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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8276986, member: 19463&quot;]I have always found it a bit disturbing that the collectors on CT that I would most like to meet in person are the same as those located furthest from me. Z leads that pack. While I have not run a bar graph on my holdings I find most interesting his concept <b><span style="color: #ff0000">core collection</span></b> which I find most applicable to my coins.&nbsp; I have three sets of coins.&nbsp; First are coins I bought because I really wanted them.&nbsp; Second are coins I bought because I thought I should since they fit my specialties and I did not have that die.&nbsp; Third are the coins I bought for reasons not all that clear to me but that included things I bought to illustrate my old website and things I bought because I did not have one and was at a show where there was nothing I wanted more available.&nbsp; This last group has in part been donated/traded/sold over the last couple decades.&nbsp; I consider my <b>core collection </b>to be the first group augmented by a few coins that managed to climb to higher status when I learned more about them after they were purchased. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can not answer the original question simply because my favorite and most expensive purchase was a $7k+ group lot from Triton XX (AK Collection) which may have averaged out to $350 a coin but included a number worth ~$100 and a few I considered worth ~$1k.&nbsp; Most of you would not pay that level for them.&nbsp; Examples:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461350[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1461351[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1461352[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1461353[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I only spent over $1k on an individual coin once and later sold it (for no profit) when I downgraded to a cheaper specimen that I found more interesting even though it was not &#039;market popular&#039;.&nbsp; I don&#039;t recall where the first coin went or know if it was resold by the buyer.&nbsp; This is the replacement which I downgraded to because I like the doublestriking even though it was little more than half the price and more worn. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461355[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I propose a new statistic which I will term &quot;Satisfaction Quotient&quot;.&nbsp; That would be a number formed comparing the warm and fuzzy feeling I get from owning the coin and the purchase price.&nbsp; I do not &#039;value&#039; coins according to how much they cost or how much they might bring at auction.&nbsp; These are what I consider &#039;die with&#039; coins which may lose &#039;value&#039; when the only person who cares passes away.&nbsp; Since I am that person, that is no problem to me. Examples are below.&nbsp; I have explained them all here many times and you do not need to know which were single digit and which were three digit costs.&nbsp; To me, they are priceless. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461358[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461359[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461361[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1461360[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1461362[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Which of your coins have the highest &#039;SQ&#039;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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