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A few years ago I used to drink Starbucks at least once or twice a day. I calculated the cost and I was spending $2000-$3000 on coffee, which was crazy. So I ended up buying a commercial espresso maker  And started making my own espresso drinks.  |
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I took bucks I was paying for starbucks and started buying Mercury dimes. Over time I had enough to put an album together and while a few cost more than $10, the vast majority were under $10. And for a while I left the set alone as done, but recently my coin dealer called me to tell me he had a large "junk silver" purchase and it included a lot of Mercury dimes with a few nicer than average but not nice enough to put in flips, if I wanted to look through them I had first crack. So I did and picked up a few nicer ones which caused a revisit of my set of Mercury dimes. Since I still don't go to Starbucks the money I am not spending I usually allocate to coins or bullion. So again, I was able to update a set I started because I stopped drinking Starbucks.  Edited by hfjacinto
07/15/2022 12:20 pm
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And the 2 slabbed IHC I currently have, this was the first slabbed coin I ever purchased.   This was a recent pick up my wife got me while we were in California.   |
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The morale of this post is that Star Bucks Bucks can be used to get silver. And silver is good and last longer than Star Bucks  |
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I'm proud to say I've never even been in a Starbucks.  |
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Quote: And Mercury dimes taste better than Starbucks. I haven't eaten Mercury dimes yet but they are probably more filling than Starbucks and after a thorough cleaning are as good as new oh |
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Lol, that's a lot of dough! I'm probably in the minority, but I've never spent a nickel on a Starbucks coffee. Congrats on kicking the Starbucks habit, I hate their politics! Congrats on your set, lots of fond memories filling my mercury set with my grandmother 50 years back.
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I enjoy hearing stories of creative ways to find money to collect coins. Some say they don't have enough money to collect coins, I say they aren't creative enough to collect coins. Well done, and you have a fantastic story to share with the dimes. Thank you for sharing!
I haven't purchased anything at starbucks, but I've ordered countless free waters. Their water is really good.
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You're like the David Bach of coin collecting. Congratulations on your ingenuity.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Now if I can just kick McDonalds!
In all seriousness, good on you .
An excellent example of frivolous spending
turned into a positive outcome.
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That's one of the best titles for a post I've ever read here! |
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That's a really nice set.Im missing the 16-D to complete mine though.Yours looks great,where did you find it?At a coin store or on-line?
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Posted 07/15/2022 12:13 pm
