How often do you pare down your collection?

nwcs

It seems that every couple of years I go back through my collection and cull out the coins that don't really fit my interests anymore. I was wondering how often anyone else goes through their holdings and re-evaluates. I guess the further I go down the road in collecting the more I end up wanting to follow the box of 20 approach.

meos1

Never

ChuckC

I've been doing some housekeeping since August. I've been steadily selling my circulated coins in order to buy uncirculated coins and concentrate on a few series. Who needs 80 AU 40% JFK Halves, a dozen FA2 Barber quarters and F12 Walkers, slider mercs, and circ buffalos when I can have a beautifully toned merc with full bands or a GEM BU jefferson nickel set littered with rainbow album toners? Yes, the face of my collection is in a state of change this year.

Barry

I always sell dupes after upgrading them. After accumulating several, on Ebay they go (as I'm doing right now). Also, when I look at my collection and determine it's taking up too much space, I start looking for other things to sell.

Bear

I go thru the collection about twice ayear. I eliminate those coins that I should not have bought,

coins that dont interest me anymore and the lower grade coins. I do this to upgrade the collection

and to raise money for new purchases .

ibzman350

I'm thining out my collection this year, getting rid of all the "learning curve coins" and dupes.


Herb

morgannut2

I've begun paring down my collection this year to get into a more confortable cash position per Old Bear's advise.

Windycity

All the time...
I sell the duplicates...
buy in bulk, keep what I want and sell the rest...
I slab nice coins from mint and proof sets and sell those...
and I build my primary registry set and when complete I sell that and move on to a new series.

mgoodm3

I've been trying to pare mine down slowly with giveaways.

Keyrock

Prior to finding the areas I like, I had a eclectic collection. Then I purged all of the odd lots and now I only sell when I've upgraded

my3cents

whenever I git the itch

badger

Windycity seems to have a good handle on things.

I have just started selling lower level spares and coins outside the two series that I collect. I am better at buying than selling.

Added:

I also have sent a pant load of NGC proofs in for Presidential Review. If they cross they go into the collection. If not then going to Heritage or Boards. Quite a few top pop NGC coins in there.

I also emptied the closet of Morgans - all green holdered. Getting them together for sale, but waiting on VAMs in PCGS. A few are VAMS.

Selling my extra raw proofs to the local store at extra good prices to help keep the store lively.

Cameonut

I do housekeeping once or twice a year. I sell a few on the boards, the rest on Ebay.

Then I use the free cash to buy more coins!

FC57Coins

<< <i>I go thru the collection about twice ayear. I eliminate those coins that I should not have bought,

coins that dont interest me anymore and the lower grade coins. I do this to upgrade the collection

and to raise money for new purchases >>



Hey Bear - anytime you decide to throw a few of your gems away let me know - I'll send you some jelly donuts

itsnotjustme

I did a serious cull last year. I found I had some coins just so I could complete registry sets that were not important to me. The excess coins included

Proof Modern Commems ($10/$5/$1/50c)
Proof Modern Eagles (Gold/Silver/Platinum)
Proof Post 1950 coins (but I kept the full set of Ikes!)
Raw coins including Whitman folders, bulk silver, wheat cents

Knowing I was moving and would be locking the collection away for years also impacted my decision.

nwcs

Yeah, some of my purchases were influenced a bit by registry or type set considerations. Another reason to get rid of them. I think my collecting interests are eclectic: as long as each one is exquisite they will go together no matter how mismatched they are. Maybe I can swing a big trade with a dealer?

alergar

I have usually tried to sell off undergrades when I get to twenty, but right now I'm sitting with 43 slabed coins and a platinum proof set to sell. I just haven't had time to list them for sale.

orie

When I get 5 or 6 culls/dupes they go to ebay.

greymars

Hey Badger...drop me a PM when you have your green holder Morgans ready for sale. I might be interested in some of them

Gary

razorface1027

Tonight, as a matter of fact.

Conder101

Pare down? For me paring down means "I've decided not to buy that one".

Shamika

Probably once every 3-5 years.

Colorfulcoins

Annually. I started doing so about 4 weeks ago and hope to be complete by the end of February. Its been about 18 months so I'm a bit late.....usually its a mid year activity.