I was 10 year's old when I received my first coins from a collection started by my father and today about 26 years later they filled 18 binders. And now some banknotes joined them, more than 1000 today for around 7 binders.
Some people keeps the currency of one country or one continent or they choose a subject like animals, or coins with a strange shape, or even bi-metallic coins. For me it's different, I'm a little bit crazy I collect all of them, worldwide.
More than 4811 coins and 1124 banknotes from the 5 continents
At the beginning I started with the country having a boundary in common with France like Spain, Italy, Belgium... Then later, since I started to work, I joined a company which allowed me to travel for my job during 7 years around the World. That increase my collection with countries less common.
There's people keeping one coin for each value per country but I keep one per each year and regarding also if there's different mint marks or differences.
By Now only banknotes from Asia and Oceania are scanned.
I added 2 scan of "Hell Banknotes" from Asia.
For an amateur, as I am, the value of a coin is not link to is rarity. Or it depends what you call rarity, let me explain, you will find easily some US quarters than Indonesian ruppies or Central Africa's coins.
I know that some coin's collectors prefer buying uncirculated coins, it can happen to me, but I prefer searching the coins, ever asking friends (or whoever) if they have some or swapping (even with a coin worth more money) with one I have not.
In France you can easily find stamp’s collectors but very few coin’s collectors (except since the death of the French Franc and the birth of the Euro currency).
Since I use the web for my hobby, I found a lot of informations and some good sites, nice people who love the same things than me, I already swapped coins with a canadian teenager. You can see some of my good traders .
These informations, I try to share them with friends, so I joined in march 2003 a numismatic club in Albi ,France (the city of Toulouse Lautrec, the painter), the Albi Numismatic Association. It allows me to compulse data book expensives and often upgraded.
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