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When I complete the set(s) that I am currently pursuing I plan to...

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  • Gator5220Gator5220 Posts: 1,194
    Start a new set?
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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    ... sell at auction through Heritage in a down market with huge buy back fees, lose my shirt on the collection, and then take up collecting and trading tulip bulbs.
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    Rest In Peace.

    My sets are likely to never be completed.
  • AgMeAgMe Posts: 881
    Hmmmmm

    Start collecting a new series!

    I hope to wrap-up my PR Lincoln set by this summer (& the business strikes soon)... I've been thinking about heading on over to the dark side & collecting 8 Reals.

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    Speak to me of loved ones, favorite places and things, loves lost and gained, tears shed for joy and sorrow, of when I see the sparkle in your eye ...
    and the blackness when the dream dies, of lovers, fools, adventurers and kings while I sip my wine and contemplate the Chi.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I can't think that far ahead.
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Upgrade.

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  • HeywoodHeywood Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭
    Upgrade, and try not to loose too much on the sale of the old ones!


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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Modern commemorative four and six piece sets in the wooden boxes ...

    I'm down to one set ...

    AND yea, upgrades
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i> ... sell at auction through Heritage in a down market with huge buy back fees, lose my shirt on the collection, and then take up collecting and trading tulip bulbs. >>


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    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Rest In Peace.

    That's what I was thinking too..... image
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  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    Start a new set.
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Probably be buried, I doubt I will finish prior to the date on my death certificate.
  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    take a one year break.
  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    Type Set
    Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Rest In Peace.

    My sets are likely to never be completed. >>



    Ditto. But if I ever do complete it I'll probably start a 1792 - 1799 type set, which on my budget will never get completed either.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am tempted to continue to collect No Motto coronet half eagles, perhaps adding a SF NM set. There are lots of cool and interesting dates, and I like the size of the coin the best. I also would like to eventually complete the $3 gold set in choice AU (except the Dahlonega $3 stopper).
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • DJCDJC Posts: 787 ✭
    I've been told I have a very bizarre approach, so since ya asked...

    Whatever set I'm working on, I set a five year goal. Based on what I can spend over five years (roughly), I decide which grades, price levels, and which order to tackle the set (usually keys first). In five years time, the set is complete, and I sell it, taking the proceeds and buying one piece which would otherwise be out of my reach. I've done it twice now, my Indian's are six years gone, and my set of Buffalo's just went about a year ago. I don't remember the tallys from the Indians, but that set is now an AU50 1916D Merc, and my Buffalo set's funds are waiting for an AUish HR Saint that I like. My current Dansco 7070 type set will be a Chain cent in about four years if all goes well....

    So far, I've not lost money on either trade, but I really didn't made much either. The point is to obtain pieces which would otherwise be out of my reach ($5000-$15K) without saving for five years at a stretch. I spend $300-500 a month building a set, and cash out my "savings account" when the set is complete.

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  • AlaBillAlaBill Posts: 467
    I've always had an idea of collecting only from the early Federal, may pre Federal coingage. Nothing that starts with 18
    ...AlaBill
  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    ... write the new standard reference(s), using my items as plate pieces. Then I'll pull a Professor Charles Anthon and write the auction catalogue of my own collection -- and probably die between parts III and IV just like he did!

    John Kraljevich Americana
    Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
    work on Philippine pesos
  • vega1vega1 Posts: 941 ✭
    When I finish my type set, I will expand my view of what constitutes a 'type', and keep going.imageimage

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