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Canada
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I always enjoy reading these, as well as looking back at my personal goals and seeing how well I did (or did not do). I normally say 5oz of silver a month but last year's spike in spot iced that for me. 2021: 1. Finish Ike PCGS slabbed set 2. Continue with my world paper money collection by adding at least 100 notes 3. If silver stays under 30 and the premiums decrease to closer to a dollar, resume monthly silver stacking 4. Add 5 older ASEs to the holes in my collection Other than a few US Mint offerings, I think that's about as aggressive as I want to be this year.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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Quote: The more of these 14xx dates any of us can pick up, the smoother the HFBCWG thread will progress.  Actually tried searching for those myself - in the "Islamic" category, that is (can't really afford the European types). Lots of 13xx stuff there, but 14xx is far scarcer. I did buy a coin recently that's supposed to have a date in the 1450s; will try to post it whenever I actually decide to get it out of its 2x2 (always a hard decision, because once it's loose it will basically stay loose unless I sell it, but the 2x2 plastic makes photos hard).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote: If its not too personal, why are you selling your collection? That's just sad news to me. hfjacinto - I have no one to pass them onto that would value them as I do. this appears to be a good time to sell and I'm getting all my affairs in order and can use the funds to enhance my IRA in preparation of retirement. many of my coins I have had for over 50 years and at the time I acquired them I was not astute enough to know what a details coin was. I was collecting to fill the holes. I was very disappointed to find that some of my better pieces recently sent for grading came back as details in preparation of liquidation and are not valued what I originally thought. this made my decision a little easier but I'm having a problem getting motivated to post them on ebay and afraid of what they will bring if I auction them rather than buy now. I've been beating myself up for several months now regarding this.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@panzaldi,
Your post makes me sad, but its a situation we will all one day face. Good luck and I wish you the best! Please let us know what you eventually do, there are probably a "few" posters on here that would be interested in buying part of your collection.
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United States
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Quote:So, what did I do? I logged onto the U.S. Mint website and set up an Enrollment for the ATB Quarters Proof Set, which states that my first set in the Enrollment will be the 2020 set. Let's see if that works. Good luck!  Quote:1. Finish Ike PCGS slabbed set 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
608 Posts |
My short term goals are to finish the dime and half dime series (still need nice circulation cameo 1860's coins) and make a start with early copper.
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United States
96136 Posts |
My goals just got a boost... courtesy of surprise deposit from the US Treasury! 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To keep remembering after reading these posts what David Bowers once told me that the average collector spends only 20 minutes/week with their coins. To remember this when I respond to their thoughts. It can be difficult at times with my BIG ego. In terms of collecting to keep building one of the great Spanish/American collections somewhat similar to Pradeau <BG>.
John Lorenzo Numismatist United States
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Russian Federation
191 Posts |
Buy 3 silver cents and get even closer to completing my Barber dime collection
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
3389 Posts |
The way my 2020 collecting turned out (i.e. there wasn't much of it) means that my 2021 goals would basically be the same as my 2020 ones, with only minor differences...
...at least I filled up about a dozen assorted OFEY holes today, so a bit less work left for that goal.
1) Get some more missing dates for my OFEY 1a) In particular, fill in the remaining post-1750 holes (2021, 1844, 1823, 1817, 1795, 1783, 1781, 1780 [aside from the MTT], 1778, 1769, 1766, 1756, 1755, 1752) 1b) If possible, get an unbroken line even further back 1c) Regardless of any actual progress, take photos of all of those coins for posting on CCF (haha good luck)
2) Related to the above: get some dated Islamic coins from the 15th century AD 2a) Non-Islamic dated (and/or single-year-type) coins from the 15th century AD would be welcome, but unlikely to fit within my budget 2b) Dated coins from before the 15th century are useful as well, though I already have a bunch of those
3) Get to 400 issuers on Numista (currently 377)... if that's still a thing by the time I get there 3a) If possible, also get to 250 countries (currently 239)
4) Fill some of the remaining holes in my Dansco 7070 album 4a) In particular, get at least one classic commemorative, and at least one Seated Liberty silver
5) Get at least one more coin for my Romanian type set attempt 5a) If I can find some Mongolian coins I didn't have yet, that would be cool as well
6) Formalize my USSR non-commemorative type set progress, figure out what (if anything) I'm still missing, and get it (...discounting the gold, which is out of my budget, and probably never circulated anyway)
7) Formalize my Russian Empire AE type set, and fill at least some of the holes
8) If my interest in those coins doesn't stop, formalize my 18th/19th century Swedish AE type set attempt, and fill at least some of the holes
That said, it wouldn't surprise me if I missed a few more (particularly involving banknotes).
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United States
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Quote: The way my 2020 collecting turned out (i.e. there wasn't much of it) means that my 2021 goals would basically be the same as my 2020 ones, with only minor differences... For many, this is not unexpected.  Quote: ...at least I filled up about a dozen assorted OFEY holes today, so a bit less work left for that goal. Excellent! 
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
3389 Posts |
Quote: 1a) In particular, fill in the remaining post-1750 holes (2021, 1844, 1823, 1817, 1795, 1783, 1781, 1780 [aside from the MTT], 1778, 1769, 1766, 1756, 1755, 1752) 1817 filled back on Saturday, it turns out; I missed that coin when entering Saturday's purchases because it was in a separate bag. I suspect that many of the others had also long been filled but the coins just didn't happen to have been entered into Numista. I also suspect that a bunch of the "filled" dates turn out to have been utterly misplaced if/when the photographing project comes in.
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United States
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Quote: 1817 filled back on Saturday, it turns out; I missed that coin when entering Saturday's purchases because it was in a separate bag. Well done! 
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