A completed collection is.....

erwindoc · January 12, 2015 10:37AM

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?

crypto79 · January 12, 2015 10:39AM

The accomplishment of one's goals, nothing more. Don't let other people define what a set is to you.

TopographicOceans · January 12, 2015 10:46AM

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

AMRC · January 12, 2015 10:48AM

When you are number one in the Registry for your set.

Yorkshireman · January 12, 2015 11:10AM

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.

winky · January 12, 2015 11:18AM

A set is whatever you want it to be. Dot COM as they say.

AUandAG · January 12, 2015 11:18AM

impossible for me......

bob

CoinZip · January 12, 2015 11:19AM

A completed collection is.....

For me it does not exist !!

sparky64 · January 12, 2015 11:22AM

.........unobtainable?

MrHalfDime · January 12, 2015 11:26AM

A completed collection is..... very anticlimactic!

Currin · January 12, 2015 11:31AM

For me, coin collecting is a journey not a destination.

Type2 · January 12, 2015 11:48AM

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

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

gsa1fan · January 12, 2015 11:49AM

.............time to start another one

Sonorandesertrat · January 12, 2015 1:32PM

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

This

ricko · January 12, 2015 10:45PM

<< 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

crypto79 · January 13, 2015 12:04AM

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<< 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

metalmeister · January 13, 2015 12:13AM

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!

roadrunner · January 13, 2015 1:42AM

<< impossible for me......

bob

>>

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."

TommyType · January 13, 2015 1:43AM

<< 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.

TwoSides2aCoin · January 13, 2015 1:48AM

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.

I feel like an idiot, in fact.

ambro51 · January 13, 2015 3:55AM

A mental trigger saying "sell"

Baley · January 13, 2015 4:06AM

A completed collection is..... a mirage

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

OKbustchaser · January 13, 2015 5:04AM

A completed collection is.....

Trade fodder for my next collection.

asheland · January 14, 2015 3:25AM

Indeed so, never complete!
There's always something else to buy!

spoilr · January 14, 2015 4:59AM

This thread has proven to be way to deep for me to wrap my mind around.
It apparently has caused a borderline mental meltdown

etc., 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.

SmEagle1795 · January 14, 2015 5:27AM

A misnomer.

Lakesammman · January 14, 2015 5:31AM

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!

mr1931S · January 14, 2015 5:38AM

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.

luckybucks · January 14, 2015 9:31AM

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

. >>

Lakesammman · January 14, 2015 12:02PM

It suddenly came to me....

A completed collection is something only your wife dreams about.

goodmoney4badmoney · January 14, 2015 1:33PM

A foreign concept, for me. I have no goals for a "set" or "collection" of anything, just owning coins I think are cool.

A completed collection is.....

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