What I did was go to advanced search, change to your collection. Then type the decade in the year box, 1950-1959. This will not count the ND coins. And have other problems . Mine are
1990-1999 855 coins
2000-2009 854 coins
1980-1989 670 coins
No surprises to me as I collect modern coins
yours daryl
Note that these numbers do not necessarily represent the actual amount of coins in my collection - in particular, many pre-euro types were continued until 2001 (but with limited mintages for the last few years) and would show up in the 2000s even if my coin is from the 1970s.
On the other hand, all of my Belgian 25 centimes only show up as 2 coins instead of 24, Chinese 1 and 2 fen as 2 coins instead of 50-ish, Italian large type 100 and 50 lire as 2 coins instead of 30-ish, etcetera.
Not sure which decade would win if the numbers were counted properly. (I'm seriously considering doing it - I only have what, 1600-odd coins?)
EDIT: Also, the 2000-2009 decade includes a dozen US state quarters, and a bunch of common Russian coins, that I added last night from an old album. It probably wouldn't have made the top 3 if I did this yesterday; the 4th place is only 4 coins short as it is (though the 5th is 41 coins short of the 4th, so the top 4 would've probably contained the same decades - the 1970-2009 period).
With a different twist, I have checked them by century and this is the result...
1870's and 1890's are my top from the 19th
1980's from the 20th
and 2000's from the 21st
Thank you for the Fun Daryl, also let me understand a bit better my collection. I think due to the way I collect the majority of my coins will be from the 20th century...
Iam very happy everyone is doing it in there own way. Just like collecting coins there is no one way. I thought it would be a nice way of looking at your collection different. Iam some what surprised with the search , comeing up with different numbers. I have tried putting dates in the years and in Gregorian box at the same time and got different numbers. From just putting in the years or Gregorian box. Must have some kind of bug there.
enjoy your coin collecting yours daryl
I collect UK Decimal by year, and everything else by type.
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I'm not an expert in any kind of coins, but I reckon I'm good at research and will do my best to help. Feel free to tell me my identifications/valuations/gradings are wrong. It's the only way I'll learn.
I didn't know we could do that! Interesting functionality. Mine is no surprise; considering i always give priority to new coins and work my way backwards in time. Two reasons that come to mind why my older years will be as numerous is my limited capacity to spend more $ per older coin and the fact that there weren't as many commemorative or constant change in coin designs as there are now
One of Darryl's great ideas! Here's a graph taken from my Excel list:
I have a fancy for Europe in the first half of the 20th century, so the dark red is what makes my heart glow. The reason why some of the red is spilling over before or after its proper period is that some coin series run across the period boundary. I'm an inveterate serial collector, you know.
The reason why Euros are apart is that I don't like them, but feel obliged to collect them.
I have no explanation for the sad gap in the 1980's. I wasn't actively collecting in my university years, but neither was I in the 1990's, and that decade did recover from this passive period of mine.
Well, this was too overwhelming, so I quit at 1900-1909. The numbers indicates the actual amount of coins, the number in the parantheses indicates number of coins according to the search engine. I checked 2000-2009 and according to the search engine it's 1,020, so I guess it will take a few hours to get the actual amount. LOL!
