If I Can Only Go Back To A Newbie

My only regret that I stopped for 15 years. Most of it was just from it being hard to find coins. That being said I have two clearly defined collections but I did borrow from my childhood type collection to fill some of my 7070.

I guess my other regret was avoiding some US coins due to being silver and making them more expensive. This was when I was able to get a cull morgan for $6 :(. On the upside I missed the flip up in silver prices that would had made it difficult to collect anyways in college.

I regret nothing. Every mistake is an opportunity to learn something.

I'm only three months in! That being said, I've already made a couple mistakes overpaying for lower quality coins. However, that's about all I can afford now. Perhaps that's why most beginners, as I've learned from this thread, focus on quantity over quality. Getting a load of AG's for the price of one MS seems to be a good deal if you're just starting a collection like I am. Then again, like I said, I'm only three months in and still have a lot to learn. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I am still a new collector, but recognize the common demand on quality coins, and have shifted my interests in that direction. I do think that it is helpful to a new collector to buy quantity. It can be helpful to be taught the lessons of not overpaying and the value of research. By owning examples of many of the different designs and denominations, it also helped me to find out what I ultimately wanted to collect.

My biggest regret is not keeping record of the coins I have acquired. Wish I had kept track of all of my purchase prices and dates at the very least. Nice to know exactly where they came from as well. A close second regret is not taking pics of the coins as I received them. It takes forever trying to photograph an entire set, obverse and reverse.

I guess my major flaw was starting either too early, or too late. I got talked into the hobby about 5 years ago when silver was quite high. I spent double what they would cost me today. :(

I am still a newbie and think I may have to start over anyway. I have become interested in several things, really just too many options out there. But I think I have narrowed down to a few items and even within those it seems difficult. The Peace dollar set seems like a nice set, somewhat small, silver and available. But then I started with getting MS63's and of course in the non keys those are affordable but in the keys that is not the case and sometimes even the AU58's look better to me so should I refocus on a set of AU's.

Yea , most newbies fall into that e-bay trap. The only way to get out of it
is to get burnt a couple of times. then you will learn fast of what to
stay away from. some sellers will word their listings that prey on newbies
to BIN or BID on their inferior coins. however e-bay recently made these sellers change some of their wording so it wouldn't look like they (SELLERS)
are trying to pull the wool over buyers eyes. still proceed with CAUTION !