Trying To Stay Focused

Oooooooooo I like "one from every century!"

I think you are preaching to the choir about the concept of "focused" here!

As of now, my collection includes:

- Probably close to $400 face in pocket change from my roll hunting, including a complete set of nickels except for the 1939-D and a couple war nicks

- A smattering of US classics that I got for free or cheap for liquidating an estate

- A bunch of random bags of world coins that are cool, and wouldn't be worth the effort to try to resell them on ebay

- An abandoned attempt at a US Philippine type set

- An abandoned attempt at a USSR type set

- A half-baked attempt to start a type set of Queen Victoria; not even organized or inventoried

- A mostly complete Panama type set up until the 60s (also abandoned)

- A ~40% complete Tokugawa type set

- A ~90% complete modern Japanese type set (missing several $250+ coins and all of the gold)

- About 115 out of the "official" 207 Roman emperors, wives, Caesars, and family members (my current focus)

- A meandering and poorly focused Indian type set, from Gandhara in 500 BC until shortly after independence (mostly Ancients until the Muslim dynasties)

- Pushing close to 300 Gadhaiya Paisa at this point, and still counting!

- Random ancient coins I find cool, including Greek, Celtic, Persian, Central Asian, and Chinese.

Talk about a lack of focus!

That's right.
You get far more opportunity to find commonsense value for money bargains at LCS's, coin shows, ebay, coin websites such as Vcoins, and public auctions.