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Ever assemble a box of 20....

topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

...and then wonder why you got the other stuff?

:D:|:D

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes

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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ever assemble a box of 20.... yes
    ...and then wonder why you got the other stuff? no

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never been a fan of the collecting restrictions, Don't need every type or every date or coins from the year the Andrea Doria sunk.

    I like nice coins and often well circulated nice coins. Silver first, gold second. Copper hurts my eyes.

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When I put up my personal collection into business inventory, I kept a select box of twenty.

    A year later, I put that box of twenty into business Inventory :o:):D

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “Ever assemble a box of 20....“

    ....and another and another...

    Yes. ;)

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That too. :D

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:
    Never been a fan of the collecting restrictions, Don't need every type or every date or coins from the year the Andrea Doria sunk.

    I like nice coins and often well circulated nice coins. Silver first, gold second. Copper hurts my eyes.

    You are no friend of Dansco.

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You are a trove of whit, man.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yup !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • PickwickjrPickwickjr Posts: 556 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have two boxes of twenty I’m working on.
    Box #1 My type coins
    Box #2 Gold CAC’d Gold

  • Peace_dollar88Peace_dollar88 Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have 2 boxes of 20 i am working on as well.

    Box #1 ngc fatties
    Box #2 pcgs

    They use to be combine but then they wouldnt fit in each others boxes... drove me crazy so i started two seperate boxes.

  • JimTylerJimTyler Posts: 3,454 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Last box of 20 I did was 1990's. 20 type 2 $20's 60's 61's with one MS62 when the current slab was green label holders in a green PCGS box. 60's and 61's were around $500 and the 62 was about the same price they are today.

  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sold all but 20 of my IHC proofs, the 20 based mostly on eye appeal. . Probably should do the same with my type, wish I had done it with my Mercs rather than sell the set. (Slabs take up a lot of room in the safe.) But, no way I could do ONE box of 20,,,yet.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have never done a box of 20..... Could not give up my several hundreds of other coins...Cheers, RickO

  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've never done a box of 20 and will likely never do one. The only way I would consider one is if my finances go to crap after I retire.

    The only time I have ever wondered why a piece was in my collection was shortly after I purchased an NGC graded coin. I knew I would eventually have to get rid of it and that it was only a matter of time until it bothered me to have an NGC holder in the middle of all the other PCGS holders. My wife told me when I brought it home that it would be gone in less than 6 months, but I managed to hold on to it for 2 years before I broke down and traded it for a PCGS piece. I think I held on to it that long because she told me I would not be able to hold on to it for 6 months before it would drive me nuts.

    Donato

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,484 ✭✭✭✭✭

    All the time i wonder that and its ok🤪

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    I have never done a box of 20..... Could not give up my several hundreds of other coins...Cheers, RickO

    Yep. That's what I did. I put the top 20 in a box.
    Then the rest in the other box/es.
    Then wondered why I have the other box/es. Ah, the dilemmas we face in this place. ;)

  • NSPNSP Posts: 322 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don’t think I could ever give up all but 20 of my coins. However, it would be a fun project to put aside a set amount of money to be used only for a box of 20 set, and then keep that money and any coins you buy for that set as a closed system (i.e., if you buy a new one, an old one has to go). That way you could have a box of 20 without ditching everything else.

  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As a collector turned dealer I've been floating around 20 boxes of 20 for a few years.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,118 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No. I was a collector we’ll before the concept of a slab box of 20 was even on the horizon. I think in terms of complete sets and sets with historical significance that I develop in my imagination. The concept of a collection no larger than 20 coins is beyond my comprehension.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭

    i had several boxes of 20. Is the assumption that one would ONLY have 20 coins and nothing else?

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,314 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Actually... no

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,792 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not yet and probably never will as my series is only 13 coins.....Morgan CC's. Have done several of these though.

    bob :)

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,994 ✭✭✭✭✭

    the only boxes of 20 that I have got assembled by PCGS.

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