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United States
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How many coins do you have in your Shop/Collection ? I have too many to count. I would guess around 2000. Pictured are a few I will list on ebay later today.  |
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Valued Member
 United States
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The Reverse side of today's coins. I love that shrimp on the Cayman Islands coin.  |
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United States
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Including the stuff that I haven't gotten around to selling or taking to a coinstar? 20,000? 30,000? I built up the bulk of my collection via hoarding from circulation. Ended up with nearly 80 pounds of 1959-1982 copper cents that are sitting in gallon ziploc baggies waiting to be taken to a coinstar. I have a few hundred wheat cents, but not too concerned about those. Got to nearly $40 face in 1938-1959 nickels, plus about a dozen rolls of very high grade 1960-2015 that I need to pick through to finish my set. Had nearly 300 small dollars, but those mostly went to the bank when money got tight a few years ago. Have a couple hundred BU half dollars... probably going to dump most of those as well. Probably have 2 or 3 full sets of P & D State Quarters. Again, probably headed to the bank one of these days. I stipped collecting for a few years when I got married and family took precedence over spending 4 hours a week looking to save $5 on coins I could easily buy online. Then I caught the ebay bug about a year ago and have aggressively expanded into world coins, then Ancients, and have recently shifted focus to Japan, Panama, US Philippines, and India. I probably have a backlog of 2,000 coins to sort through and then sell on ebay to repair the damage I've done to my bank account. My collection is horribly disjointed, but at least I have some cool variety! |
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Canada
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cool coins!.. I have picked up many MANY coins over the years a LOT of them are world coins.... I'm now in the process of liquidating some of them so that I can focus on really high quality coins versus quantity..
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United States
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United States
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Unfortunately, this will require... Math!
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United States
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Fortunately, I use the Exact Change coin inventory software, and that keeps a running count in each "collection." The software allows me to keep a separate inventory for US, foreign, currency, and exonumia. But I do not inventory the "hoard" part, having tons of common wheat cents, common silvers, and CRH "finds." So I suppose I have (1) US + (2) foreign + (3) exonumia + (4) currency + (5) hoard = five collections. Oh, I also have a collection categorized as "ships" (also tracked separately by the Exact Change software) So I have six collections (although the foreign collection has categories, subcategories, splinters, spinoffs, etc.).
There was a time in my youth when I would sometimes buy bags of wheat cents to search and sort, and I still have lots of those wheaties.
Oh, you mean you want to know the total number of items in all collections?! Hohohohahahaheeheehee--um, lots. 15,000+ counting the "hoard" part, most of which has value only in my imagination.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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OH no ....don't make me count ...  I know I have over 10,000 Washington quarters, the last group I counted. Not counting bags and jugs of wheat cents .. That I don't want to count. Easy 20,000 coins .... It would take a NGC effort to count them now. |
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United States
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Never thought of it. Glad you asked. Now I've got something to do the rest of my life. Counting my coins.  |
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Russian Federation
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"Too many to count" is the obvious answer.
A few years ago, I decided to assemble a complete set (as of that year, 2011, I think) of 10 kopek coins from circulation (said denomination being easier to acquire in mass numbers than the already-discontinued 1 and 5 kopek, and not having any really rare dates like the higher denominations).
I succeeded in that, eventually; however, I had to sort through 3000 coins before I got that far. (Don't worry, it was only $10 worth of money, and half of them I got for free because they were that useless. But still.)
So here I go to the bank with my first kilogram of dump... and turns out the fees for that are so ludicrously huge that, if I wanted to dump that little, I would actually have to pay the bank extra money. Which explains why I was getting so much for free earlier.
I've sorted the bunch by date anyway, and briefly considered going to a coin market to sell them, but decided that it probably wasn't worth it. So I still have a hoard of 3000-odd 10 kopek coins that I have no idea what to do with (I've tried to spend some, for a while, but unfortunately had mostly misplaced the coins).
Other than that... still too many to count. Probably around 3-4 thousand, maybe a bit more.
I'm slowly working on entering my collection in Numista; as of right now, my Numista account says I have 1032 coins. By the end of June, that number will probably be a bit larger.
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United States
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 North of two...South of 35,000....  I have no earthy idea... Carl's answer sums it up for me as well...  Edited by eaglefoot
06/28/2016 1:45 pm
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I'm with Finn235.
20-30,000.
Just in silver I have over 12,000 slugs coins.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I don't about a number ,but it's probably north of 500 pounds. |
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 United States
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 United States
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Please (for testing purposes, ignore!)
I have around 1K coins if you include wheat cents!
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United States
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Do I have to count the 16.4 pounds of forign coins I bought last week?
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Posted 06/28/2016 10:56 am
