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A completed collection is.....

erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,262 ✭✭✭✭✭
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When would you call a collection completed? Filled all the holes, all the upgrades you could afford/find, what? At what point would you say that your collection of (blank) series is done?

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  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭
    The accomplishment of one's goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you.
  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    When you've amassed all the coins you planned to, and are not doing any upgrades.
  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When you are number one in the Registry for your set. image
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  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow!
    These answers range from until I am satisfied all the way to until I have the best existing set.

    Collecting should be about what makes one happy, not what shows how much money one has.
    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • winkywinky Posts: 1,671 ✭
    A set is whatever you want it to be. Dot COM as they say.
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,888 ✭✭✭✭✭
    impossible for me......


    bobimage
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  • CoinZipCoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭


    A completed collection is.....

    For me it does not exist !!


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  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .........unobtainable?

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    A completed collection is..... very anticlimactic!
    They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
  • CurrinCurrin Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For me, coin collecting is a journey not a destination.
    My 20th Century Type Set, With Type Variations---started : 9/22/1997 ---- completed : 1/7/2004

    My 20th Century Gold Major Design Type Set ---started : 11/17/1997 ---- completed : 1/21/2004
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The ackomplishment of ones goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you. >>

    image I completed my Sac dollar coin set last year with one coin. image


    Hoard the keys.
  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    .............time to start another oneimage
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The ackomplishment of ones goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you. >>



    This
    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The ackomplishment of ones goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you. >>



    I agree with this...(except for the spelling)....Cheers RickO
  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>The ackomplishment of ones goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you. >>



    I agree with this...(except for the spelling)....Cheers RickO >>



    Yikes that is a stupid mistake
  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,594 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The first time I completed my Dansco folder of Ike Dollars. I admired it for a while. Next!
    btw I still have the Ikes. I looked at again recently. I must have had a good eye 20 years ago. They all look 66!image
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  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>impossible for me......

    bobimage >>



    Pretty much for me too. I only completed one set in my life - a 4 coin unc mint set of 1858-0 silver coins. And it technically wasn't complete as I really wanted to make it a gem set and 2 of the coins I couldn't find for years and gave up. Any set I tried to complete always came down to running out of money. My tastes for quality always out ran the "set." So I ended up just buying coins I liked, in areas that I like. I do have a complete drum "set" though...completed over 30 years ago. Never once got the urge to "upgrade."

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  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A completed collection is..... very anticlimactic! >>



    Yeah, I once watched a guy come into a BM shop to pick up the Lincoln 1909s-vdb he had apparently been making payments on....and finally paid off. It was the last coin for his collection of Lincoln cents. He sat there looking at it like his mother had died! "Wonder what I should collect now?"

    Probably better if you never really "complete" a set....Just eventually tire of it, and move on.
    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,509 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A completed collection is …. never achieved.
    Oh, I feel like I get close to something and just never manage to finish because it either gets sold, or it needs upgrading, or I am not focused enough on ONE series. I think that's what keeps me motivated to do this every day.

    Currently looking for national park quarters that I swore I would never complete or even attempt to collect. image I feel like an idiot, in fact.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A mental trigger saying "sell"
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A completed collection is..... a mirage

    As you approach it, you realize it's not quite "done"

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A completed collection is.....


    Trade fodder for my next collection.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,624 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Indeed so, never complete!
    There's always something else to buy! image

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  • spoilrspoilr Posts: 122 ✭
    This thread has proven to be way to deep for me to wrap my mind around.
    It apparently has caused a borderline mental meltdownimageimageetc., etc, etc. and I
    seem to have transcended into some sort of vegetative state of depression.
    For reasons unknown to me I am now compelled to get back to completing the design for my perpetual motion machine which is finally after a few decades
    very close to completion.
    Or then again maybe I'll just take a nap with the hope that things might get better when I wake up.
    Excuse me, I seem to have forgotten what my name is.
  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A misnomer.
    Learn about our world's shared history told through the first millennium of coinage: Colosseo Collection
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I hit the wall with my IHC/FE collection, I started adding the top 20 varieties, then small cent patterns and finally CWT's struck over IHC/FE cents.

    There's no end to the madness! image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,385 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One coin a collection does not make.Two coins or more ALWAYS make for a completed collection."Percent of completion" short of 100 has no meaning when one's collection is comprised of two or more,no matter how many,coins.

    Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

  • luckybucksluckybucks Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭


    << <i>When you've amassed all the coins you planned to, and are not doing any upgrades

    . >>

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It suddenly came to me....

    A completed collection is something only your wife dreams about.

    image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A foreign concept, for me. I have no goals for a "set" or "collection" of anything, just owning coins I think are cool.

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