Are you an extremist collector?

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• RTS Posts: 1,408 ✭

  November 12, 2009 12:56AM

  One year...I guess more extreme would be collecting only one variety from one year.

  

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• TomB Posts: 22,422 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 12, 2009 1:18AM

  There is nothing inherently wrong with this strategy, but I believe it would drive my from the hobby out of boredom.

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• cladking Posts: 29,118 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 12, 2009 1:38AM

  I do tend to like coins with the biggest numbers on them; you know like 1986
  instead of 1745.
  
  I collect a lot of old coins as well though.

  tempus fugit extra philosophiam.

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• BillJones Posts: 35,144 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 12, 2009 2:45AM

  No, I'm all over the place. I collect type coins and stuff with some neat history surrounding it.

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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• HoledandCreative Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 12, 2009 3:30PM

  I like extreme condition.
  
  

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• keoj Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭

  November 12, 2009 7:48PM

  Just Trade Dollars and only Trade Dollars. Thats it.
  
  keoj

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• jsf Posts: 1,889

  November 12, 2009 7:53PM

  I've been hitting the Walkers so hard over the past several months that I feel guilty now when I shop around and buy other coins. My registry set is full, but that doesn't seem to alleviate the need to be buying Walkers. The upgrade bug is just as vicious a cycle to be caught in as the initial collecting cycle. Even as much as I'd like to get into Civil War coinage more, that just can't satiate the "need to buy Walkers"-syndrome.
  

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• frnklnlvr Posts: 2,750 ✭

  November 12, 2009 8:24PM

  I collect Franklins only, mainly varieties. I love the hunt for new varieties to add to my collection!

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• MidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 12, 2009 9:16PM

  All colonials, all the time.
  
  But...occasionally some federal key dates. And sometimes a Conder Token or Hard Times Token or Civil War Token. And a foreign coin every once in a while.

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