Any Coin Collector here?

When I'm not out in the garden, I sometimes feel like flipping the pages of books or sometimes my collections. I have an old coin album as I have been into coin collecting since 40 years. I want to replace the old one. I don't have a large collection and it is not growing since the last ten years as well. So I want to preserve this and probably hand over to the next generation in a nice condition. I thought of asking here if someone also collects coins and I am looking for guidance on which album to buy and from where. I have a reasonably good Indian collection and a few overseas coins.

Dinu

Last night, I visited a popular book store which is just a mile away. I found what I was needing. May be I would need one more of the album as the pages were few in it. I bought one for Rupees 425, which is roughly $8. It can hold 120 coins.

1. Album I had made 35 years ago and bought sheets.
2. This is the album I want to replace. It looks like PVC and getting brittle in 35 years.
3. My new album... from Archie's. 'Plastic' looks like vinyl which is way better than the old one.

The thought of this shop suddenly cropped up. They have a fantastic range of products they sell.

My uncle has or had a large coin collection. He never talks about it so I have no idea if he still collects. He's a cop so felt it wise to keep that information quiet.

Do you collect Indian coins only or a variety?

Good to hear that kooger.

My idea was to collect as much as the Indian coins in their full sets as I could, given the limited f-resources. I managed to some extent and then I reached a stage when the rarer ones remained to be filled and that was out of reach. So I got stagnant. After our Independence in 1947, the coinage was different and I could collect much, year-wise. There are blanks on the way. I could never think of ordering for mints which had higher denomination coins sets. But I satisfied myself with the elderly man who was my friend and he used to show me what he got from the Mint. I'll try to compile a blogpost on my collection sometime so that others can see what I have in the album.

I did collect a few of the foreign coins but my goal was Indian coins and even some banknotes. I have a few lower denomination notes also.

I'm sure getting the last ones to fill sets can be difficult and/or expensive. Coins fascinate me. I have a pot full of odds and ends. I worked in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, one summer. Ocean liners would dock in St. Cath. sometimes. These ships were massive. A guy with a good arm could throw a handful of change up onto the deck of a ship. The sailors would throw down coins from their country in return. I still have the coins I collected that summer - 1976.

Other coins in my pot are old US, Canadian and Dutch coins. I enjoy dumping the pot and going through them every once in awhile. There's lots of memories associated with these coins. I'll have to remember to do that the next time my grandchildren visit. They'll get a kick out of seeing them, I think. Even the pretty pot has memories. My dad bought it for me when I admired it at a craft show many years ago. It has a white trillium, the official flower of Ontario, on the pot. Ahhh, what would we do without memories? :)

What a fun memory.
I used to go to my grandfather's grocery store and sort the silver quarters from the "sandwiched" type when I was a child. He'd keep the silver ones and for pay he'd give me a few. I have a lot of quarters and Kennedy halves, also mint sets that my father had bought. It's been a least 20 years since I looked at these and we have been amazed at how much some of the them are worth.
I don't have too many foreign coins, just a few from my travels in Europe.
Dinu - I'm so silly, when you said Indian coins, at first I thought you meant Indian Head pennies like we used to have here (American Indian). I have a nice Indian Head penny collection!

Astonishing memory Kooger. Very unique and it thrills me that you were able to do all that. What a pot, I must exclaim!!
Dee, Yea, the "Indian" at times confuses. No wonder. But I'm half way round the earth in the *real* India. My two DDs are never fascinated by these hobbies. So I really don't know what I'm going to do as I get old.
I saw in Pintrest someone making a carpet out of the pennies! It was unbelievable because here in India, currency is a sacred thing - physically I mean. Of course this currency is an item involved in dirty corruption. That 's another matter. Coins and notes are not to be trod upon. When some coin falls down, they are picked up with a small apology to Goddess of wealth. People lightly press it against the eyes in that apology. Many people do this.

They are still young, Dinu. Give them time. I see this already with my kids and nieces and nephews. Some just need to reach a certain maturity before the past interests them. Others of us love history from the get-go, like me. :)

Thanks for the inspiration kooger.... see that's the value experience has! They are 23 and 18. And then after marriage they go into a different world, different family, different priorities. I'd want them to keep a 'shoebox' full of little things like this. They do have larger volumes of books and other things and I'd want them to reduce that as carrying them forever will not become practical. You are right and I'll give them time.

Dinu