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Posted 04/07/2018 2:29 pm
Lots of interesting viewpoints!
I set aside my childhood collection (in which I am pretty sure I never paid more than $20 for a coin ... that goes back to, say, the mid 1970s) when I went to college, and got seduced anew by coins when I was in my 40s, with (fortunately) a different level of means.
I'd have to answer the question like a few other posters who considered thresholds like $500. In the 20 years that I've been collecting as an adult, I've bought maybe 10 coins which have taken me over that threshold. I have bid on (and not succeeded) on a few more.
So, that's an amount that really makes me think about how much I want the coin.
Like others, I have a few holes in my collection that are likely to take me beyond what I've ever spent, if I ever decide to fill them (a coin from the reign of Wladyslaw IV of Poland for example).
Through work, I am also exposed to the world of fine wine, and I sometimes wonder about how winelovers make similar decisions. I have a hard time imagining plopping down $50 or $100 on a routine basis for something that just goes in one end and out the other. But I guess that's what makes the world go 'round!
I set aside my childhood collection (in which I am pretty sure I never paid more than $20 for a coin ... that goes back to, say, the mid 1970s) when I went to college, and got seduced anew by coins when I was in my 40s, with (fortunately) a different level of means.
I'd have to answer the question like a few other posters who considered thresholds like $500. In the 20 years that I've been collecting as an adult, I've bought maybe 10 coins which have taken me over that threshold. I have bid on (and not succeeded) on a few more.
So, that's an amount that really makes me think about how much I want the coin.
Like others, I have a few holes in my collection that are likely to take me beyond what I've ever spent, if I ever decide to fill them (a coin from the reign of Wladyslaw IV of Poland for example).
Through work, I am also exposed to the world of fine wine, and I sometimes wonder about how winelovers make similar decisions. I have a hard time imagining plopping down $50 or $100 on a routine basis for something that just goes in one end and out the other. But I guess that's what makes the world go 'round!
