Thinning Out My Coin Collection

In my quest for completeness, I accumulated a large amount of coin albums that I "HAD" to fill.  Not only did I try to fill the labeled holes, but I bought blank Dansco pages to add early proof and the satin mint set coins from 2005 -2010.  My the collection I was building was fairly nice, but I started running into several problems.

The collection was growing too large.  The space required to properly store my coins kept growing.  This included needing to keep purchasing new albums and totes to store them.  Next brings the issue of weight.  Everything was getting too heavy.  It was a chore to even look at my albums.  Pulling out all of my bins and find the albums I was looking for was too much.  I didn't even want to look at the coins anymore.

My Commemorative Silver Dollar Set

With all of the additional finishes of coins coming out, I decided to forgo the madness and stop participating in these releases. I've been down this road years ago when I collected Baseball Cards. Too many versions of the same card to keep up with and the values kept falling because there was a never ending sea of product.
I wanted to take up a new project and since the RP coins are made as collectible version of "circulating" coinage, why not look at a series whose intent was made as just a collectible and not intended as currency. I liked the look of some of the Commemorative Silver dollars and prefer the uncirculated finish to the proofs. Most of the Unc coins have a dramatically lower mintage compared to the proofs so that was the deciding factor.