How many coins in your collection?

I was wondering what is roughly the average number of coins in a Cointalk member's collection. I have about 200+ coins. Probably more including my collection from when I was a kid.

 

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I haven't reached 1,000,000 yet. I'll let you know.

Chris

 

a bunch

 

Not enough.

 

963, I've been buying unidentified hoards and then attributing the coins, which is quite fun.

 

According to my records 78 in my main ancients collection(including 1 that's in the mail), 10 or so in my "ancients to sell" group that no longer fit into my collecting interests and probably two hundred or so random modern coins that I either collected as a kid or found in the coinstar(I don't particularly collect them but keep them for friends' kids who show interest in coins).

 

I don't have my excel sheet in front of me but I have close to 500 military trade tokens. A couple duplicates, but the majority are unique denominations or locations.

 

Lots and lots

 

Too many to count!!

 

Within the 500s range.

 

lots

 

Easily over 10,000. Probably under 30,000. Someday, I'll know. A database is underway.

 

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I have somewhere around 200 in the actual collection, but I'm in the process of rebalancing. Of those, about 100 are Civil War tokens, the rest are odds and ends, most notably several birth year proof sets. I do have a big bucket of foreign coins my son (7) and I go through, "guessing" which country the coins come from.

 

I just added these today from a local private collection.

 

More than 1000? Yes.

More than 10,000? Probably.

More than 100,000? No.

The number that justify individual attention is a lot lower. Bags of nickels (many dateless) and copper cents run up the count.

 

Well, if you include the big bag of wheat pennies, and the several bags of regular pennies I put aside to sort for copper, plus the 50lb bag of word coins I bought just for the fun of sorting though them on cold winter nights.... Plus of course, my collection of regular silver and gold coins .... I guess I would have to say about 75,000. Almost of all them have no resale value but are acquired for the fun of it.

 

I have enough to fill a 5 gallon bucket.

 

When I was a young pre-teen coin enthusiast, a respected local coin dealer pointed out that my coin collection should really just be called "an accumulation".

As a result to this day I don't "count" coins in my collection.

 

I have nearly 600 coins---just over 300 of which are lettered edge bust halves---131 of which are dated 1827.