It's A Wrap. Thank You.

In your short time here you have already contributed a lot. Best of luck selling your collection. Hope you'll consider stopping by the forum time to time, maybe one day you will get back into the hobby. Take care!

Ok.

I really hate seeing people leave the hobby.

But that is life I suppose.

You are always welcome here, whether you are collecting or not.

I wish you good luck on your future endeavours.

If you ever want to get baited back into coins, I have a plastic Elvis guitar / coin bank to tempt you with . . . .


Best of luck though.

Many of us will be here if and when you return!

Don't take any wooden nickels.....

There is one big benefit that coin collecting has over many other collecting hobbies. You can buy coins that have been graded and authenticated by recognized experts. In many other areas of collecting the fakes far out number the real items. If you just watch "Pawn Stars" at the amount of fake sports collectables. All the items with signatures that were made by secretaries and turn out to be worthless. Documents of authenticity pasted onto many items are themselves faked. I was in antique business for a short while back around 2003 and I saw so many replicas and fakes of everything from watches, lamps, valuable stones, books ....you name it. China has fake large scale industry just with pottery it is amazing. They will fake anything including Tiffany lamps and cookie jars as long as they can make a buck. I know the Chinese are faking coins but so far they are easy to detect. I know that lab grown precious stones have become so good that they are indistinguishable from real stones except for tiny marks made by those cutting real stones. If you get a great deal on a ruby, diamond or emerald you better be careful because chances are it is fake.

Combine the two? from this thread https://goccf.com/t/247655