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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 3323499, member: 44357&quot;]With the recent threads about your personal preferences in coin selection, I thought it might be interesting to ask the forum what (if any) plans/parameters everyone has for their collections. Some of these have been discussed in the later pages of various old threads but it would be useful to have everything in one place.</p><p><br /></p><p>In US coins, a complete typeset is roughly 137 coins, depending on how you count it. In ancients, a typeset from Greece to Rome could be anywhere from a few thousand to several hundred thousand different coins with many types only being available in museums or represented by unique examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, everyone&#039;s collection is ultimately down to personal preference.</p><p><br /></p><p>A recent trend in US coins has been more minimalist, focusing on a &quot;Box of 20&quot; where you limit your collection to only 20 coins. This would be excruciating for ancient collectors but it fits with a popular trend, especially those who may have watched the recently released &quot;Marie Kondo: Art of Tidying&quot; on Netflix (and in book form), promoting a minimalist lifestyle.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d pose this as a poll but the software isn&#039;t quite flexible enough for multiple questions:</p><p><br /></p><p>- What metrics do you choose to add coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>- Do you have a rough size of a collection in mind (10, 100, 5000, 1000, 50,000 coins?)</p><p><br /></p><p>- Do you work off of a &quot;wantlist&quot;? How has your wantlist changed over time? How rigid are you with following your wantlist and plans?</p><p><br /></p><p>- What&#039;s the longest you&#039;ve waited to find a coin you&#039;ve wanted? How long have you been waiting for your current target?</p><p><br /></p><p>- What portion of purchases do you make privately vs from auctions?</p><p><br /></p><p>- How often do you handle your coins or look at your pictures?</p><p><br /></p><p>- How much time do you spend searching for lost pedigrees?</p><p><br /></p><p>- How many books/catalogs do you own or have easy access to?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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