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What is your favorite way to Collect?
gschwernk
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There are many ways to form a coin collection. What is yours?
Some ways I can think of are:
By Type.
By era ie 19th century.
By denomintion: ie all $1
A specific series: ie Morgan Dollars.
Trophy Coins. ie 100 greatest.
Key coins: ie key coin in each series.
First year of issue.
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by denomination...half dollars...with a specialization in capped bust halves.
I have collected series/types...denominations...etc. Now I collect what appeals to me... It could be a coin that has a special history, unique design, high quality..... Whatever attracts me at the time. No pattern, method or science behind my collecting now... Just pure fun. Cheers, RickO
By type, one at a time
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
By series, but I have occasionally gone outside of series to individual coins that appeal to me,
With my collecting hat on..........
Halves and by type. Also love to go through “loaded bulk foreign coins” (I scour eBay for pictures of lots that I can see have enough goodies to cover the cost) I like to collect the foreign silver for dirt cheap. My last big lot I even found a beat up Connecticut copper.
Barbers Halves & Quarters
Silver Bullion sets
A little bit of a coin or two from many different countries
or
Whatever looks cool
Type set 7070 style
Cherrypicked unattributed, raw, toner, high grade
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By the year and mintmark, like building a mint set for a specific year. I've been working on an 1891 set, for example, and while type gold is common, finding 1891 gold is more challenging.
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Primarily by type...but I usually look for key dates or finest knowns to represent the type.
Also, I look for coins with an historical or notable provenance and I will often choose those to represent the type rather than a coin at a similar grade/price but without provenance.
I do/have done all the above except by denomination and trophy. By trophy I assume you mean seriously high dollar coins that are considered by most people as rare.
For most of my life I collected by things that struck me as cool. But over the last year or so I’ve decided to sell off a lot of my random stuff and focus more on three series: gold dollars, French 1 Franc silver Sower design, and USPS circulation strike types. Of course I’m keeping all the gold I’ve already bought so I’m only selling most of my non-gold stuff that’s graded.
In the three sets I am collecting, I’m not worried about matching looks or grades. I’m looking for what is eye appealing to me or interesting in some way.
Gold...pre-1933 gold...any of it.
USAF (Ret) The purpose of Bourbon is to make you feel like you should feel WITHOUT Bourbon. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.
My favorite way to collect?
Passionately!
My collection is small (less than 25 slabs): by necessity (budget), by strategy (concentrating resources for quality), and by personal desire (attractive type without regard for rarity or variety). The benefits are that while my acquisitions are frustratingly few, I have the liberty not to be bound by a series or date and I have many options to opportunistically acquire what I like.
Most of my coins are common and not even condition rarities. So, when it comes time to sell, I will certainly lose money. That's okay with me. Lastly, a small collection is easy to manage and easy to not worry about when I go to sleep each night.
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
I collect in a variety of ways. I have a couple of type sets currently in progress, one US, based on the 7070 but with the older stuff added and the moderns eliminated (basically 1793 - 1964 more or less), a Darkside type set (British Victorian), a small group of Byzantine bronzes, a few ancients that appealed to me, and several "just because I like them" based sometimes on design, sometimes on toning, sometimes on strike quality. So I'm all over the place.
My OmniCoin Collection
My BankNoteBank Collection
Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
I attempt to buy cool stuff.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
What ever crosses my path that speaks to me...
And a type set at the same time...
My YouTube Channel
I like to collect by type, sporadically including proofs which, as far as I can tell, is the least respected method of collecting by the cognoscenti. But, what can I say? I like what I like.
US Renaissance coinage,
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
By the look of the coin. Silver and gold almost exclusively before 1870. Love crusty original stuff.
Started with bullion, evolved to Peace dollars, then really nice Peace dollars, then US type. Somewhere around there I took an interest in commems, but only the ones I liked. Eventually I can see myself moving to just looking for interesting coins with a look that speak to me. For now, there are a handful of type coins that I'm still after - the hard ones of course.
I've got some ideas for the future, but they're still percolating in my cabeza.
I like date sets, especially of the 20th century classic designs. They are much more affordable than date and Mint mark sets.
USPS usually means "United States Postal Service". What are you referring to as a USPS circulation strike type?
Lovely autocorrect. USPI is what I intended but these devices think they know what I mean. US Philippine coins.
Type
I'm mainly a type collector. I've done some complete date/mint sets but for the most part I'd rather have one really satisfying coin than a whole bunch that all seem sort of the same to me. I enjoy classic commems too but there's no way I'm going to chase all of them. I've had twenty or so of the designs over the years & right now I've got examples I really like of eight or nine.
Hoarding.
By year
Error "Type" coins.
Absolute rarity.
Started as a kid with Lincolns, only from change and/or found, then started buying at shows and eBay. The one cent item that I am missing is the 09 S Indian Head as I would like to have all of the 1909 cents.
Always collected silver of any type, from change, coinstar and purchases.
Just recently I stated to collect the full Peace Dollar series, mostly because it's achievable, after I believe that I'll go after Franklin's.
Thanks for posting