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1-Coin Coin Collection ??

Is it considered a coin collection if you only have 1 coin ??

Thanks,

Chris

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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,366 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some coins are cool enough to be “a collection of one”

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't think it would be. By definition, a "collection" is a group of things.
    However, if the right coin came along, I could see reducing my collection down to one.

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  • jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭

    Does the 1933 double eagle count as a collection? :wink:

    an SLQ and Ike dollars lover
  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1933 Double Eagle is probably someone's collection of one.

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

    @DMWJR said:
    1933 Double Eagle is probably someone's collection of one.

    And, if you happened to have 10 of them? :)

    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have heard this question debated before, and there is always a bit of argument.
    My initial answer used to be "No".

    But I was convinced otherwise by these two arguments:
    If a beginning collector is building his collection and has only made one purchase thus far, that one coin is his collection.
    If a collector has sold off all but one of his coins, his collection is the one coin which remains.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,705 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is a single person who lives alone considered to be a family? Can one coin be considered a hoard? The dictionary defines collection as "a group of things" so the answer would be no. I would call a single coin to be the beginning of a collection.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One coin is a possession, a group of coins is a collection that one possesses. Cheers, RickO

  • jedmjedm Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would call it my coin, not my collection, but that's just me, I am a collector so for that very reason it would have surely been a temporary description!
    A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. So can a journey be a step?

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Half empty or half full.:)

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is it too much to ask folks to get a dictionary and look up two words (DEFINITION and COLLECTION) before leaving a cheap >:) , drive-by, and misinformed "Disagree" to a perfectly correct post by an educated member?

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,219 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you have one coin, you call it simply a coin. It can be the start of a collection or what's left of a collection, but it's not a collection unless there is more than one.

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If I had a 1-coin coin collection I'd make sure someone I could trust tucks it in my pocket before they close the lid.

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  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If a set is a collection then yes. Mathematically 0 coins is also a set. The empty set.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

    An empty set is still a set. So a collection with zero coins is still a collection. I'm waiting for just the right coin...

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:

    Is it too much to ask folks to get a dictionary and look up two words (DEFINITION and COLLECTION) before leaving a cheap >:) , drive-by, and misinformed "Disagree" to a perfectly correct post by an educated member?

    Are you new here? That is too much to ask anywhere in the internet age. :smile:

    That said: a collection is defined as a "group of things". But, of course, a group is defined as "a number of things classified the same". One is a number. So by extension, a "group of things" could be "one thing".

  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well I guess you can say you have a Coin Collection rather than a Collection of Coins :wink:

    Steve

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Let me ask my friend.....

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,233 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why don't you just grab a cent out of the "leave a penny, take a penny" tray at the supermarket, add it to your one-coin "collection", and then there is nothing more to argue about. :D

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    <3
    I'd say you can call it whatever you may please @aus3000tin ;)

  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,554 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A complete date/denomination collection from Price Edward Island is one coin.


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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,233 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ajaan said:
    A complete date/denomination collection from Price Edward Island is one coin.

    Good point. And I think if you focus on collecting any one denomination of Hawaiian coins it is also one...

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,219 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 29, 2018 11:31AM

    @Paradisefound said:
    <3
    I'd say you can call it whatever you may please @aus3000tin ;)

    Now you're dragging uncountability into the fray. Since the amount of coinable matter in the universe is finite, we need to consider theoretical coins rather than physical ones, each denominated in a unique real number multiple of a unit of currency, and with each real number multiple represented. The number of coins in a completed collection of these would be uncountably infinite. Of course, the cost would as well. The cool thing, however, is that you could use some of the coins in this set to buy the countably infinite set of coins denominated in rational number fractions of said unit of currency and still have an uncountably infinite collection left.

    So in this case, you have something that both can and cannot be counted.

    Edit: :)

  • REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 29, 2018 12:24PM

    @aus3000tin said:
    Is it considered a coin collection if you only have 1 coin ??

    Thanks,

    Chris

    No.

    You can close the thread now. :)

  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,641 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OK, so if you have only one coin, but then cut it up in multiple pieces, is that a collection?

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,219 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinosaurus said:
    OK, so if you have only one coin, but then cut it up in multiple pieces, is that a collection?

    If you start with an 8 reales, I'll consider it.

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Found it.......this is my collection...............one coin...............pieces. :smile:

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  • mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

    col·lec·tion
    kəˈlekSH(ə)n/
    noun
    1.
    the action or process of collecting someone or something.

    I GUARANTEE if my collection was a single dirty nuclear bomb, I would get a lot of attention just for 1 of them, and not even worry about getting more of them.

    Matthew 13:45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46 When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

  • ElKevvoElKevvo Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hmmm.....would take a lot of the fun out of posting here. GTG threads? After about the 5th time I think everyone would be able to post the grade,. Picture threads? After the 10th picture folks would be saying 'what else ya got?'. Favorite coin threads? You know how that would go.

    Still....it would be a Libertas for me!

    K

    ANA LM
  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    no. But you can be a collector who started with one coin and then came 2. I am around 350

    Best place to buy !
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