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What will your numismatic goal(s) be for 2012?
RYK
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This is a reprise on Shamika's thread from last year. I enjoyed reading my response and then seeing how I fared.
My goals for 2012:
1. Fewer coin purchases but better coins for the core U.S. gold collection
2. More work on registry set "side projects"
3. Reduce the number of NGC-graded coins in my core collection. Zero is the ultimate goal, but I would like to get under five, which should be fairly easy to accomplish
4. Update my website
5. Obtain an early gold coin
6. Obtain a nice Bechtler dollar
7. Write an article for a coin website (not mine) or print publication
8. Stick to the plan that I described a couple months ago with my boxes of 20 such that even thought I may continue to add coins, the overall number of coins remains constant
9. Attend a major coin show (ANA or Baltimore)
10. Have lunch or dinner (along with show-and-tell) with XF45 and Longacre
11. Spend some time with forum member, Dahlonega
12. Attend a meeting of the US Gold Coin Collectors Club
13. Get another gold sticker
My goals for 2012:
1. Fewer coin purchases but better coins for the core U.S. gold collection
2. More work on registry set "side projects"
3. Reduce the number of NGC-graded coins in my core collection. Zero is the ultimate goal, but I would like to get under five, which should be fairly easy to accomplish
4. Update my website
5. Obtain an early gold coin
6. Obtain a nice Bechtler dollar
7. Write an article for a coin website (not mine) or print publication
8. Stick to the plan that I described a couple months ago with my boxes of 20 such that even thought I may continue to add coins, the overall number of coins remains constant
9. Attend a major coin show (ANA or Baltimore)
10. Have lunch or dinner (along with show-and-tell) with XF45 and Longacre
11. Spend some time with forum member, Dahlonega
12. Attend a meeting of the US Gold Coin Collectors Club
13. Get another gold sticker
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Pick back up my Die progression study on DDO 34d Peace dollars + find a late die state Large D Rev
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-Aristotle
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-Horace
<< <i>For #13 via purchase or submission? >>
Submission...of course!
RYK How early is an early gold coin?
I define early gold as draped bust right through fat heads (1795-1834). Some would also include the classic heads (1834-1839), but I do not.
1. Buy only coins that I feel sure that I want to keep. Continue to resist the urge to impulsively buy coins just because I'm bored. [A continuing resolution.]
2. Buy 2 or 3 more Chapman catalogs.
3. Take JK's ANA summer course on coins that actually circulated during the colonial and early federal periods.
4. Carefully inventory and photographically document my collection. This will mean getting re-acquainted with some of my coins that I haven't looked at in years.
5. Buy a gem proof Seated dollar that hasn't been messed with.
6. Buy a red, gem proof Indian Head cent with orange-peel fields.
7. Buy some more interesting cut coins. You reading this, JK?
8. Continue adding to my incomplete set of B. Max Mehl catalogs.
9. Actually read all of the back issues of Penny-Wise (on a CD distributed to EAC members).
10.Formulate an acceptable solution for my book/catalog collection while there is still time (maybe try a bookcase of 500 approach?)
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
Stop impulse buying and stay focused.
Old, recurring:
Get to Parsippany for one of the shows. Just one! It's all I hope for. I have 12 chances, and it's been pretty much my only goal for the last two years- have not gotten it either time. More than one would be OK, but at this point I'd be happy for just one.
New for 2012:
Attend Philadelphia ANA. I've always wanted to go to Philadelphia, and it'll likely be my only chance to get to an ANA convention ever, as I won't do Chicago or NYC and traveling is difficult for me. I'm not sure if I'll be able to afford to go.
Finish scanning my US collection. I got everything else done, but got burned out on scanning the US coinage- they are all pretty much alike. (the bulk of my collection is modern, clad era date/mintmark collection.) I got so burned out on it that some of them- scans that didn't work, for whatever reason- usually scanner scuzz- well, some coins have been sitting with one side scanned and the other not for over a year now; the last time I worked on scanning them was 12/24/10. This should be fairly easy- I have about 3/4ths scanned already. I just need to actually get myself in gear and do it.
2) Be a bit pickier and a better grader.
3) Take my time looking at the coin before I purchase it at a show.
1. Finish my book and have it picked up by a publisher.
2. Add another 5,000 good coins on my core (Chip, clip, crack...etc. )collection
3. Add more nickels, dimes and halves to the core collection ( where im really slacking).
4. learn how to take good pics of coins that are already in slabs.
5. Secure a crack clip cud chip or other CORE category coin before 1800 and before 1850.
6. Write an article for a coin source about my area of interest.
7. Get back to a Baltimore Coin show
U.S. Type Set
Hoard the keys.
2. Would like to finish my Large Cent Date and Major Type Set, 1839 to 1857. I still need a few really nice quality coins to finish and match the rest of the set.
3. Acquire one of those now legendary CRO caps
4. Pare down my Proof Indian Cents, selling off a few duplicates.
5. Spend as much time as possible with good friends at the larger shows.
6. Give Larry S. as hard a time as possible about destroying the PCGS pop. reports with his fantastic recent NGC to PCGS crossover rate on his Proof Indian Cents.
Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
-Keith
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
Hope I do better!
K
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
The completed set has 123 different varieties of which I have 103. Of the 20 I lack 3 are R-6, 1 is R-7, and 1 R-8.
I should probably sell my complete PCGS Proof Liberty Nickel set and my toned Jefferson set.
As RYK noted, sharing a meal with several of the members here would certainly be entertaining.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
So, I am expecting silver to continue to drop.
....you know they sell big screw presses on ebay?
Still waiting
1997-present
2. Help some newbies enjoy VAM collecting.
3. Add a couple classic commems to the set.
4. Add a couple coins to my prime number date set.
5. Buy something cool that I wouldn't have expected myself to buy.
6. Release the 1878 Reverse of 79 Morgan Dollar Attribution Wizard.
7. Take decent pictures of my own collection. (Currently a case of the cobbler's children having no shoes.)
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Just one.
Please!
mbogoman
https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/classic-issues-colonials-through-1964/zambezi-collection-trade-dollars/7345Asesabi Lutho
Produce my new website and have it be classy enough so RYK feels comfortable posting an article there.
Buy PCGS certified generic US gold on market dips, sell generic raw world gold on the roller coaster gold market peaks.
buy a Weiner medal.
put a bigger dent in my other set
weed out some stragglers
there are still quite a few forum members I would love to meet
strengthen some of my existing relationships
keep my pm blocked list under ten ( I'm active on three forums)
Happy New year to all. MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
- focus on a type set I've started and am really excited about, but have patience for the right coins
- branch out more from the series I'm comfortable with (knowledge wise, not purchase wise)
- make many more friends here on this forum
<< <i>My goal is to get rid of three safe deposit boxes. >>
Because they are not safe or because you will have less coins?
Obtain a CRO hat in University of Miami green and orange.
2. Re-acquire a couple of coins I used to own.
3. Acquire one specific coin I passed on and shouldn't have.
4. Complete my collection of CRO hats.
<< <i>Obtain a CRO hat in University of Miami green and orange.
Hmmm. I had not considered doing that . . .
2. Continue to work on my “one a year” Bust dollar date set.
3. Expand on my Type I gold dollar set.
4. Complete a set of 20 cent pieces excluding the 1876-CC, of course.
5. Continue to write articles and give presentations for my local club as “second vice president for education."
6. Sell off the duplicate type coins I have from upgrading pieces in my collection.
Original goal was to be down to 60 New Orleans seated silver and 40 New Orleans gold needed going into 2012.
Due to exceeding the goal, I currently need only 42 seated silver. So, the goal for 2012:
1. Buy 14 of the needed 42 New Orleans Silver coins needed for the completed New Orleans Registry set (by date)
2. Buy 8 of the 40 New Orleans Gold coins on my wish list.
3. Only spend money on coins obtained from selling something else on ebay.
4. Clean up the registry set with nice pictures and meaningful comments.
5. Delete the misc registry sets I signed up for late at night but only had a couple coins in.
6. Cross my two NGC gold eagles to PCGS. Hopefully as part of a quarterly club special.
The final goal for the New Orleans set is 90%. Total in set is 249, so the most expensive 24 New Orleans Gold will not be
included. Set was started in 2007 when, after selling off my Non-CC GSAs in black cases I was looking to what I wanted to
collect. This is a 10 year set. Five years down, five years to go. Total needed to 90% is 82. Goal for 2012 is 22, which will
leave 60 for the following four years.
Going into 2012, my daughter plans to transfer to a 4 year university for the last two years of undergrad. So, about August
she will be looking for some $$. Usually I get to spend a portion of the overtime on coins. Until August, it will all be going
in a savings account. If not enough, might have to sell some coins. If she gets a scholarship, I will use the money on a
spending spree for Orleans gold. That is why I have goal #3. Will be focusing on the needed $1 and $2.50 gold to make
this work.
Also if I could throw a $10 indian in the mix that would be nice.
Empty Nest Collection
2. Have a blast at the Spring ANA in Denver.
3. Get a shipment off to CAC that I've been meaning to send for 5 months.
4. Upgrade any coin in my 1938-64 Jefferson (non-FS) set.
5. Locate either a 1568 or 1571 Scotland Ryal "Sword Dollar". I need both.
I figure that only three of these will actually happen.
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<< <i>Obtain a CRO hat in University of Miami green and orange.
Hmmm. I had not considered doing that . . . >>
I'd buy a coin just to get one of those.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
2. obtain one draped bust, large eagle gold coin
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
Have two HUGE things going on from Jan thru June. One of them is over in June (barring a passing grade). The other is over 18 years or so after it starts, which is soon.
A few more silver Washington quarter proofs in the registry set I'm building.
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
<< <i>Stop impulse buying and stay focused. >>