USA Coins

Okay .. its been a long time since my last post. Initially, i was planning to scan all our coins and put them up .. but then thats going to take a lot of time.

So I decided to first list all the coins that we have, Country-wise, denomination-wise, year-wise, mint and all other information, including pictures later.

So my list for today is our US coin collection.

Denomination - 1 Cent
We Have :)
Years - 1925, 1948, 1957, 1959,
1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969,
1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005


We dont have :(
Years - Prior to 1924, 1926 to 1947,
1949 to 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1991, 2006, 2007


Denomination - 5 Cents
We Have :)
Years - 1947, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983
1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999
2000, 2001, 2004, 2005

We dont have :(
Years - Prior to 1946, 1948 to 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975
1978, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007

Denomination - 1 Dime
We Have :)
Years - 1965, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1990
1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

We dont have :(
Years - Prior to 1964, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1998, 2007

Denomination - 25 Cents
We Have :)
Years - 1954, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1973, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1994
1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

We dont have :(
Years - Prior to 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958 to 1964, 1967 to 1971, 1974 to 1981,
1983, 1986, 1987, 1989 to 1993, 2006, 2007

Transdniestria Coins - Year 2000

Today we added to our collection a set of Transdniestria uncirculated coins.
Front View
Back View

There is this charm about uncirculated coins that we just cannot get over.
Transdniestria is a very new country, once part of Moldova.

It took a life of its own in 1990.

Identify these 2 Coins

Recently, we received 2 coins from a friend of ours. He too does not know from which country these coins are from.

It will really help if you can identify and let us know which country these coins belong too. Thanks.

Favourite Links

Some of our favourite links are:

To get an idea of a pretty good collection
http://www.worldcoingallery.com

To identify EURO countries
http://www.eurocoins.co.uk

To identify Arab country coins and other countries
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~dandrew/coinid1.html

All the flags of all the countries in the world
http://www.flags.net/indexa.htm

To get a good idea on grading coins
http://www.telesphere.com/faq2.html#GRAD

Our coin collection

Coin Collection can be an extremely addictive hobby, especially with the documetation and identifying some of the toughest countries like coins from the Arab Countries.

Collecting coins was never our cup of tea ... until one day we noticed a huge pile of coins collected from our overseas trips.

It was'nt that big to start with, a few coins from Singapore, Malaysia, US, Canada, Brazil, Maldives, Switzerland ...

Then one day we chanced upon a coin exhibition and then the thirst to collect coins for every single country in the world began. Even from dead countries (a term we came across in the exhibition) and within no time our collection grew from a modest 50 world coins to 1000 world coins and still growing as of today.

Everyday, we seem to add more and more coins to our collection, most of the coins given to us by friends and family that make overseas trips.

There are many series that coin collectors like to induldge in. Commonly, most novince collectors go for a coin from each country in the world.

Then a more progressive level would be each denomination from each country in the world.

And some even go to the extent of collecting each year of each denomination from each country in the world ... Now you can imagine, how a hobby like this can have no end.

One of our favourite collections is the UK - King George Penny Colleciton. Another is the India -quater Anna colleciton. There are many more which i will list shortly.

Would love to hear from you if you are also an ardent coin collector and the series or collections that you have.