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Valued Member
Canada
276 Posts |
Either collect lots of cheap ones, or a few expensive ones. Low grade and high grade. Avoid middle-of-the-road ones (like ms65) because they'll be expensive enough that you won't have as many as MS-62 ones ... but not rare enough to make them "special".
Also, collect what you like.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1745 Posts |
I used to concentrate on quantity, now I am I the process of upgrading my quantity to quality. For example, I may impose a lower threshold of Fine on an album or VF or better. It's all about what you like and enjoy the ride.
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Valued Member
Canada
307 Posts |
either answer is right it just depends on the collector a lot of us started out with quantity and as we progressed and our knowledge grew we converted to quality but that conversion took awhile as no one likes to give up any of the collection even to upgrade  |
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Canada
1554 Posts |
 I like my collection to be like my women, high quality !  Glenn |
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Valued Member
United States
380 Posts |
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I like my collection to be like my women, high quality ! And OLD too eh?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
693 Posts |
For collecting bullion coins, I'd go for quantity :)
For collecting coins of numismatic interest, I like coins with sufficient quality to see the design nicely.
There should be some sort of organization to the collection(s) that will lead to research, or a future article, display, presentation, etc.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
2426 Posts |
Good answer Glenzy1! High quality women come at a high cost!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
650 Posts |
With that analogy my collection would be trashy.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2426 Posts |
That is funny MrCanada! ! |
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Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
lol, mine would be a little of all three....well diversified!
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Valued Member
Canada
51 Posts |
I collect only Canada cents, large and small as well as varieities and commemoratives. On a 'very low budget' it took me a long time to collect one of each year. Now that I'm retired on a 'very low' pension' I am concentrating on replacing each coin with a much better quality one. This will probably take as long as it did first time around. So for me it's quality and I really enjoy the hunt.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2426 Posts |
Thats great larryt ! Are you collecting all of the 2006 Varieties? If so which ones do you have and in what grades.
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Valued Member
Philippines
386 Posts |
For me I guess you should go for the quality coins you can afford and make your childred or grandchildred proud of when it becomes their turn to own every borrowed numismatic item that once being enjoyed by you. At least you will be doing a favor to them while enjoying to own it at present  |
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Turkey
870 Posts |
I used to go for quantity, such as year runs, per type per year sets which cost me dear money and take up much valuable stacking space. Now I am trying to improve my collection to quality, that means good housing and perfectly safe (as good as it ca be) storage. I've improved into airtites, quadrums and coin capsules from 2x2's and very happy with my choice, even though it cost me a lot of money.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2426 Posts |
There are no poor answers I guess.
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