What type of Coin Collector are you?

I picked D

 

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It would virtually certainly come in dead last. If it's anything at all like previous PCGS displays, it'll be a yawner, and be missing required elements.

The difference is analogous to the difference between Disney on Ice (cheapened commercialized version) and Olympic figure skating (the real thing).

 

Isn't there still a set of Dansco gold type set pages?

 

Not only isn't he "going to", he "may not".

 

Yes but dansco only has 10 spots no type II 1$ no 3$ well Whitman has 20 spots 3-1$,3-2/12s,a-3, 4-5s, 4-10s 5-20s

 

Kinda makes me wish the pages were interchangeable. Is there a spot for a fake $3, since there are more fake ones than real ones?

 

And they fit together well I’m missing n/m lib 10 and type1 20 do you know of a company who makes museum quality replicas for theses spots

 

Yes I have a certified 3 in there it’s a Xf

 

No spot for 2 4s though lol

 

All Stellas are patterns. I don't think any album should have a $4 spot.

 

What is your explanation for the HUGE OVERWHELMING attendance AND pre-show REGISTRATION for the ANA show at Philly this past summer? Anything to get out of the Middle Atlantic states' incessant rain this summer? What?

 

Back to the question the OP asked...
I suppose I'm a Generalist. The collection my son inherited and I manage contains every thing from cents to $2 bills. But what we are working on are Morgans and Peace dollars and WLH coins. We go for the history and art of the coin. Simple enough for us, especially when scouting the coin shops and shows.

 

That’s y I put laughing out loud LOL

 

I guess generalist is the closest description for me.

One thing that I do that may be out of the norm is collect coins from certain countries with historic dates. For example, if I am on the hunt for an early 20th century British penny, I'll try to get one from 1912 because that was the year the Titanic sank, or 1940 because that was the height of the German blitz against Britain. Other examples include 1905 for Russia, 1939 for Germany, etc.

For the United States, key years I like to collect are 1941 (Pearl Harbor), 1944 (D-Day), 1963 (JFK), 1918 (end of WWI), 1929 (Stock Market Crash), 1969 (First lunar landing), etc. I also collect birth years of family (1900, 1910, 1920, and 1926 for grandparents; 1949, 1954 for parents, etc.)

 

The biggest coin show in the country, FUN, boasts of having 15,000 people attend. CoinTalk is just one of many discussion forums, and it has over 50,000 registered members (granted, most of those have only posted a couple of times). There are over a million listings on Ebay in the US coins section alone, and countless other dealer websites and auction houses.

My point is, even if you don't agree, a vast amount of the coin hobby occurs online. Like it or not, you can't argue with the facts.

 

I try to do the same with my type book too and I try to get keys or semi keys

 

You missed the point sleep doctor, all exhibits are yawners. People don't go to coin shows to look at silly little exhibits, they go to buy coins!

 

Explain the all-time record (and yes, there ARE people assigned to count exactly this, with a clicker and everything) number of people attending the competitive exhibits at Philly 2018. There were also a RECORD total number of Peoples Choice ballots submitted.

 

YOU might. "People" do not. There's too much else to do for REAL numismatists.

 

There are plenty of people who have no money, they go and look at stuff. Congratulations on being the consolation prize for the attendees of the show.