collecting coins- eBay Canada

eBay has many sites all around the world. The one I use the most, because this is where I live, is the Canadian site. However, I list my items for worldwide viewing, and I get orders from all over the world, through the Canadian site. I have had items sold to the US, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Greece, Turkey, and other countries. Some of them have given me interesting experiences. Some have gone very smoothly, and some have not. Those stories I will tell in another place.
The national sites specialize in the items from that country, but also list a number of items from around the world. Some of them are very large, and others are surprisingly small. I will be trying out listings on some of the other national and regional sites.
My national site is eBay.ca. It has a large amount of Canadian items, and a good selection of items from other countries. The Canadian site lists many Canadian and world wide coins and paper money items. To visit this site, click here to view coins on eBay.ca. When I wrote this, the Canadian site had 155,568 offerings in coins and paper money.

Collecting coins- eBay.com is the biggest

If you are not a member of eBay yet, you can sign up quickly and easily. eBay has many national operations, in the US (the biggest site), Canada, Britain, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines, and many other countries. You may want to sign up only once in your own country's site, or you may want to sign up in several countries. I have 2 different names, one that I use when buying, and one that I use when selling. I have also registered on both Canadian and US eBay. I am equipped to sell on any eBay site, and I will be investigating selling on several different sites. I list all my offerings to sell internationally, but I am not sure that they always show up on all the different national sites. If you would like to visit some of the different National sites, I will make it easy for you. The first link is for the US eBay, which has many American items, of course, but also a huge amount of material from around the world. Click here to view listings of coins on eBay.com. When I wrote this, the US site had 233,529 offerings in coins and paper money.

Collecting coins- eBay helps

If you are collecting coins, I don't see how you can survive without eBay. It has many opportunities for you to add to your collection, or to let someone else add to their collection by selling your items. I talk about eBay in more detail on my auctions-world-wide blog. I generally like eBay, both as a seller, and as a buyer. I have done very well in some months, and not so well in others. I am now putting more items in my store, and will be having others coming up on the weekly auctions. I have been having some problems lately with customers not receiving my goods, and with one customer who says he sent me a money order that I did not receive. These are the problems with the eBay system, I guess. I sell US, Canadian, and world coins, and I try to have interesting pieces for sale. If you would like to visit my store, click here to visit coinsnpaper on eBay.ca.

collecting coins- where it took me

I never imagined, when I started collecting coins, where it would take me. I was the curator of a large museum display (1080 coins, 36 cases, pictures, text, maps, and a book to go along with it- "Handfuls of Cash"), after I had catalogued the museum's 1800 piece collection, and later catalogued another museum collection of 3000 Asian coins. I became a small dealer, going to local shows and selling on eBay, and I have kept expanding my interests into other fields of numismatics. Now I am more interested in the South Asian and Persian areas. I like collecting coins because it involves history, economics, calligraphy (especially in the Asian and Middle Eastern fields), metallurgy, and culture, as well as valuable items that in many cases are also pieces of art. I hope you share my love of collecting coins. I am willing to help you as much as I can, answering questions and giving information. I sell on eBay as coinsnpaper , where I am a sometime Powerseller, selling assistant, and operate a store. I had no idea that I would be interested into all these fields, and be doing all of these things, when I started collecting coins.

Collecting Coins- how I started

Welcome to my collecting coins blog. I have been a coin collector since I found a 1929 Canadian Penny under the surface of Okanogan Lake at Osoyoos, when I was a child of 9. I wiggled my toes in the sand, out about chest high in the water, and found something hard. I went underwater to find it, and this strange penny came out. I was not even aware that old Canadian money looked different, and I became fascinated. I started collecting Canadian pennies, and then collecting Canadian coins. I expanded to collecting British Commonwealth, Proof sets, World coins, and finally into collecting paper money. I then became very interested in collecting Asian money, especially Chinese, and became somewhat of an expert in that field.