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jbuck Moderator United States 188770 Posts	Posted 01/26/2015 10:42 am My vote... It's equally fun to collect expensive coins and cheap coins. Quote: For me coins are a hobby. I enjoy getting them regardless of cost, value, quantity, availability, or anything else. I just collect coins. Agreed. Quote: The cost is more of a stress than an excitement. Truth. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
DKA-Numis Valued Member United States 136 Posts	Posted 01/27/2015 4:57 pm I do both. I love going through junk boxes to see what I can find. It is the thrill of the hunt for me. If I come across some banged up coin that I can't readily identify and it is cheap, I will pick it up and do the research to figure out what it is. A lot of the things in my collection were acquired because I wasn't sure what they were at the time. Some have been great and some have been awful, but it was fun to figure out. On the other hand, I wanted to get a Fugio Cent, and a nice one of those is not cheap... Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 01/27/2015 5:39 pm I would have to say cheap coins. There are just so dang many of them. You always have something to search for and your search gets rewarded on a regular basis. I have my "expensive" coin sets as well and I love them to death, but when you are to the point where you can maybe buy one coin very three or four years sure it's a thrill, but I get a thrill all the time from my cheap coins. Feeling down, go search for some cheap coins, find some, and get picked up. Or go look for some expensive coins, and either find nothing or something you could get once you save for it for a couple years. Hmm felling lower than I was when I started. (Finding something and not being able to get it just doesn't help all that much. That reminds me, ther was a rare piece on Ma Shops that I've had my eye on. I can afford it now I think I'll go see if it is still available. Report this Post to the Staff
Harmonica Pillar of the Community Canada 1118 Posts	Posted 01/27/2015 6:45 pm If you really want to get a blast out of numismatics cultivate cheap tastes and try to tell a story. Old bridge tokens from New England can be found in junk bins and when you get them all together put them in a binder with postcards featuring the bridges in question. Cheap, tells a story and is visually pleasing, maybe more so then a bunch of Wheaties in 2x2s. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 01/27/2015 6:53 pm Quote: Cheap, tells a story and is visually pleasing, maybe more so then a bunch of Wheaties in 2x2s. Careful, those are fighting words!! Our American friends do love their Wheaties... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
scottk Pillar of the Community United States 767 Posts	Posted 01/27/2015 11:05 pm Quote: That reminds me, ther was a rare piece on Ma Shops that I've had my eye on. I can afford it now I think I'll go see if it is still available. Well Condor, did you get it? What was it? Report this Post to the Staff
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