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United States
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I have a few free weeks on my hands, and the house was free of munchkins for a while, so I ordered a big box of supplies (over $400 worth) and got to organizing my collection. I have started it (reorganizing) about 4 years ago, got overwhelmed by the volume, then moved around, so all my coins stayed in a big bin for all these years. Now I'm matching the coins to my database and putting them in pages.
First impression: boy, I have some nice coins! They look much nicer in person than on a spreadsheet.
The flip-side of the process is that I discover I'm missing a few coins. They are on my spreadsheets but I don't see them. Hopefully they're just misplaced, some of my later acquisitions were not necessarily put in the right categories. I'll see if there're any discrepancies left after I go through the whole bin.
And I'm finding a lot of doubles of circulating coins, "upgrade"s and "just-in-case"s; come September, I'll put a bunch for adoption.
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United States
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Good for you! How many coins do you have? It must be a large collection to spend 400 on supplies. I always love going through my collection. Sometimes I forget what I have and what I have doubles of.
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Turkey
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That's cool Slav, having a couple of weeks on your own is too! I'd been doing the similar since the beginnig of this month, I've graded some of my doubles, prepared spreadsheets for my date runs and per-type colelction. Even did some (wife doesn't know sshhh :)) ebay shopping. I do have two more days to spend, after that life will return back to normal. I am really looking forward for your september adoption list, and this time I plea for a real trade, this means you don't have to be so kind, you know what I mean. :) I am making up some good doubles, UK and else, including some 1950's 1960's Turkey as well. Have fun ! |
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How many coins do you have? I'm closing on five thousand. |
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United States
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Thanks, molydeii, in a couple of days I'll post my UK (and others) want list in the "Want to Buy" forum. I can see some gaping holes now.
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Turkey
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Sure, I'd really be happy if I find something there I cna help of. I'll be away between 17th and 25th this month, if you can PM me what you need before 17th, or post to the "want to buy/trade" part after 25th, I'll try to help in any way I can.
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The flip-side of the process is that I discover I'm missing a few coins. That hurts. Y You can't blame the munchkins if they were in a bin. If no bin then it's a case of coin depletion via munchkins. |
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United States
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The munchkins have their own minicollections. I know that sometimes secretly they lift the lid to admire my stuff but they know better than to take anything from there.
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I'm closing on five thousand. Nice score. Are you collecting by type or by year and mint mark? At what period does your collection start? |
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I'm collecting by type. So, it would be 5000 different KM's.
My main collection is the gallery of British monarchs and the royal family. It covers 23 royalty and 48 countries (where I lump something like Straits Settlements, Malaya, etc. into one country under the modern name of Malaysia not to inflate the number of countries - that's not what I'm after.).
Another collection is of the former Soviet Union, including pre- and post- periods.
And, finaly, everything else. All countries, all periods. Maybe this is just an overindulgence, but it started from me hating to get rid of anything and craving for something new after my main collections got saturated.
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And, finally, everything else. All countries, all periods. Maybe this is just an overindulgence, but it started from me hating to get rid of anything and craving for something new after my main collections got saturated. I know about that problem. It started in a similar way with me. First there was a collection of the coins of my home country. Then I started collecting the German coins by year and mint mark, starting at the beginning of the Empire. I got also caught by the Russian coins until they became too expensive. Finally I started also a collection of World Coins. Since I got married and have children, I had to calm down and this collection doesn't grow anymore. Now I am only concentrating on my French collection of the period of the francs (according to my spreadsheet I have 1185 coins) and trying to add from time to time a coin to my Luxembourg collection. |
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United States
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lemme know if there are any french coins. I would be interested in those.
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maudry, sounds like a nice collection! Quote:
... caught by the Russian coins until they became too expensive. I like current bimetal 10 ruble Ancient Russian Towns and Regions of the Russian Federation series. They are well designed, nice quality, and reasonably priced. Ian, will do. I haven't gone through my Europe bag yet - the biggest one, I'm saving it for last. Although I doubt I have any exciting doubles from France. |
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well they are for my wife, and its hard to know what she does and doesn't have. she only started it about 3 months ago.
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United States
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although my collection is far less reaching, I did the same thing about a year ago. I had been collecting since I was a kid and it went dormant for a good many years. I decided to redo the whole thing: spreadsheet, new binders new 2 x2 etc. it was pretty expensive but they sure look good - not worth a lot - some not even what the cost of the nicely labeled 2 x 2 costs LOL
As for the missing coins, I'm thinking if you find your missing socks, they will be in there because I'm pretty sure that is where munchkins hide their coins
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United States
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I know, many of my coins are cheaper than 2x2's they're in. Still, when you dress it up nicely, it's always a pleasure to flip through.
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Posted 07/14/2010 03:10 am
