2023 Coin Goals - Here are mine, what are yours?
NeophyteNumismatist
Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
My 2023 Coin Goals:
I am going to focus my resources into a few select coins to advance my Half Cent set. This year will take the patience to ride-out long stretches between coins, and the discipline to get the "right" coin when the time comes without buying distractions in the meantime.
What are your coin goals for 2023?
I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.
7
Comments
To keep having FUN with the hobby.
Oh, and adding a few things to the collection.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
I have quite a few, but buying my first pattern is at the top of my list.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
I plan to get the nicest 1955 Doubled Die Lincoln I can find and afford...and keep it.
I've owned 3 or 4 over the years. I sell them or trade them and then eventually, inevitably I want another one.
Cherrypick a cameo 1936-42 proof not designated as such and have it graded as a CAM.
I mean, new year's resolutions are never realistic, right?
Coin Photographer.
Add 2-3 new pieces to my collection. This should be very feasible. Good luck to all!!!
Build Inventory and clients.
Sell some modern gold and then upgrade a couple classic Indian sets.
Consider getting a few new CAC slabs, if I can get an account.
Send in a few more coins for True View photos.
Keep looking for some nice so-called dollars and NCM's missing from my sets.
My US Mint Commemorative Medal Set
-- Sell some oddball stuff that's just taking up space here -- not much money in it but it could buy gas to and from a few shows maybe, and lunches ...
-- Go to two or three shows
-- Keep learning, and look at lots and lots of coins
-- Buy an item or two from my long-term watch/want list; there are still twenty items on it.
-- Keep enjoying the collection I've got
I’ve slowed down a bit on coins and have been putting funds towards other things lately.
I do have a couple things that I want in 2023 in no particular order.
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
Will see how that goes. My business will hopefully be done this year and I need to get some work done on my house and land. Will be a fast paced year.
What modern gold are you looking to unload?
As many high grade key date Lincolns as I can. Maybe an 1877 Indian head, maybe a low grade 1856 flying eagle
Search bank rolls more regularly. And truly make an effort on some of my circ sets.
or should I say I ACCUMULATE!
I also dabble with the darkside
Ive recently gotten more into currency, especially modern star notes
Finish my 46-2012 Roosie album.
Continue working on the 2013- present Roosie album.
Either start a Lincoln penny album or attempt a short set 41-45 Mercury dime collection, maybe a slabbed set.
Waste a fantastic amount of money at the US Mint buying coins I really don’t want but am conditioned to hit the red button on, so the ase’s and the Morgan’s and Peace Dollar. All the new 3- roll quarter sets. Thankfully there’s no commemoratives 😂
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
I don't have any, guess I'm behind the curve!
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
My goal is to get prepared to sell some 69-70 first spouses or modern eagles to get some funds for graded CAC old gold. Probably not much now, but sometime later in the year. I expect gold to bounce back up over $2,000 when the Fed starts to hint at the first rate cut. Timing matters as it can move up or down without warning.
My US Mint Commemorative Medal Set
I need three Bust dollars and 3 Seated dollars to complete my sets (no 1794 or 1870-S). Wish me luck.
I hear you and am totally with you.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
Well... it's not too late to set goals. You are 42% more likely to achieve your goals if you write them down. No better place to start than here.
Happy (soon to be) New Year, everyone!
I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.
I will likely sell some proof AGE's, not focused on any specific 'buys' right now... I will know it when I see it.... Cheers, RickO
Attend more coin shows, have more fun with my collection, cultivate new relationships with solid dealers and like minded collectors. An 18th century eagle in 58cac would be nice too.
Founder- Peak Rarities
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Wow! Quite an accomplishment @No Headlights! As a fellow seated dollar collector, I can truly appreciate how large of a goal this is to chase. Best of luck to you in 2023!
I have listed this on another sight, but i have 3 specific sets I am working on.
Set 1 concerns select Seated Dimes & Quarters. Up until 3 days ago that set had 12 coins to finish. Now it is 11. Goal is to complete by mid 24.
Set 2 concerns Half Dollars(Primarily Seated). I have 5 coins to complete that set, but they are dates that only appear once or twice a year. so patience.
Set 3 is a bit eclectic but includes Seated Half Dimes, Proof Indian Cents and Silver Dollars. That set has 17 coins to complete but is on the back burner. just keep my eyes open for a special opportunity. Good luck to all other collectors. James
I need to thin the accumulation. I've tried to attempt it a few times the past couple years but as I look it all over, I impulse buy REALLY nice common stuff.
Click on this link to see my ebay listings.
Have someone on the BST sell me a GRADED One Ounce Gold Beastie Completer coin!
I'd like to find a '79-CC GSA in 63 or better, then an 80 rev '78 and 81 in 64 or better. Would leave me with the 1890 which would be a nice, attainable goal for 2024.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
How’s everyone doing on their 2023 collecting objectives?
I knocked this one off early at winter FUN, so now it’s completing my Peace Dollar date set & Proof Walker CAC set, and making more progress on my Washington Quarter silver toner set.
Feel free to share even if you didn’t post a goal in this thread.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
I love your pattern and I'm glad you got it! I didn't post any goals here but it's been a fruitful year thus far.
-For my main collection of Chopmarked Trade Dollars, I have completed the set except for the probably unobtainable 75-P (although a couple of upgrades would be gladly welcomed for some of the tougher issues).
-I purchased the early eagle I was lusting after (and in a very scarce die marriage to boot)
-I completed my All CAC Double Eagle type set (although I will look to upgrade the type 2 & 3 Libs at the Summer ANA)
-I started and am near completing a really neat custom set which I'll post about when completed (1 coin left to buy and a bunch of slabbing to do)
-I trimmed my collection significantly to only keep coins I like rather than coins just to complete sets.
Gold, gold and more gold. Any year, any condition any piece near spot. 1/4 oz, 1/2 oz or 1 oz. More.
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
I am working on my Roosie album 6 months later. What has changed is
I only bought a congratulations set and no regular W proof ase and I resisted the burnished ase.
I turned my enrollments to zero for the uncirculated Morgan and Peace Dollar. Just 1 each of the proofs and 1 2- coin reverse proof set.
Still reflexively getting one of the 3- roll womens quarters.
Doing better feeling smarter, kinda 😁
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
Oh, I love the idea of a 6-month check-in on goals. So far in 2023, I have bought:
Note: I have done fairly well sticking to my goals. I have concentrated most of my budget on half cents. The other two coins (half dime and half eagle) were coins from a friend's collection. There will be a few other non-half-cent items I will be selecting from his collection over the next few months. Next month I will buy his 1936 Proof Mercury Dime, and that will complete my set of Merc Proofs.
I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.
I accidently started a Standing Liberty Quarter set.
I can understand why, it's a beautiful coin.
I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.
My most wanted coins at the beginning of the year were:
A cob or pillar 8R
Vermontensium landscape copper
1794 half cent
1794 large cent
A pre-33 US gold coin
Now I have both a cob and a pillar 8R. 1794 Half Cent is still on the radar. Chile volcano peso has shifted into my "most wanted coins" list. 1794 Large Cent is still on the want list but I'm expanding my 1796 set for now, which is now up to six coins. And as for the gold, I'd be just as fine with a Dutch trade ducat or Spanish escudo.
"You can't get just one gun." "You can't get just one tattoo." "You can't get just one 1796 Draped Bust Large Cent."
Sure is, for years I've overlooked it as a coin I wasn't interested in. I bought a really beautiful example AU and rim toned, and fell in love with the coin. Now it's one of my favorite coins of all time.
@PocketChange - Congrats on the pattern. I have the Judd book and look at it all the time. Those things are so cool. Which one did you get?
@ndeagles - I agree that the SLQ shows best in XF45 or better. There are so many small details that it takes something around/above 45 to get the full effect.
I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.
I actually exceeded my goal of buying one pattern, and picked up two—both from the Bass collection.
The Judd book is what got me interested in this niche of numismatics. I read it cover to cover, even though it’s primarily a reference book. There’s something about coins that “might have been” that I find extremely intriguing.
J-312 PR64: fairly common (as far as patterns go) true pattern that precedes the circulating 2c series—notable differences are the “GOD OUR TRUST” motto (which was under consideration before “IN GOD WE TRUST” was chosen) and “CENTS” having a greater curvature than on the adopted reverse.
J-1354 PR65: my avatar and the centerpiece of my collection, this is a true pattern of the 20c series struck with an obverse design that appeared previously on a trade dollar pattern—the reverse has minor differences from the adopted circulating issue reverse; fairly rare and it’s usually years between examples surfacing
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
GEORGEOUS @P0CKETCHANGE !
I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.
GOLD, GOLD and more GOLD. All of a sudden I have the urge to purchase nothing but gold coins. I am selling a lot of non-gold items to purchase more gold coins of all kinds.