Enjoying Your Collection

Oh yes! For the low end stuff here at home 2 or 3 times a month at least, and any time I get wind of any new discovery. The good stuff comes home from the safe deposit box several times a year also. I mean, what is the point of collecting them if you do not look at them and appreciate them for what they are from time to time?

Way to many coins to even consider looking at all of them ever again in my life time. I'm getting way up there in age and even if I started now looking at each coin in my collection, I'd be somewhere about ten thousand years old when done. And maybe not even then since I still add coins to the mess. After well over 60 years of collecting coins and many other items, no longer sure I really get any big thrill with any of them. Some of my collections are really getting to be a pain. For example if I should purchase a fantastic Mercury dime that could go into set #!, I have to move the one there into set #2, then from #2 to #3, etc. With 12 Albums of Mercury dimes it really get irritating, not fun doing this.
To even start looking at each coin in way over 100 Albums alone would really take some time. Many thousands of coins in rolls, 2x2's and even jars waiting to be looked at.
I know way back when I started all this I really got excited each time I aquired a new coin, gun, car, etc. but as with many things, age really changes a lot of ideas.
Old cars too used to really be fun but the older they are the more things go wrong, parts harder to find and old age makes changing those parts a real pain.
At least with coins I don't worry about stress taking a coin out of an Album.

My collection is 2 fold, the Bullion proof Gold coins, all encased and boring to look at, then the ZAR 189x's to 1900 collection all circulated, I pull them regularly and admire them.
Spend time with my son on his "world" collection which is a couple of thousand coins that still needs to be cataloged, yeah guess who is doing that.
Get to spend some Father Son time doing that.

Go through it every couple of weeks. Took it up to look through with my Niece the other week and she really enjoyed it. She is fascinated with the older stuff.

I don't have a very large colection either and I am new numismatist so I enjoy looking at mine about once a week. What I really enjoy is putting my "strategy" down on paper and then reading/looking on ebay about pieces that I hope to one day add.

I always have a plan to sit down someday and somewhat finalize my collection and sell off the rest, but I have this problem of buying instead. One of these days I'll realize I have enough coins to entertain myself and just look at them and take pictures and put the info on a spreadsheet and quit buying.

yeah right!

Probably about once every other month I'll look through my better stuff with a 5x magnifier. I need to get a 10x still...