I've been a coin collector most of my life. I remember my father giving a small box with about 100 coins when I was about 7 and that I regarded the details of each and everyone of them carefully.
I started picking some coins whenever I could. Small change. When I was a teenager I convinced my father to buy me some folders to "protect" the coins, I organized them and they stayed there for a long time.
From time to time, I came across with some beautiful specimen and I kept it.
I travelled as a student and as part of my career. I came to Africa 6 years ago and I stayed. I kept cherry picking coins, until same months ago when I saw the gold market plummeting. The connection isn't imediate but the will to try to profit from the small prices of gold brought me to something I love: coins. And I started searching and learning, trying to build the best coin collection I can.
First goal: African coins in precious metals (gold and silver).
Then, I saw the 21st century mints of some african countries with polish and chinese motives! Ok, that's art, that's business, that's investment, but no way that's numismatics.
I narrowed the spectrum! First goal, African coins in precious metals until the turn of the 20th century, and even then trying to keep the focus mainly on colonial coins and first independence emissions.
Hope this will be just the beginning to a bigger picture!
I started picking some coins whenever I could. Small change. When I was a teenager I convinced my father to buy me some folders to "protect" the coins, I organized them and they stayed there for a long time.
From time to time, I came across with some beautiful specimen and I kept it.
I travelled as a student and as part of my career. I came to Africa 6 years ago and I stayed. I kept cherry picking coins, until same months ago when I saw the gold market plummeting. The connection isn't imediate but the will to try to profit from the small prices of gold brought me to something I love: coins. And I started searching and learning, trying to build the best coin collection I can.
First goal: African coins in precious metals (gold and silver).
Then, I saw the 21st century mints of some african countries with polish and chinese motives! Ok, that's art, that's business, that's investment, but no way that's numismatics.
I narrowed the spectrum! First goal, African coins in precious metals until the turn of the 20th century, and even then trying to keep the focus mainly on colonial coins and first independence emissions.
Hope this will be just the beginning to a bigger picture!
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