Milestone reached

Finally added the first 10,000 different coins, but still another 30,000 (estimated) to go. At this speed it will still take me many many years.
Data:
+ 10,000 different coins
+ 3,500 different types
100 countries
+ 16,500 doubles
+ 560 silver coins
+ 1,600 catalogue contributions
+ 1,900 forum posts

Well done!

I just cannot imagine the size of your collection.

Nice, I have seen your pics in the country thread, you have nice high grade coins too.

Great job my friend.

Congratulations!

It never occurs to me how many coins people can accumulate over the years.... that must be an amazing collection!

Quote: "CassTaylor"​It never occurs to me how many coins people can accumulate over the years.... that must be an amazing collection!

​Don't forget I'm already collecting for 50 years. Let's talk again when you are collecting for 50 years.

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Quote: "CassTaylor"​It never occurs to me how many coins people can accumulate over the years.... that must be an amazing collection!
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​​Don't forget I'm already collecting for 50 years. Let's talk again when you are collecting for 50 years.

​You keep the date, I'll be seeing you with my collection in 2061!

The most interesting part would be just to see all 40,000 coins in one photo

Quote: "druzhynets"​The most interesting part would be just to see all 40,000 coins in one photo

Hahaha, you obviously have no idea how 40,000 coins look like.​

Thanks Oleg, George, Daryl and Sophie for your support.

They should look something like THIS

Besides obvious "wow!", I like the fact that out of 10 000, we were missing "just" 111 in the catalogue.

How are you adding them, randomly, or by countries, by different eras or by difficulty of identification?

Quote: "Jarcek"​Besides obvious "wow!"​

​​Thanks Jarek.

Quote: "Jarcek"I like the fact that out of 10 000, we were missing "just" 111 in the catalogue.

Three reasons for that:
- First of all, this is a compliment for the Numista catalogue which is already very extensive and is still growing every day. So it's not that easy to add coins you own yourself and not be in the catalogue yet, unless for some niches (ancient, mediaeval, modern "special" NCLT's, ...).
- I don't collect ancient or mediaeval coins. I start from around 1600 and that part is already very well covered in our catalogue.
- I haven't added yet my collection of modern "special" NCLT's. In that category I probably have to add a few hundred coins not yet in our catalogue, although this category is being covered more and more also in our catalogue.

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Quote: "Jarcek"​How are you adding them, randomly, or by countries, by different eras or by difficulty of identification?

Continents first, then countries alphabetically. At last, special collections:
The choice of the continents is not randomly, or alphabetically but I started with the easiest ones. So:
- America (North and South) and Oceania are done.
- Africa, working on right now, countries A - G and South Africa are done.
- Next one will be Europe. Not difficult to identify but this collection is immense, that's why it is later on my list.
- Asia, last on the continent list because I'll lose more time with identification with all those special scripts
- Old Europe: countries/states not existing anymore.
- Notgeld (mainly France and German).
- "Special" NCLT's: coloured coins, special shapes, coins with diamonds, crystals, pieces of meteorites, ... In short, coins most of the members don't like

Quote: "Idolenz"​They should look something like THIS
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​Hahaha, not quite. Not all of my coins are so small. Like this one for instance: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces70771.html

@EssorProf
If you have any of those NCLTs from Congo - Republic, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea that aren't already in the catalogue, feel free to drop me a line!

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd met uw milestone. Ik zag het zojuist pas.
Yvon

Thank you very much Yvon.