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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25940331, member: 10461&quot;](Or, if you don’t have a specific list of ten clear-cut goals, then your general plan will do.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Since [USER=153043]@Croatian Coin Collector[/USER] recently <a href="https://www.numisforums.com/topic/7987-your-top-10-coin-collecting-goals-for-2025/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisforums.com/topic/7987-your-top-10-coin-collecting-goals-for-2025/" rel="nofollow">posted this topic on Numisforums</a>, I thought I’d repost it here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am a generalist, and collect in <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/collections/4508/lordmarcovan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/collections/4508/lordmarcovan" rel="nofollow">several different categories</a>- not just ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s my “Top Ten” list of 2025 goals, for now, in no particular order.&nbsp; Of course due to budgetary limitations and the challenge of searching, I’ll be lucky if I add even two or three items off this list in 2025.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>A <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15727.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15727.html" rel="nofollow">1957 Ceylon 5 rupees Buddhism commemorative</a>.&nbsp; A nice Cameo or DCAM proof example.</li> <li>A nice ancient coin (any eye appealing type or example, preferably silver) pedigreed to the John Quincy Adams family collection, which was sold by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1974.&nbsp; I am an Adams descendant.&nbsp; And I want one of the ones that was <i>individually</i> listed and illustrated in that sale, rather than a breakout piece that was originally part of one of the multi-coin group lots in the sale.</li> <li>A lustrous and eye-appealing <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8294.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8294.html" rel="nofollow">Mexican “Caballito” peso</a>.&nbsp; Mint State and problem-free, but MS62-63 would be sufficient, since the Gem examples get quite pricey.&nbsp; I might check this one off my list at the January 2025 FUN show in Florida, if I can find the right one.</li> <li>A gold Spanish or Spanish Colonial “cob” type 1- or 2-escudos piece, particularly if it has a known shipwreck provenance.</li> <li>A US $3 gold piece in AU to MS grade, to replace and upgrade <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/249953/coins-world-united-states-1854-gold-3-dollar-indian-princess" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/249953/coins-world-united-states-1854-gold-3-dollar-indian-princess" rel="nofollow">the one I now regret selling</a>.</li> <li>Some of the US Type coins for the types I lack.</li> <li>A gold <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces61677.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces61677.html" rel="nofollow">elephant pagoda</a> from India.</li> <li>A coin of Cleopatra VII, with her portrait.&nbsp; Fine or better, with nice smooth surfaces.&nbsp; (For you non-ancients collectors, Cleopatra VII was THE Cleopatra- the famous one.)</li> <li>Perhaps a coin of Oliver Cromwell, or if that proves too difficult/costly, then one from the English Commonwealth period of the mid-1600s.</li> <li>Maybe another 16th or 17th century German thaler, if the right handsome example presents itself.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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