Next year (2023) will represent 75 years that I have collected coins. I basically stopped acquiring new coins last year. I want to organize my collection for simple presentation in photograph format. I have too much stuff. For example: I have all the half dollars from 1892 through 2021 with the exception of 5 on the first page of the album. I claim to have all the halves for the 20th Century plus. Additionally, I have all the modern commemorative halves. I also have all the Silver Dollars, Dimes and Nickels for the 20th Century. I am missing a few IHC and WC as well as a few of the early quarters. How do I celebrate 75 years and be able to display my collection? Do I even need to? Attached is one way to show the Half Dollar Collection. Feedback is appreciated.
How do you celebrate 75 years of coin collecting? Simple, you buy those five coins you don’t have on the first page. Lol and congratulations I’ve got a number of years to go before I hit that figure.
Absolutely nothing wrong with your half dollars in the albums. That is my preferred method. And congrats on seventy five!!
I also started collecting coins when I was five. Dad had them do why couldn’t I? Lol If he saw my collection today he would be overwhelmed.
Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary! I don't know anything about displaying, but in terms of celebrating, you can throw a little "coin party" to celebrate. It can be virtual or actual. Actual would need you to connect with other collectors who are local to you, or by going to a show. Virtual could be here on CT or another online coin-collecting forum. You can play coin-themed games, offer prizes, and do everything coin-themed. You can create a token for the occasion, or a wooden nickel. Or not. The good thing about this is that you get to decide how you want to do it, or even if you want to do it. Whatever you decide, congratulations!
I started collecting when I was 10, so you are a few years ahead of me. The trouble with displaying your collection is that the wrong people might find out you have it. It's the downside to sharing this hobby. As for having all the sets you have, my hat is off to you. I never had the patience. After I finished a set in Indian cents in the late 1960s, my mind went to a wide variety of other things. That's why I became a type collector for U.S. coins, and a "one for each king or emperor" for the British and imperial Roman pieces.
You are so right John. I have always been concerned with visibility of my collections. The internet makes it so nice to share interests with friends. But you also share with the undesirables. Thanks for the feedback.
75 amazing years !! I always think in utter amazement of thinking of who touched those old coins, the history of the era they were in circulation. I think I started in 1976, which would make 46 years (on and off).
Thanks for the feedback. I was lucky enough to be in an era when so many coins were still in circulation. And we had a network of collectors that leaned on each other to fill holes. We didn't have to "buy" coins, but swaps were heavy trades in some cases. Depending upon scarcity you traded enough coins to constitute buying. But we didn't think of it that way.
I've had a lot of good feedback and I appreciate it. There are some fine collections represented by the members of CT. Gold, Silver, Error Coins and the very early US issues. Awesome collections. My collection is primarily the mine run circulation coins that were in use during the time I was collecting. I do enjoy seeing these other collections.
Congratulations on the 75th anniversary! Not sure what I would consider my coin anniversary, 1985 when I was first gifted Canadian coins from my dad when I was nine or 1993 when I was 17 and first bought a coin.
