Do You Care What Your Coins Are Worth?

I keep track of it on a spreadsheet, but I don't update it very often and it's not really all that big a deal for me beyond wanting to have a value for future heirs, etc.

Completely agree with edweather. I try to buy at a good price - that's really all you can do. When selling you will want to sell at a good price too - but as I don't sell many that's not a consideration at present.

Generally I don't really care one way or the other. I have all the confidence in my due diligence at the time of purchase and know that I got best price at the time. I have a handful of coins that were mis-labeled or overlooked at auction and I either recognized the variety or the value that other bidders missed, that I got for a steal. I check on these one in a while, just to "pat myself on the back"

I do keep track of my active sets. You have to know the value of these at all times to effectively add to them. Other than that, I don't really care what the rest of it is worth.

I only really care when I buying to make sure I get a fair price. After that I just figure it would be hard to go underwater on it and it doesn't matter.

I have separate excel spreadsheets for my raw and graded coins which are updated with every new purchase. The primary reason is twofold, in case something happens to me my relatives will know what the coins are worth so they will be less likely to be taken advantage of if the try to sell them. The other reason is in case of loss, be it disaster or theft. Otherwise I do not think about their value much at all.

I do not. There are a couple of extra-valuable coins which I acquired serendipitously for nowhere near their market value that I occasionally look up to see how they're doing, since they're the ones that will probably "go first" if some kind of family or personal emergency forced me to sell some coins for quick cash.

I used to look up what the catalogue value of my newly bought coins were, after I bought them, to find out if I "got a good deal" or not. But I don't usually bother doing that any more.

I'll even admit to not doing anything in the way of research before I buy, though I'll often have a reasonable "ball park" idea. Pretty much all my coin buying is from coin shows and brick-and-mortar coin shops, and my buying strategy mainly consists of looking through a dealer's stock and saying "Oooh, I don't have one of those yet", so I rarely go shopping for coins with a wantlist. If I want to buy a coin I see for sale and I can afford it, I'll buy it, without really caring what "the market" says I should be paying. Right there and then, I am the market, and for the kinds of coins I'm interested in paying big money for (ancients, mediaevals and obscure world stuff), I'm not likely to be able to shop around and buy a similar one elsewhere. So it's either pay what the dealer is asking, or go without.

Do I sometimes get taken for a ride by the dealers that way? Sure. Do I really care? No.

I have no idea what my coins are worth and could care less. No one to leave it all to so makes little difference how much they are worth. I never sell coins, although I've given many away. Makes no difference what any of them are worth. Used to way, way back when I was a kid but now, doesn't make any difference. That is one thing I can say makes me happy about my hobbies. Regardless of what they are, how many I have, what they may be worth, unless selling them, just makes no difference.