Posted 02/17/2005 11:14 am
Maybe you should stop thinking about what to buy, and just enjoy the thrill of the hunt. When a collector tells me that they are interested in completing a series, I ask about upgrades? All do this or expect to. Here is the best advice that I can give.
THE POINT OF A JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE.
Buy coins that appeal to you for whatever reason that may be. I hear too often " I am selling off my duplicates". What duplicates? No two coins are alike. Buy coins that call out to you. Susan recently showed us a Three Cent Silver coin that by her own admission she paid too much for. Yet this coin for its "study" time is priceless. I have bought and sold coins with populations in the single digits, and some of the finest coins in the country, yet in 2004, I spent more time studying an 1846 AU Large Cent than any of them. (Many may remember this coin from the last board). This coin is still in my posession today, simply because I am still not satisfied in the diagnostic agreements of the experts in the field.
Coins can touch us in a special way. Coins are more than their simple purchasing power, or the value assigned to them. When I look back, it was a very worn Two Cent coin that brought me to the place that I am today.
Each person must collect what appeals to them if they are to enjoy the hobby. Don't let anyone or anything dictate what your collection becomes. It is your expression of yourself.
THE POINT OF A JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE.
Buy coins that appeal to you for whatever reason that may be. I hear too often " I am selling off my duplicates". What duplicates? No two coins are alike. Buy coins that call out to you. Susan recently showed us a Three Cent Silver coin that by her own admission she paid too much for. Yet this coin for its "study" time is priceless. I have bought and sold coins with populations in the single digits, and some of the finest coins in the country, yet in 2004, I spent more time studying an 1846 AU Large Cent than any of them. (Many may remember this coin from the last board). This coin is still in my posession today, simply because I am still not satisfied in the diagnostic agreements of the experts in the field.
Coins can touch us in a special way. Coins are more than their simple purchasing power, or the value assigned to them. When I look back, it was a very worn Two Cent coin that brought me to the place that I am today.
Each person must collect what appeals to them if they are to enjoy the hobby. Don't let anyone or anything dictate what your collection becomes. It is your expression of yourself.
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