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How many coins (raw of slabbed) do you have in your collection (or accumulation)?

SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭✭
Just curious.

As for me, I am a hybrid collector/accumulator. In my collection/accumulation I have probably between 1,000 and 3,000 coins, most of which are moderns pulled from circulation since 1963. Maybe one day I will spend the chaff and have nothing but the wheat left over.

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  • carlcarl Posts: 2,054
    Unless they are valuable you may want to invest in a good gum ball machine and use them for that. However, the slabbed ones will probably not fit. Then there is always that trick you see in cowboy movies where they throw a coin in the air, pull out a gun and shoot the coin while it's still in the air. Now wishing wells are a great place to get rid of excess coins but again those darn slabbs don't sink well.
    In reality slow down a bit. There was a guy around here not long ago that collected little cars. You know the hot wheel things. When he went to move he had to pay extra because he had 3,000 pounds of those little things.
    How many pounds of coins do you have? I should talk. I just start a new album every time one fills up.
    Carl
  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,044 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A spreadsheet of my core collection -- basically those items of sufficient gravity to bother keeping records on -- shows 159 items.

    There are hundreds more trivial things -- state quarters, BU Jeffersons, things like that.
    mirabela
  • WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,524 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thousands! But like about 400 slabbed coins.
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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Not too many raw except for the ones just cracked from ANACS going to PCGS. I have narrowed my focus to about 150 coins and still have a ways to go. Still waiting for a lottery win to get a few of the missing ones. image
  • coinnut86coinnut86 Posts: 1,592 ✭✭✭
    I couldnt tell you, it's not that theres a lot, its just I have no idea, but I only have 1 slabbed coin, its a 1957 pcgs pr66
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Three Barber Half Dollars

    and I just sent them in for grading.
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  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,054 ✭✭✭
    200+ Slabbed Coins....

    TorinoCobra71

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Maybe 50 now that I sold off a bunch of stuff.
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  • ColorfulcoinsColorfulcoins Posts: 3,365 ✭✭✭
    Perhaps 200 slabbed and 50 unslabbed. Its been about the same, plus or minus, for the last 5 years. The caliber and focus have changed by the qty stays about the same.......
    Craig
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  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,499 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Around 600...all raw.











































































    And several comemoratives which many people around here insist on calling coins even though they obviously aren't. image They are still slabbed as I don't feel competent to properly grade them.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • Not enough! (Raw around 500-600) slabbed 60+
    TO many as my Fiance states (she hates coins,she works in a bank lol)



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  • librtyheadlibrtyhead Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭
    complete sets-------merc,jeffs,morgans,lincolns,roosies,wash(missing 3)proof sets 1950 and up (complete original)starting on slabed comms now maine,stone mtn.vermont,san diago.columbus,san fran,all boogers,boone.all ms 63 ngc or pcgs(I have a hard time grading these)comms are tough .I also was looking at die progressions but will do comms first.plus a few doubles (well maybe about 50)enough about me ............next
  • Yes I am still accumulating coins.

    Current guess is about 5499 under my roof. Only two slabbed
    Cent in 1954-S in MS66RD
    Nickel 1976 PR69DCAM

    Why? Psychological reasons I guess I like finding nice coins and pulling them from circulation. I've only gone through 85,819 of them so it's not like I'm keeping them all.

    Good night
    Some call it an accumulation not a collection
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Including 90% Silver, a couple.

    Maybe a little more.

  • AgflyerAgflyer Posts: 948 ✭✭✭
    I have several hundred coins, though I'm actively thinning the heard. My goal is for quality over quantity. I sold around 10 coins and turned around and bought my 1955 doubled die Lincoln. I don't even miss the 10. . . image
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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,315 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • My entire "collection," raw and slabbed, is less than 150 coins - nearly 100 of which will soon be on the chopping block.
  • Around 120 slabbed. I am now 57 years old and have dabbled with coins since I was 10 years old or so. Your guess is as good as mine on raw coins I have. My best guess is a lot.
    "Im not young enough to know everything."
    Oscar Wilde

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  • DismeguyDismeguy Posts: 496 ✭✭✭
    About 1500 seated dimes with 400 or more slabbed. It takes this many dimes to build a variety reference collection.
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>200+ Slabbed Coins....

    TorinoCobra71 >>



    That was just your last PCGS order, right???image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • I only have about 55.....but I just started collecting a year ago.
  • DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 454 ✭✭✭✭
    Fourteen. Plus my set of state quarrters I'm building from circulation.

    There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who do not.

  • orieorie Posts: 998
    A few over a hundred slabbed. Every few months cull the ones that don't fit. Raw coins are waiting for me to accumulate 10 to submit. Of course, I have an album for the state quarters.
  • morganbarbermorganbarber Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭
    I have about 20 slabs, about 400 coins in albums, and hoarded, including wheaties and common S mints, many thousands.
    I collect circulated U.S. silver
  • BurksBurks Posts: 1,103
    Raw:
    US - About 200
    World - About 500

    Slabbed:
    US - 7
    World - 0
    WTB: Eric Plunk cards, jersey (signed or unsigned), and autographs. Basically anything related to him

    Positive BST: WhiteThunder (x2), Ajaan, onefasttalon, mirabela, Wizard1, cucamongacoin, mccardguy1


    Negative BST: NONE!
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536
    Not including bulk material, between 10 and 12 thousand. None of them slabbed. (Then I have the slab reference set with about 400 different slab types.) Right now I'm working on getting the typed into the computer and out of the index cards I've been using since 1972. Two decks of cards about 10 to 12 inches thick with an average of 8 coins per card. Once they are all in, I'll try and get a more accurate count.
  • I have none

    All mine are on hold until the market crashes-

    and then I will have many- that will be used for trade.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    my primary collection is about 150 type coins, most in albums with maybe 25 slabbed

    other raw coins, including bullion and foreign coins? thousands

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  • The "permanent collection" is a matched, high-grade (classics & ultra-modern) slabbed material... I actually don't know how many I have, because I don't feel comfortable handling them... I work on a set, complete it and never look at them again...

    The silver/gold hoard: Raw, no idea, it's just in piles all over.

    The "fun" collection: thousands and thousands raw.

    God help me... I'm now getting into currency!

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