Goals
scooter25
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I am a very goal oriented person. I set goals and keep them. I have a couple goals in this hobby. One is to put together a great Kennedy set with many varieties and every minted Kennedy. My second goal I will probably be working on for a very very long time and the is to try and obtain one of every date and mint mark dollar, quarter, nickel, dime, and cent. (Half cent, half dime, and 3 cent piece) pretty much (at least) one of every coin not made of gold. My question would be, what are your goals in this hobby? I know we do it for fun, but do you have something you are trying to complete? Something you are working towards
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I have been working on a Morgan Dollars with Major Varieties, Circulation Strike set.
@scooter25
My interest is currently way too broad and I know nothing would be accomplished unless I narrow it down......so that's my 1st goal. However the overall goal is to continue having fun and learning along the way. Thank you forum members!
My Peace date set is almost complete with 1934 still in the hunt and next is $10 Indian Eagle I really like.
Let me see the most set you have collected so far.
I need to be more selective in many way; grade etc......although the date set is my goal
Goals are meant to be broken. Set them, achieve them, then make new ones. The second you have no more goals, what's the sense in living?
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
Wooooha! Did someone just say it's officially "TACO™" Tuesday????
my current goal is to sell off quite a bit of stuff that's accumulated along the way to chasing different goals. as I get older and collect for longer I find I get more disciplined. that means I am selling old goals to meet new ones.
Very very nice. Quite possibly my 2 favorite series right there. Great goals right there!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
Wooooha! Did someone just say it's officially "TACO™" Tuesday????
Is it easier to gather circulated piece than "un-circulated" ones?....or is it too naive for me to think that way?
I've always been interested in Half Dimes and thought I'd be happy with just a basic date/mintmark set. After completing that I expanded into pursuing the PCGS registry for Seated Half Dimes complete variety set. I recognize however that some of the varieties are scarce and I will likely never find them.
That's my primary goal with Early Half Dime & Capped Bust Half Dime registries my enjoyable secondary goals.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
My goal is to assemble and improve my sets by churning. Buying other sets, incorporating the meat into my own and flipping off the trimmings for around what I paid or a modest profit. A second goal is to assemble sets of modern coins 1970-present with as close to perfection as I can get but all in raw.
I inherited a bunch of circulated Morgan's so I already had a pretty good start.
Center yourself. Focus. Want a challenge?
Go date by date and mint with Buffalo Nickels. You will NEVER stop learning about these beautiful coins.
I've been a collector of them since 1967 and they still fascinate me today.
Pete
a bit timid to go outside my realm....uncharted with ocean of varieties.
Will consider it...Thanks for the advise!
I do love Buffalo Nickels
One of my collecting goals is to develop more concrete goals and work on discipline. My pursuit of toned Buffalos is one of them. I was partially inspired by participating in this forum and seeing toned Buffs shared by other collectors here!
I do also have an eye open for random exonumia and ephemera that are coin-related. Last night I picked up a Lincoln cent folder shaped like an oversized Lincoln cent. I don't really collect Lincolns but thought it was an eye-catching addition, and wasn't too pricey.
I have achieved one goal, which I'm grateful for, and that's moving from lurker here to participant, and learning from so many contributors here. How's that?
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
Forget the Varieties. Go date by date and move on from there. All the "other" stuff comes later.
Pete
I picked one that will never be reached: To collect a bank check from every National Bank in the U.S. chartered at that time and dated before 1/1/1900.
Unobtainable should be considered a refrain able option. Unless of course, you want to drive yourself crazy.
Pete
Earlier in my collecting years, the goal was to 'get coins'...
Then I evolved to getting specific coin. The next step was series (CC Morgans, Kennedy's, Franklin's etc). Then I moved into other areas... a series of commemoratives (one for each state I have lived in)...special interest coins... Gold coins, ASE's....Now, I have no specific goals... just to acquire a nice coin when it captures my interest. Cheers, RickO
I collect a lot of things but my main theme has been Peace dollars, namely rainbow ones. I also do crown sized silver world coins. Love Daalders and Central American 8rs. I do a lot of Uruguay coinage as that where my family is from. There are a lot of type coins i'd like to add. Will one day do an 1805 set of US and world types to commemorate my mom. Not big into complete set or registry games so I dont feel that I need to have any complete sets. I truly buy what I like and I know what I like when I see it.
EDIT: to add i have a think for PL coins but not a full set kinda thing
i'm not trying to complete anything or work towards anything all i do is just collect coins that get my notice yeah odd way to do a collection but it works for me
Coins for Sale: Both Graded and Ungraded
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These are some interesting answers. I'm enjoying this thread.
1st goal: gain knowledge. Joining here is part of this. Reading and asking the occasional question.
I love cherry picking raw coins and want to learn to do this well with the intention of sending them in for grading and attribution.
2nd goal: narrow my focus to get more enjoyment. I've done this. Decided to focus mainly on completing my raw silver Washington quarter set in circulated with a matching look that is attractive to me. I only have 24 more to get and I already have the 32d and 32s. I made the decision to house these in a Whitman Classic album and I am very happy with the look.
FYP
@ACop....
Well done... still chuckling.... Cheers, RickO
And remember. Your still a hoarder till you sell
your first coin.:)
I almost had a heart attack till I looked at what you originally said.
Pete
I didn't know you could do that. Very creative and funny. Ricko can take it......I'm not so sure about some of the others around here. Still, you got a laugh out of me. Thanks.
Overall goal: Buy coins that are a good value and that I enjoy.
Near-term goal: Complete my PD set, eventually.
@Paradisefound Still digging that 28-s in the OGH
Collector, occasional seller
My goal since 2009 has been to complete a full set of certified Walkers in mint state from 1916 to 1947 (65 coins). I don’t play the registry game anymore, since now both PCGS AND NGC only allow their own coins to be registered, in their respective sets. I have a mix of NGC and PCGS certified coins and I don’t fool with crossovers. I purchased a lot of PCGS coins that I already had in NGC certified slabs, so that I could put them in the PCGS registry, as well as my NGC registry. I have given up on doing that, as building two registries is complete insanity. I am just over 95% complete with my certified Walker set but will never have a complete registry of just one or the other TPGS service but I will have a full certified set. I have been spending money on other coins: such as Morgan’s, Franklins and Peace dollars. Have also been spending money on luxury items such as entertainment and traveling. Have also been socking away a lot in savings. The last three coins that I need are very hard to find, especially nice, in the grades that I want. I’m going to get my focus back and make a concerted effort to finish once and for all. Then I will just sit back and enjoy and maybe work on Morgans after that. I also like Standing Liberty quarters, too. I might try to complete a Franklin and/or Peace dollar set, as those sets are short and doable.
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
I did once have the dream of finding a rainbow for every P$ mint mark. That's not gonna happen.
Break into the Top 10 with a Basic Lincoln Wheat set. Two years and a lot of money just to break into top 100. Two collectors I am in competition with are spending $5k to $10k a week to build their sets quickly buying from 4-5 auction houses plus EBay.
thechristophercollection.net
Complete die marriage sets of all silver Capped Bust coins.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
My goal is to preserve as much history as possible. Haven't really figured out how to accomplish that yet. And there are people with far more information than I have doing the same thing, so, basically, I've got nothing.
Collecting wise, as many different world types as possible is the most interesting to me, with a one from every country side project taking most precedence. (You can see my progress in a thread in the world coin section here). I am also, or was, working on a year project, but it's not as wide open because it must display an actual year on the coin.
I have realized a lot of my goals, and I am now in the process of setting some others. Here are a couple I have realized:
Complete U.S. set, up until circa 1980, from the 1792 half disme to the $50 gold Pan-Pac gold pieces.
Complete Type I and Type II gold dollar sets minus the 1849-C Open Wreath
At least one coin from each British king or queen from Edward the Confessor to Elizabeth II
An ongoing set of 19th century presidential campaign tokens, medalets and medals. This will never be finished.
VERY impressive, Bill. Kudos to you, my friend.
Pete