Do you collect expensive and inexpensive coins?

Wondo

In other words, what is the ratio of the top $$$ coin in your colelction to the bottom $$$? Mine is about 25:1. $25 bucks spent on my most expensive coin to the $1 dollar on my least. Does anyone care?

Russ

I'm poor, so I only collect inexpensive coins.

Russ, NCNE

ealandg

I care.

My ratio is about 400,000:1. My priciest coin is about $4,000. My cheapest is a penny I just pulled out of circulation and stuck in a Whitman folder.

kamehameha00

My most expensive coin is a 1994-P Proof Silver Eagle still in packaging worth about $100.My cheapest are worth face value.

jdimmick

Depends on what you call expensive. This can very greatly depending on ones financial status.

I can say this after returning to coins about 7 years ago, my tastes have greatly changed. When I first re-entered the coin buying seen, I was merely trying to obtain as many key-coins as possible from several of the different series. As I did this, I also kept an eye out for upgrade candidates along the way. As time went on, I found my self spending more money on pursuing upgrades than seeking addditional dates. The higher in grades I went, the more money per coin I was spending. But by doing this, I really began to appreciate the quality of owning higher graded/choicer key-dates, even if this meant a reduction in the number of coins I owned. Today more than ever, I am very selective in the pieces I buy, and even though the number of coins I have has reduced, the quality has greatly improved.

jim d

Gemini

I'm on Social Security...I now pick up pennies from the floor when there is someone around to help me get back up...

Wondo

I am trying to keep absolute $$$ out of this - everyone's budget is different. My most expensive coin cost me 25 times what my least expensive one did.

rainbowroosie

I buy "expensive" coins -- I sell "inexpensive" coins.............

nwcs

I only collect inexpensive coins now. I find I'm happier not chasing things and letting rich people buy expensive coins. There are many great coins they ignore.

Prometheus183

<<I'm poor, so I only collect inexpensive coins.>>

I second that!

Craig

merz2

I also have a few pricey coins,but definitely the low value coins out number them.I don't mind having both.

RGL

I like to turn inexpensive raw coins into expensive slabbed gems! (Expensive to me, anyway ... I know it's all relative)

relayer

I guess it depends on your definition of expensive.

Anything I can't afford is a bazillion dollars, so I only collect coins under a bazillion dollars.

Russ

<< <i>I like to turn inexpensive raw coins into expensive slabbed gems! >>



And, I like to help him with that!

Russ, NCNE

DHeath

I like to turn inexpensive raw coins into expensive slabbed gems!

I've tried that, and just never have any luck.

haletj

I collect Lincoln Cents 1909-date, so I have an 09-s vdb and 14-d right there along with 1945-s or 1970 or 2003

Stuart

Yes I do.

WACoinGuy

Yes, I do -- probably at about a 100-1 ratio. I buy some more expensive coins for my gold type set or my uncirculated liberty nickel set, both of which have been my focus since I re-started collecting a year and a half ago. But I want to get "back to basics" and work on some circulated sets that I was pursuing as a kid and gave up on long ago. Variety 3 liberty seated dimes in lower circulated grades, for example. I think this will give me a chance to hone my numismatic skills without relying on the crutch of the grading services (since I'd inevitably buy these raw), and will help me finish out a mini-set that I haven't touched since I was a kid. I've always loved those dimes with arrows at the date...

puff