Revelation: I enjoy raw coins. True story inside.
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I've been up really late(early?) the last few days and looked at what I've got saved inside and outside of my safe. Recently I've noticed I really like having some coins in Dansco folders, I have one PCGS blue box full of certified key/better-date coins(The "Key to My Collection", if you will.) and I don't ever even look at them.
In fact, I always get a little excited looking at my Franklin half collection that I never quite finished. The first few coins I bought were from a flea market for cheap just so I could fill another hole and then moving on the last few coins I remember buying were "JIM BEEEYOU" from my local B&M shop. The last two I purchased, from a show, were rim toners that I just didn't want to see inside of ratty holders so I clipped them out and put them in the album.
Switching albums I have a US-Type album that I started to assemble, I had this goal of only better-dates in the album. Funny enough I have five coins in the entire book.
Along to the next album, a gargantuan Wayte Raymond folder for half dollars, completely packed with Franklins just to see if they would tone...Alas, after two years only two are even starting to develope toning.
Then I have two Mercury dime folders. The first is a nasty green Wayte Raymond folder that you can only see one side of the coin, and the other is a Dansco album with completely blank pages. Opening the WR folder is always a little different and exciting. I'm anxious that maybe in ten or fifteen years if I get the stones to flip any of the coins out of the album the side cardboard-in will either be black or beautiful. I alternated rows with obverses and reverses. Most of the dimes are 1964, 1963,1962, or 1960. All of them being uncirculated and acetone washed before being put into the album. I got these as a Christmas present; all of them were bought from the "SUPAR DUPAR ShopAtHome Network Silver Hoard!!!!!!!!1111oneoneone".
I also have a Jefferson Nickle album that has every single proof and business strike from 70-something onto the early 90s. (I don't really recall what all it has, I bought it from a garage sale for something ridiculous like $10 without even looking at the coins inside) This album is obviously the most abused, since I just had it in-hand and forgot what's within.
All the fidgetting with the coins I've collected just made me realize, I knew what I spent most of my money on for numismatics; the coins in the little blue box. Regardless of the money spent, I still didn't open that part of my safe to even look at them. Not only that, but I kind of felt bad for Dansco#Mercurydime that had no coins inside of it and wasn't living up to its purpose.
It was most definately a good reminder of the fun in the hobby; that I started with fun intent and was sidetracked to a mostly-investment standpoint. Though, it's very unlikely I'm selling the coins in the box I think I'll take a break from starting a new one; perhaps I'll finish that baldie album I have, and maybe even replace a few cleaned icky coins and just save them as learning keepsake. Or throw them in my pocket so in a few years I'll have that multi-thousand dollar PO01 Franklin set that nobody would dare build...
At any rate, I realized the "Key" and cornerstone in my collection wasn't held inside of a box, within a safe. It was merely a simple premise; Fun.
-D
In fact, I always get a little excited looking at my Franklin half collection that I never quite finished. The first few coins I bought were from a flea market for cheap just so I could fill another hole and then moving on the last few coins I remember buying were "JIM BEEEYOU" from my local B&M shop. The last two I purchased, from a show, were rim toners that I just didn't want to see inside of ratty holders so I clipped them out and put them in the album.
Switching albums I have a US-Type album that I started to assemble, I had this goal of only better-dates in the album. Funny enough I have five coins in the entire book.
Along to the next album, a gargantuan Wayte Raymond folder for half dollars, completely packed with Franklins just to see if they would tone...Alas, after two years only two are even starting to develope toning.
Then I have two Mercury dime folders. The first is a nasty green Wayte Raymond folder that you can only see one side of the coin, and the other is a Dansco album with completely blank pages. Opening the WR folder is always a little different and exciting. I'm anxious that maybe in ten or fifteen years if I get the stones to flip any of the coins out of the album the side cardboard-in will either be black or beautiful. I alternated rows with obverses and reverses. Most of the dimes are 1964, 1963,1962, or 1960. All of them being uncirculated and acetone washed before being put into the album. I got these as a Christmas present; all of them were bought from the "SUPAR DUPAR ShopAtHome Network Silver Hoard!!!!!!!!1111oneoneone".
I also have a Jefferson Nickle album that has every single proof and business strike from 70-something onto the early 90s. (I don't really recall what all it has, I bought it from a garage sale for something ridiculous like $10 without even looking at the coins inside) This album is obviously the most abused, since I just had it in-hand and forgot what's within.
All the fidgetting with the coins I've collected just made me realize, I knew what I spent most of my money on for numismatics; the coins in the little blue box. Regardless of the money spent, I still didn't open that part of my safe to even look at them. Not only that, but I kind of felt bad for Dansco#Mercurydime that had no coins inside of it and wasn't living up to its purpose.
It was most definately a good reminder of the fun in the hobby; that I started with fun intent and was sidetracked to a mostly-investment standpoint. Though, it's very unlikely I'm selling the coins in the box I think I'll take a break from starting a new one; perhaps I'll finish that baldie album I have, and maybe even replace a few cleaned icky coins and just save them as learning keepsake. Or throw them in my pocket so in a few years I'll have that multi-thousand dollar PO01 Franklin set that nobody would dare build...
At any rate, I realized the "Key" and cornerstone in my collection wasn't held inside of a box, within a safe. It was merely a simple premise; Fun.
-D
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
-Horace
-Aristotle
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
-Horace
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"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
Granted, I haven't spent more than 1K for a coin "yet" I still crack em out & plug the holes
Guess I'm just "Old School".
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-D
-Aristotle
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
-Horace
I also bought a blank half dime Dansco for my "problem" coins that won't slab. I find myself looking at it more often than I do the slabbed coins.
-Randy Newman