separating wheat from chaff

XpipedreamR

I'm looking to sell off some coins. A bunch of coins, actually. So I've been going through my collection over the past couple weeks and moving coins from my pretty blue and green PCGS boxes into a nasty old cardboard box. It's not marked "coin for sale" or anything, but they all know why they're there. I've turned on them. My maturing, evolving eye has found something about them not to like. There's no going back. They've crossed the coin Rubicon. A lot of the coins are pretty nice, too, but oh well...out with the old, in with the new, right?

Anyway, as I review and re-review my collection, the cardboard box is becoming more and more full. I know what superb coins look like, and I've got a few. I've also got a lot of really nice coins. But even among the "really nice" and "pretty nice" ones...I find myself tempted to add some of these as well to the pile. After all, as nice as they are, they don't measure up to where I want my collection to be at some point long down the road, so why wait? At the risk of sounding like a coin snob, they just don't measure up to what I want my standard to be.

How picky should I be? How picky are you? Please help me before I end up left with only three coins in my collection or some other ridiculously low number. Or would that even be a bad thing

CoinAddict

You could just send that cardboard box to me for safe keeping for the time being.

I am not sure how picky you should be. Maybe you should share some pics of your exceptional coins for us to get an idea of just high high your standards have become and we can go from there.

topstuf

Why not convert the rejects to a "stream of income?"

You send them to me and I send you 5 bucks a month for a long time. I guarantee to mistreat them during their stay so your standards would be satisfied. And I would show the pix of your NEW acquisitions to them as well. Thus "teaching" them a lesson.

??????

BlindedByEgo

I hate for that ratty old box to get in your way, so I tell you what:

Weigh the box and I will immediately send a FedEx prepaid shipping label. I will grudgingly volunteer to recycle you old metal for you.

Russ

There's nothing wrong with being picky.

Russ, NCNE

coinguy1

<< <i>How picky should I be? >>

As picky as YOU choose to be.


<< <i> How picky are you? >>

It doesn't/shouldn't matter. This is about YOU.


<< <i>Please help me before I end up left with only three coins in my collection or some other ridiculously low number. Or would that even be a bad thing >>

Not if that's what YOU want to do.

longtimecollector

Schnizzl

Steve27

First tell us what your goals are.

cladking

Be very picky or even pickier if you prefer.

But don't forget to save the finest of everything you collect unless you know it's improvable.

XpipedreamR

<< <i>First tell us what your goals are. >>









Hmmmm...that's a good question. I guess that at this point, the best I can narrow it down to that I want to be able to reach into my PCGS box, randomly select a coin, and have it be an uncommonly eye-appealing (to me) gem. I guess that's pretty vague

Steve27

Are you working on a set of any type? What are the coins that have already made their way to the reject box? Proof or business strikes?

mdwoods

Out with the old, in with the new. I've sold some gorgeous coins just because I needed the money to buy some new coin that caught my eye. Besides, coins like having different owners.

relayer

You should become a Coin Ferengi and sell them all.

Then you can lead a life of lesuire with nothing to do all day but post on the Internet.

AU58WALKERS

as picky as your $$$$ will let you be.
that is how great collections are born.

Dennis88

You still got my adress???

Bochiman

Does this have anything to do with your recent adventure with Saintgugu?
Maybe something he said during his nap, that you overheard?

LeeG

I think this is a normal maturation process in the hobby. I unloaded about half my collection a month or two ago. Glad I did. I went from 5+ PCGS and NGC boxes down to 2.5 now. Did ok selling and used proceeds to purchase a coin or two that matched my new goals Good luck in whatever you decide to do!

goose3

I think I have 6 or 7 coins in my collection right now.