Poll: Your Coin Collection

Cladiator

How many coins are in your coin collection?

Cladiator

No need to reply with specifics. I made it a poll purposely to keep anonymity.

SlangNRox

I just counted my main collection and not silver pandas, "junk silver" or pennies in jars.

Connecticoin

Too many. It's turned into a hoard. Time to unload some duplicates!

etexmike

The count varies on a monthly basis.

Right now I am in the 51-100 range. Run the poll again in a month or so and I am sure the number would be higher.

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etexmike

Russ

Option 2. Used to be a lot more, but I dumped everything that didn't make me happy when I viewed them.

Russ, NCNE

mgoodm3

My core collection, probably 60 or 70.

garsmith

I am running out of space in the vault

itsnotjustme

Things like mint and proof sets make the number soar.

silverpop

42 coins

mozin

Maybe next we need a poll asking the average current auction value per coin in our collection. I would think those with thousands of coins will average less than $50 each, maybe less than $20 each. Jars, or milk cans, of wheat cents do not sound very impressive.

stephunter

Over 4,000. I have a $200- bag of nickels that I will search someday??

lkrarecoins

at least 2500....My dad bought me a huge bag of "unsearched" (yeah, right) wheaties when I was 10 years old and I still have them today. Not one stinking semi-key date in the bunch!!!!

Coxe

Since, my Morgan set alone has a pretty strong fraction of the known VAMs, it is in one of the big poll bins all by itself.

morgannut2

Unlike Coxe my Morgan set is circulated and numbers 97 (to fill the Dansco album). Of coarse
I try to have AU examples of interesting "Vams" for each date---harder than you think when trying
to match the "look" of the toning and wear so the set matchs (No, I still haven't matched the Key" 1885CC).
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Of coarse there's a bag or so of other AU duplicates I can't bear to sell.
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Right now my interest is out of favor minor US coins with color, and foreign toned gold.

notwilight

Hard to answer unless you put the word "core" up there. I think most of us have a lot of stuff laying around. For example, I have a bag of hundreds of foreign coins someone gave me and I'm waiting to find someone to give them to....I have junk that is fun like a Yosemite medal and a memorial token from my town (Carlsbad Ca) that I paid $1 each...and a bunch more junk like that.

Core collection is under 100 coins.

--Jerry

500Bay

27 US Coins
32 Ancients
59 Total

Edit: Must have been new math

Baley

I'm with the current plurality

mdwoods

Poll: Your Coin Collection

I did as you said but none of my coins had any worthwhile opinions.

cladking

Very interesting results.

It almost looks like there may be two distinct types of collectors.

mirabela

I don't know that it is two distinct types of collectors so much as individual collectors collect on a number of levels. I have my "A box" -- my sixteen coins or so that I know I could not easily replace. They are fairly expensive, but more importantly they are of a quality within what they are that is really uncommon.

I have my type set -- that's about 85 coins. Some of them are coins of serious account, while others are pretty trivial.

I have my Dansco Jefferson set -- something like 100 coins and climbing -- and while I spend a lot of time hunting for additions to this set, and some of the coins are in very high grade and pretty, they tend not to be worth much.

Then I have box after box of choice and gem BU moderns, put away each year at face value, year after year. I pull the nicest new coins from rolls whenever something new becomes available.

What do I count?

For what it's worth, I think I put 2-300 in your poll.

cladking

<< <i>Poll: Your Coin Collection

I did as you said but none of my coins had any worthwhile opinions. >>




Can we a post on this forum?

BECOKA

I dumped most everything to focus on my main set or 24 coins. I am on the border of heartbreak because I may have to sell it soon.

It's one of those things where family comes first.

Coppernicus

I'm in the 1,000 - 5,000 category for the coins in my collection, but if I count the raw wheaties I've accumulated, well heck, I have over 50,000 of those alone! All unsearched, of course!

Mike

ajia

Too Many!

Coxe

One very odd thing about having a large collection, and I don't mean hoards of bags and rolls, is that you can lose a sense of it after a while. There have been several occasions where I pick up a coin thinking I have one other and will have to see which is better .... then find I have a dozen of them within a grade of each other. Funny that I do generally know what I do have and what I lack and never forget the big coins. It's the blur of minor VAMs that gets me.

BECOKA

<< <i>One very odd thing about having a large collection, and I don't mean hoards of bags and rolls, is that you can lose a sense of it after a while. There have been several occasions where I pick up a coin thinking I have one other and will have to see which is better .... then find I have a dozen of them within a grade of each other. Funny that I do generally know what I do have and what I lack and never forget the big coins. It's the blur of minor VAMs that gets me. >>



Exactly why I started to focus on one series. Even though I enjoy many other coins I started to lose the enjoyment until I learned and focused. It is much easier to enjoy 24 coins than it is for 10,000.

PerryHall

<< <i>27 US Coins
32 Ancients
52 Total >>



Looks like someone flunked matt.

prooflike

I have about 70 or so, but may go to the one box (20 coins) method. I'm only counting slabbed coins, loose coins I would have no idea how many.

TorinoCobra71

1000+ with the majority of them Wheaties in bank bags..............

TorinoCobra71

sweetwilliet

About 70 Morgans, plus a few here and there of other coins, then 5000+ wheaties, so about 5300.

Shamika

Too many.

However, my primary collection has about 200.

Bear

My core collection is 40 coins. While I have been selectively buying, I have done

more selling over the past two years then buying. I now have my collection just

where I want it. At least for the time being.

BAJJERFAN

I think I voted BEORE I counted but between 201 and 300 [mostly slabbed Morgans] seems about right.

19Lyds

201-300 Slabbed coins. Roll counts go much higher.

WoodenJefferson

The gamut...from a 1798 Draped Bust Large cent, George Washington's pocket change, he died in 1799, to a 1807 Draped Bust half dollar, Thomas Jefferson's ale money, to a 2005 Satin Finish mint set, George Bush's...wait, Geo. has no idea what money really is, and just about everything in between (partial sets of Walkers, full set of MS Franklins, full set MS Jeffersons, partial Mercury, commemorative silvers, half dollar variety...lots and lots of junk! It weighs about as much as I do...lol It's been an adventure.

STONE

I'm nearing on a 1000 coins. Currently 978 and that doesn't include wheats, ancients, foreign, tokens or duplicate U.S..

The 978 coins are all different U.S. coins that I have (only about 10-15% are modern). Love them early U.S. stuff, hate the high prices though!!!!

Leiana

I voted 51-100, and I only counted my Type Set and Buffalo Set, my core collections.

-Amanda

dorkkarl

5000 - 10,000 i'm guessing

K S

CommemDude

800 slabbed toned original commems plus a 50 coin type set ....and in hindsight, I wish I had been less of a hoarder and more into the "box of 20" super eye-popping coins that Jay Parrino used to espouse.

Geoman

I voted 501-1,000 coins. I used to have a lot more, but about 7 months ago I dumped all my "junk" coins I was just hanging onto for no reason. I had several 3-ring binders full, plus more in boxes of 2x2's. These were all low grade examples of common dates. Thought someday I would maybe start selling on the side; but found out that this type of material doesn't really sell.

Now, I still have my core collections, but I don't have all these "extras" just laying around. It was refreshing to clean out my collection, and something I plan on doing every 3-5 years, to make sure I am not hoarding junk again.

BillJones

I voted 1001 to 5000, but it was only guess. My core collection of stuff I really care about - type sets (copper, nickel, silver and gold), old commemorative type set and 19th presidential campaign medalets and tokens comes to probably 500 pieces. Then there are Proof sets with from 5 to 11 coins in them, modern commemoratives and some rolls of junk. So I've probably got a two to three thousand pieces.

It's amazing to think of how much junk you accumulate as a collector.

elwood

Oops...forgot about my rolls.

dorkkarl

oh, in case you were wondering, i happen to own zero $labbed coins.

K S

Cladiator

Since everyone seems to be divulging I guess I'll join in. My entire collection cosists of a mere 37 coins and when I reach 100% completion it will be 175 (unless more CBHD marriages or re-marriages are discovered).

291fifth

It doesn't rival Virgil Brand.