Did You Meet Your Collecting Goals For This Past Year

with you Sel. The NCLT coins are just a bunch of coins aimed at collectors at a high premium and have nothing whatsoever to do with the way I collect coins.
If they havent been used to buy somthing they are not real money to me, just trinkets to lure gullable collectors

My wife told me that I exceeded my goals by a long-shot ... then she reiterated just how far she thinks that I exceeded my goals in 2011 (oh, and then she also threw-in that I'd never amount to nuthin') => so I took her double-negative as a sign that she really thinks that I'm a star and that I can do even better in 2012 ...

=> man, she's awesome!




... I'm kidding of course

=> "yes, I gathered-up a lot of coins in 2011, and some really nice ones, so I'm very pleased with the past year"

=> well done, stevex6 (that'll do pig, that'll do)

I was of the opinion that everyone bought what they felt like at the time.
I have a heap of coins that I had no intention of making a collection of, I only got them because I liked the look of them but in the end they became a collection on their own.
My, why on earth did you buy that collection
Each to their own I recon

I jumped back into this hobby this year after a long hiatus (Marriage, 3 kids, work, college, career, 3 teenagers by this time, a couple of work moves - including TWO in the last year!).

I would always try to pick up an UNC Lincoln Wheat or two whenever I found them in my travels.

The last three months of this year have been phenomenal for my collection though. With several excellent Wheats purchased from members here, I am very, very close to completing my Wheat collection. Yes, I am missing the S VDB, but that will come in due time.

Thanks to CCF members for providing a wonderful place to enjoy, share, and learn this hobby! THANK YOU!

In that earlier thread I said...

I never got any further than that.

My goal is always to buy some coins and fill some holes.

In 2011 I bought some coins and filled some holes.

I would like to complete something in 2012.

I mentioned in another thread that my Buffalo nickel set has the best chance of being completed in the next twelve months. This is based on total cost, not the number of holes remaining (eight). The Mercury dimes and Lincoln cents both only have three holes, but the total cost is well above when the Buffalo nickels would cost.

If my goal was to convert a fat wad of gov't. paper currency into obsolete silver discs of various sizes, origins and denominations, I surely succeeded.
Whether there is a coherent order or purpose to all that gathering remains to be seen. I am blessed with a few good local sources in addition to the e-monster, that offer a continuous flow of stuff I find hard to refuse.

Well, seeing as how I only got back into coin collecting this year, I'd have to say that yeah, I met my goal! Of course, it took me a few months to even realize what my goal was, but completing my 7070 album pretty much said it all for me. Now, my more amorphous goal for next year is to slowly upgrade some of the coins in the album...