And here we are… almost a year later… a year of Covid-19, and with thoughts of maybe trying to correct my 100 year gold collection to be more in line with this one, what I'm finding is that coins needed for this collection are scarcely available. For example, just looking around on dealer websites I used to frequent often, I didn't find any 1863 $3 Indian Princess Heads, and the difficult gold dollars, not that they're expensive (or exceedingly rare) seem to have been snatched up into private collections for whatever reasons, and aren't available whatsoever. It is almost like people have been getting more involved with their collections, or more people, with idle time at home, have decided to take up coin collecting. Looks like I'll just leave my current collection as is since it already accomplishes many of the objective this thread details.
Thought this thread had disappeared. I would type in it's title, that I had saved elsewhere, put it in quotation marks to narrow the search to exactly the words and capitalization used, and "Found 0 results" would come back. I then went to the US, World, and Ancient Coins forum and started working my way back… one page at a time. Found this thread 44 pages back.