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Message:: [QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 4849587, member: 24091"]Reminds of Jay Parino a one-time dealer who catered to deep pocket collectors.  He was a big proponent of there being no more than 20 coins in a collection that should be the very finest available for the type.  Most of the coins he was selling were 6 figures, and this was 20 years ago. As a world coin collector (like others on this thread) one of the challenges has always been remaining disciplined enough to avoid collecting in too many areas.  And so the 20 coin limit idea was philosophically something very attractive even if I couldn't (or wouldn't) subscribe to it. Like many other collectors who have been around a while, I have slowly morphed into a "fewer coins, better coins" kind of guy, and while I still have about 250 slabs, it's still far fewer than 5 years ago.  At this juncture, all of the raw coins are gone, and all of the minors are gone.  The next step for me would be eliminating all subsidiary coinage and having only crown size silver or gold coins in the collection.  That would shave another 40 or 50 coins off the total. Problem is, there are a couple that are dynamite coins, even if they are worth less than $1,000 and available enough to be replaced some day if I really wanted another example.  It's just very hard to pull the trigger on selling them. [ATTACH=full]1171035[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1171036[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1171037[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1171038[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]