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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sonlarson, post: 2524386, member: 15488&quot;]Hiddendragon, you and I have been around this site for a long time. I too branched out several years ago with the intend of collecting as many coins from as many world countries as I could. It got pretty large and filled up a lot of binders. I can&#039;t even begin to guess how many hours, weeks, months, I spent putting them all in 2X2s and cataloging them all. I finally drifted away from all that and began to focus on being more selective in what I collected. Silver has always been a factor. I still collect World Silver coins, bullion and circulating coins, and probably always will. I think if you were to pursue the 20th Century Type Set, you will find that you could completed the set without spending a lot of money on the individual coins. Heck, you probably have most of them already. Go to this link:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://typesets.wikidot.com/mexico:20th-century" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://typesets.wikidot.com/mexico:20th-century" rel="nofollow">http://typesets.wikidot.com/mexico:20th-century</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Download the Excel file and start filling in the blanks. I was able to complete the 96 coin set with only 1 coin costing me over $50 and it was $55. My average cost on the 96 coins was $8.99.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing I did was start collecting World Mint and Proof sets. That way I get uncirculated coins at a fraction of the individual cost per coin. I pick up a lot of cheap Silver along the way. it&#039;s a little most expensive but you are buying better quality coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would not stray from you bugs and animals. You probably have the best bug collection going. Why not photograph them, do some research, and put them in a book&gt; Won&#039;t cost you anything, you already have the coins. You&#039;ll have fun learning how to photograph them and the book process will consume a lot of time. It&#039;ll keep up you interest in the coins and you won&#039;t have to spend any more money for a while.&nbsp; </p><p>Download the software from Blurb and do the book offline. Cost is only about $40.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.blurb.com/photo-books?googaud=brand&amp;gclid=CMi2gNeSn88CFdgJgQodT60BNA" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.blurb.com/photo-books?googaud=brand&amp;gclid=CMi2gNeSn88CFdgJgQodT60BNA" rel="nofollow">http://www.blurb.com/photo-books?googaud=brand&amp;gclid=CMi2gNeSn88CFdgJgQodT60BNA</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you decide to &quot;clean house&quot; like I did, go through you inventory, select the coins you want to keep and sell the rest as a &quot;collection&quot;. I sold about 2,000 bulk coins on Craigs list for $200. I put together about 700 coins in 2X2s and cataloged, put the Excell spread sheet on a DVD along with some other coin collection programs I had. Added an extra DVD Copy of Krause World Coins and created a &quot;package&quot;. I sold the lot on Ebay for about $170. I got rid of a lot of coins I really had no more interest in and spent the money on coins that I did.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thing is, you don&#039;t have to do anything today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Congratulations on the new baby to come.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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