Posted 05/11/2019 8:59 pm
Don't worry, there are many more of us that have fallen into a similar hole as you did. My journey started out with the innocent joy of picking up circulated coins. Boy, that sure was fun...for awhile. All of a sudden all I needed to complete my sets were a handful of very expensive 'key dates'.
The trouble was that I acquired a bad habit of satisfying myself by picking up a new coin or two every week or so.
So, being in a bad spot of not having the hundreds of dollars to get the last of the circulated coins I needed, I bought a few proofs. Boy, they were soooooooo shiny; I needed all of them too!
When that got to the point when the last ones of those got too pricy, I decided to get into Canadian coins. Naturally, I went from circulated to proof to specimens to proof-like.
It just doesn't stop!
I should have never got addicted to buying any coins besides the USA circulated. By now, I would have completed all my sets, had an empty credit-card balance, and have a bank account with enough cash in it that I could go somewhere for a nice vacation every year.
Coin collecting; what rubbish!
The trouble was that I acquired a bad habit of satisfying myself by picking up a new coin or two every week or so.
So, being in a bad spot of not having the hundreds of dollars to get the last of the circulated coins I needed, I bought a few proofs. Boy, they were soooooooo shiny; I needed all of them too!
When that got to the point when the last ones of those got too pricy, I decided to get into Canadian coins. Naturally, I went from circulated to proof to specimens to proof-like.
It just doesn't stop!
I should have never got addicted to buying any coins besides the USA circulated. By now, I would have completed all my sets, had an empty credit-card balance, and have a bank account with enough cash in it that I could go somewhere for a nice vacation every year.
Coin collecting; what rubbish!
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