What Would You Buy?

Basically this, except I'm probably not going near many of the more exotic issues* because I couldn't distinguish one type from the other.
And in even more cases, I don't actually know what exactly "good value for money" is, so probably will end up buying many coins that aren't actually worth as much as I thought they are (common date 19th century coins in particular).

And $2k would probably be too much. I don't know what a FUN convention looks like (perhaps they don't have low-end bargain bins, and/or the people who make them know perfectly well what's in them), but from my personal experience of coin markets**, and multiplying by the sheer amount of money... unless I find something expensive that really interests me (perhaps a nice gold coin), I might well go away with several thousand coins that day.

What I will not buy, unless I do not have a choice, is MS coins, especially high MS coins (perhaps I might buy a few slabs just for the novelty; certainly no raw high MS, unless, again, no other choice - too many storage worries).
Though, for particularly nice-looking common types (I'm looking at you, Netherlands 1 cent***... Mercury dimes too, and probably many others I couldn't think of immediately), nice AU (which perhaps is a technical MS) is a definite possibility (just so I could admire all the pretty details).

[I'm ignoring the question of what I'm doing in Tampa in the first place. Maybe the same nice guy got me a ticket and visa for my birthday (which is, in fact, in early January, though slightly too early for the show); would probably cost less than $2k, actually.
At least, being January, it shouldn't be too hot. I heard Florida can be very hot in seasons closer to summer.]


*) which, sadly, includes Parthian
**) and that one "coin show" in Kaliningrad that might as well have been a market
***) Numista 2584

GR58 I'm just looking for ideas. I tried to look at it like a social experiment.Just sort of brainstorming I like most of the ideas presented, which suggest a pretty large purchase and perhaps a slightly smaller one. I collect just about anything and everything that is Classic US. I think I may end up buying a really nice Morgan and a few type coins.

I can understand that, and CCF is a great place to get
ideas.

Your idea of taking 2K to the Fun show is a pretty good idea.

I might have to try that sometime. If I was going to do that, and had months to plan it, I am sure my idea of what coin(s) to buy would change many times.

A Saint-Gaudens $20, a Charlotte or Dahlonega mint classic gold coin...hmm, what else. MS65DMPL Morgans. Any Matte Proof Lincoln Cents. An 1893-S Morgan. Lots of possibilities.

I'd just take the money and run.

Any 3 cent silver pieces from 1863-1873.


1879 Shield nickel (my favorite)

Nothing wrong with reorganising your collection to suit your new goals , I do this all the time
You just have to remember that you will have to "Live with" the decision to sell a particular coin from your collections, this can be Tough.

I recently was lucky enough to repurchase an MS65 Canberra Florin I reluctantly sold to finance some Gold acquisitions, That was a happy day

COTW, I'd really hate to tell you what part of my collection it is. (Some LWC).
I found myself never really pulling them out and looking at them. I know they have amazing history behind them.. but they just don't compare to a DMPL Morgan or some of the other coins in my collection I enjoy to gaze at. I feel as though I started the set just because I thought of it as easy, I still haven't finished it and may go after it again one day.. A lot of the coins are VG/G and they just don't POP when I take a look at the album. I'll probably end up buying a nice MS64-65 '09 VDB with part of the money. I feel that I will enjoy that coin more than the partial set of lower grade stuff.