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Valued Member
United States
126 Posts |
Although I just recently started collecting, I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my grandfather some decades ago and watching as he cleaned his silver coin collection with Tarn-X and a Brillo pad. Can't recall the coins, but I do recall the smell! You know what, those coins were super shiny afterwards.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2850 Posts |
I bought junky low quality stuff. It's hard to buy quality over quantity when you just begin collecting.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5828 Posts |
 I picked up tons of low end "junk". I'm never going to sell it either, because its not worth enough! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3789 Posts |
hmmmm..
buying slabbed bullion silver coins..... that would end up getting milk spots :/
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
I didn't buy the rarer stuff years ago when they were cheaper.
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Valued Member
United States
57 Posts |
I'm still a relatively new coin collector, but this applies to all things I collect (military, stamps, coins, paper currency, old books, general antiques. Geez I should condense my interests). My biggest regret is buying from major dealers at flea markets instead of searching for real bargains from people who don't know what they have.
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Valued Member
United States
126 Posts |
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I didn't buy the rarer stuff years ago when they were cheaper. That reminded me a bit of a lyric from a 70s song, Carly Simon I think - "these are the good old days." |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5828 Posts |
Oh! I remember something now! I used to always think it was "V.B.D." on the Lincoln Cent instead of "V.D.B."... That was like a year and a half ago now though, lol. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
982 Posts |
I seem to have a skewered sense of value when it comes to looking at the same types of coins or tokens on the Internet ( ebay) or in person (at a coin show). I will walk away from a dealer at a coin show when I believe he has priced a coin too high, but will turn around and pay more for the same coin on ebay. I do not understand this aberration, because it makes no logical sense to me. One would think the opposite would be true, because I can actually hold the item in my hand at a coin show, rather than trust the images in an ebay auction. I'm curious whether anyone else has experienced this bizarre phenomenon.  |
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 United States
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I didn't buy the rarer stuff years ago when they were cheaper. Yeah. Only problem is that I did not have the income them. Seems like coin prices fluctuate with my pay grade.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
I used brasso once on some pennies. I was about 10 at the time...
I learned my lesson though.
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Valued Member
United States
70 Posts |
Im still a noob, but I bought a bunch of common date graded coins when I should have gotten semi and key dates.
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Valued Member
United States
467 Posts |
my biggest mistake (and sometimes I still make this one) is to not understand my collecting goals and be committed to them.
An example is with modern commemorative coins. I had no collecting theme settled in my mind and I did not know if I wanted to collect $1 or half dollars, if I wanted OGP or to put in an album or if I wanted certified.
So I ended up with some of each, which was a major waste of money and time.
Eventually I decided I wanted OGP for the whole series..after I had too many other mixed up items.
Just one example, but always the same idea...I have learned to know what my end game desire is before I jump in and start buying.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
Not buying Conder tokens back when I started collecting because I couldn't locate or afford the book.
Back then MS tokens were $2 apiece but the book, which was almost unobtainable, was well over $100. Well out of reach for an 11 year old. Today the book is still $125 and a little easier to get, but the common tokens in MS cost $150 - $200 each. I have over 1,000 tokens today, but no telling how many I would have today if I had started 25 years earlier.
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Valued Member
South Africa
331 Posts |
Shined a coin using brass, man it shined! !!
I have a 1963 crown 50%
Silver which I shine, usually due to stress but it is the only one I clean.
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