I really don't like modern coins and Now I've finally worked out why....they look too good.
With the advances in engraving technology some of the coins have an almost photographic quality and, in my opinion, don't really look like coins at all.
The older coins, even the ones with plenty of detail, look more rustic and more like coins.
It was the same when I was collecting stamps, the early stamps with the cruder designs were way more appealing to me than the photographic quality stamps they produce these days. Anyone else feel this way?
I don't have a problem with (most) of modern coins yet.
Stamps yes - I don't even want to call it a stamp that they sell here in shops on a roll with a sticky back. It's just a stamp-looking sticker for me.. or the stamps they print out right at post office according to a value of postage. Looks like stamp and has price printed on it.. but its not a bloody stamp is it!!??!
I hate the stuff they put out with weird shapes and stained glass added in and that sort of jazz...I'm a sucker for circulating silver commemoratives from the first half of the 20th century...Austrian American doesn't matter...but you won't catch me buying a .999 silver triangle "coin" with a pharaoh on it.
I think he means the super-duper laser-cut n engraved posh looking coins that sometimes even have colours on them and look absolutely flawless.
Maybe missing a slightly rougher look of older coins.
But yea, bring examples what modern coins you mean, I think coins from last 50 years can be all classed as "modern", but I don't think you'd hate all of them..
They look like pictures on metal rather than coins like the circulating commemoratives they had in the first half of the 20th century and earlier that actually looked like coins.
This one is one of my favourite circulating commemoratives.
I think we can all agree most collectors coins are nothing short of shizz !
Then again... I did buy a copy of the £20 coin ! Oh what the hell it looks good !
I still like my circulation coins these days and think that circulating commemoratives can be fun as proved by the Olympic 50p series. Not the best looking coins in the world but were fun to find ! I'm looking forward to finding a nice guinea £2 coin within the next year too because it's sort of celebrating our heritage. I think that if I lived in somewhere like Canada where they pump out dross on regular occasion I would be sick though. Don't get me wrong they have some good stuff like the 1812 and the provinces quarters. But there are too many special quarters there really; I have the months series and to be fair it's silly !
