To OCD or not to OCD.

I was just thinking that I'm at or near the one year point of my collecting hobby and I thought it'd be a good time to reflect. I'll list my coins that I bought this past year. Well I won't list them all individually but I'll group some to keep the list shorter.

My way of thinking when I started was to collect all coinage (regular) in Proof/Silver Proof and Mint State Sets. So I have silver proof sets from 1992-present, proof sets from 1956-present and Mint sets from 1957-present. That in itself is a bunch of coins and I was thinking they wouldn't be worth much investment wise but they'd make a nice item for my will for someone else to keep and maybe sell down the road.

Then I discovered Prestige Sets and I now have a full set of those. When I bought them they sounded like a good investment as well as a very nice collector piece.

I got into gold when I saw my first Buffalo gold piece and now I have the 2006/07 proofs. I also got into the first spouses and now have the first four in proof. The first 3 I bought as PF69UC's and I sent in the Dolly Madison for grading and it came back as a PF70UC! I was hooked with the grading bug!

I decided to collect early commemoratives as the history is so cool for each coin. I decided I want the type set (55 coins)and the complete set of 144 coins all MS65 or better. I now have just over 50 early commemoratives! I'm very proud of these sets as they are shaping up to be very nice sets.

I decided since I was getting commemorative halves I might as well get all the modern commemorative halves too. That modern set is completed in proof and mint state including some MS70's and PF70's.

Since we're talking about comemmoratives I decided I like some of the 5$ gold pieces. So I got the Civil War gold in PF70 and MS70! I also got the George Washington Death Bicentennial in PF70. I also have a few of them raw still.

Well I think I covered most if not all of my coins. It's been a great year and I'm thinking I went way overboard this year. I will try to tone it down this year witch should be easy to do. I hope.

Have fun collecting everyone, I know I am.