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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1554 Posts |
Poll Question
 On average, how many hours per week do you view/examine your coin collection?
Edited by glenzy1
04/27/2010 06:27 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
632 Posts |
I go through at least 20 to 40 rolls of twoonies a week - it takes me from a few seconds to some minutes per coin - you do the math
(I have no pets and no garden. I have grown up kids and an ex-wife that looks after them - even the spiders in my condo die of neglect)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4869 Posts |
I don't really get them out unless I am adding some.
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Pillar of the Community
Philippines
1156 Posts |
About an hour total in a week, I spend more time outside tracking down a specific coin that interests me. Once collected  it's off to find another coin type  except Fridays to Sundays |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1116 Posts |
i would say about an hour a week unless I get something new then I get the urge to look at a lot of them
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1051 Posts |
Actually handling and looking at things I already have: 1 hour or less. Actively looking for new items in various venues: many hours a week.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2734 Posts |
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TheForce: "I don't really get them out unless I am adding some." That's why I have duplicate date-mint varieties of Morgans. I see a nice coin at a fair price, I buy it, then I get home and find out that I had that date-mint variety already! If I'm lucky, it's a higher grade than the coin(s) I have and it will qualify as an 'upgrade'...  Edited by DNA
09/01/2009 10:51 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
I'd say two ( or three if you count sorting ) I voted 2
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
10743 Posts |
I would say probably about 3 or 4 hours a week. I check to see if I can upgrade anything at the right price, |
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Valued Member
Canada
50 Posts |
I don't have time to vote. Too busy with my collection :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
I put 2 hours, because I counted time I spend at coin shop looking for new ones to add.
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Valued Member
Canada
304 Posts |
I've been an "active" collector only 2-3 years but I've had a collection all my life. Now that I've learned to grade coins properly (with much help from this forum), I've been reviewing all my coin gradings and values and finding some of them are *way off*, so I have to redo the whole collection. This is very time consuming and a lot of fun! I spent a whole afternoon on my dozen or so George II coins.
So currently I might spend 10-20 hours a week "viewing or examining or organizing" my collection but normally I'm far too busy with other coin-related activities, mostly buying and selling coins and reading fascinating forum discussions!
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Valued Member
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There is no category for me in the poll. I NEVER look at what I already have as a "collection", unless someone needs research..... and I do nothing with it between May and Oct. Come November, when I get back from one of my biannual trips to Baltimore, I then spend 7-8 hours a week looking at things that I got from ebay or auctions for the last 6 months. My Winter purchases, that I pick up in April, I may not get to til the next Fall. I now have close to 5000 Vicky large cents and really only look at the ones I have already sealed or have in piles when someone has a question on the CCRS board or one here. I really don't have a "collection" .... I have a large hoard of really great varieties and I try to educate people on them .. and provide population/scarcitiy on what I have found in my seraches. I am lucky to live in a very rich coin show/auction region so I see a great many coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1352 Posts |
Since I am working on a book about them, I am spending 40 to 60 hours per week with Canadian large cents.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
636 Posts |
if you break it down even lower, Id chime in for 1/2 hr
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Valued Member
United States
82 Posts |
I usually spend about 1 hr a week. Sometimes a little more if I get the urge to add some new coins.
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Posted 09/01/2009 9:15 pm
