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Ætheling, so whats wrong with "beautifully toned", "TPG's slabbed" commemoratives? LOL.....Mike

P.S.crystalk, welcome "Home" Mike

Ah I see... i'll state now that I play Devil's advocate alot and I'm a Harry opposite.

Whatever someone says, I do different! :D

(Okay i'll admit it, I just like the attention!) Wuhaha...

Ah but is that the opposite of the stated or the opposite of the inferred? ;-)

Well I do believe I've just gone for the 'third opposite'

Ætheling, then I restate and infer that you don't give me a Million Dollars and "get lost"! Mike

......no, I did not discover that. I copied and pasted it!

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Originally posted by crystalk64
Guess I have my hand in to many fires to spend that much time on any specific coin but my goal is to always be able to say, regardless of the coin, "I owned one of them" or more perferably, "I HAVE ONE OF THEM"!!!

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My philosophy entirely. As some might know I don't tend to hold onto coins for more than two years generally.

Many times people come up and say "you sold that Gothic Florin, why?" where I reply well you know, thrill of the hunt and all. The best part of buying coins is searching for one and the zenith of glory is handing over the money and knowing you've captured it. After that my interest wanes and decends (sure I enjoy looking after the coin and learning about it) until a point in the future where I only see the coin as a means to an end of buying the next one on my hit list.

I never could afford all the coins I've ever wanted at the same time, thus I've decided to own them all but in series, one after another! It's working so far, no profit whatsoever in this approach, in fact you lose quite a bit along the way. But who cares as long as you're having fun.

To me coin collecting's alot like saving up for an holiday to say Egypt. You'll spend a ton of cash just to go there for two weeks, doesn't mean the money's wasted though does it? You've been there, experienced it, bought the T-shirt and got some great memories along the way... so where to next?

Ætheling
I got a Belgian computer input board Æ
and am amazed that alt 146 gives indeed the famous sign Æ
for this system is configured to be able to write flemish and french with all the accents included
I have no coin that survived my first two waves of sell offs
I try to tell myself I am an investor not a collector
( lies people can tell to themselves )

I have coins lying around which I do not consider part of my coins
Like twelve 35 year old copper pennies I put in library closet with windowsdoors ( without that they would have been cleaned away by the dusting and cleaning fairies )
Also an asorted lot of well circulated 20, 50, 100 silver frank pieces the oldest probably the atomium from 1958 Universal Exposition in Belgium and a few 500 franc coins I thought silver at the time but now turn out to be mostly nickel

Then of course since I dabbled in close up magic I have
A magnetic penny
A half crown and penny one one coin
The disappearing penny
The pennies in the okito box that will penetrate a table etc
Oh and I nearly forgot the penny you can get in and out of a bottle