Poll : What percentage of your collection is modern, and what percentage is classic?

relayer

Myqqy

Personally, I view post 64 coinage as modern, in which case the only moderns I have are proof sets.... if 1 proof set is equal to 1 classic coin, then probably 90% of my collection is classic....

cladking

My liteside collections are mostly modern now but only about 70% of the darkside collections
and 50% of the farside (tokens and medals)

I went with 90%.

pharmer

I went 90/10 classic/modern, but I really wanted to say that relayer's new icon is way cool.

Baley

I collect classics, but I do have a few modern (post civil war) coins.

ER

Since I define "modern crap" as everything minted after 1803,.....

Gemini

Hmmm...come to think of it I haven't bought anything modern since the Statue of Liberty and George Washington commemoratives. Thats where my collecting anything US ends.

relayer

mgoodm3

I have a few moderns, but don't collect them anymore.

ziggy29

90/10 in favor of classic. I have a few modern proof and mint sets, a handful of modern commems and a stray PR-69DCAM modern coin here and there, but mostly, it's the older stuff.

ms70

I voted 50%. I'm working on an "across the board" business strike type set of each series represented by each mint. State Quarters not included.

Prethen

I view after 1932 as modern. I buy the Silver Proof Sets regularly, one each year. That's my extent of current modern buying other than holding onto some modern material.

2bits

My collection at one time was 100% classic ,but then I decided to collect some classic coins for my Grand children,, which in todays terms would be moderns,

Its about 70/30 now .

Rick

Artist

Do you mean percentage by number of coins, or percentage by value of the collection?

Steve27

I've sold a bunch of my modern stuff, but I'm still at about 20 percent (and falling).

Hedger

All modern from 1936 up including proofs.

TorinoCobra71

50/50 I like the best of both worlds..............

TorinoCobra71

LanLord

Probably been mentioned before, but...

What is classic and what is modern?

The first post I ever made on these boards back in 02 asked that question and I got blasted with so many answers, I can't count them all.

It could be:

classic =
earlier than
1965
1958
1950
1936
1909
1900
1836

I'm sure there are many other descriptions of classic, however, my point is that you asked a question with a variable that everyone has (or at least most people have) a different value for. None of the answers are valid.