The tiering of a collection: My attempt at visualizing my collection in concentric circles
Boosibri
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I often have thought of my collection as a series of concentric circles.
The inner circle the "Core" of the collection. Sell on coin and you are in effect abandoning the set. They are the "Pillars" holding up the structure.
The second circle are exceptional coins. Special and generally irreplaceable still but are not those which define the set.
The Third circle are the amplifiers which give depth to the set as a whole.
The Fourth and final circle fill in the collection to give further depth and completeness to the story being told.
Here is my mornings attempt at visualizing my set.
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Well done- Just curious if you are using Trueviews or your own pictures?
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Both, just quick circle crop cut and paste.
Latin American Collection
Interesting way to thinking about it. Kinda like Dante's Nine Circles of Hell.
Without any further delay, here are the Boosibri Nine Circles of Coins:
Circle 1: Limbo. What do I collect? Where do I begin?
Circle 2: Lust. I only have 6 coins and I need MORE.
Circle 3: Gluttony. 18 coins! Yum yum! Burp!
Circle 4: Greed. You can't have that coin. It's mine, all mine!
Circle 5: Wrath. I missed that coin at auction! WTF!
Circle 6: Heresy. I can't believe that there aren't more coins available to buy.
Circle 7: Violence. I'm a gonna kill you so that coin will come up for sale.
Circle 8: Fraud. Gonna head to ANS and switch some coins.
Circle 9: Treachery. Let's hope it never gets to this.
You spent time on that @pruebas
Latin American Collection
I think I'm at circle 6 already.
Don’t sweat it. I’m a coin dealer, so…
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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Funny, I tried generating a similar image of my coin collection using AI and this is what it spit out.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Well, I sourced or had representation from @MrEureka for 24 of the 54 coins imaged. I wonder how that fact fits into the toilet analogy?
Latin American Collection
That's a sink... flush down the toilet is kicking it up a notch, no?
With the current trajectory of Latin American coinage, I suspect none of your plumbing is draining anytime soon!
My mistake
Latin American Collection
I was just having a little fun at your expense @Boosibri. It was really a very ingenious idea, and cool photo (though too small to appreciate the coins).
I have thought similarly about my collection, but I have always likened it to a tree.
The main branch is Mexican patterns. Then, for example, I hit a something like a pattern made by Charles Pillet, I branch off to find other interesting things (other country's patterns, or sometimes rare regular issues) made by Pillet. Or maybe there are no obtainable patterns for something like Pillar Dollars, so I branch off and collect some cool type coins that can represent Pillars in my collection. All those branches serve to add depth to the collection as you mentioned (and like a real tree, they sometimes grow too big and need to be trimmed).
Sometimes when a branch grows too big (ie. Soho Mint) and it bends down to take root and start its own new tree. Now I have Soho Mint patterns for not only North America, but diverse countries like Denmark, Brazil, Russia, and India. Or I have cap & rays topical coins from the USA and some other countries.
It's an affliction I tell you!
And occasionally I buy something cool that is totally apart from what I normally collect--a British or French gold medal, or a Danish abolitionist medal. How do they fit into the above model? I guess they are the weeds growing under the tree.
I thought these were electron orbitals at first glance; 2, 8, 8, 18...