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NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I have about 250, in the "grand scheme of things" I would consider this a small collection, after 20 years of active collecting.
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  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    3016 total.

    1786 PCGS
    1098 NGC
    132 ANACS


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  • mrfredmrfred Posts: 718
    If you count the 'hoard' part of my collection -- i.e. all the Wheaties -- then there are probably ten thousand!! Real stuff? Maybe a thousand. maybe 1500.
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  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    Too many for me to count... I need a Margarita!
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  • GeomanGeoman Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭
    Depends on if you are counting wheat pennies; I have jars full of them. They are not worth much at all, but I probably have about 1000 of those. In my "better" collection, I probalby have around 300. Still, pretty small.
  • mbbikermbbiker Posts: 2,873 ✭
    I have about 75-100 coins in my collection.
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  • FlashFlash Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭
    Close to 90 certified coins, plus ALOT of mint and proof sets, raw Lincoln cents, currency, and other miscellaneous stuff.
    Matt
  • WoodwindWoodwind Posts: 486 ✭
    My database says 287 coins. Some of these are in the form of proof and mint sets, so if they were to be counted as individual coins I'd have to say this total would be closer to 600.

    Geez I have a lot. No wonder I completely forget about some of them.
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  • MacCoinMacCoin Posts: 2,544 ✭✭
    12 coin whitman folder fill or near fill 60 pcgs coins 40 igc staties 6 proof sets a US type set in my 3 ring fold thats about 100 coins for that set and bunches of rolled wheaties and lose odds and ends. with everything I must have to many. maybe 3000 or more.
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I have no idea. I have about 100 slabs and untold hundreds in non-slabs.
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  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting responses. Of my 250, I have 31 draped bust, 106 capped bust (mostly halves), and the rest miscellaneous type and unfinished sets. I have not included the circulated wheaties.
    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • hookooekoohookooekoo Posts: 381 ✭✭✭
    Currently 122 cataloged coins.

    This does not include Proof Sets, Mint Sets, and State Quarter Rolls
  • SingaporeSingapore Posts: 578
    101.

    About 20 of which I hate and would like to upgrade this afternoon, if possible. About 10 on the other side that I wouldn't sell ever for any reason under circumstances as I believe they are the finest known and can't be improved upon.

    Singapore
  • RotatedRainbowsRotatedRainbows Posts: 2,085 ✭✭
    Not enough!!! I want MORE!!!
  • maddoxmaddox Posts: 320
    last inventory the count was 821 raw, 184 Slabbed and 26 GSA Morgans, umpteen million proof and mint sets along with guarter rolls. Oops, almost forgot the "Spud Toned Morgans"image
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,139 ✭✭✭✭✭
    More than I need but not as many as I want.
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  • CoppernicusCoppernicus Posts: 1,764 ✭
    Ive got about 250 slabbed, 400 raw, and approximately 75,000 wheats (assuming 150 per pound!) Moving is out of the question!!!
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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    lots
    Bill

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  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Less than my post count. image
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  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭✭
    Less than 50......about 6 slabs these days
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  • MyWorldCoinTypeSetMyWorldCoinTypeSet Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭
    More than my post count.
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  • AndroidAndroid Posts: 726 ✭
    Somewhere between 1500 and 2000.

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  • ccrdragonccrdragon Posts: 2,697 ✭
    If you count the hoard coins (like wheaties) -> more than 1,000. Counting only the keepers (no proof/mint sets) -> 500+
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,413 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does anyone remember the Parrino theory that you should only have a "box of 20"?? If you find a nicer coin, then you sell the worst one and maintain only one box. Seemed like an intriguing idea. Anyone still follow that idea??
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • keojkeoj Posts: 980 ✭✭✭
    I have about 80 slabbed Trade Dollars. Some of the numbers that I've seen here are astounding....no wonder there was a thread about losing coins about a week ago. Great thread.

    keoj
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    300 IHC, 200 wheat cents and at last count about 2000 other coins, but that is 45 years of collecting, so less than 60 coins a year.
  • JohnsCoinsJohnsCoins Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭
    I have about 500 pounds plus or minus a couple of pounds.

    John
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  • barberloverbarberlover Posts: 2,228 ✭✭
    A more interesting question than how many coins do you have is what do you collect, like saying i collect by type trying to find the brest examples i can afford for originality and my favorites are barber quarters and halves. To answer the question asked, about 20 coins, but i don't collect the same coins i did when i was a kid. I've had to sell some of my coins for economic reasons recently, but the ones i have left are going with me when i die so i don't think i could fit 1000 wheaties in there with me.
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,413 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BarberLover

    By the brest examples do you mean type 1 SLQ's???image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In the collected hoard of two or three generations--1000-2000, silver, copper, mostly circulated, most coins not worth much.

    In the area in which I currently collect, I intend to have a collection of 17 coins (okay, maybe I will fudge to maybe 30)...I am in the process of paring down to two sets:

    1. Carson City gold coins of each denomination ($5, $10, and $20) from each decade--1870's, 80's and 90's for a total of nine coins.

    2. New Orleans gold coins, one from each decade--1830's-1900's, a total of eight coins. Anyone have an extra 1861-O or 1879-O Double Eagle or 1839-O Quarter Eagle?

    When I complete these two sets, these will be what I consider my collection.

    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lakes, my goal is to have a collection of twenty or fewer coins, as above.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    my Coin Elite database shows 2055, but there are many wheat cents, foreign stuff and others. Total(a guess) about 5000?
  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    Around 600 Seated Quarters.
    All other "stuff", 10's of thousands.
    Collecting since 1957.

    Ray
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    As per the "one box theory", Doug Winter had an interesting article about that a while back (link).
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,413 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting article - of course the "rare gold coins" bias shows. I would have to agree with many of those choices. I would have to delete one and replace it with a great 1856 FE, but not sure which - make it a box of 11. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    How many coins in my collection - well, that's an ever-changing number, but I would say somewhere on the order of 8,500 not including the hundreds of thousands I have yet to go through. Count those and it's over 700,000. I wish I could say they were all worth at least a buck each - not the case.
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  • ANACONDAANACONDA Posts: 4,692 ✭
    800....?
  • mic45mic45 Posts: 15
    225 or so. Working on a Franklin Set, Jefferson Nickel Set, and a 20th Century Type Set
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Would anyone believe 20? image
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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    About 500 Slabs, Many rolls and pounds of loose coins- mostly wheat cents.
  • oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    I have about 50 that would really hurt if I lost any one of them and 12 that I really, really care about. The other hoards of junk I keep mainly for reference and intrigue.

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