Poll - How Often Do You Pull The Trigger?

JJSingleton

On average how often do you add a coin to your collection?


RYK's recent clever post about being a dormant collector and finally pulling the trigger after 6 months got me thinking about my collecting habits. Although I do waste some money on a couple of US Mint releases during the year (proof sets or mod commems), I rarely buy more than two coins a year for my serious sets. In fact, I have gone well over a year a couple of times in the past 15 years. I know my friend RYK has likely acquired and sold more coins in the past 3 years than I have collected in the past 15 years that I have been seriously collecting. It makes me wonder how different of a collector that I am from the norm. So I thought I would put this poll together just to find out how weird I am.

Edited to add every 6 months to the poll.

MGLICKER

Probably 3 a year to the permanent collection. Everything else gets flipped.

lasvegasteddy

tis tha season
sweet lil deals pop up around this time of the year

i for one need a trigger lock that isn't broken...as i pull the trigger quicker them some who bumpfire their semi-autos...

DIMEMAN

Sometimes more often than I should money wise.

I don't think I have ever gone a week without buying something.

TopographicOceans

For my collection, maybe 3 times a year.

But I buy coins at least once a week.

BillJones

On average once a month. When I go to a show or auction it can a lot higher. When bidding or buying on-line it is less.

ricko

Up until a few years ago, it was easily monthly.....now, every three or four months....Cheers, RickO

bigjpst

I added 2 coins and 1 medal to my collection this year, and only 1 last year. But I am constantly buying to resell.

coinnut

So far I've bought 63 coins this year. So I guess I'm averaging a little over 1 per week.

RYK

I think that how often one pulls the trigger might be confounding the issue somewhat.

There is pulling the trigger, and there is the desire to pull the trigger. Many who pull infrequently would pull more frequently if opportunities were abound.

SmEagle1795

<< <i>I think that how often one pulls the trigger might be confounding the issue somewhat.

There is pulling the trigger, and there is the desire to pull the trigger. Many who pull infrequently would pull more frequently if opportunities were abound. >>



+1. I've gone months without buying a coin, only to have five come up at once. I've doubled the size and quadrupled the cost of my collection this year, to 52 coins and more $ than I'll admit here. I didn't even remotely expect to do so but three of my top four wantlist coins came up and 20+ others which I couldn't pass up.

19Lyds

Too often for my own good.


It used to be worse which ended up being a lot of extra work but then, that's how you learn.

TwoSides2aCoin

It's not a trigger in the shop. Dealers & Cherry Pickers pull legs, and wool over the eyes, daily.

Type2

Lets just say there is no help for guys like me. I'm sick...............

ARCO

In fifteen years collecting, I have purchased 1-3 coins a week on average, except for a two year hiatus in 2010-2012. Sometimes the coins fit my collection, most of the time I am impulse buying. Then, every couple of months I sell on Ebay, shake my head at my losses, and then start buying again.

Before 2010, I used to make money or break even selling unwanted coins on Ebay. Now, it is almost a guaranteed loss to buy and resell. Buying has slowed way down for me after experiencing six to seven losing selling cycles.

Tyler

ctf_error_coins

Personal collection, about once a month.

Inventory for the error coins business, once every few days.

AnkurJ

I've slowed down to one every few months. Still paying off two major purchases.

Lakesammman

Even when it seems slow, every year I amass a file folder of receipts 1-2" thick.

silverpop

every once in a long awhile do I buy a coin

mozin

I buy about a dozen coins a year, including all the different series I collect.

ms70

Roughly once or twice a month. My favorite trigger pull is when I'm sitting at the computer & leave my eBay search page up. When it crosses my mind I refresh it and sometimes
a new listing appears that I BIN within a few minutes of it becoming active.

AMRC

This year I have bought over 10,000 coins. How many for my "collection?" Probably about 5 of those got skimmed off right to the SDB.

WildIdea

I've put enough nice ones away for the most part. Fully invested to the point where it doesn't hurt to have the money kept on the sidelines, without having head checked. Still somewhat interested in coins and the scene but not as much as in the past, still maybe step up to a killer if it blows me away. Holding out for a 1854 flying eagle pattern in MS something, the PF buffs I'm without in 65, the "ONE" matte Lincoln when I see it.....the perfect large cent pre 1820, etc

you know the drill.

TwoSides2aCoin

<< <i>I've put enough nice ones away for the most part. Fully invested to the point where it doesn't hurt to have the money kept on the sidelines, without having head checked. Still somewhat interested in coins and the scene but not as much as in the past, still maybe step up to a killer if it blows me away. Holding out for a 1854 flying eagle pattern in MS something, the PF buffs I'm without in 65, the "ONE" matte Lincoln when I see it.....the perfect large cent pre 1820, etc

you know the drill. >>


Your head seems perfectly fine to me. I think most of us can relate.

JJSingleton

I see I have plenty of company with buying only one or two coins a year. I just acquired a coin today, the first in 11 months. This makes two in this calendar year and that is pretty much normal for me. Thanks to all who participated in the poll.

JBdimes