Hello All, Collector Of Most Things Silver But Focusing On Libertads

Hello all, just wanted to introduce myself and thank you all for sharing your knowledge with coin community.

I have been a coin collector for 20 years, First 10 years or so I focused on US silver coins and amassed a hoard of random stuff that had no focus. I sold most of it during the 2011 silver price run up as it had multiplied many times over what I paid for it just in silver value. I took a few years off from collecting but around 2013 I found myself liking the variety of world coins and bought examples of crown sized coins that while fun to show off it still didn't fill my need to build a complete set of something.

Around 2015 I started buying up Libertads when I found good prices on them and by the end of the year I had the full date set in MS coins and the next year I built another full set... through my buying and selling I met a guy who asked if I collected the proof versions and I had not since I saw how rare some were and thought I didn't want to sink that kind of money into modern rarities, I bought one just to have an example and then bought a reverse proof and from there I was hooked.

Since 2017 I have focused solely on libertads and have built relationships with some of the other larger collectors that has helped get me a respectable set of both proof and UNC libertads including varieties that currently only lacks 8 coins, those 8 coins are extremely rare and many sets in the top 10 of NGC's registry are missing a few of them. I also lazily collect US type coins in a Dansco 7070 with a lot of the coins being from my earlier collecting days... it only needs a few coins to be complete but I'm in no rush.

Thanks again for sharing the information you guys have about your coins and if anything I can help with in the Libertad department please feel free to ask and I'll gladly share what I know.

Chris from NY