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wow--10,000 + coin collection and 10,000 plus to trade- finding it hard now though to find trading partners, as the majority of coins I need are expensive and also need to trade several coins per trade to make it worthwhile
Only collect most countries by km types (pacific nations,phillipines and Iran by year)
Also had to restrict the countries i am willing to trade with,because of lost mail, so this makes it tougher still

anyway 10,000 collection
10,000 to trade
300 plus country club
500 pus silvers

next goal 400 trades with 100% feedback (360 at moment) which is 2nd highest in Southern hemisphere need to catch
Olivetti from Brazil who has 440 and is no1
I am so pleased with myself!!!!!!

How do you get and store that many coins

Bulk lots are the way to go. Back when I started collecting I racked up 1500 different coins in a couple of months by sorting bulk lots and then splitting and re-selling the remainder. That was before I decided to narrow my collecting focus and now I'm down to about 600 coins.

I have more than 1700 coins, of which 1000 are on my swap list that I would be glad to get rid of. What is left is silver, gold, and my coins that I want for my one of each country goal.

Quote: "muzz0000"​wow--10,000 + coin collection and 10,000 plus to trade- finding it hard now though to find trading partners, as the majority of coins I need are expensive and also need to trade several coins per trade to make it worthwhile
​ Only collect most countries by km types (pacific nations,phillipines and Iran by year)
​Also had to restrict the countries i am willing to trade with,because of lost mail, so this makes it tougher still
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​anyway 10,000 collection
​ 10,000 to trade
​ 300 plus country club
​ 500 pus silvers
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​next goal 400 trades with 100% feedback (360 at moment) which is 2nd highest in Southern hemisphere need to catch
​Olivetti from Brazil who has 440 and is no1
​I am so pleased with myself!!!!!!
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​Some awesome stats Muzz, you are rightfully proud of your achievements.

I hope you have very strong furniture and floors to carry all that metal!

Well I will have ago at reply

6 bedroom home -so I am lucky to have a dedicated mancave hobby room

The coin collection is in mostly 3d binders and use BCW pages and coin cards- must be 1000,s of dollars put out for storage plus currently 44 ring bindersin steel locking cabinet- run out of room so some are elseware


The coins to trade are in 2 towers of filing cabinets sorted in plastic bags inside plastic 2 litre icecream containers
I am very lucky in that i can sit on my chair watching TV while working on PC and swing round to grab album or spare coin container------I have spent very little in purchasing coins (maybe $5000.00 including pages and coincards------and have a sophiticated alarm system to boot

And a live-in security guard to boot!

Congratulations on the amazing collection!

Quote: "MonaSeaclaid"​And a live-in security guard to boot!
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​Congratulations on the amazing collection!

​she is the sophisticated alarm system pippi on patrol- she goes out to the door, has a look, than comes back disappointed