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spinaker2000 · January 9, 2005 3:55AM

Got kinda bored today and decided to count the number of different unc coins in my 1/2d collection. I have 120 unc and proof 1/2ds from GB and Commonwealths. Out of those, 105 are raw, and 15 slabbed. Guess i'm not the slabophile I thought I was.

This is my main collection of 1/2ds only. What's the volume of your collection like??

trozau · January 9, 2005 4:07AM

Mostly modern unslabbed gold in the 1 troy ounce size.

theboz11 · January 9, 2005 4:13AM

Many, Many, Many , Many

CoinAddict · January 9, 2005 4:17AM

My darkside collection consists of 5 slabbed coins, 4 ICCS graded, and 9 raw. I also have a mint set from the Isle of Man. All are UNC.

shirohniichan · January 9, 2005 6:26AM

My collection has even more coins than Al Capone's vault.

wybrit · January 9, 2005 7:01AM

My wife says my collection is too big. I think that's the only opinion that counts.

Aethelred · January 9, 2005 7:42AM

I really don't have any idea how many coins are in my collection, but I would guess about 100-125. About 60-75 are slabbed.

Those numbers don't cound the coins that either are or will be for sale at some point.

spinaker2000 · January 9, 2005 8:01AM

<< My wife says my collection is too big. I think that's the only opinion that counts. >>

Fairlaneman · January 9, 2005 8:05AM

Darkside/Grayside 100 to 200 and none slabbed. Mostly AU stuff.

Lightside probably about 100 with atleast 70 slabbed by PCGS, NGC and ANACS.

What a mess...

Ken

Aethelred · January 9, 2005 8:11AM

One problem I have is in defining where my collection starts and ends. I own a number of ancient coins that I have no intention of selling, but I don't count those because, in my mind at least, I don't collect ancient coins. I only count the coins in my British collection.

1jester · January 9, 2005 8:18AM

Nice way to rationalize, O Dead One.

As for my "collection", well I have the same problems, mainly counting. I have thousands and probably less than 100 are sl*bbed. (Caveat: most if not all of these are basically worthless).

MacCrimmon · January 9, 2005 8:30AM

About 10% of the British are slabbed....they came that way. The rest will stay "Bare Nekkid" until I decide if and when to sell.

All Swiss which I intend to sell gets slabbed by PCGS, or maybe NGC; but mostly PCGS.

All British copper which I've ever bought slabbed has been broken FREE!!

wybrit · January 9, 2005 8:36AM

Caveat: most if not all of these are basically worthless

Your slabbed coins are worthless? Send them to me!! I'll even pay shipping!

MacCrimmon · January 9, 2005 8:42AM

<< Send them to me!! I'll even pay shipping! >>

Wybrit, you should know better!! Shipping is $250 per coin.

wybrit · January 9, 2005 9:29AM

That's my joke you stole from me (after I stole it from someone else)!

rhound1977 · January 9, 2005 10:23AM

I have 235 +/- a few in my GB type set and probably 1500-2000 other world coins, plus quite a few sets.... But I have sold some stuff lately to buy more stuff later....

About 30-40 of my GB are in slabs. My collecting is currently focused around GB and GB colonies and territories, with a few German and Iceland thrown in for good measure.

I have about 99% of my collection cataloged in Excel, anyone else as anal as me....

wybrit · January 9, 2005 10:42AM

I have about 99% of my collection cataloged in Excel, anyone else as anal as me....

Yep

All of my UNCs are photographed or scanned and posted to a corner of my website. I can view my coins anywhere now...

rhound1977 · January 9, 2005 10:46AM

<< I have about 99% of my collection cataloged in Excel, anyone else as anal as me....

Yep

All of my UNCs are photographed or scanned and posted to a corner of my website. I can view my coins anywhere now... >>

As soon as I can scare up some more WEB space I am gonna post some more Pics of my stuff.......

farthing · January 9, 2005 1:04PM

I have about 99% of my collection cataloged in Excel, anyone else as anal as me....

Yep

Wybrit has seen me and my Excel spreadsheets at shows

My pre-decimal British collection consists of 1760 coins, covering 699 different date/denominations and 171 KM numbers (46.3890 asw)
My world accumulation - 6529 coins, 3972 different country/date/denominations, 1993 different KM numbers (204.9981 asw)

wybrit · January 9, 2005 1:06PM

Holy moly, farthing. You have as many coins as Shakespeare (the dealer, not the writer)!

farthing · January 9, 2005 1:15PM

Hard to call it a collection - more like just an unfocused very large pile 'o coins!

syraq · January 9, 2005 2:19PM

I don't have many coins. About a hundred slabbed Greek ones,mostly bought raw and submitted, pre -1911, a couple of dozen of mint and proof sets of later years, two British Whitman UK albums complete and a third one on the way and a box of slabbed or raw inexpensive world coins. And a few odds here and there, some gold, some ready to be submitted etc. Darkhorse must have had a tough time, I'm really badly organized, although I used to keep neat Excel sheets with buyprices and dealers. I still remember mentally most of that stuff.

Less is more.

PuddlePirate · January 9, 2005 2:31PM

For myself I'd have to say I have a collection without a true begining or end... not an accumulation and not a hoard, just too many things that catch my interest and off I go on a bunny trail....

Ancients - Greeks about 150 (5 gold) rest silver and bronze. (6 owls - my pride and joy

)
Roman Republic 50 silver and 100+ bronze +3-400 unattributed yet
Roman Imperial 2 gold, 70+ silver and 250-300 bronze + 2-300 unattributed yet
Byzantine 150+ bronze and a few silver and electrum peices
Medieval Mixed European 30+ Silver a few copper and bronze
European (1700-1900) hundreds mostly GB 1/2 and 1 pennies and other assorted as they strike my fancy
European modern 1900-current thousands generally bought by the pound and sitting in boxs.
Canada a few hundred peices mostly 1800-1950 cents and two or three hundred assorted dollars
Mexico a few hundred peices bought mostly for bullion value although some are quite pretty

US very heavy in Morgan Silver Dollars - 5,000 plus and still growing, 1,000 Peace Dollars
and still growing, thousands of assorted barber silver, indian head pennies, several hundred
Walking liberty - Benny Franks and Johnny K's 50 cent peices.

My only slabbed peices are US coins, I have about 150 slabs mostly ANACS but about 40 are PCGS and I have 2 NGC's. I tend to lean toward ANACS for TPG, I like the little rattlers.

I am constantly cleaning ancients and have about 500 pcs going at any time. I do collect penguins and named ship coins (it'll be a long time before I catch up with some of the ship collectors here)

My wife says I need to thin things out a bit and so sometime in the next few weeks part of my collection is going up on the Bay of E. just as soon as I can figure out the digital camera lighting thing. I have to use a tripod because of nerve damage on my right side - the hand tremors make the pictures blurry. I am making headway though and hope to have some pictures up soon.

Shipcoin · January 9, 2005 3:03PM

Speaking about my "main stream" - naval coins, tokens & medals I have for today 391 such items (all different by types and mostly of them are ship coins) from 101 countries. Besides that, I think I have about 400-500 coins from Great Britain, Channel Islands, Commonwealth countries and some others. Not including "doubles" (also about 500 coins) and banknotes for trade(about 150-200).

Philip · January 9, 2005 3:43PM

<< I have 235 +/- a few in my GB type set and probably 1500-2000 other world coins, plus quite a few sets.... But I have sold some stuff lately to buy more stuff later....

About 30-40 of my GB are in slabs. My collecting is currently focused around GB and GB colonies and territories, with a few German and Iceland thrown in for good measure.

I have about 99% of my collection cataloged in Excel, anyone else as anal as me....

>>

I'm more anal, I catalog my collection in Access

That's the easiest way to track the 4,500-4,600 coins I have.

1jester · January 9, 2005 8:03PM

Goodness, PuddlePirate!! Over 5000 Morgans and counting??

ccrdragon · January 10, 2005 2:34AM

got it all cataloged in Excel, broken out by country or specific area of interest. I have only 2 slabbed Darkside coins - an MS67 Guernsey double in an old rattler and an MS63 Brit penny (that I haven't cracked just yet). The Guernsey will problably stay in the slab - at least for awile yet.

Other than that - well over a thousand by now and still growing - need to update my spread sheet

About 1/3 are US coins with about 1/3 of those slabbed and the rest are Darkside.

tbirde56 · January 10, 2005 3:06AM

I've kept computer (Excel since '96) records since '91 and on paper and index cards since about 1970. It shows I currently have 15,400 non-U.S. coins and 920 U.S. coins. I'd guess duplicates (for sale) make up about 10% of those numbers as well as a small amount of exonumia I've collected. I've also got 1135 non-U.S. notes and 11 U.S. notes. Records accuracy is naturally flawed with such large numbers and too time consuming to correct at one time but it should easily be correct within a couple percent. Obviously, I have mostly all low priced pieces in my collection but it's a hobby, not an investment, although I hope it does turn out to eventually be worth more than I've put into it if I ever go blind or something and it needs to be sold off. I just hope it'll turn out that I can give someone else the pleasure of finding what they've been looking for when that happens.

newbiecollector · January 10, 2005 3:38AM

You folks make me feel silly. I only got a few 1000 coins, well maybe several 1000....No whooper's like yall talk about but I do have a boat or two

AuldFartte · January 10, 2005 4:56AM

Liteside, probably about 200 coins or so, only 4 slabbed.
Darkside is somewhere around 300-400 right now, and growing. None are slabbed.

Guess it's about time to get organized

ajaan · January 10, 2005 6:42AM

What farthing said.

elverno · January 10, 2005 6:49AM

About 700 Napoleonic era medals, jetons and etc. Maybe 1,000 or so coins from the same period. About 40-50 duplicate medals and maybe 100 duplicate coins. I'm too much of a packrat to sell them and too lazy to trade...

Everything that comes my way in slabs I break out.

Oh, and some Greyside stuff given to me by a Canadian uncle; nothing valuable except that oddball 1966 dollar. I can never remember what size beads are the ones from the mule but whenever I show it to Hosers they go nuts...

ajaan · January 10, 2005 6:57AM

<< I can never remember what size beads are the ones from the mule >>

It is my understanding all the 1966 small beads were found in specimen or Unc. sets.

phut · January 10, 2005 8:24AM

<< Hard to call it a collection - more like just an unfocused very large pile 'o coins! >>

Yup... Same here.
Around 7000 coins from 130+ countries. 75% ugly. 7 chunks of plastic w/shiny things. About 5% from people on this thread.

DCH · January 10, 2005 8:50AM

7622 different coins, 3173 KM#'s, and 760 tokens/medals, all cataloged in Excel.

coinkat · January 10, 2005 8:54AM

not enough...

GDJMSP · January 10, 2005 11:05AM

My collection - dunno - never counted 'em. But I don't know of any two guys that could pick it up

PuddlePirate · January 10, 2005 1:42PM

1jester - yeah I know 5000+ morgans sounds like alot but I know several other individuals from my old coin selling days 1978-82 who have me beat hands down. I picked up most of my Morgans from people selling in distress/panic. From 1980-82 I could generally pick up a BU roll of Morgan Common Mixed dates for around 7-10 dollars a peice. The same coins now are selling at 40 and up. I laid those rolls back twenty years ago to start selling to augment my retirement income when the time came. It was one of the few things I actually planned that looks like it will pay off handsomely. 250 rolls don't take much space and you don't have to feed them, bad thing is I keep buying the blasted things at the rate of about ten a month... go figure. Anyway I don't have to feed and water them...

Sylvestius · January 11, 2005 2:25AM

I have about 60 coins that i would count as being in the 'good collection', plus a few hundred in a jar full of scrap silver US coins. And a few dozen sentimental coins.

Early Milled British Sixpences make up the bulk of those 60 'good' coins, 26 of them to be precise.

Along with 9 English hammered coins, 6 Washington quarters, two mercury dimes.

The other 17 or so coins are bits and bats from here and there that don't really fit, a few lower grade US dimes, some coins from Nazi Germany and i think a Swiss coin.

General aims for this new year of collecting is to create a few narrowly focused collections;

British Charles II sixpence collection 1674-1684, all dates all types in best grades possible, VF or higher preferred. (I got a few of these already but some upgrading and whatnot is required) This will complement my completed William and Mary Sixpence set.

Washington quarters, raw in BU from the Philly mint 1950-1964 (can expand further backwards to 1932 at a later date)

Henry VI annulet issue set; Noble, half noble, quarter noble, groat, halfgroat, penny, halfpenny and farthing. (Well i've got the noble already)

Third Reich Collection from the Berlin Mint; Focusing on 5 reichspfennigs firstly, then i expect to expand to the other denominations with the A mintmark, benchmark grade being EF+, Preferrably AU or UNC where available. If i like it, i'll then turn my attention to the B mint and so on.

Also to acquire a handful of Roman coins representing some of the Roman Deities, just purchased myself one with Vesta on the reverse.

Only other thing is to get an Athenian Owl and a US $20 Lib in UNC.

I won't get much of that lot done this year, but i'm focusing on the German stuff firstly.

coinrookie · January 11, 2005 5:54AM

About 110 coins total. 6 are slabbed

Steve

NJMark1 · January 11, 2005 7:20AM

Currently well over 15,000 different KM#'s mostly 1900 to 2000. Circulating coins only. Currently reorganizing the whole mess so that I never have to move a coin again to add another. Translating the Krause Circulating Coins Catalog into 3 ring binders with a spot for each coin. I am up to Malta so far. Yea I guess I am little KOO KOO heheh

Mark

PuddlePirate · January 11, 2005 11:06AM

NJMark1 - 15,000 KM#'s - I have enough trouble staying focused enough to look up one (I get distracted by the pictures). So just what are you doing exactly collecting one of everything listed in Krause?

NJMark1 · January 13, 2005 7:56AM

Puddle Pirate YES

Mark

PuddlePirate · January 14, 2005 5:00PM

Well go for it then! You can't be considered "mad" if you have a plan!

Askari · January 25, 2005 12:24PM

Uh ... um ... er ... do I have to say? Let's just say that my wife is starting to suspect the real answer to her question, "How will you know when your collection is complete?"

Angielczyk · January 25, 2005 4:02PM

I have about 1500 FAO coins. Nearly all of which are on albums or boards as issued by FAO over the years. They cover about 115 countries and are all in unc or proof condition. Some are duplicated and I may consider selling if anyone is interested.

satootoko · January 26, 2005 4:03AM

Raw - lots and lots.
Used to be slabbed - several.
Slabbed - 3 gold, 1 silver yen.

YCCY9229 · January 26, 2005 4:07AM

My collection are mostly Canadians. I have about 150 Canadian coins so far. And I have some world coins. I only have 1 slabbed.

Y.C.

MyWorldCoinTypeSet · January 26, 2005 4:09AM

About $5 in Canadian nickles, many PCGS, many ICCS.

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