What Are Your Numismatic Goals For 2020?

Immediate goal: get a 2020-dated coin for the upcoming HFBCWG-6. This is really a 2019 goal that spilled over into 2020; the deadline is roughly January 7th.

Other than that...

1) Get some more missing dates for my OFEY
1a) In particular, fill in the remaining post-1800 holes (1850, 1847, 1845, 1844, 1839, 1829, 1827, 1823, 1821, 1817, 1811)
1b) If possible, get an unbroken line even further back
1c) Regardless of any actual progress, take photos of all of those coins for posting on CCF (this is harder than it sounds, because the smartphone serving as my camera has horrible battery problems)

2) Related to the above: get some dated Islamic coins from the 15th century AD
2a) Non-Islamic dated (and/or single-year-type) coins from the 15th century AD would be welcome, but unlikely to fit within my budget
2b) Dated coins from before the 15th century are useful as well, though I already have a bunch of those

3) Get to 400 issuers on Numista (currently 348)... if that's still a thing by the time I get there
3a) If possible, also get to 250 countries (currently 234)

4) Fill some of the remaining holes in my Dansco 7070 album
4a) In particular, get at least one classic commemorative, and at least one Seated Liberty silver

5) Get at least one more coin for my Romanian type set attempt
5a) If I can find some Mongolian coins I didn't have yet, that would be cool as well

6) Formalize my USSR non-commemorative type set progress, figure out what (if anything) I'm still missing, and get it (...discounting the 1921 ruble and the gold, which are out of my budget)

...Probably others I'm forgetting. Will try to think of more later.

My 2020 goals are similar to those of j1m:

0) Receive and photograph a 2020 coin, for the HFBCWG6 thread (coins have been ordered).

1) Add some more dates for the OFEY subcollection -- these will be in the 1400s.

2) Some of these dates (like 1486 and 1464) for the OFEY subcollection will have to be Islamic.

3) Add some more Numista issuers/contries for my OFEI/OFEC subcollection (see #6 below)

4) Replace some of the unslabbed coins in my virtual 7070 subcollection with slabbed ones -- this will mostly be quarters and half dollars.

5) (I don't plan to add any Romanian or Mongolian coins.)

6) Add something from the Rus Principalities (probably Moscow). Unfortunately, it's hard to find one on ebay that's also already in the Numista catalog.

2020 goals

1) Add more unique reference books to my library. Does not include newer editions of books I already have- at least 12
2) Add 10 more silver Roosevelt dimes to my PCGS slab set I am building
3) Add 4 or more gold coins to my collection - US or World
4) add to Oklahoma token collection

1 and 4 are guarantees to occur. 2 and 3 may only be partially achieved. As has been said by others, priorities may shift or I may see something shiney I just can't refuse along the way that throws me off track. But for today those would be my goals.

@justcarl




Well. Hope you were planning on going to the next NOISE show in Itasca in a few weeks. Was going to hang out by the coffee and donuts early.

Complete my collection of Newfoundland 20 cents (also, progress on 1 cent, 5 cent and 10 cent). Also, continue to refine my grading skills and knowledge of the variants.

Regarding the variants; one reason that people like the Newfoundland coins is that they are supposed to be a relatively small set - around 300 in total. In fact, if you factor in the varieties, it's got to be more than 1,000 many of which are exceedingly rare. I imagine this is the case with all coin sets.

Mine is very short and sweet . To continue my OBW roll sets of Lincoln Cents . Now just waiting for the 2020 Philly's & Denver's to show up .
I might also try to finish off my WLH set , just need the 21-P & 21-D.