Curiosidness. How Often Do You Look At Your Collection?

It depends...I've gone years without giving it a second thought, and then times when I couldn't hardly tear myself away from it to go to work. Get up,look at coins, go to work, get home, look at coins, go to bed and repeat. Maybe go to the bank to get more rolls to look through.

Lately, it seems like I never appreciate things, too busy with the baby and all, and a trip to the bank is too much of a pain, but it's nice to think that "someday" I'm going to go through and organize it all and maybe he'll be doing it with me.

I do keep about 50 of the more valuable coins in my safe, but the rest (about 3,000) are worth $30 or less. Perhaps over 1,000 of them would be valued at less than $1.

Having almost all of the collection out of the safe makes access to them far easier. Almost all of the coins I have acquired over the years comply with two criteria when first acquired:

1.) Is it really good value for money at the time of purchase? After that, I have never bothered with what value the coin may have.
2.) Does it raise my curiosity? That remains.

Since my aim is to collect coins of all centuries and cultures, from the invention of coins to modern times, you may well imagine that there is a vast variation in the coins. This sort of collection needs a fairly good support library. The books and research papers are the tools of the trade in my case.

For those reasons, it is always fun to review my collection. My collection also engenders curiosity and interest in the eyes of anybody else who sees them, who otherwise may have no interest in numismatics at all. It is a very easy collection to share a bit of fun with other folks.

Perhaps I should have saved all the money I have spent on the collection over the years and just given books on general numismatics away as Christmas presents! (I say that in jest!).

I didn't know that was a word. Did you notify Webster's yet?

Even funnier, it you google that word the top hit is this thread! LOL

Wow since there seems to be such concern over the word, guess I'll have to respond. It was given in good humor and facetiously. Obviously it overshot its mark.

I keep all my better coin in a large safe deposit box at the bank, but then I work at the bank so I can look in it everyday if I want. I usually have a few, 20-30, coins at home at a time that I am activly doing something with like trying to upgrade and make sure the new coins are a good match for the set. I have also been on a long term project to scan every coin I consider a "keeper" into a digital record book and then I will probably sell off the rest to get money for some new ones. Since I have collected coins for over 45 years and never sold more than a dozen or so, I have a large quantity that need to be purged or given away.

and every hit is on this site!

Since I live in lovely Los Angeles, only everytime I go to my SDB. I do have some nice photos on my PC of my favorites. I enjoy them that way too.