Your top ten numismatic goals for 2025?

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I only have two really

• Stop buying so much fluff stuff. I am the worlds worst coin impulse buyer.
• Work on assembling the twelve Caesars set and immerse myself into the history of the era.

 

Nice goals @lordmarcovan

My motto has always been "he who dies with the most toys wins".

I've been collecting stuff since I was 5 years old (1948). Coins, Stamps, Native American Artifacts (aka arrowheads) Military Weapons and Field Gear just to mention the major categories. I have stopped adding to any of my collections. I have some loose ends to tend to on my ancient coins collection. My original goal was to clean, identify and catalog 100 coins. Here I am at over 200.

My military collection is from the major nations in WWII and 1943 specifically. Lately I have been photographing, identifying and cataloging all those items. My catalog is 45 pages now and I have more to add.

I am completely satisfied with my coin collection and stamp collection. I started early enough in life and in an environment full of circulation quality coins, virtually any coin issued to circulation was still available in the change drawer. That and a lot of tenacity allowed me to build a collection that is only short the extremely rare coins.

Goal for 2025 and the rest of my life is to catalog and assign a Fair Market Value to all my stuff. I may post some general photos later.

 

I only have one goal for 2025. It's all about selling and getting my collection under control. It would not be fair to make my family deal with it in the future.
This year was a learning thing for me. It was all I could do to sell a few hundred coins this year. I hope to double that in 2025.

The really cool thing is that I get to take a fresh look at coins I bought 40 to 50 years ago. It's fun to compare my opinion of the grade with what I called it years ago. 2024 has been a great year for me.

 

similar to @ldhair, I will be doing more culling of coins I have and getting things under control so that I have a very streamlined collection of the coins and books that mean the most to me for future collections. I have already culled a lot that I don't have an interest in finishing a set in and books and magazines that I figure will not be read much at all since I have other interests I am working on that is taking up a huge amount of my time that I want to finish up with so coin collecting has taken a bit of a back seat and will continue to do so, though I probably will like to get to a couple shows and find a couple of slabbed coins I really like to add to my collection.

I think I also want to maybe add some medieval or ancients also, but not slabbed.

 

I plan to work on completing my sets but that has never stopped me from buying anything I like.

 

This is typical of my collection. I have at least one of every modern commemorative dollar and half dollar. I also have at lease one of every Silver Eagle, proof, uncirculated, burnished, bullion and special releases like reverse proof and such.

Too much stuff.

 

WOW!

 

The past year was a good one for me in terms of my collection. I completed three sets to my satisfaction: an 18th century to modern type set, a type set of fractional currency, and a classic silver and gold commemorative set. There are of course caveats when using the word "completed." The 18th century to modern type set is missing six coins that are extremely expensive to procure even in poor condition, 1793 Half cent, chain cent, half disme, 1796 quarter and half dollar and a Gobrecht dollar. The commemorative suite contains all the varieties but I did not concern myself with getting all of the mint marked coins and the Pan-Pac $50 gold coins are way out of my price range.

Here are some sets I will be working on during 2025.
1. An 1834 to 1933 gold type set. I only need two Double Eagles to complete the set, an 1866-1876 Twenty D with Motto and a St. Gaudens with motto. I am not looking to add either of the two Roman numeral Double Eagles to the set. Completion of the set is really just a question of having the funds.
2. A set of colonial currency with a note from each state excluding Vermont that even if I could find one they are typically way out of my price range.
3. I need but six coins to complete my century set. Coins from 600 BC, 0-100 AD, 400-500 AD, 800-900 AD, 1100-1200 AD and 1400-1500 AD. I don't think finding coins will be problem but I can be persnickety when it comes to quality.
4. Look for nice examples of key dates that are not duplicated in my type set i.e. coins that worked hard for a living and still look good.
5. A suite of the 1928 Irish Free State coins.
6. Any examples of tokens, coins, Jetons etc. that depict beehives.

I enjoy reading about everyone's collecting goals. It's a great hobby with wonderful folks involved at all levels.

To everyone on CT. I wish upon you the Merriest Christmas with the Happiest of Holidays and New Years.

Cheers,

Tall Paul

 

My goals are less lofty and I probably don't have 10 of them, but I have to be realistic lol.

Finish the Jefferson nickel set; I only need 8 more. I am stubbornly refusing to just buy them and want to find them with coin roll hunting. (I've decided if I manage to find all but 1950-D I'll just buy 1950-D lol but that's as much of a shortcut as I'm willing to take.)

Branch coin roll hunting out to Roosevelt dimes. Yeah hard to find anything good, but there's only so many pennies and nickels I can look at.

Get at least 1 or 2 of the 4 Lincoln cents I still need (still need 1909-S, 1909-S VDB, 1914-D, and 1922 plain).

Get at least one or two of the US proof sets I still need (currently have 1960 to the present, want to get at least 1 or 2 from the 1950's)

Add a few things to my paper money set, especially foreign banknotes from any countries I don't have anything from yet. And possibly more elephant and dragon notes!

Perhaps longer term goals, try to work on circulation issue type sets, for Mexico from 1905-present and Japan 1870-present.

 

I rarely elucidate my goals because they are fluid and I'm lazy. One goal is to try to get ANACS to attribute the Barber dime transition varieties and then have them slab my collection of them, properly attributed. Prior to that, obtain an example of 1901 10c Reverse 3 in proof, which is the only one out of 21 possible varieties I haven't sprung for yet. Another goal could be to weed through all the junk I accumulated as a kid and just spend most of it (like a bunch of bicentennial quarters I saved in 1976 that I still see in change). But that one needs reference to the part about being lazy. A similar goal would be to document what all this stuff is so my heirs don't have a mess to deal with, but that assumes I'll be dying soon and I can't be bothered worrying about that yet. I'll probably do that when I'm diagnosed with terminal verdigris or something.

 

I hadn't really considered goals for 2025 but I do like your list @lordmarcovan

Like others have said, try to weed out the fluff. I have so much stuff that I just don't care enough about to keep.

The problem is I have too much that I really like. Would love to do something like @lordmarcovan did with his box of 100 but that would mean downsizing a lot, which the wife would absolutely love.

Maybe a more realistic goal is to just move on from the stuff I don't "need" anymore.

Aside from that I would like to find another multiple thaler that I can afford. One of my favorite dealers has one but I haven't been able to talk myself into parting with the $10k they are asking. hmmm I could sell a bunch of coins and buy that one.

 

Borderline hoarder? Have you thought about seeking help? I can do that, LOL.

 

Randy, life and collecting are easier if you admit that you are a hoarder. I know I saw I’m a borderline hoarder but that’s a joke. Lol

 

I'm just jealous. My collection is so different and from everywhere and from all different countries. It's like an Italian Gypsy. A
Smorgasbord of collections.

 

I'd have to call you on that one! If you saw my "collection" (aka - hoard), you'd probably throw up! There was NO discipline at all!!!

 

Please don't tell me you have some Star Trek or Simpson's coins.

 

ha ha ha ha ha buying something weird gets us all at some point

 

At least it's Silver.