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Ever assemble a box of 20....
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...and then wonder why you got the other stuff?
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Ever assemble a box of 20.... yes
...and then wonder why you got the other stuff? no
Never been a fan of the collecting restrictions, Don't need every type or every date or coins from the year the Andrea Doria sunk.
I like nice coins and often well circulated nice coins. Silver first, gold second. Copper hurts my eyes.
When I put up my personal collection into business inventory, I kept a select box of twenty.
A year later, I put that box of twenty into business Inventory
“Ever assemble a box of 20....“
....and another and another...
Yes.
I read the title and then expected your post to say, "And then forgot where you put it."
That too.
You are no friend of Dansco.
You are a trove of whit, man.
Yup !!!
I have two boxes of twenty I’m working on.
Box #1 My type coins
Box #2 Gold CAC’d Gold
I have 2 boxes of 20 i am working on as well.
Box #1 ngc fatties
Box #2 pcgs
They use to be combine but then they wouldnt fit in each others boxes... drove me crazy so i started two seperate boxes.
Last box of 20 I did was 1990's. 20 type 2 $20's 60's 61's with one MS62 when the current slab was green label holders in a green PCGS box. 60's and 61's were around $500 and the 62 was about the same price they are today.
Sold all but 20 of my IHC proofs, the 20 based mostly on eye appeal. . Probably should do the same with my type, wish I had done it with my Mercs rather than sell the set. (Slabs take up a lot of room in the safe.) But, no way I could do ONE box of 20,,,yet.
I have never done a box of 20..... Could not give up my several hundreds of other coins...Cheers, RickO
I've never done a box of 20 and will likely never do one. The only way I would consider one is if my finances go to crap after I retire.
The only time I have ever wondered why a piece was in my collection was shortly after I purchased an NGC graded coin. I knew I would eventually have to get rid of it and that it was only a matter of time until it bothered me to have an NGC holder in the middle of all the other PCGS holders. My wife told me when I brought it home that it would be gone in less than 6 months, but I managed to hold on to it for 2 years before I broke down and traded it for a PCGS piece. I think I held on to it that long because she told me I would not be able to hold on to it for 6 months before it would drive me nuts.
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All the time i wonder that and its ok🤪
Yep. That's what I did. I put the top 20 in a box.
Then the rest in the other box/es.
Then wondered why I have the other box/es. Ah, the dilemmas we face in this place.
I don’t think I could ever give up all but 20 of my coins. However, it would be a fun project to put aside a set amount of money to be used only for a box of 20 set, and then keep that money and any coins you buy for that set as a closed system (i.e., if you buy a new one, an old one has to go). That way you could have a box of 20 without ditching everything else.
As a collector turned dealer I've been floating around 20 boxes of 20 for a few years.
No. I was a collector we’ll before the concept of a slab box of 20 was even on the horizon. I think in terms of complete sets and sets with historical significance that I develop in my imagination. The concept of a collection no larger than 20 coins is beyond my comprehension.
i had several boxes of 20. Is the assumption that one would ONLY have 20 coins and nothing else?
Yes
Actually... no
Not yet and probably never will as my series is only 13 coins.....Morgan CC's. Have done several of these though.
bob
the only boxes of 20 that I have got assembled by PCGS.
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