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jbuck Moderator United States 188770 Posts	Posted 05/05/2015 10:00 am I suppose I need to be thankful I have completed the sets that I have. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
oih82w8 Pillar of the Community United States 7840 Posts	Posted 05/05/2015 10:17 am Quote: My randomness is so random it qualifies as a pattern. Oh my goodness...this is so far out it is in! Edited by oih82w8 05/05/2015 10:18 am Report this Post to the Staff
just carl Bedrock of the Community United States 20753 Posts	Posted 05/05/2015 11:23 am So much depends on what you or someone thinks of a complete set. Thanks to the stupidity of Album and Folder manufacturers, some may never be completed. Some so called sets contain coins that should not be there. Such things as the famous 1922 Plain Lincoln Cent for example. Why is that in most Albums? And too some sets are supposed to include Proofs and some don't. There too an Album for Mercury dimes does not have a place for the Proofs so does that mean when you have all that you really don't? If you go to the coppercoins web site you would see that there are possibly an error of some sort every year that they were made. Those that mean people must have all those to make a set complete? It just seams that no one really knows when you have a completed set. Report this Post to the Staff
oih82w8 Pillar of the Community United States 7840 Posts	Posted 05/05/2015 12:18 pm That is a great point just carl...I wonder if the 2015-W and Reverse Proof Roosevelt dimes will part of the set since they are still monetized dimes? Edited by oih82w8 05/05/2015 12:19 pm Report this Post to the Staff
tkbslc Pillar of the Community United States 1158 Posts	Posted 05/05/2015 2:24 pm Quote: ......But if you look at my collecting on a scale of 5-10 years, things steady out quite a bit. Maybe I need to shift into long terms thinking, then and not be afraid to think parallel vs serial. That's a good point. I could work on 20 sets at once! :) Report this Post to the Staff
just carl Bedrock of the Community United States 20753 Posts	Posted 05/05/2015 6:24 pm Quote: Maybe I need to shift into long terms thinking, then and not be afraid to think parallel vs serial. That's a good point. I could work on 20 sets at once! :) About what I do now. For example I have 12 Mercury dimes sets. I'm constantly trying to make set #1 perfect or close to it. Then each set is progressively lesser in grade. Same with many, many other sets. There is really no end to this madnesssssssss Report this Post to the Staff
Earle42 Bedrock of the Community United States 10038 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 7:09 pm This seems to me to be the typical dilemma found in all of life depending on a personality type. We people who like to fill the holes in the albums are likely more a phlegmatic and or melancholy type. Those who randomize likely are the cholerics and sanguines. As you mix and match the 4 personality types, you get varied ways of collecting/thinking/acting/life. So as had already been wisely stated - collect what YOU like. A hobby is for fun. So if we try to collect any other way than what we enjoy - its not a hobby anymore. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 Report this Post to the Staff
jack jeckel Pillar of the Community United States 5208 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 8:30 pm The thrill is in the hunt. I have a few completed sets (Roosevelt dimes, Washington quarters, State Quarters, SBA, Jefferson nickels, Barber halves, Franklin halves, Kennedy halves) and they all sit int he safe or the drawer out of sight and out of mind. My other sets need the 1 or 2 key date coins so those are out of sight, out of mind as well. The only thing that really gets me excited anymore is if I find a high grade pre 1950 Jefferson as there is a slight chance that it might be an upgrade for one of my 3 sets. I have switched to classic and modern commems because I have run out of affordable hole fillers for my other sets. Collect what you like and what keeps you still hunting for the right coin or the right deal. Report this Post to the Staff
carnold744 Valued Member United States 415 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 8:58 pm I get the same way when I complete a set then try to upgrade. For example, I just finished my Buffalo nickel set, with many of them being acid dated. After that I was pretty gung-ho on upgrading the set, but I got so burnt out on buffs while doing that set that I haven't even really looked at the folder since. Have now shifted my focus to working on my Jefferson nickel set and starting a Franklin half set. Also working on upgrading my completed 20th century type set which I also got bored of after I completed it a year ago. I think jumping from set to set is the way to go as it keeps things more interesting. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16837 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 10:40 pm Quote: But then worry I'm going to end up with a disorganized mess of a collection with thousands of random coins with no clear value when I am done. Been collecting since 1980. Over 11,0000 coins. Virtually no "completed sets" and no detectable pattern so far (I find "gotta-catch-em-all" set completion very uninspiring, myself). And enjoying the hobby immensely. As for "value", if you mean monetary value, then I hate to break it to you, but forming coins into "sets" does not add value. It's one of the weird, paradoxical, perverse facts about this hobby: sets, whether they are mint-assembled, dealer-assembled or collector-assembled, are worth more (monetarily) if you split them up before selling them. If, on the other hand, by value you mean "collector interest", then they already seem to have very little of that to you, because you don't sound very interested. Once a hobby starts to become like work, it's time to reorganize your approach to that hobby. Remember, this is supposed to be fun and interesting. How to do that? Find something else about the hobby that interests you, perhaps: world coins, mediaeval coins, ancients, tokens, medals, paper money... there's plenty of possibilities. Or, try linking your hobby to any other interests you (or your family) might have. Like history and/or genealogy? Then maybe coins from the countries your ancestors came from might be of interest. Like cats? Start an open-ended thematic collection of coins with cats on them. Sports fan? Coins and medals depicting your favourite sports could be the way to go. Remember, there are no rules. So long as you're enjoying yourself, you're not "doing it wrong". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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