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Thanks hfjacinto and jbuck.
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Here were my goals at the start of the year. Quote:
1. Continue to acquire new dated or datable coins from the 15th Century. I currently have 30 years with empty slots, so it would be nice to fill two or three of those. Bonus points if I knock off any dates in the 14th Century.
2. Continue to acquire coins datable to a single decade. From present times going back to the year zero AD, I've got 22 empty slots. I'd like to fill four or five of those.
3. Only slightly out of scope for this discussion: be the best CCF moderator that I can be! For goal #1, I picked up five new years plus I am still waiting on one to arrive from Europe: 1382, 1388, 1409, 1412, 1413 (pending), and 1486. I was very glad to find that last one as it pushes back the first year for which I don't have a coin by more than twenty. I'll include a pic of it below. For goal #2, I managed to find coins from three different decades: 460s, 410s, and 200s. Of course I totally knocked #3 out of the park.  Interestingly, I've decided to start selling off some parts of my collection that I began with ( US coins). It is nice to turn some of these old purchases into money which I can plow into my current area of focus.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Awesome Spence! Here were my goals: Quote:
1. Bring my 7150 Barber Half album to 90%+ complete. This one is going to be highly dependent on what hits the market. Some of my remaining coins are R-3 and R-4 and are hard to come by.
2. Add a Carson City Morgan. 79-85 and 89 needed.
3. Add another Liberty Seated Half and Dollar.
4. Probably not going to get much from the mint other than the proof and reverse proof Innovation dollars.
1. Accomplished this one. I believe I have the last Barber Half I need to get 100% complete under the Christmas tree Will be posting an update in the new year in my thread. 2. I added a 79, 82, 83, and upgraded by 91 Carson City Morgan's. So more than complete. 3. I did neither of these. I did add a chopmarked Trade dollar though. 4. Only got the Innovation Dollars, as predicted. |
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Wonderful years you two!  |
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Nothing else expected this year, so here it is... 2024 Quarter 4 Update. 1. Fill the last three core Dansco album holes 7000 - 1916-D Mercury dime. 8100 (2) - 1909-S VDB and 1922 "Plain" (no D).  2. Finish the extended part of the PCGS Ike set The final presi — Received 9/30/2024!  3. Buy whatever appeals to me from 2024 US Mint offerings, including: 2024 Clad Proof Set
— Bought Women Quarters Clad set for new Dansco album!
— I will get clad proof dime and half dollar from third party.2024 Silver Proof Set — Received!2024 Ame — Received!230th Anniversary Flowing Hair Silver Medal — Received!2024 Ameri — Received!2024 Uncirculated Coin Set — Received!2024 Greatest Generation proof silver dollar and proof half dollar — Received!2024 Liberty-Britannia Medal — Received!4. Add some Ike and WWII related coins from around the world. Still shopping. 5. Move my world coins from 2x2 holders (stored in 12 pocket Dansco pages) into various hole sized of standard Dansco pages. If I do it right I should be taking photos as well.  Several pages have been moved, but still a work in Progress  |
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Me, too. I received one of my December purchases and will assume the others arrive shortly.... So ...
1. Continue to add early dated/datable coins in the 1400s, 1300s and "decade coins" earlier.
1Q/2Q/3Q: Dated 1471 and 1473 (Deventer); Florence grossos dateable to 1424, 1453 and 1487; Cologne weisspfennig (1383); Brabant coins dateable to 1377, 1382,1430.
4Q: Added dated Low Countries coins 1472, 1486, 1488 (ouch!), and dateable coins1249 and 1467. I noticed @spence got a 1486 this year, too!
2. Continue to grow collection and knowledge of saints on medieval coins. Last year I added 15 in this theme.
1Q/2Q/3Q: St. George (Antioch), St. Simeon (Trier), Mary Magdalen (Papal) St. Anselm (Mantova), St. Appolinaris (Ravenna), St. Antoninus (Piacenza), St. Nicholas (Desana), St. Prosdocimus (Padua) and a Danish penning with a St. Michael.
4Q: St. Zeno (Verona), St. Domitian (Huy, Belgium), St. Quirinus (Coreeggio, Italy), St. Patrick (Mantua, Italy), St. Geminiano (Modena, Italy)
3. Continue work on Numista catalog.
1Q/2Q/3Q: Added about 380 new coins to the catalog (now at 1529 listings created). Very active buidling the medieval sections of a number of Italian city states: Genoa, Cremona, Padua, Trento, Aquileia. Also added a lot to Crusader States/Rhodes.
4Q: Now at 1603 coins added to the catalog, probably with few more to be added by year's end.
I'd like to get a bit more disciplined about my spending.
1Q/2Q/3Q. At about the same point I was same time last year.
4Q. Oh well. Now about 15% above last year, but pleased with what I have added. Could be worse.
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12/23/2024 8:41 pm
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Excellent! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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2024 Acquisitions & Summary: The USM issues below were stated goals in January. . .UNC versions of the Tubman Commem half and dollar. 2024 Proof & UNC ASE, Including the Bullion w/ Star Privy Mark UNC Morgan & Peace dollars. Peace Proof Dollar. Greatest Generation Coins: UNC & Proof Dollars Proof & Silver Proof Sets US Army 1 oz Silver Medal Flowing Hair Silver Medal. Amer. Innovation Reverse Proof Set Morgan & Peace 2 Coin Reverse Proof Set Ad hoc goals. . .Expanded my ASE collection: Now have at least one example of all Bullion, UNC, Proof, and Reverse Proof ASE issued in the series with one exception: the 1995 W 10th Anniversary Proof. 2019 - P 5oz Apollo 50th Anny Proof Filled some gaps in my uncirculated Mint Set series: Now covers 1959 - 2024. Augmented these with all of the Annual Uncirculated Dollar Coin Sets. Medals. . .Completed the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at NYU series ! Collection includes some 3" Bronze examples and a few 44mm examples in silver. Acquired the Presidential Art Medals World War II Series ( Complete, in Album, with Flyers for all 30 issues ). Medals & Flyers posted to the CCF in August - September: http://goccf.com/t/4691182025 Goals: To Be Determined ! Best wishes to all for a happy & healthy 2025. " Even a clock that's stopped is right twice a day. "
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12/30/2024 10:21 am
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Fantastic! |
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It's 2025 here now, so I might as well write my final reports for this... Quote:Quote:
For now my plan for [2024] is the same as [my plan for 2023 and] my last plan for 2022: find and visit a coin store (and/or a coin fair), and hopefully buy some coins from there. Has yet to happen (though I did find a few inexpensive coins at a local market), but there's a lot of the year still left. Still nothing here, nearly 11 months in; these days the ongoing Hezbollah activity is making attempts to visit other cities quite unsafe even in non-northern directions. There are some possible leads for the upcoming week, though (when I'm expecting to maybe visit Haifa early enough in the morning to possibly check out a coin store I've found on maps), and I can't yet rule out a brief return back to Moscow at the end of December (...though my current plans don't involve any coin store visits in there until, at least, the first few days of January). There was a truce up north shortly after that post, but even then, over the remaining month, I never got around to visiting coin stores in either Haifa or Zefat. It wasn't clear if I would visit some after all right up until the last day, but ultimately it just never worked out. Still hoping to visit some in the next few weeks, though... but Moscow had been postponed until at least February and more likely April. Quote:Quote:
Unexpected additional goal: actually enter all the random foreign coins I got from relatives into my Numista collection. I was going to do that in January but somehow never actually got around to any actual entering after the first... maybe five or six coins. There's about 200 coins in the queue by now. ..actually falling behind here; I got another few album pages of coins from relatives (and a few loose coins from my brother, who brought a bunch of unspent change from Estonia - sadly not Brazil, where he didn't end up with any), so I have about 300ish coins left to enter now (and at least another hundred in my circulation date set attempt). However, this is now much lower priority anyway because Numista's new redesign made the website much lower priority for me in general. No change here; I'm still a bit lowkey-annoyed at Numista's new style, and I have no short-term plans to enter my local collection there. Probably should, though. |
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Thank you for the update. I hope next year is better for all of us, but especially for you and those around you.  |
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I hope next year is better for all of us, but especially for you and those around you.  I take my (relative) personal safety for granted. Quote:
3. Continue work on Numista catalog.
4Q: Now at 1603 coins added to the catalog, probably with few more to be added by year's end. There was a year-end push to hit the 400,000 milestone, so I wound up the year with my total at 1635, or close to 500 for the year (with over 20 listings for medieval Italy still in the hopper awaiting approval). Edited by tdziemia
01/01/2025 09:58 am
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I take my (relative) personal safety for granted. Indeed, many of us do. |
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1. Spend more time enjoying and looking at my collection, rather than focusing exclusively on filling holes. Use this time to narrow my collecting focus and figure out what items I'd like to sell, trade, or give away. Overall I spent more time with my collection in 2024, but mostly with cataloging my new purchases and transitioning to Dansco albums. Rather than narrow my collecting focus, I've expanded it rather dramatically, and I need to scale back and refocus for 2025.  Quote:2. Fill one hole in each of my Barber dime, Standing Liberty quarter, and Washington quarter sets. 3. Fill one hole in my Mint Sets. 4. Buy or trade for 2-5 modern US coins on my Want List. 5. Complete another year in my First Spouse bronze medal series set. All complete!  Quote:
6. Continue updating my storage options and photo inventory. Keep existing inventory up to date with new purchases. Another mixed bag here. The transition to Dansco albums has been slow, but not nothing. I've done a decent job of keeping up with inventorying new purchases. Yet there is still a backlog for 2025. Quote:
7. Encourage family members to become numismatists. I gave multiple numismatic gifts for Christmas and led several programs for young numismatists in my community this year. |
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Well done!  |
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