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My 55 Year Journey of Coin Collecting part 8 of 20 posted by danny0603

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Combining Hobbies

 

I decided in 2011 to start collecting the America the Beautiful 5 oz series. I had looked at the advanced list of 56 coins and discovered that I had been to about 70% of the places on the list. I thought it would be fun to combine photos of the coins with my trip experience and try to visit the other 30% of the places I had not been.

 

Since the series had started the year before, I needed to catch up and buy the five 2010 coins and decided to buy NGC certified. I was in shock when they arrived and I saw how big the over-sized holder was. I immediately looked to find a storage box to hold this collection- NO LUCK.

 

To this day, 6 years into the series I just cannot believe that NGC still does not make storage boxes for their over-sized holders. They must have graded thousands of over-sized coins and there is a real need for them. It just cannot be that hard to design and manufacture them.

 

In the meantime (half-way through), I am suspending collecting these coins because I just do not like having to stack the slabs and then shuffle through them every time I want to look at one of them.

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