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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3130607, member: 112"]I think most of you know I no longer collect coins and have not for a long time now. But what fewer may know is how I collected coins, what I based my collection on. For me it was quite simple, if I liked the coin I would buy it. It didn't really matter what country the coin was from, what date it was or what mint it came from. All that was required was that I liked it !</p><p><br /></p><p>And there could be different reasons that I liked a coin. Usually it was because I liked the design, but there were also times when I liked the condition of the coin coupled with the design. And some times it was because it was a design I liked, in a condition I liked, and of a scarcity that I liked. And money, the value, of the coin played no part for me. What I mean by that is this, it didn't matter if the coin was valuable or not. The coin might have only cost me $30, or it might have cost me $4,000 - I bought them anyway because I liked them !</p><p><br /></p><p>With parameters like that, well, you're not gonna be a set collector, at least not in the ordinary sense. But there were a few times when that aspect did come into it a little. For example, once I had purchased my first Real d'Or I decided it would be cool to collect a mint set of them, meaning 1 minted at each mint that made them. There weren't many, it would have only been a handful of coins, but I'd never seen or heard of anyone who had done it so I decided what the heck, I would. </p><p><br /></p><p>And then there were the Netherlands gold ducats of course, a coin that became truly to special to me. And with those I decided that I would try, stress try, and collect a date set of them, one of each date that they were ever minted, regardless of mint. Again because no one had ever done it. Of course I knew from the get go that it would be a daunting task, which was probably why no one had ever done it. It was after all a coin that had been minted with the same basic design for well over 400 years at the time. But I was determined and set out to accomplish my goal.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never got there of course because I quit collecting before I did. But I had well over a hundred of them and was definitely on my way. Today, my hope is that one day someone else will take up that task and see if they can complete it. If they ever do it will truly be an accomplishment worthy of note. One that will likely go down in the annals of numismatics.</p><p><br /></p><p>As this thread has shown there are many reasons why a collector collects the way he does. But I think it also shows why they don't collect differently than they do. In other words I think they too are daunted by the task at hand because of its degree of difficulty. And if you are one of those people I would say to you - don't be. If there is something you'd like to do then go ahead and try ! Don't cheat yourself out of that greatest feeling of all - the sense of accomplishment, the sense of completely something that was hard to do. It just doesn't get any better than that <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3130607, member: 112"]I think most of you know I no longer collect coins and have not for a long time now. But what fewer may know is how I collected coins, what I based my collection on. For me it was quite simple, if I liked the coin I would buy it. It didn't really matter what country the coin was from, what date it was or what mint it came from. All that was required was that I liked it ! And there could be different reasons that I liked a coin. Usually it was because I liked the design, but there were also times when I liked the condition of the coin coupled with the design. And some times it was because it was a design I liked, in a condition I liked, and of a scarcity that I liked. And money, the value, of the coin played no part for me. What I mean by that is this, it didn't matter if the coin was valuable or not. The coin might have only cost me $30, or it might have cost me $4,000 - I bought them anyway because I liked them ! With parameters like that, well, you're not gonna be a set collector, at least not in the ordinary sense. But there were a few times when that aspect did come into it a little. For example, once I had purchased my first Real d'Or I decided it would be cool to collect a mint set of them, meaning 1 minted at each mint that made them. There weren't many, it would have only been a handful of coins, but I'd never seen or heard of anyone who had done it so I decided what the heck, I would. And then there were the Netherlands gold ducats of course, a coin that became truly to special to me. And with those I decided that I would try, stress try, and collect a date set of them, one of each date that they were ever minted, regardless of mint. Again because no one had ever done it. Of course I knew from the get go that it would be a daunting task, which was probably why no one had ever done it. It was after all a coin that had been minted with the same basic design for well over 400 years at the time. But I was determined and set out to accomplish my goal. I never got there of course because I quit collecting before I did. But I had well over a hundred of them and was definitely on my way. Today, my hope is that one day someone else will take up that task and see if they can complete it. If they ever do it will truly be an accomplishment worthy of note. One that will likely go down in the annals of numismatics. As this thread has shown there are many reasons why a collector collects the way he does. But I think it also shows why they don't collect differently than they do. In other words I think they too are daunted by the task at hand because of its degree of difficulty. And if you are one of those people I would say to you - don't be. If there is something you'd like to do then go ahead and try ! Don't cheat yourself out of that greatest feeling of all - the sense of accomplishment, the sense of completely something that was hard to do. It just doesn't get any better than that ;)[/QUOTE]
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