Your top ten numismatic goals for 2025?

A worthy goal. I need a piece of hammered British gold.

All the ones I have are milled.

 

My Top 10 collection Goals for 2025:

(1) Buy a PCGS/CACG/NGC graded 1839 Seated Liberty Half Dollar Type 1 "No Drapery". Problem being, they are VERY hard to come by in the grades that I can afford <$500. I am looking specifically for a Poor-1 to Fine-12 example.

Probability: EXTREMELY LOW

(2) Buy a PCGS/CACG/NGC graded Seated Liberty Dollar Type 3 "No Motto". Problem being, they are hardish to come by in the grades that I can afford <$500. I am looking specifically for a Poor-1 to VF30 example.

Probability: MEDIUM

I missed a coin I would have loved to own by 2 days on eBay. If I made my updated search a tiny bit earlier, it would have been perfect for me. It is exactly what I am looking for, price, grade, "look", holder, everything!








(3) Send a Large Batch of Coins to CAC for Stickering. These would be all my purchases in 2024 and coins I re-holdered in 2024.

Probability: 100% Going to Happen.

(4) Buy new camera gear to update all my coin photos to acceptable quality, resolution, consistent formatting, etc. I am looking at switching from a Nikon DSLR to Nikon Mirrorless, specifically the Z6III.

Probability: High



(5) If I decide to not buy camera gear, then to ship out my coins to one of several amazing coin photographers to get the photos I want. Coin photos are a huge reason I enjoy this hobby, and unacceptable photos drive be nuts and make me not want to share my coins.

Probability: Zero if I buy a new camera, otherwise HIGH

(6) Possibly Buy a PCGS/CACG/NGC graded Matron Head Cent "Young Head" (1835-1839). This is sort of a niche "Type" within the Coronet Head/ Matron Cent. In 1836, Liberty's head was modified by making the tip of the coronet more pointed and the tip of the bust narrower and less rounded, among other small changes. 1836 head can be found on 1835 dated coins. I have debated the last 10 years if this modification should be enough to consider it a full "Type".

Probability: Fairly High, if I get serious about it.

From PCGS:


(7) Buy a PCGS/CACG/NGC graded U.S. Philippines Half-Centavo and Five Centavos. I have the other denominations already, and this is a fun side / sub category within my US Type Set.

Probability: Medium

Example coins I was outbid on:



(8) Get CACG to fix bugs on their registry / Coin collection software. I have already found and sent email about several website bugs, registry bugs, want-list bugs, want-list features, etc. They have already responded and fixed some of them, and I assume other things I have identified will eventually be fixed.

Probability: High

(9) Attend one of the two Manchester New Hampshire Coin shows (April 18-19, 2025 /October 24-25, 2025). I went for the first time in 2024 and it was awesome. Much bigger and better than the Maine shows.

Probability: High


(10) Send my Type Set collection dupes / castoffs to GreatCollections to auction. I've never done selling before on GC, but I think I am ready.

Probability: Medium


Thats all folks!

 

Yeah, I'm starting to think it might not be possible for my affordable Type set (< $500). At that price point, we are in low grades for clean CAC approved coins, and at those grades, I am competing against the low-ball set collectors too. I will be on the lookout for another 12 months or so, but likely this Type will have to be removed from my Set goals as just theoretically possible but realistically not possible on a budget.

 

Ooh boy.

In early 1980, right around the time the Easter candy started coming out, my grandmother died. At her funeral, I had on the atrocious brown houndstooth-plaid jacket the grownups made me wear. (Hey, the '70s had just ended.)

And I was eating a Cadbury Creme Egg.

But even as a kid, I found those a little too sweet to handle all in one go. So I wrapped the egg (with one bite taken out of it) back in its foil wrapper and stuck it back into the pocket of my hideous coat. Which ended up back in the closet when I got home.

Since I only wore the coat to "dressy" occasions, when forced to, it didn't often come out of the closet.

Nine or ten months later, there was a wedding or something, and I was forced to wear the coat again. Reaching into my pocket, I rediscovered the partially-eaten Cadbury egg from months before. It was all mummified, like a relic from King Tut's tomb. The sugar "yolk" of the chocolate egg (which had looked nasty enough when fresh) had sort of solidified, crystallized and mostly crumbled away.

My bratty kid sister (@Elizabeth Shamblin) double-dog dared me to eat that ancient Cadbury egg.

So I did.

And look, I survived to tell the tale.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to derail my own thread with some completely irrelevant ramblings.

 

You might like this. I paid $480 for it in 2022.

 

You are correct sir. Looks real nice and would fit my collecting goals. Now I just need to find my very own.

Finding one is harder than I thought, but I think it is definitely accomplishable.

 

BIDDING IN PROGRESS

✅ MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

✅MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

✅MISSION ACCOMPLISHED


I'm bidding on this Caballito. It is NGC MS63, in an older (non-prong) holder.



Presale bidding just closed. Will I win it? Time will tell.