Yes, I’m a casual collector; I collect them, but not as my primary hobby niche, and I’m not a “completist” looking for every variety and format.
I have an ongoing Dansco Date album collection (with added extra page) and have a bunch more in air-tites, but I'm not really a die hard collector or stacker.
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@vulcanize said:
I just wanted to fill my ASE Dansco and so have it all till 2021.
That's it for me.
Ditto, except I sent three toners up to the mother ship for grading and now I have the fun of filling the '91, '99 and '12 holes in my Dansco once more..
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@rec78 said:
I am considering trying to put together a date set, but the premiums on silver coins right now seems too high.
Start with the regular cheap ones and fill in the more expensive ones later.
Actually, that is backwards. You should buy the more expensive ones first. I am talking about the premium on the common issues.
In the past, I have collected most of my sets the way you suggested (lower priced first), but, by the time I got to the more expensive coins, they were even more expensive and sometimes even not obtainable anymore..
The problem with purchasing the higher priced (say keys) first is that you lose interest when you get to the common easy to find stuff, because you can get them anywhere, anytime. I did this with the seated liberty dimes-I got a lot of the tougher dates and lost interest in getting the common dates because obtaining the common dates is easy and they are available all the time.
@rec78 said:
I am considering trying to put together a date set, but the premiums on silver coins right now seems too high.
Start with the regular cheap ones and fill in the more expensive ones later.
Actually, that is backwards. You should buy the more expensive ones first. I am talking about the premium on the common issues.
In the past, I have collected most of my sets the way you suggested (lower priced first), but, by the time I got to the more expensive coins, they were even more expensive and sometimes even not obtainable anymore..
The problem with purchasing the higher priced (say keys) first is that you lose interest when you get to the common easy to find stuff, because you can get them anywhere, anytime. I did this with the seated liberty dimes-I got a lot of the tougher dates and lost interest in getting the common dates because obtaining the common dates is easy and they are available all the time.
So what you're saying is that either way has its pros and cons.
@Swampboy said:
I collected up until they were yanked from the Redbook
Why would they do that?
Unfortunately the mint has issued so much “modern crap” that the Red Book is getting too thick to cover everything that is out there. In the future, Whitman might do what Spink has done. They have divided the British guide book into two volumes, one for the pre-decimal coinage and a second, rapidly expanding one for the modern decimal pieces.
Sorry, but all of this not made for circulation, made to make a buck stuff is getting to be too much. I have little interest in almost all of it.
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@vulcanize said:
I just wanted to fill my ASE Dansco and so have it all till 2021.
That's it for me.
Ditto, except I sent three toners up to the mother ship for grading and now I have the fun of filling the '91, '99 and '12 holes in my Dansco once more..
Anacs had a special of 8$ a piece either last month or in May and was very tempted to get the whole Dansco occupants graded and after much deliberation, decided against it.
Was very disappointed that out of a submission of 25 coins to our hosts, only one came back as 70 (a 2021 Denver Morgan which was a huge surprise) and the rest were mostly 69 (including both of the ASE Designer Edition sets that was sent in) with another Denver Morgan grading lower at 66.
Not going to waste anymore money on the ASE though because the interest was there only till the double coin set including both type 1 & 2 housed in the same slab, just out of sheer curiosity.
Think I will also stay away from the mint's marketing technique of releasing a whole gamut of commemmoratives (Morgans and Peace proof release of next year) because all that effort to get the most flawless coins is just not worth the time and effort for me and interest has been dwindling lately.
Yes, I consider myself an active numismatic collector AND a bullion investor (I collect formats and varieties, and also buy bullion ASEs for their silver value).
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I have a couple of monster boxes and a few others like this one. This is by far the best looking one in my opinion.
I have an ongoing Dansco Date album collection (with added extra page) and have a bunch more in air-tites, but I'm not really a die hard collector or stacker.
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
I just wanted to fill my ASE Dansco and so have it all till 2021.
That's it for me.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
Ditto, except I sent three toners up to the mother ship for grading and now I have the fun of filling the '91, '99 and '12 holes in my Dansco once more..
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
Actually, that is backwards. You should buy the more expensive ones first. I am talking about the premium on the common issues.
In the past, I have collected most of my sets the way you suggested (lower priced first), but, by the time I got to the more expensive coins, they were even more expensive and sometimes even not obtainable anymore..
The problem with purchasing the higher priced (say keys) first is that you lose interest when you get to the common easy to find stuff, because you can get them anywhere, anytime. I did this with the seated liberty dimes-I got a lot of the tougher dates and lost interest in getting the common dates because obtaining the common dates is easy and they are available all the time.
So what you're saying is that either way has its pros and cons.
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Unfortunately the mint has issued so much “modern crap” that the Red Book is getting too thick to cover everything that is out there. In the future, Whitman might do what Spink has done. They have divided the British guide book into two volumes, one for the pre-decimal coinage and a second, rapidly expanding one for the modern decimal pieces.
Sorry, but all of this not made for circulation, made to make a buck stuff is getting to be too much. I have little interest in almost all of it.
Anacs had a special of 8$ a piece either last month or in May and was very tempted to get the whole Dansco occupants graded and after much deliberation, decided against it.
Was very disappointed that out of a submission of 25 coins to our hosts, only one came back as 70 (a 2021 Denver Morgan which was a huge surprise) and the rest were mostly 69 (including both of the ASE Designer Edition sets that was sent in) with another Denver Morgan grading lower at 66.
Not going to waste anymore money on the ASE though because the interest was there only till the double coin set including both type 1 & 2 housed in the same slab, just out of sheer curiosity.
Think I will also stay away from the mint's marketing technique of releasing a whole gamut of commemmoratives (Morgans and Peace proof release of next year) because all that effort to get the most flawless coins is just not worth the time and effort for me and interest has been dwindling lately.
Good luck with your '91, '99 and '12
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
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I have a Dansco of the bullion issues and a handful of proofs.
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Foreign silver too much better to be fooling with ASE
Ounce by ounce the stack grows .
Many probably do.
I just needed one for the type...now I need the second reverse type.
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"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright