Poll - What percentage of your coins are "keepers"?

solid

For me, it's probably about 20% keepers.

Some of the other 80% I've bought to sell at some point, fill holes in sets
with decent examples but hope to upgrade, have already upgraded and
so they are duplicates, etc.

Coinosaurus

I don't know what the percentage is, but it seems to go down over time

Russ

I've been doing substantial weeding, so I'm up to about 90% keepers.

Russ, NCNE

coinguy89

Mine was 100% but now im starting to sell stuff part time

jacktheknife

Good thread. It is a goal of mine to have them all PQ keepers for the grade. I can't say that yet, and would guess that only about 50% or so qualify. Unfortunately, being ultra "picky" has alienated me from a few dealers. I mostly cherry pick PQ coins from auction.

Jack

morgannut2

I'm up to 90% soon to be 98% based on value, not numbers.

nwcs

About 3/4 of mine are keepers. I've already sold most of my non-keepers. Outside of a few mistakes and a bunch of low value raw ones I can't get rid of, everything else is in the permanent collection.

pursuitofliberty

Probably about 80-85%. I try to keep the mistakes to a minimum, but sometimes I'll buy something I am almost certain someone else will want for at least what I paid for it.

Bear

For the past two years I have continually pruned and cultivated

my collection untill each coin meets my standard for beauty and excellence.

Hadleydog

For the past two years I have continually pruned and cultivated
I have been much the same way. Sold most of my 'B' box material, mostly to help pay for nicer pieces. I would rather have a small collection of really nice coins, than a large one of average pieces.

RYK

For the past two years I have continually pruned and cultivated

Same here. I presently own one to three coins that I am holding to trade or sell. These were all coins that i purchased with the intention of keeping, but they no longer fit or have been replaced.

ognib

Probably about 4...coins, that is!

dorkkarl

i'd guess well over 90%

K S

UncleJoe

25% keepers.

The other 75% that I sell helps me pay for the 25% I keep.

Joe.

saintguru

100%...unless the opportunity to upgrade arises.

Hedger

My collection is always changing but I keep at least 30% of it. Right now i'm concentrating on Proofs so alot of raw stuff is being purged.

OKbustchaser

Everything but a few duplicates that I might sometime use for trade bait.

Jim

dragon

I would say around 60-65%. I still have quite a few CC and common date DMPL coins left that I want to sell or trade and move into something else.

mgoodm3

I've got about 50% keepers. Have been paring down my collection by doing giveaways. Should start another soon.

ColonialCoinUnion

Good question.

I went through everything last night and concluded that there are 12 coins out of 74 that I will never sell.

Of the remaining 62, I would sell any that could be upgraded, but there is no guarantee I could ever actually find a better example.

Conder101

All of them. They're mine, I'm keeping them.