What are your collecting goals/style and what's your budget?

Other threads in the same vein and my own pondering inspired this post. Frame your answer in this manner:

1) Provide your top collecting goals with specific context e.g. pre 19xx notes, high grade paper in x denomination etc, district sets of all x..., error notes, I don't know so I snatch up everything
2) I spend $xx,xxx.xx per year on specific paper acquisitions and/or spend $xx,xxx.xx on circulation finds
3) What's on your collecting radar right now? Be candid regardless of significance, we all have a $10,000 bill bible find on our radar ;-)


MY ANSWERS ******************
1) My collecting is pretty random and I enjoy the journey and not so much the destination. I can see myself getting into errors and but right now I am looking for notes from each "era" even if it is only a sampling of notes, not necessarily "sets"
2) <10% of my collection is from specific purchases and nothing so far has been noteworthy but rather deals I couldn't pass up on CL and ebay. I could see myself staying around $500-700 per year between buys and circulation keepers
3) Large notes, horseblankets

 

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I'm both a Type and Date/Mintmark collector.

Date/Mintmark - I inherited from my family some mostly low-quality circulation coins, and as a kid, was given albums. All US, Civil War to present - dis-interested in errors completely, only dates/mintmarkes/varieties, highest grade within price/quality reasonableness matrix. After a long break from collectting, I'm trying to fill in holes, mostly down to key dates - that's my Date/Mintmark goal.

Type - F-AU circulation coins that relate to key dates in our history (founding, civil war, prohibition, world wars) and Key Date coins.

So the two converge right now on Key Dates, and that's where I'm focused, just picking up a few here and there in the specific grade range I'm looking at. Given how expensive Key Dates are, I'll be here awhile.

My big goal is dodge countefits/altered coins . . . I'd love a link to a great thread full of advice on this topic. I've read a couple books which have touched on this, but they weren't very helpful.

 

1) Goal for this year: Get as much of my 7070 done as possible.
2) I'm in college. Dollars are hard to come by.
3) Seated liberty half disme w/o rays. Come to find out I have 3 with rays but none without.

 

Folks, note that this thread is in the PAPER MONEY forum. The OP is addressing paper money collectors.


@ greenie, I know you mentioned other threads and such inspired this thread but in case you missed this one it should help you see what people currently have on their radar for collecting notes, there's not a whole lot of us paper collectors on CT but there is a decent group of folks who share their interests here.

This is the thread I mentioned: New Years Resolution Note for 2012


1) Please refer to my posts in the above link.

2) Nothing much to share here as I feel its a private matter what I spend on the pieces I acquire, though I don't "set" an annual budget to work from as much as I work towards goals. Hence the concept of the resolution threads. However, much of the time, a notes grade (quality) combined with rarity means the premiums limit my ability to acquire notes and I can buy no higher that the finest I can afford to obtain. I have learned to always seek the finest you can and maybe even work a little harder to take it a step higher to put the very finest you can into your collection, as that will carry the quality of your overall collection a long way.

3) Again, please refer to my posts in the above link.


To me, #1 and #3 are pretty much the same question.

 

The only goal I have is to continue collecting as many error notes as I can find.

I will spend whatever I can afford.

I'm still looking for a double denomination note (Canada $10).


Very basic, I know, but it's accurate.