected.
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Delaware P/D
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Pennsylvania P/D
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New Jersey P/D
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Georgia P/D
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Conneticut P/D
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Massachusetts P/D
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Maryland P/D
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South Carolina P/D
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New Hampshire P/D
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Virginia P/D
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New York P/D
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North Carolina P/D
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Rhode Island P/D
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Vermont P/D
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Kentucky P/D
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Tennessee P/D
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Ohio D
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Louisiana P/D
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Indiana P/D
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Mississippi P/D
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Illinois D
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Alabama D
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Maine D
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Missouri D
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Arkansas D
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Michigan
Coming Soon!
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Florida
Coming Soon!
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Texas
Coming Soon!
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Iowa
Coming Soon!
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Wisconsin
Coming Soon!
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The other stuff I have collected (I don’t have pictures of the coins though) are:
$2 bill
Several sets of consecutively printed dollar bills:
7 in a row (1995, F 41177851 N - F 41177857 N)
3 (1999, G 07799331 F - G 07799333 F)
3 (1999, J 10166839 D - J 10166841 D)
3 (1995, J 59760048 E - J 59760050 E)
2 (1999, G 07799321 F - G 07799322 F)
Bicentennial half-dollar (made only in 1976, Independence Hall)
Bicentennial quarter (also 1976 only, Drummer)
Half-dollar (mine is 1994)
Missouri Sales Tax Token (red plastic “Mil,” no year, 1/10¢, my brother broke it in half! Green ones were 1/2¢.)
Silver dime (1964 or older; mine is 1946)
Susan B. Anthony dollar (1979 - 1981, I have ’79 and ’80; ’81 is either extremely rare or doesn’t exist; I have been told they don’t, but someone said he has seen one)
V nickel (mine is 1904)
Wheat penny
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Foreign currency, which is also neat because it is uncommon here.
Canada
$20 bill which I got in Washington DC
$10 bill which my dad gave me
$5 bill which I got for $4 U.S. at Petrified Forest from a tourist
$2 coin which my dad brought back for me from Canada when he visited Quebec City
$1 coin which my dad got at the same time
Several designs of the quarter, including: (1999) June, December; (2000), Creativity, Freedom, Harmony, Health, Natural Legacy, Pride, and Wisdom
Dime (silver colour, reeded edge)
Nickel (silver colour)
Penny (copper colour)
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France
“½ Fr.” (silver colour, reeded edge)
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Germany
20 mark note
10 mark note
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Italy
10,000 lire note
5,000 lire note
1,000 lire note
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Japan
¥1 coin (aluminum, the writing is in Japanese characters which I cannot reproduce.)
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Mexico (all have wrap-around “ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS”)
old 100 peso coin (brass colour, “$100,” 100 pesos in the old currency; reeded. I’m not sure what it’s worth in new pesos.)
old 50 peso coin (silver colour, “$50,” 50 old pesos, reeded, ditto the last item.)
5 peso coin (silver colour w/brass inset, “N$5,” the N means it is the new currency)
2 peso coin (same colours, “N$2,” N is new currency)
1 peso coin (same colours, “N$1,” ditto again)
50¢ coin (brass colour, “50¢,” half-peso in the new currency)
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Peru
20 centimos (brass colour, wrap-around on heads “GRAN ALMIRANTE MIGUEL PERU,” on tails “BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU”)
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Romania
“100 LEI” coin (silver colour, inscription on edge “ROMANIA *** ROMANIA *** ROMANIA ***”)
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Saudi Arabia
1 Riyal note
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Spain
25 pesta coin (silver colour, “25 PTAS,” inscription on edge, “* UNA ** GRANDE ** LIBRE *”)
5 pesta coin (silver colour, “5 PTAS,” reeded edge)
1 pesta coin (brass colour, “UNA PESTA,” reeded)
half-pesta (aluminum, “50 CTS,” reeded)
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