What is Your Collecting Direction?

Hi everybody, I enjoy reading the direction in which other collectors are driving their collections, and thought I would post my own here and maybe get some advise along the way. Right now I am putting together a US Type Set and collecting Bust Half Dollars. I don't want the type set to become a "hole filling" project so I am only using coins that really catch my eye. I also love the Busties and enjoy collecting them. So to get to the point I am also interested in numerous types of foreign coins ranging from ancients, to thalers, and to crowns, but I enjoy really knowing about coins before I purchase them. So I plan to complete the type set in the next couple of year while I am learning more and more about the Bust half dollars and when it is complete I will most likely begin collecting ancients. There it is, my collecting direction, I'd love to here yours.

 

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I'm a quantity guy over quality. I'm now trying to complete a set of Barber dimes and Standing Liberty quarters.

 

That interesting, I'd say I'm probably quality over quantity, (except when it comes to silver dimes), Standing Liberty Quarters are really beatiful. Have you completed any other sets?

 

My collecting direction has more to do with condition than a certain series. I hold all coins that are as wholesome and problem free as possible in high regard. No matter what the grade. I've had my sanity questioned for picking an original problem free Good over a cleaned MS. Call me crazy, but that's my style and my direction. I'm not saying problem coins should be shunned. I own quite a few. I just prefer non-problem coins.

 

My collecting direction seems to change every time I see a coin that speaks to me. I've completed several coin sets. I am slowly assembling some sub sets like the following:
US commemorative half dollars
High grade type coins of the world 1800-2000
Leprosy Colony coins
Central American coins
Albania & Italy coins
Dabbling in ancient coins

The most recent coin I purchased was a MS64RB 2 cent piece. It is not on my want list but it spoke to me when I saw it. It looked very bright & mostly red. Now it is in my collection.

 

I have one real direction and that is silver content. I have very few coins with no silver in them or at least in the set.

I've completed a few of the basic sets (Roosevelt 46-64', War Mercs in 63+, War Nickels) and have Franklins, Prestige and Modern Commems that I'm working on. Other than that it is mostly bullion with a interest in world bullion. ASEs have become boring to me but I still buy older years.

 

I am also doing a US type set, but I seem to get distracted with territorial and colonial US coins frequently. My other main direction would be ancient Parthian coins.

 

My main focus are Peace dollars right now.

 

IMO the Peace dollar is a beautiful coin and a great direction to be focused. I never completed a high grade set but I have some pretty cool examples. This 1935 has four rays below ONE. I got it from Ed & Lance Hipps at a FUN show.

 

That's a stunning coin, Collect89! I'm new to the hobby so if I get my terms wrong, please forgive me I'm trying to put together as set I can afford, looking at raw coins, in at least MS 60 condition. Hopefully this isn't too ambitious, but so far I have a couple very nice coins that I got for a great price. One was at wholesale and the other less than the redbook value.

 

That Peace is smoking hot, those later years are very tough to find in grades like that.

 

I would imagine more like MS-65+. MS-60 only describes an uncirculated coin with plenty of bag marks (scratches made during the minting process and transportation). The higher the grade, the fewer the contact marks or bag marks.

 

Sorry, I meant what I'm after not the grade of his coin.

 

Most of my Peace dollars are raw stored in 2x2s in a Dansco album. The 1928 and 1921 are slabbed MS64. Sorry, I can't find a photo of the 1921.

 

ancient/medieval drives me. i like history. though a worn indian head cent gets me going too.

 

Very nice! Thanks for sharing!

 

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posts #21, 29, 30, and 31

 

I used to focus on one or two sets at a time. However, frequently I would get bored, tired, felt like learning was at a standstill, etc. So, within the last year or so I decided to do a set within each denomination (with exception to the nickels, though the V nickel with more looking may ease its way into my collecting heart, may...not yet). That way, when I get bored looking at BU Franklin Halves, I can switch to circulated Barber Dimes. When the silver coins dull me, I can go to copper Lincoln Wheat Cents, you get the idea. Currently, I'm working on, though admittedly in spotted fashion: Peace Dollars, Kennedy Halves, Washington State Quarters, Barber Dimes, and Wheat Cents.

 

Large cent collection from 1808 to 1857. So far it has been going alright with some being hard to find that I like the looks of. I ain't too particular about grade as long as I like the looks of it. So far I've got 7 out of 51