Has this happen to you?

I was going to collect wheat pennies and buffalo nickels, but now I'm doing 1909 - 2011 cents. Now I want to do 1859 - 2011 cents and 1883 - 2011 nickels! Has this happened to you, and did you follow your heart and extended your focus? This is hurting me like :dead-horse:.

 

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I used to collect sports cards and I changed my focus more than I changed my underwear. I think you should follow your heart ( and your wallet) and like Nike(tm) says.. JUST DO IT

 

I have a nice shiny 2005 buffalo nickle for you if you want it.. lol

 

That's exactly what happened to me. No change in focus, just an expansion. Like "one thing leads to another". A natural progression.

 

i started with lincoln cents, then expanded to indian head cents, and have since expanded to large cents. i guess it's the natural progression.

 

I started with Franklin halfs. In 2009 I had the number two 1968 to present mint set in the PCGS registry. Spent almost a year selling all those cents, nickels, dimes and quarters.
BTW still have the halves and most of the dollars.

It's still at number three on the all time list if you want to check it out.
http://www.pcgs.com/SETREGISTRY/alltimeset.aspx?s=55643

 

Right now I'm on a Peace dollar kick, But taxes are running low so I will finish them out next tax season! I have managed to collect 16 of the 24 Mostly AU-BU!

 

Yep, happens often.
As I approach completion of a set I start to look around for "what's next".
So I may be finishing up on one or two sets and starting on something else at the same time.

And a similar situation occurred with IHC's.
I just wanted to get the keys/semi-keys in better grades.
After a while I just said, 'Aw, the heck with it. Do the whole set.'

Numismatics can REALLY get under your skin.

 

If you're really a collector then this is just natural. Maybe some people can just get that one set and then move on to fishing or model airplanes, but I'd think most of us are always eyeing the next series to go after. I would always try to focus on finishing a set, and then when I got to the point where all the coins I still needed were the really expensive ones I'd move to the next series and start with the cheaper ones again. Lately I've been doing foreign coins, but the same thing happens, only now instead of the next series I move to the next country.

 

I didn't even want to collect, and now I got 2 massive albums and a large box. Consider yourself lucky.

 

Play Reenacted by Thread

Patient: "Doctor, I have a problem".
Doctor: "Yes, tell me what is wrong!"
Patient: "I was just...well you know"
Doctor: "Well What"
Patient: "I was just trying to collect wheat cents, and all of the sudden I have a erg to get them all"
Doctor: "Yes....let me see here.......Have you had any past issues with depression?"
Patient: "(silence), ..........No"
Doctor: "Well I am prescribing you to a coin seminar on Collecting 101"
Patient: "I dont think I need to do this"
Doctor: "You make it so hard,......What is wrong with you is a bad case of Collecting fever; it happens all of the time"
Patient:"Is there a cure?"
Doctor:" This is a natural phenomenon that occurs in coin collectors"
Patient:"well......ok"


THE END

:smile
-Taylor

 

I can relate to the ever expanding desire to collect more and more series. The result is lots of incomplete series collections on my part and I enjoy everyone of them. The only pain I feel is when at shows I see several coins to fill those empty album spaces and the budget only allows for one or two. Deciding which to purchase becomes a series of complex complications, which usually results in good purchases, but often leaves me wondering if I could have somehow gotten a few of the others as well.

 

Yes. I have coin ADD. Embrace it and have fun!

 

I have 4 sets I am working on at the moment:- Morgans (link below, TPG MS64+ goal)- Walkers (getting burned out on Morgans)- Peace (on the back burner)- SLQs (working on a graded FH set and raw set. Back burner at the moment.)Just have enough to keep me occupied. Each of the back burner sets are small and not enough to get overwhelmed.

 

Focus is hard. Patience is harder. You need both to be a good coin collector.

IMO of course.

 

Sometimes when I look at my collection I think sort them in chronological order then I think I need this year and that year and I am happy collecting for a while. Then I look at my collection and I think I've got quite a few nice Florins I'll put them together it'll make a nice display. Then I find a florin from the commonwealth and I start collecting them. Then when looking at Commonwealth coins I find a nice cheap Victorian coin from the commonwealth then I look at my collection and I think Hmmm haven't got much of a Victorian collection what could I get to make it better?
It's fun it's exiting and I know the next time I'm out I might see a coin that will start my off on another branch of the collection.
Dave

 

hehe,,,,good!!!!

 

Follow your heart, and you'll be happy.
I started as you did. Now it is as if I'm consumed.
Just find a balance and it will go fine.

Soon you'll be collecting safes, safes full of coins... :hail::dead-horse::hail: whoooohoooo, coin party!

 

I-was-first-into-wheats-mainly-then-buffalo-nickels-then-mercury-dimes-then-old-us-currency-then-error-notes-then-silver-coins-in-general-and-then-morgan-dollars-peacedollars-both-now-im-at-a-comforting-stand.Silver-coins-in-general=particularily-u.s-and-cherry-picker-notes

 

Nice! :smile
-Taylor