Do you re-examine all of your coins regularly or just keep them stored away

starsandstripes

I haven't looked at my collection extensively for 10 years. just a few keys once in a while. I have noticed my buffalo nickels acquire enhanced iridescent toning over the years

hfjacinto

I look at my coins pretty regularly. Just yesterday I took out all the raw albums. Because of that I upgraded 2 coins today. Why have a hobby if you don’t enjoy it?

starsandstripes

hfjacinto, I am with you on that having accumulated over 300 buffalo nickels over 25 years I just this weekend put every coin i own out on the living room table and enjoyed every minute looking over my collection. it's was definitely a collector moment.

JJM

About twice a year i take a look

BillJones

I’m always researching, writing articles, posting something and working on an exhibit. A type can be the basis of many projects.

TimNH

Problem is, if they're handy to look at, they're also handy to steal. I hide mine away and get them out only when I get a new one, or want to show them off.

Soldi

Regularly

DocBenjamin

Keep a bunch of melt value silver coins around. Good to view sometimes, without peering through plastic.

Barbercoin

After a very long hiatus (12+?) from my hobby, they are all over the kitchen table! Right now. I am swimming in them!

Wife, not that happy! I think I’ve examined every one of them! I swear, I always want to change their grades. Sometimes up and sometimes down, but never do. Must be a mental disorder name for that!

Mr_Spud

The actual coins I see once or twice a year minimum, to replace desiccant in the SDB, sometimes more often if I purchase something new, but I look at their images just about every day.

johnny9434

Once and a while with a sds check yearly

bsshog40

I look at some occasionally. Usually when someone finds a new variety or possible error and it makes me search my danscos. Lol

Sapyx

I go to coin club meetings four times a month. So, four times a month, I'm rummaging through the collection, looking for items to bring to the clubs for show-and-tell. Then, once every couple of months, I gather up all the coins pulled out of the albums, sort them out, and put them all back in again.

Then I'm also occasionally pulling coins out to image for posting on one of the online forums I'm involved with. Because less than 5% of my collection is already imaged.

Then of course there are times of acquisition, when new purchases are inserted into the albums.

So yeah, I'm going through the collection at least once a week, for one reason or another.

bronzemat

I enjoy my coins about once a month, sometimes every two months.

I rotate. I enjoy my Ancients, then my U.S., then my World coins.

My small stamp and paper currency collections are lucky to see daylight every 6 months.

pmh1nic

My Franklin collection in a Capital holder I see every day but “examine” the coins a few times a year. Other coins are locked away so those I pull once or twice a year to look over and enjoy.

Smudge

Not as often as I would like, the downside of a SDB.

Copperindian

Most of mine are slabbed & in a SDB. But I do manage about a monthly visit to the bank to add, rearrange & check out certain ones I’ve determined beforehand. Pretty good balance, at least for me.

OAKSTAR

@starsandstripes said:
Do you re-examine all of your coins regularly or just keep them stored away

Thanks to this forum, continuously. I have found several varieties and errors over the years on my collection, I didn't know I had. Even in straight graded slabs! I've often said; my greatest fear is having something significant or rare in my collection and not know it!

seatedlib3991

I have had my coins close at hand for easy examination for many years (decades). about 2 years ago I did an office overhall and now have my coins close at hand plus have a fold up wooden tray by my computer. This way I can put out up to 30 coins (Slabbed) at any time.
This way I can look at a coin on my screen and see how it would fit into my collection. Tray is full of Seated Dimes at the moment. James

TurtleCat

My best coins are in a SDB so I rarely see them. I have coins in tubes and albums but only look a few times a year. I’m learning that I really enjoy coins and seeing them and such but not always as interested in owning them. If I lived near the ANS I wouldn’t own anything but visit often to look, hold, and photograph as desired.

skier07

My collection is in a SDB which makes it very difficult for me to view my coins on a regular basis.

lkenefic

Over tha past few months, I've been looking at mine several times a week. I'm in the midst of a few last transactions before I stop obsessing over coins and start obsessing over malaria research once again

anablep

I regularly examine it, otherwise why bother collecting if I don’t enjoy it…

JWP

I look through my safe almost every day. I keep looking for that lost coin and just can't seem to find it. I do find a lot of other coins that I had forgotten about too. I guess I 'm foraging for that lost coin and not real looking for it after all. When you get old, sometimes you just need a reason to do something.

This is my coin club meeting place

RiveraFamilyCollect

I find I only examine my collection when I add something new, or when I am taking a picture.

291fifth

I drive over to Duckburg and look at my collection weekly. Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin is a great place to store a collection though I hope his latest security measures keep the Beagle Boys out!

Project Numismatics

I always have a coin on a miniature easel on display on my desk. I rotate them in out frequently. It’s no fun to keep everything locked away.

RiveraFamilyCollect

I need to booby trap my hoard a little bit harder. I got fake NGC holder and an aitag. but the device is too thick to close into a holder. So I need to cut the back plastic off the holder to get the airtag in there properly.
So i;ll probably take everything out an look at my favorites then.

emeraldATV

Two thirds had to be put aside (appox. 5 boxes + of cents) so to slowly get a handle on how to approach their
storage and photos alittle bit at a time .
Yes, I slide show photo's to examine often.
Yes, some are still waiting to be examined with photograph's

Old_Collector

I keep my current focus coins on my desk in PCGS boxes, which right now is a PCGS 65FBL Franklin set (except for the 53-S until I find an MS61) that needs 10 still. A few coming in auctions, but no rush they have to be the "right" coin, whatever that is but I know it when I see it.

Morgan13

I've got a heavy duty safe that I keep mine in. Fireproof and next to impossible to get into.