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<p>[QUOTE="Stork, post: 3130878, member: 71642"]In my heart of heart I am a type collector. I like having a US 7070 (gets maybe 1-3 coins a year), a Japan Type (though I have the album plus a slabbed virtual album now), and the ultimate type collection that will always need a coin, the One From Every Country (OFEC). Defining the country list is part of the challenge there.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said I do have a few more complete collections, which were generally somehow an offshoot of the OFEC when I couldn't decide on ONE coin. Like my Greenland bears, my Saint Pierre & Miquelon set, and a few other oddball things I've started. Oddly I have a mostly circulated set of Swiss 2Francs underway. Japan has grown into an extensive set with varieties (even a few errors) and full date sets. That is my true OC. Well, that and Zog of Albania. In that case I'm after the full (non-prova) series...just one Zog era coin was undoable for the One From Every Country set. </p><p><br /></p><p>I kind of feel like anyone who collects outside their own nation probably is interested in the world in general, and the tendency to do a type set is strong. Not that we can't find areas to hyperfocus on, but the overall collection can be very general. Sometimes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Stork, post: 3130878, member: 71642"]In my heart of heart I am a type collector. I like having a US 7070 (gets maybe 1-3 coins a year), a Japan Type (though I have the album plus a slabbed virtual album now), and the ultimate type collection that will always need a coin, the One From Every Country (OFEC). Defining the country list is part of the challenge there. That said I do have a few more complete collections, which were generally somehow an offshoot of the OFEC when I couldn't decide on ONE coin. Like my Greenland bears, my Saint Pierre & Miquelon set, and a few other oddball things I've started. Oddly I have a mostly circulated set of Swiss 2Francs underway. Japan has grown into an extensive set with varieties (even a few errors) and full date sets. That is my true OC. Well, that and Zog of Albania. In that case I'm after the full (non-prova) series...just one Zog era coin was undoable for the One From Every Country set. I kind of feel like anyone who collects outside their own nation probably is interested in the world in general, and the tendency to do a type set is strong. Not that we can't find areas to hyperfocus on, but the overall collection can be very general. Sometimes.[/QUOTE]
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