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Are you an extremist collector?

renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
One type, all or nothing.

R95

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  • RTSRTS Posts: 1,408
    One year...I guess more extreme would be collecting only one variety from one year.
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  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There is nothing inherently wrong with this strategy, but I believe it would drive my from the hobby out of boredom.
    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I do tend to like coins with the biggest numbers on them; you know like 1986
    instead of 1745. image

    I collect a lot of old coins as well though.
    Tempus fugit.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, I'm all over the place. I collect type coins and stuff with some neat history surrounding it.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like extreme condition.

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  • keojkeoj Posts: 981 ✭✭✭
    Just Trade Dollars and only Trade Dollars. Thats it.

    keoj
  • I've been hitting the Walkers so hard over the past several months that I feel guilty now when I shop around and buy other coins. My registry set is full, but that doesn't seem to alleviate the need to be buying Walkers. The upgrade bug is just as vicious a cycle to be caught in as the initial collecting cycle. Even as much as I'd like to get into Civil War coinage more, that just can't satiate the "need to buy Walkers"-syndrome.
  • I collect Franklins only, mainly varieties. I love the hunt for new varieties to add to my collection!
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All colonials, all the time.

    But...occasionally some federal key dates. And sometimes a Conder Token or Hard Times Token or Civil War Token. And a foreign coin every once in a while.

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