Let's Say You Had A Choice......what Would You Do?

I do not desire just one particular coin, so I would get bullion just so I could sell/trade it for all of the coins that I need to fill my remaining Dansco holes.

I learned about this on 1980 when the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market. You buy and sell bullion but you buy and hold rare coins. Don't get attached to bullion. Dump it often when the market is up. Buy it back when the market is down. But some really great coins come along once in a lifetime. I mean not just rare and interesting coins but at the right price, that you know will go up multiples in value and always be in demand. Buying those should be a no brainer. If you wait the opportunity to get in right is gone. Only one to a customer and if you don't jump the next guy will. So do you want growth at little risk or liquidity with little growth?

Assuming I could pick My personal dream coin I'd have to go with the coin (1862 British Columbia $20 gold price, or 1870 Newfoundland bronze trial half dollar if You were wondering).

I was never a bullion man , always a coin collector . all the silver I own are in sets and most have Numismatic value well and above melt 10 fold or more . So I will take a coin .

Bullion is boring IMO. Coins are interesting, have a history and story to each one of them. I'll take the coin. Dunno which one, but it would be a coin. Maybe an 1856 Flying Eagle in MS70? I'd still have lots left over to buy others, but that would probably be the coin I start with,

Well I collect bullion coins and do not find it "boring" at all.
Perhaps generic bullion rounds are but not the coins.

And, since I already own a bullion collection I would most likely but a coin.

1856 FE or a 1916 SLQ or something of that nature.

1894S Liberty Head Dime in MS-65 minimum grade.

(minus the Dansco part, don't do those yet).

I understand, and mostly agree with, your idea (though I don't have that well-developed want lists).

In my particular case, the most likely candidate for "that one coin I kind of want but really cannot afford" is probably the 1724 copper kopek, which I theoretically need for my kopek type set (I used to dismiss it as a pattern, but apparently it isn't). Apparently a low-grade example sold for $600 a few months ago...

I don't have anywhere near as much of a Roman coin collection as you do, but otherwise I essentially agree with you (though I would have probably tried to go for a reasonably full emperor set, maybe with a segue into Byzantines, rather than just that one Eid Mar).

This would require following jbuck's suggestion, however.


And unrelatedly - my first thought was "$10M in silver bullion might not fit in my apartment!"
Apparently, it would actually fit - even accounting for packing, it's only 3 cubic meters or so, i.e. it would take up less space than my double-decker bed - but it would definitely break the floor.

($10M in gold bullion, at modern prices, would not even break the floor - it's only around 200 kg. Which is far less than I expected, by the way.)