How often do you look at your coin collection?

jessewvu · May 17, 2013 11:58AM

Maybe better yet, how long does it take you look through your entire collection? (Say it takes you 3 years to have eyes on your entire collection even though you may look at certain coins more frequently)

I guess I'd say I stopped looking at 60% of my collection in the past 5 years, mainly because I don't have many really nice coins left

. I think I focus on the old raw coins I have left because they aren't slabbed so I can keep attempting to grade them myself. That's how I find the nice coins; in the raw.

Tookybandit · May 17, 2013 12:22PM

I have super nice ones that have been locked up in a safe box for 7 years. I should go visit them eventually. Kind of like they're in jail or something!

Rollerman · May 17, 2013 12:26PM

I have a bout 10% at home, the rest in the SDB which I visit about once a month and rotate different material to look at. The 10% that is home, I look at several times a week.
Pete

magikbilly · May 17, 2013 12:30PM

It's a hassle

All SDB, all in PITA archival plastic contraptions (I collect slides, paper, photographs, artifacts etc.) and it all all for a rainy day. I look at scans on the slideshow setting at night sometimes.

Eric

lkeigwin · May 17, 2013 12:38PM

I have a few series I collect. But I am usually more active with one of them. That is the series I store in a safe at home. And I look at it a couple of times monthly. The rest is offsite, in a climate controlled vault.

Periodically I rotate the series to reevaluate, reshoot, etc.
Lance.

Shamika · May 17, 2013 1:44PM

In my mind I look at my collection several times per week. In my hands I look at my collection only a few times per year.

BAJJERFAN · May 17, 2013 1:53PM

ever so often.

Raybo · May 17, 2013 1:55PM

<< <i>ever so often. >>

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BryceM · May 17, 2013 2:04PM

Some of it I haven't seen in years. Other stuff I look at maybe every month or so. I do zip through photos of my primary coins pretty regularly though. That's the only way I can stand to keep them off-site in a SDB. Somewhat like Lance, I usually re-shoot a good number of my coins every few months, especially the toners and ones that really pop. It's a fun way to refine my photography technique and it allows for an assessment of improvement over time. This coin looks better in-hand than in any of the photos, but at least it's close enough now that I can live with it. These represent a few steps along the process:

CoinZip · May 17, 2013 2:28PM

I look at coins every day.......but they are not part of my collection,

Type2 · May 17, 2013 2:29PM

Nice how can you not look at those. I look at mine every time i buy one.

CoinMan1012 · May 17, 2013 2:47PM

I look at it every other day! It is in my room!

Taylor

magikbilly · May 17, 2013 2:50PM

<< <i>Some of it I haven't seen in years. Other stuff I look at maybe every month or so. I do zip through photos of my primary coins pretty regularly though. That's the only way I can stand to keep them off-site in a SDB. Somewhat like Lance, I usually re-shoot a good number of my coins every few months, especially the toners and ones that really pop. It's a fun way to refine my photography technique and it allows for an assessment of improvement over time. This coin looks better in-hand than in any of the photos, but at least it's close enough now that I can live with it. These represent a few steps along the process:

>>

NICE photographs!!!! If you keep going like that and it will look like an UHR!

JK

Really good images.

Eric

bronzemat · May 17, 2013 3:18PM

About once a week.

SmEagle1795 · May 17, 2013 3:44PM

Constantly, through the images I have of my coins on my various devices, and, as I've been following more of a "box of twenty" concept, I can look at all of my coins on one screen.

BustHalfBrian · May 17, 2013 3:52PM

not often, except for the coins strewn across my desk that I have yet to throw in the safe

I'll get to it eventually...

Oxenham · May 17, 2013 4:15PM

Bryce,

That's a nice original looking 1923-D. Is it a 65 or 66?

nwcoast · May 17, 2013 4:18PM

Not very often now that they are spread about in SDBoxes..

I have pics of some though and I'll go every couple of weeks and take some of them out for a little "field trip".
I keep a few circulated books and a bit of common stuff in a safe for more frequent entertainment. The bulk of the collection is locked up though and that's a bit of a hassle. (but I sleepbetter at night).

daOnlyBG · May 17, 2013 4:22PM

I have a few pieces at home. A lot of my bullion pieces are stored offsite- and interestingly enough, not in a SDB.
So the ones at home, I see once every week or two; the ones offsite, probably once every other month.

rooksmith · May 17, 2013 4:49PM

Every month or so I pile it all up and ski down it, like uncle Scrooge McDuck.

ambro51 · May 17, 2013 7:47PM

Not a question many are comfortable with

magikbilly · May 17, 2013 9:21PM

I just realized, I can see a good bit of my collections online and in books

Eric

TwoSides2aCoin · May 17, 2013 9:42PM

I'm just looking after other's collections. Such is life inside the walls of the brick and mortar. Remember, they are merely on loan to us for a short time. The inanimate objects of desire that they are. But they sure present problems, huh ?

jessewvu · May 17, 2013 10:18PM

<< <i>Not a question many are comfortable with >>

I understand that. I thought some may offer how long it takes to go through their collection. That doesn't give insight into how many they have, where they are, or how much they are worth. I was curios if other folks have coins that they just don't look at for one reason or another, even though they don't want to sell them.

BillJones · May 17, 2013 10:29PM

My collection has gotten pretty large, but I would say that I look at every piece, except the stuff in rolls which is not that much, at least once a year. The fact that I have to come with educational topics for my local club every month has me diving into something all the time. There are some coins that I really admire that I look at constantly. Others are more on the back burner, but I'd miss any of them if the sale of piece broke up my complete type set.

TwoSides2aCoin · May 17, 2013 10:29PM

I look at my personal collection whenever a new coin comes along that I don't have. Then I have to weigh the options. Can I afford to take it from inventory, and will it serve a collector better ? The collector always wins. And the funniest thing is, the more I buy better coins, the more my collection sucks.

johnny9434 · May 18, 2013 1:45AM

i look at alot of them online.

devious · May 18, 2013 1:57AM

Not as often as I look at my computer!

LochNESS · May 18, 2013 9:17AM

I have two lighthouse albums of slabs that I view weekly. I have more slabs in blue boxes that I view monthly. I have seven red Saflip boxes that I rarely go through, sadly ... and as someone posted I have coins on my desk that are LOOKING AT ME

Zoins · May 18, 2013 9:20AM

<< <i>i look at alot of them online. >>

That's my preferred method.

ProofArtworkonCircs · May 18, 2013 1:15PM

Some daily, some not in decades (I must get at those).

How often do you look at your coin collection?

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