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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1013077, member: 66&quot;]It can be very hard to say because you have to some how define what you mean by greatest.&nbsp; And are you only including collectors or does it include nuseums as well?&nbsp; If you go by size then it would probably be the Smithsonian which has over 1.5 million items.&nbsp; The British Museum collection is also immense&nbsp; and there are othe very large museum collections as well.&nbsp; By collectors usually Virgil Brand is considered to have had the largest collection with over 350,000 items.&nbsp; But much of his may have been duplicates because Brand would buy entire collections to get one piece he wanted and then didn&#039;t sell off the extras so he would often have multiple examples of coins considered to be major rarities.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are collections that only contain very high grade coins, and there are extensive specialized collections that could easily be considered great.&nbsp; Say the Jules Reiver Collection which although it contained many lower grade and/or problem coins, it was almost complete by die variety for all of the pre-steam press US coinage for all the denominations.&nbsp; Or Russell Logan who only did the Early silver bust coinage but he was almost complete by variety and much of it in higher grades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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