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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 5784226, member: 25270&quot;]The first several years as a collector my goal was to get as many different coins as possible. I was a completist and it didn&#039;t matter what coin it was, if I didn&#039;t have it I wanted it so I could try to complete the set. Then at some point I realized this was no longer something I wanted to pursue. Most sets have a few key dates that look exactly like all the other coins but cost way more, and it didn&#039;t really make sense to spend so much time and money pursuing them. Besides, what is the point of having so many of the same coin? So with that in mind, I decided to totally shift to just keeping one of each type, and occasionally a few more if the coins were really nice. That meant getting rid of a lot of coins I had accumulated. </p><p><br /></p><p>But some were easier to part with than others. My Belgian set? See ya. Germany? Cut from two albums to less than one. Some of them were harder though, either because I liked the coins more or I just had so many that it was hard to break it up. But gradually I&#039;m continuing on with the effort. I just finished going through all of my coins again and removing some to sell off. This time I greatly reduced my South Africa, Italy, France and Canada collection, along with some others here and there. It can be hard, but once you start it suddenly gets easier. I usually go through a few waves of whittling them down until I&#039;m satisfied. Here&#039;s what I eliminated this time - probably 300-400 or thereabouts.[ATTACH=full]1243313[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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