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Is your coin collection an accurate reflection of your personality?
dan1ecu
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Maybe you specialize in a narrow area, versus having a variety of interests.
Maybe you're a perfectionist, only buying one or two coins per year, and only the best.
Maybe you collect by variety, which shows how much time you spend reading and researching.
Maybe your collection is filled with many relatively inexpensive coins, as opposed to a few valuable ones.
Maybe your collection looks completely different every couple of months because you like to buy and sell.
Maybe once a coin is in your collection, it stays there forever.
Maybe you tend to spend a little too much on coins?
Whatever your coin habits are, do you find that you have the same habits in other areas of your life?
Dan
Maybe you're a perfectionist, only buying one or two coins per year, and only the best.
Maybe you collect by variety, which shows how much time you spend reading and researching.
Maybe your collection is filled with many relatively inexpensive coins, as opposed to a few valuable ones.
Maybe your collection looks completely different every couple of months because you like to buy and sell.
Maybe once a coin is in your collection, it stays there forever.
Maybe you tend to spend a little too much on coins?
Whatever your coin habits are, do you find that you have the same habits in other areas of your life?
Dan
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I guess that would be called "eclectic", which is a reflection of my personality.
So the answer is yes.
(edit: to actually answer question)
collections: Maryland related coins & exonumia, 7070 Type set, and Video Arcade Tokens.
The Low Budget Y2K Registry Set
I LOVE early and 19th American history. That's where the major dollars have gone for my collection.
I am a generalist and not a specialist. As a refection of that I have mostly collected type coins. I have a couple of date and mint sets, but that's not my prime focus. My token collection is centered mostly on the Hard Times and Civil War eras, but I also collect presidential campaingn medalets from ALL elections.
I like quality, but I don't go totally nuts over it. Therefore most of my collection falls in the AU range. I don't collect realy common stuff for the most part so that as nice as I can afford. For modern coins most of my coins are Proofs, which fall in the PR-65 to 67 range.
Many coins have been in my collection for 20 years +. They only come out when (1) I get a better one, or (2) less often I lose interest in them.
Most of my buying an selling is with the business. My collection has a very slow turnover if it turns over at all.
With regard to most anything, I like to understand the big picture. I am basically a type collector.
In my life & my work I am involved with people from the very affluent to the very poor, and insofar as it is possible to do so in our hyper-class-conscious culture, I attempt to see past people's socioeconomic status to the human being behind the eyes. My core collection has pieces ranging from superb gems to P01, and I respect them all as what they are.
I believe that we are possessed -- often in a way which limits our growth -- by those things with which we cannot freely part; I sell as much as I buy.
I suppose my collection is an expression of my outlook on things in general.
sound like anyone I know.
Yep.
Joe
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