@ARCO said:
You can build a nice set, but it will only be "meaningful" to you. Most collectors seem impressed with huge budgets and coins entombed in plastic with high grades and a green bean attached to the plastic.
You may want to find another way to collect, or you may be limited to only a handful of coins, especially if you are interested in CC coinage.
Could not disagree more about your comment in your first sentence. There are lots of sets that are meaningful to a lot of us that are not necessarily built on huge budgets. I have seen collections on here that are not big in price but have inspired me with ideas about collecting and are meaningful to me. I know dealers who think some of the coolest collections are ones put together on a budget in this range. Doug Winter has a number of articles about collecting different sets on different budgets. Feel free to speak for yourself but don't tell the rest of us what is meaningful to other collectors.
@ARCO said:
You can build a nice set, but it will only be "meaningful" to you. Most collectors seem impressed with huge budgets and coins entombed in plastic with high grades and a green bean attached to the plastic.
You may want to find another way to collect, or you may be limited to only a handful of coins, especially if you are interested in CC coinage.
Could not disagree more about your comment in your first sentence. There are lots of sets that are meaningful to a lot of us that are not necessarily built on huge budgets. I have seen collections on here that are not big in price but have inspired me with ideas about collecting and are meaningful to me. I know dealers who think some of the coolest collections are ones put together on a budget in this range. Doug Winter has a number of articles about collecting different sets on different budgets. Feel free to speak for yourself but don't tell the rest of us what is meaningful to other collectors.
Give me an example of someone's meaningful collection you were inspired by. I would like some inspiration also.
Pick a CC coin of each design type -- One of the seated designs, Trade dollar, Morgan dollar, $5 Lib. You won't have MS64s of all of them and still have money left for anything else, but you can get really nice, wholesome, circulated coins that will leave dry powder for other "wild west" stuff, including store tokens, brothel tokens, mining scrip, some California fractional gold. A Lesher dollar would be a cool Rocky Mountains piece, but that could be a budget buster. For early American stuff, you'll want an attractive Pillar dollar in XF and a Fugio cent in VF.
Coins that aren't high grade can be just as meaningful as those that are, even if an auction house will never call them Important™. Be choosy for quality and when the right coin comes along, it'll be more meaningful than buying the first hole filler that comes along. Your $8-10K should go far in building a meaningful collection.
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Ahhh so this was resurrected .... soooo, what’d you get after all the advice?
Could not disagree more about your comment in your first sentence. There are lots of sets that are meaningful to a lot of us that are not necessarily built on huge budgets. I have seen collections on here that are not big in price but have inspired me with ideas about collecting and are meaningful to me. I know dealers who think some of the coolest collections are ones put together on a budget in this range. Doug Winter has a number of articles about collecting different sets on different budgets. Feel free to speak for yourself but don't tell the rest of us what is meaningful to other collectors.
Give me an example of someone's meaningful collection you were inspired by. I would like some inspiration also.
Pick a CC coin of each design type -- One of the seated designs, Trade dollar, Morgan dollar, $5 Lib. You won't have MS64s of all of them and still have money left for anything else, but you can get really nice, wholesome, circulated coins that will leave dry powder for other "wild west" stuff, including store tokens, brothel tokens, mining scrip, some California fractional gold. A Lesher dollar would be a cool Rocky Mountains piece, but that could be a budget buster. For early American stuff, you'll want an attractive Pillar dollar in XF and a Fugio cent in VF.
Coins that aren't high grade can be just as meaningful as those that are, even if an auction house will never call them Important™. Be choosy for quality and when the right coin comes along, it'll be more meaningful than buying the first hole filler that comes along. Your $8-10K should go far in building a meaningful collection.
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Try getting gold; gold prices have bean rising drastically. Gold is awesome to collect.
I would go with a all gold $20 liberty cc collection, you would need to save more though. type coins don't do well in recessions