Poll: Are you the Compleat Collector?

Longacre

I read QDB's book, "The Compleat Collector" last night (it is only about 20 pages) and in it he describes different qualities of collectors and certain traits that they possess. Not every collector possesses all of the traits, and it appears that in order to be "the compleat collector" you need to have at least a little part of all of the traits. Just for fun, how would you classify yourself? Because there are six categories and I got a "C" in statistics in college, I have no idea how many combinations of characteristics there are, but I will try to group a few together for purposes of the poll. The six main categories are:

(1) Investment
(2) Art
(3) History and Romance
(4) Coin characteristics and varieties
(5) Status and pride of ownership
(6) Social and miscellaneous

Coinhusker1

I think I have all six ---- for me (5) and (6) are less prominent than the first 4.

vega1

Can I be a "complete collector" instead?

RYK

There are 720 possible combinations, so your choices are a bit limiting . I would guess that most collectors have all/most qualities to varying degrees. For me, I would rank them: 3,5,6,1,2,4.

dbldie55

Actually, there are 64 combinations.

BlindedByEgo

<< <i>Actually, there are 64 combinations. >>



Please show your math, young man

carl

If nothing else you made me run to the dictionary because I thought it was complete. There is was, compleat, also. However, it stated archaic variant of complete. Well I learned something new today.

dbldie55

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<< <i>Actually, there are 64 combinations. >>



Please show your math, young man >>



Without being able to use correct notation, it is:

6 choose 0 = 1 +
6 choose 1 = 6 +
6 choose 2 = 15 +
6 choose 3 = 20 +
6 choose 4 = 15 +
6 choose 5 = 6 +
6 choose 6 = 6

Total 64.

Remember, order is not important. Having 1 and 2 is the same as having 2 and 1.

pharmer

This reminds me of a recent poll in the last issue of Sophistry On Parade magazine. Didn't answer that one either

topstuf

It couldn't be "complete" collector as that would discriminate against amputees.

BlindedByEgo

<< <i>It couldn't be "complete" collector as that would discriminate against amputees.

>>



Non sequitur spelled backwards means nothing.

Sophistry, hunh? That's a mighty big word for a coin collector

mgoodm3

If you are prioritizing the choices, then 1,2 doesn't equal 2,1.

2,5,4,1,6,3

dbldie55

<< <i>If you are prioritizing the choices, then 1,2 doesn't equal 2,1.

2,5,4,1,6,3 >>



That is true, but not the question.

OKbustchaser

all but number 1. I have zero interest in investment purposes.

StuckOnSilver

i collect coins for the romance factor....


i often take my coins to the bars and show them to the ladies hoping they will let me kiss them on the cheek. they almost always tell me lap dances cost $20

relayer

You can only achieve the status of being a Compleat Collector by being able to spell it

eyoung429

Can I be a Compleat Wannabe?

TwoSides2aCoin

MONEY


that's my choice.... shiny little orbs that cost me a nickel and sell for a dime , shiny red pennies that cost a penny and sell for a dollar.

Cherry picking
Error finding
Gold digging
Profit making

I don't know if I am a purist in the sense of being a collector, but I am one in the sense of being an opportunist. I may be able to find the Mint Directors name in the records......but I wanna shake the hand of the guy who didn't pay attention and allowed a few thousand doubled dies to go through the machine.

The US Mint makes mistakes.... those mistakes can turn a profit. Along the way , those profits help me buy those particular coins that I am collecting to satisfy my own numismatic craving. ( higher grades and rarities )
Coins are minted every year... hundreds of millions........ it is the search for the needle in the haystack that drives me.

INVESTMENT would best describe my reason.

nwcs

Let's see, there is some of "investment" in me, some "art", a bit of "history." Don't really care much about characteristics or varieties unless I can sell it for more. Status and pride don't really factor in for me. I enjoy sharing pics of the coins and in general sharing them (but not dissection) so maybe a bit of "social" as well.

cladking

You may need another choice for QDB.


I got 'em all except only half of "status and pride of ownership".