Is anybody watching HOARDERS on A&E? It's not about coin collecting but I've come away with a few insights. Actually more questions than insights. Do I really need twenty-one 1939 Lincoln Cents? Why did I count them? A 2002 copy of COINS magazine? Or a 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 or 2008 copy for that matter? COIN PRICES magazines for the same years covering the same coins? Three different grading guides? Various books about making money selling coins when I've never sold a coin in my life? A LARGE cup of coins I've been meaning to go through to fill holes in albums? Why can I accumulate the coins but not go through them? The list of ???'s is long. The list of excuses is longer. I have too many questions and too few answers. Have you ever taken a step back and found yourself in a similar situation? PS - I think it's time to kill my TV. :goofer:
yeah, I know how you feel. I have on past occasions compiled a mess of coins and coin related things. Then the wife demands I throw away 70-80 pounds of magazines and I sell off all the extraneous coins I've collected over that time. Then the cycle starts again.
You just have the collecting gene, if it was not coins it could be anything else. engineer trades if you can, get more examples and roll them when you hit fifty of them. save your copper bullion and have it melted into 100 oz bars, once you get enough copper bars trade them for silver bars, once you get enough silver bars trade them for palladium, once you get enough palladium trade them for gold or platinum, once you get enough platinum trade it for rhodium
I was thinking start with full roll of 50 cents, then keep collecting/hoarding until you have 39 rolls of them Big difference in collecting coins vs. that junk that is collected on that hoarders show!! But yeah, maybe dump some of the old magazines unless there is an article that you'd like to save for reference. I do save auction catalogs as they contain lots of great info in the lot descriptions, but yeah, that pile is getting pretty big too!
If i ever end up on hoarders, it'll be for keeping waaaaay too many 2001 no P Nickels, 2000 P Nickels, 2001 Volunteer error dimes, 1978 mint cents, and numerous other coins that other people might toss. but the 70's mint coins still make me smile. now , if i could only get me some older 1950's and back mint coins, id probably be in my glee.
