DEMONLEE

Hi everyone, found this forum after a Google Search as determined to get some decent direction on Coin Collecting. For many years I used to get bags of old QEII 6d coins, polish them, put them in little boxes and sell them to Americans getting married for a handsome profit.. then one day about two years ago in my haste at an auction, I bid on the wrong bag and won myself a very large bags of 'coins'. When I got home and took them out, I was frankly staggered at what I got for my £13 + 15% commission. I got one Vatican Coin (1802), 2x King George III Cartwheel 2d and 3x Cartwheel 1d, the rest were a mixture of different value coins from QV to EII. I have no idea why, but seeing the old Vatican Coin and George III Coins, I decided to start collecting them having no idea really of what I wanted to collect, so I decided for now I would try and get at least one copy of each coin for each year of each Monarch and have been quite successful so far. When I got the opportunity to get a better quality version of any coin I have done so. The problem is that although I have a large fantastic collection of coins from George II (without a date) up to 1971, the year of decimalisation, I feel this is going to take me more years to complete than I probably have left of my life and need to really be more selective about the coins. So, my question to members is this.. What coins do you collect and why?

Well since I last wrote and took on board everything that was said, I think it would be right to concentrate on 'certain' coins to make life easier and whilst I appreciate it may be nigh impossible to 'finish' a collection, it will be fun tracking specimens down and funds being available, to purchase them. I have gone through my collection and I have a predominance of silver coins anyway - I think what concerned me most about these were examples being sold as 'scrap' for their silver value that would be lost forever, even if some of them were not the best grades - the purchase of them will mean that when my own 'circulation' comes to an end, they will still be around for other collectors to buy should my descendants decide coin collecting and the collection are not for them. I will still keep and collect the odd ones that take my fancy but will now sort out the rest and sell them that will raise funds to buy better copies of the silver coins I have and obviously to continue adding to them. Thank you all for your feedback and comments - I took on board everything everyone said and it made perfect sense to be more 'particular' about some coins that took my interest as some of you are doing.. all the feedback about how and why you collect was exactly what I was looking for to help me make my own decision.

Wow, what a great response, thank you all so much... (my first name is 'Demon', named after the Hawker Demon Bi-Plane FIghter - google it!) Well every reply has given me something to think about, if I were to favour any particular coins, then it would be the 3d, 6d, shilling and half crown simply because as a child I worked on a milk round before going to school each day and used to 'dream' of having some of these lovely silver coins for myself. I used to earn 2 Bob a week and was once paid with a Florin instead of coppers and thought I was the richest kid in the world ha ha. Thank you all, you have definitely given me food for thought and I will have to have a think about my direction and if I decide to specialise in certain coins or periods, it means a huge chunk of my collection will come up for sale..... Demon E Pluribus, Nulli Secondus