How Many Coins In Your Collection ?

I think it depends on your definition of 'collection'.

If you ask me: how many unique and individual coins (like: one of a type) do you have catalogued in your collection, put in 2x2's and albums, the answer would be: about 2000.

If you ask me: how big is your collection if you got your lazy behind off coincommunity and the internet and just started doing some work, the answer would probably be: around 3000.

If you ask me: how many coins do you own, the answer would be something among the lines of 100 kg or so.

About 250, only 150 or so of consequence though.

I had almost 10,000 coins about 10 years ago before a fire claimed them. 15 x 3" binders at 30 pages each x 20 coins per page. Included in that collection was a full roll of 1991 CDN Quarters BU in 2x2's, more than half Silver dollars, 50 cents, quarters. A lot of foreign coins as well. Bought the set of the 13 binders from a retired policeman for $3300.00 CDN and added my own 2 binders of silver coins mostly. The fire happened where I lived & worked as night security on the company's premises. The fire took everything I had except the clothes on my back. Company would't run any of my losses through their insurance claiming I should have had apartment insurance which is false, I was on their site. But out of a job & no money to hire a lawyer, it was a write off for me. According to my calculations of silver value alone, collection was worth about $60,000. Ouch !!

Now I have only several hundred, slowly rebuilding...

About 300 coins over 1,000 years old, in all metals and cultures. Only about 50 of my most valuable coins are stored in a hidden safe; the rest are in a 'living, hard working' collection.
Together, about 3,000 World coins in all metals, of all eras and cultures, up until about 1950.
Taken me about 40 years to build the collection.

The more significant coins are annotated with $amount and when acquired, with a full description of the item.
Have retained the invoices relating to most of my more valuable coins, under separate storage, thus providing provenance.
About 200 books and numismatic papers to support the collection: these are my 'tools'.
These days, the keyboard provides access to a huge increase to my numismatic knowledge base.

There are about 4000 US 90% silver coins in my junk silver stack. This includes about 300 1964 Washington quarters.

In the symlink folder on the PC, there are currently 6333 symbolic links to coin pics, so there are perhaps 1500 coins worthy of being photographed in the collection. (All coins have at two pics, but some have quite a few more.)

I'd guess the silver stack weighs about 40-60 pounds, and the other 1500 (which includes the gold stack) weight a lot less. You could fit all the coins more than 1000 years old in the palm of one hand.

20,326.

My low estimate is 5000..give or take a few thousand (depending which one means to add more)

Coins that have been cataloged and put into flips... just over 7500... coins waiting to be categorized, flipped, pulled from circulation, etc around 30,000+