I’m a one trick pony now

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Vetter
Vetter Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭✭✭
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After decades of collecting many different series, especially Buffalo Nickels I have sold just about everything except my Buffalo Nickels errors and varieties. That will be my focus from now on.
I feel good about my decision and I really don’t miss any I have gotten rid of. I know the error segment of coin collecting isn’t very big and I’m not sure how much demand will be for them when I’m gone but collecting should be for enjoyment not for profit (if profit happens all the better).
I am focusing on dramatic errors, not the minor ones. As far as varieties, I have just about all of the major ones so they are pretty much done.
Is there anyone else who just collects one series/type and doesn’t look at anything else?

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  • VKurtB
    VKurtB Posts: 140 ✭✭✭
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    Buffalos are a great series in which to specialize.

    Member - ANA Exhibiting Committee, Membership and Outreach Committee, George Heath Society, PAN, FUN, ANA Qualified Exhibit Judge, Joe Boling Award winner, Glenn Smedley Award winner.

  • Floridafacelifter
    Floridafacelifter Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I specialize in proof Morgans- and I love the funky ones like the Trials, Patterns, SP and BMPs

  • Mr_Spud
    Mr_Spud Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That’s a great idea, to narrow focus like that to just one series that becomes your specialty 👍🏼

    Mr_Spud

  • VKurtB
    VKurtB Posts: 140 ✭✭✭
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    @Floridafacelifter said:
    I specialize in proof Morgans- and I love the funky ones like the Trials, Patterns, SP and BMPs

    You and, by rumor, former Patriot tight end Rob Gronkowski.

    Member - ANA Exhibiting Committee, Membership and Outreach Committee, George Heath Society, PAN, FUN, ANA Qualified Exhibit Judge, Joe Boling Award winner, Glenn Smedley Award winner.

  • liefgold
    liefgold Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I only collect gold dollars 1849-89. Although, I am thinking of adding a couple Bechtler gold dollars.

    liefgold
  • Coins3675
    Coins3675 Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭✭
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    I mostly collect $2.50 eagles now.

    Successful Transactions With: JWP, DBSTrader2, greencopper, bretsan, ajaan, Ted1, Desert Coin, olah_in_MA

  • OnWithTheHunt
    OnWithTheHunt Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Vetter said:
    After decades of collecting many different series, especially Buffalo Nickels I have sold just about everything except my Buffalo Nickels errors and varieties. That will be my focus from now on.
    I feel good about my decision and I really don’t miss any I have gotten rid of. I know the error segment of coin collecting isn’t very big and I’m not sure how much demand will be for them when I’m gone but collecting should be for enjoyment not for profit (if profit happens all the better).
    I am focusing on dramatic errors, not the minor ones. As far as varieties, I have just about all of the major ones so they are pretty much done.
    Is there anyone else who just collects one series/type and doesn’t look at anything else?

    Kind of wish I had your discipline. I also specialize in Buffalos, having put together a very nice complete set with the 5 major varieties along with slabbed high grade varieties, some very nice errors, a handful of original hobo nickels and a book full of buffalo oddities, errors and varieties. My issue is I also have some near complete sets that probably will never be finished because I don't want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for the few remaining coins needed (think 16D mercuries, 09 S VDB Lincolns etc. when I can continue to upgrade and collect Buffalos. At some point I need to part with them, but not quite there yet.

    Proud recipient of the coveted "You Suck Award" (9/3/10).
  • habaraca
    habaraca Posts: 2,121 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    last 20 years just Bust Half Dollars.......

    Last 10 or so only C/S, Love Tokens, and Error, Bust Halves.....

    starting to be interested in early $5 gold.

  • pmh1nic
    pmh1nic Posts: 3,503 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Franklin halves. I have few coins that are hole fillers that I’ll be looking to upgrade. I pick up various commemorative coins if I like the design. Other than that everything else was sold.

    The longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice is it possible for an empire to rise without His aid? Benjamin Franklin
  • scubafuel
    scubafuel Posts: 2,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    After spending a long time on a series, I don’t think it’s unusual to want to collect only the “coin caviar”; rare, unusual, oddball or story coins that keep it interesting and fun after you’ve seen multiples of every date and grade available.

  • David1940
    David1940 Posts: 70 ✭✭✭
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    @Vetter said:
    collecting should be for enjoyment not for profit (if profit happens all the better).

    I'm primarily a from-pocket-change collector, and realized at one point that I get no real satisfaction from collecting dimes. So, out went the dimes. I don't miss them either.

  • cinque1543
    cinque1543 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭✭
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    @Vetter said:
    After decades of collecting many different series, especially Buffalo Nickels I have sold just about everything except my Buffalo Nickels errors and varieties. That will be my focus from now on.

    It feels good to have a single collecting focus, doesn't it? Well done.

  • Barberian
    Barberian Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm focusing on eBay junk coins these days.


  • seatedlib3991
    seatedlib3991 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Barberian . As they say. One man's junk is another man's treasure. James

  • WildWestHalfDollars
    WildWestHalfDollars Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Have been collector for over 3 decades took till about 2022 to truly focus. I only collect early milled 1 reales from Latin America. I see myself doing 2 reales (Peru only) at some point when things get so slow I almost never buy any 1 reales that I am missing. My budget does not allow me to be all over the place. If I had more funds I suppose I would possibly branch out but I will never be in that position.

    Liberty Seated Half Dollars

  • NeophyteNumismatist
    NeophyteNumismatist Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My primary focus is half cents by variety. I do also collect type coins and take a few detours here and there, but I always come back to half cents.

    I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.

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