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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4798115, member: 10461&quot;]&quot;Box of 20&quot; is fun but takes discipline and a bit of material detachment, because every time you want to add a new baby, you have to sacrifice one of your existing ones, and that can get really tough after a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I held to it from 2013-2016 and my collection&#039;s quality benefited from it.&nbsp; At one point most of the 20 coins were $200-1,000 pieces, which on my budget is pretty good.&nbsp; However, I missed being able to buy nice &lt;$100 coins when I wanted to.&nbsp; Finally I felt like the 20-coin limitation was just too much of an artificial constraint, so I dropped it in mid-2016 and let the collection grow.</p><p><br /></p><p>As of the last update (quoted above/link in my signature line), my onetime &quot;Eclectic Box of 20&quot; is now a box of <b>81</b>, and headed for 100.&nbsp; Will I pause a while at 100, and prune and upgrade the collection?&nbsp; Maybe.&nbsp; We&#039;ll see.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s still a freestyle collection like it was originally.&nbsp; The only rule is that each addition has to be something attractive or interesting (or both) that I like, and slabbed by either PCGS or NGC.&nbsp; I do prefer straight-graded stuff without &quot;problem&quot; notations, but I&#039;ll occasionally make an exception to even that for interesting stuff with <a href="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/PcQKBLOLT9ua0HNlZN0l_Johanna%20cob-800x500-label.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/PcQKBLOLT9ua0HNlZN0l_Johanna%20cob-800x500-label.png" rel="nofollow">shipwreck</a> or hoard pedigrees.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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