Ok, I confess.
I collect coins.
Or rather, let's say I gather coins. There's something about the smooth feel of a bit of metal between my fingers that has had many lives...maybe a child's bubblegum wish...maybe a busker's pint...maybe a desperate phone call made at the last minute to save a marriage...that fires my imagination.
I like to have sets...but the rules are that I can't BUY them (except in some cases)...I have to FIND them...so I have all the US state Quarters, slid into their little blue books like children tucked into acid-free, archival quality beds, all found in my hot little hands after getting change for something.
And now, thanks to Lir Coins, I have a home for my gotta-have-a-set-of-Euro-coins-from-every-country collection, as well as blank sheets for my "specials", like the Vatican City 50c piece I got in change at the airport in Venice, or the Irish 2 euro commemoratives I've gathered.
It's a small shop, but the people that run it know what they're talking about and don't mind a gatherer like me poking around in the piles of old coinage to see if they have a 1970 Irish penny. Prices are reasonable, and if you're looking for something you don't see, be sure to ask-a lot of collector materials are put away in drawers and cupboards to give shelf space over to the shinies.
Bottom Line: I'm still missing 1c, 2c, and 5c pieces from Slovakia...just sayin... read more
