How Many Coins = A Hoard?

Good Question! where do you draw the line between a collection and a hoard? I would say a hoard would be several coins from the same year and mint mark. Lets look at the wheat set...There are 141 holes to fill in a dansco book..If there all filled then it is a collection, but if you had 141, 1909 s vdb's that would be a hoard!(good one at that)...Now if you had 141 1958 wheat cents it would not even be looked at! So that is how I look at it...A lot based on value..I dont even look at my collection as a hoard and I have close to 5000 coins. all different. dollars, half dollars, quarters, dimes ect. But I look at it as a high valued collection!

Subjective.

But my 2 pennies:
I would say it has to do with how they are stored. A collection is cataloged and packaged with care in terms of storage. A hoard is kept in a cigar box, bank bag, ziploc, bunch of paper rolls, etc. Irrelevant as to how many actual coins there are.

I dont think I would ever call any "collection" a hoard. If you had a bunch of different sets going you could end up with 100s of coins. But to me no number of sets would equal a hoard.

I would call a hoard more something like just having a ton a copper pennies around or just having a ton of coins laying around that dont have any particular value.

I would also agree with the above comments about how its stored.

got cut off somehow...thousands of silver dollars, more half dollars, and at LEAST 10 40QUART tubs of loose copper pennies, Pallets of boxes containing US Mint, proofs, commemoritives, and whatever else was in their catalogue since 1953. THATS A HOARD.... Now until I learn everything about all of this, I have to keep paying storage fees.... I just hope I can figure something out before I go....I WOULDN"T want to leave something like this to my kids...

Been there. Discussed that.

To sum up my opinion: whether to call it a "hoard" or "collection" entirely depends on the person doing the hoarding/collecting, rather than the number of objects; a hoard is chaotic, a collection is ordered. You can have a "hoard" of twenty coins, or a "collection" of 20,000 - or vice-versa.

It also depends on the coin. If you have a 1000 of some Lincoln Cent that had a mintage of several billions you might call that a hoard, but a very small one. There is a Conder token from Warwickshire D&H 86bis, there are about a half dozen pieces known. I own two of them My two coins is a hoard because it is a significant percentage of the entire known supply. I have three 1803 S-262 large cents. That is almost 3% of the entire supply. I know one collector who has 68 of them. 68 coins isn't a lot of coins, but it is over half of all the S-262's there are. My variety set of 1796 cents represent close to .5% of all of the 1796 large cents. It's a collection, but could it also be considered a hoard? (To put it into perspective the Redfield hoard was .16% of all the Morgan dollars.

But if I buy one because I want it for my collection that is collecting. If I buy a second one I don't need simply because it is available is that hoarding? What about Hampshire 89? It is a common token but I seem to have an affinity for it and so far I've bought over a half a dozen of them from VF through Proof. And whenever I see another one I'm tempted to buy it. That's hoarding behavior.