How Did You Do On Your 2012 Collecting Goals

Maybe someday, It is spread out over several safe deposit boxes. I don't have that much room in the safe here at home.

Managed to get a few more Colonial acquisitions :-)

Pending on where you live and how far your willing to drive, there are usually coin shows all the time, somewhere. In the upper Illinois area there are 4 coin shows a Month, every Month, all year long.

Wow, Coindog and jbuck -- I totally forgot about that thread I started about goals for 2012!


I'd say I did really well with my stated goals for this year:

• I did pickup a much nicer example of a 20-cent piece:
  


• I also picked up a spiffy looking Barber half dollar:
  


• I did pick up both a 1920 Pilgrim commemorative and a 1925 Lexington - Concord commemorative:
  
  
  

Oh -- and I did manage to pick up a couple of monster boxes of silver and 4 100-ounce silver bars when silver prices dipped significantly, so that was nice as well. My only regret is that I didn't get even more silver when it was hanging out around $26-27 before going back up.

I did actually better than I envisioned (thanks to my part-time job) along with a couple of upgrades to boot while completing the non-gold portion of my slabbed 7070.

Goal for 2012; fill some more spots in my 7070. Although the empty spots hit a little harder in the pocket with each remaining one. Slow and steady wins the race.

I am working on the gold "page" (three out of twelve so far) which I did not think that I would try to accomplish.

Goal for 2013: finish the gold page! Whew! That is going to be an endeavor! Needed: Type III $1, Liberty $2.5, Indian $5, Liberty and Indian $10 and Liberty and St Gaudens $20.

I've been doing fine my Morgan date set, but I've wanted to tuck away some silver eagles. Then my youngest daughter showed up and said she wanted to start collecting. All right, I only gave up one eagle. But when you're trying to reach a goal and the holidays are coming, etc.,etc.,etc.

Was able to purchase more coins for my collection this year than any previous year in the past, so I'd call 2012 a very productive year. Added a number of coins for my type set and have almost every coin needed for a standard 7070 except for some of the early copper, a few inexpensive moderns, and the contents of the gold page. Hopefully 2013 will see me complete my type set at least up to 7070 standards and then perhaps if my budget allows I may go after some of the earlier types like the Draped Bust coinage. I'm likely going to return to college at some point so I need to enjoy this time between degrees and with a little extra financial flexibility as much as I can.