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Pillar of the Community
United States
1327 Posts |
Was think what am I the most proud of about my collection or great acomplishment I have made in coins. Ok here is mine it is not the greatest but what I am most pround of so far. I am newly back into coin collecting as most of you know. The thing I am most pround of is my Mercury dime collection. I started it 5 months ago and I am just one coin away that is the 1916-D which will be very hard to get. so to me I consider it finish untill I win the lotto. since I don't have that kind of money to spend on that coin. So the reason I am most pround of this is because it is my first set to finish minus the 1916-d. I don't count the State Quarter as a complete set since it is still going on. I will work on some picture and post it when I can get some good ones. So what is your gratest acomplishment or what you are most pround of. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
2884 Posts |
I think my best accomplishment was getting my Daughter interested in collecting! She has a complete set of Mint State Franklins including all the proofs. The proofs are PF64-67 and the regular issues are MS63-MS66. Mike  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1079 Posts |
Starting I think is the greatest accomplishment. Also choosing and being happy with a certain area of the hobby eg Middle ages coins from europe.
Being happy with collecting is the accomplishment.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
438 Posts |
Buying coins i'd dreamed of owing as a child. That is a great feeling I can tell you. (Sure I've sold some of them since but at least I have owned one, I have been there and lived the dream). Nothing quite like it.
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Moderator
 Australia
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I achieved my greatest accomplishment with my collection a couple of years ago, without even realising it. My goal was one from every country that issued circulating coins - NCLT's were acceptable, but not on my "gotta-have-one" list. For a couple of years, the only country left on my list was Belarus. I had a banknote, but that didn't really count. Then, late last year I purchased a new Krause (I'd been using a 1996 edition, which didn't have an entry for Belarus at all) only to find that Belarus has still never actually made it's own circulating coins. NCLT only! If I'd known that simple fact I could have saved myself hours of scouring through page after page of Belarus banknotes and NCLTs on ebay, looking for imaginary coins. 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
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Forum Kid
Kuwait
1523 Posts |
Getting My Maria Theresia Austrian Thaler, Part of my Sub collection of Medieval-1800 collection!
YAY!!!
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Forum Mom
United States
5877 Posts |
I'd have to say that my greatest accomplishment was starting this forum and attracting the quality of members that we have. I dreamed of making a place where people could educate themselves and where new collectors (be they young or old) would be welcomed and helped. With this forum, that dream has come true. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1203 Posts |
I am sure some of you already know that I have reached that period of time when it pays to start looking down the trail and planning ahead. So with this in mind, I attemped to entice my two children to take over the 'family' coin collection. It was started by my Grandfather back in the 1800's and continued without a break until now. Nothing could convince either of them to take over the task, and in a way I can understand not wanting the responsibility and hastle. So I got with the family lawyer and ended up placing about 96% of the collection in escrow to a large land company for the exclusive rights to a stretch of blue ribbon trout stream for "public" fishing for the next 75 years. This is my contribution to all my friends and their grandchildren that I have known, hunted and fished with over the last several decades. That being done I'm just putting togather a Buffalo set representing every state in the union. Almost complete as of this date, and now thanks to some more very good friends I'm starting on coins from the 'dark side'. Dang, wish I had another 50 years and I would have enough to reserve a whole stretch of river and part of some lake. Oh well, life is short and you make the most of what you have. That is it, there ain't no more....  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7123 Posts |
I have yet to realise my greatest accomplishment,, I'm afraid if I ever truely feel that I have met the mountian and won, that the child like thrill that I get with every new coin ,every new piece of knowledge that I receive and every friend that I make within this Hobby would no longer shine like gold !!
I just dont think I could deal with that !!
Rick
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Pillar Of The Community
Turkey
1205 Posts |
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Originally posted by Metalman
I have yet to realise my greatest accomplishment,, I'm afraid if I ever truely feel that I have met the mountian and won, that the child like thrill that I get with every new coin ,every new piece of knowledge that I receive and every friend that I make within this Hobby would no longer shine like gold !!
I just dont think I could deal with that !!
Rick
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Valued Member
United States
393 Posts |
I guess my biggest accomplishment in coin collecting is getting started in it seriously this year. Got a jar full of stuff collected during my childhood that's essentially worthless. Getting started back into collecting, learning, buying, getting skinned, and finding CC has opened up a new, wide open world. Rick
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Originally posted by Metalman
I have yet to realise my greatest accomplishment,, I'm afraid if I ever truely feel that I have met the mountian and won, that the child like thrill that I get with every new coin ,every new piece of knowledge that I receive and every friend that I make within this Hobby would no longer shine like gold !!
Rick I agree and understand were you are coming from. I just keep setting goals for myself. Edited by KLD
02/22/2006 6:04 pm
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Valued Member
Australia
281 Posts |
I guess my greatest coin accomplishment has to be getting back into the hobby. I'm slowly making some order out of the chaos that is my collection, I bought a pack of 50 coin holders and used them all within a hour, I hope to some time in the future have my collection details available online.
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Valued Member
United States
123 Posts |
My greatest accomplishment, to date, is not necessarily any particular item I have found or any collection I have completed. True, I was happy to get my 1909S-VDB Lincoln Cent, my finest ancient and medieval coins, and my vast hoards, but those are just things. It is what the coins represent that is more important to me. So my greatest accomplishment is the knowledge I have gained, the realization of the connections with history, and my own emotional and spiritual connections to these interesting inanimate objects and what they represent. This is an accomplishment that I will continue to realize, and yet will never fully realize, so the hobby will never get boring. Heather |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar Of The Community
3147 Posts |
While I have owned, at one time or another it seems, just about everything the U.S. has to offer my greatest thrill is sharing with other collectors, both young and old, from around the world. I am still amazed at what the world of the computer has done for this planet. My greatest accomplishment is being able to see through all the smoke and finding the real world we all live in. Its finding the truths, loves and dreams each and everyone of us have every day of our lives and sharing in those dreams. Thinking about an eager collector in some far corner of the earth patiently waiting for a package from a total stranger who has chosen to share his/her love of the hobby is more than rewarding. I know as I have been that eager collector. Having friends all over the world, whom I will probably never meet, is a unique feeling and knowing I can trust them, without a doubt, was way beyond my expectations when I started collecting world coinage. The world is FULL of good, honest, hard working people and a great number of them are coin collectors. My life is much better in many ways due to this hobby and taking every chance to return the kindness I have received is a very high priority to me. My only regret is not starting an active world coin collection until 2002 and even then it was to only seek out 2002 world coins for my little guys birth year collection. Then the euro and then the world! I was hooked! I can only dream of how it could have been had I started earlier in my collecting career but realize the internet HAD to come along to make all of this possible. Now we can find "good trader" and "safe trader" lists all over the world simply by looking and that has propelled my desires to make the Knights of the Coin Table the most distingushed trading, selling, buying and sharing list the world has ever known! To make that list would be an honor for any collector and to continue to build the list and its reputation is before us as we forge ahead right here on the greatest coin forum the world has ever known! My goal is quite simply to MAKE THE BEST BETTER!!!
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02/23/2006 08:56 am
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