Personal milestones in your collection

I'm currently trying to add a new and different coin to my collection each day (including date runs).  Failed in January and February, but March and April have been really successful.  Not sure how long I can go like this though, mainly because it's become a bit all consuming.  I've also had to ration my finds to make them last until I can get out to the local shops here in Kent again.  🤪

Anyone else setting themselves pointless targets like this?

yes it's a great idea to define individual targets for your collection.

My first target is to loose no money with everything i do (not successful).

My next two targets are:

 to get as many different face 

values as possible, a 600 from thailand is on the way.

 to get swedish coins by type and year beginning Oskar II, mayority of gold coins is missing.

Stefan0205

yes it's a great idea to define individual targets for your collection.

My first target is to loose no money with everything i do (not successful).

My next two targets are:

 to get as many different face 

values as possible, a 600 from thailand is on the way.

 to get swedish coins by type and year beginning Oskar II, mayority of gold coins is missing.

Including the 1873 riksdaler riksmynt and the 1878 och 2 kronor? 

Good luck, I’ve been scouting but haven’t found any attractive prices.

I am trying to get EVERYTHING from Africa;
  circulation-coins, tokens and so on (no NCLT or fantasy-items)
It is a litte bit difficult task…..but I am hoping one day I will reach this goal…

I actually finished a milestone a few years back, sort of.   My first goal some 10 years ago was to finish a date run of Canadian Cents, 1858 - 2012.  Of course upon completion, I have upgraded this challenge to grades of VF or better.  Thirty some odd dates to go.

My Canadian Colonial collection will never be completed, even if I win a lottery.

My last collection may be possible.  A coin / token from every country before my birth year of 1961.  About 30 to go, although some of these are very expensive and I always have a difficult time justifying the cost vs. the endorphins.

Twice the same post.

Pointless targets are my speciality - complete with the “I will lose interest, when the only things missing are auction only items costing $2,000 or more”. Take my New Zealand predecimal coins, I have all of them sans the 1935 Waitangi Crown (Costs at least $7,000).

Another is completing a type and signature set of NZ banknotes, most are hard and expensive ($10 - $500 or so), but 3 stand out as totally ungettable, unless I win Lotto - Series A and B (1934 and 1940 - 65) £50 notes (Both are $5k + each with double that for 1934s and both have around 100 - 300 left in existence, so rare a local book on them has every surviving note LISTED with auction history!

The final is a 1967 $100 note, very scarce and about 1,000 survive from an original issue of just 500k. A nasty one would be $1,000, which is doable, but very few come up for sale and other collectors jump all over them.

America - Basically if its made out of gold I won't have it, and any coin with a mintage under 100k - forget it.

UK - I have ambition here, but completing that country with every coin they issued going back to AD 620 Crondall type Thrymsas, just seems really silly. So for that one coin of every monarch will do. So far I am back to Henry III.

But I have made milestones since my resumption in 2018.

2019 - NZ complete up to 1935 3d

2020 - UK Halfcrowns - 100 different, 1st hammered one

2021 - Coin from the 16th century

2022 - Completed Australian Florins and Crowns

2023 - First gold coins, at least 1 note from every era of NZ paper currency.

2024 - First gold ounce coins and set of gold sovereigns from £5 to £½.

2025 - Complete set of an American coin type made out of precious metal (Franklin Halves)

2026 - First hammered British crown coin, very rare US coin (1923S quarter)

Moneytane

Pointless targets are my speciality 

Thanks for tears of laughter Moneytane!!   And here I thought it was just me.

With the aid of a small amount of rationing, month 2 (April) has been successfully accomplished.

And the culprit is…

N#11318 

Got this yesterday.  More going on later today.