The 'Joy' Of Downsizing

That sounds like the best strategy.

Building a collection of anything is a continuous improvement process - out with the least appealing . . . My goal when buying coins is to avoid the ones that will be difficult to sell when I want to downsize/upgrade.

I feel I am slowly getting to that point, where I too
should be downsizing my collection.

Reading your thoughts on how you are dividing up your
collections gives me some good ideas.

GR58- you must not downsize. You must become the "Redfield" of quarter dollars.

Just remember not to store your canned peaches to close to em GR!

If you have to downsize, figure out a way to take the emotion out of it. I know from personal experience that can be very difficult to do...

"Less is More!" My battle cry for the last few years.
Sell stuff I do not care for to concentrate on what I do care for.
But there is something else: pride of ownership. Be it a single coin or
a long-worked-on set, that pride has sustained me through the disposal of those coins which not longer suit me.

So, gxseries, ask yourself which coins instill pride in your collecting
and I suspect it may help make your decisions easier.

instead of keeping 1 example from a pool of problem coins why not sell them all and buy 1 good one ?

I tend to be a bit ruthless. High or low quality, if I no longer really want the coin, it goes. If I have a coin I really like but in low grade, I will use the funds to buy a higher grade and then sell the low grade one.

I'd rather have 10 coins I really admire than 1000 that just take up space but that I rarely look at.

Now if you really love all 1,000 of them, then don't downsize. You will regret doing so. Only downsize when you are really ready.