I suffered from a "broken heart" when I glanzed thru my CNG review. They had a perfect quality Clodius Albinus Aureus for sale P.O.R. which means poor sobs like me might as well "dream on". Should have studied law, and made the big bucks!
Speaking for myself and for others who may have poured a decade or more into higher education in order to have careers in which they serve society, along with enormous resulting debt and delay of real income and savings compared to peers, and who now hold purportedly "prestigious" careers yet make a fraction of what you make trimming hedges, I find it very hard not to roll my eyes when you repeatedly post such comments, Panzer"FDC-only"man. (Yeah, I went there )
Wow, you went there all in one sentence TIF. Impressive! I want to see a photo of the perfect quality Clodius Albinus Aureus.
Wow, I've been on both sides of the track. I decided the military life wasn't for me after 9 yrs of service. I dropped out of college with less than a year in. It's not the education or lack there of that decides your life. It's you and the choices you make during the journey. I like many or most people made some very poor and some good decisions. No one is to blame but me myself. I later in life landed a decent job I mostly enjoy. I went to school to be a lawyer, 29 or so years later I build airplanes. Panzerman you are able to buy some damn nice coins. Most I'll never be able to get. My family comes first above all else. Thats the choice I made which keeps me on a coin buying budget. You of almost all people from what I've seen have no room to complain. I'm actually quite envious of your collection.
I suppose the takeaway is that, regardless of your budget, there will always be coins outside of your reach. I've set realistic goals for my collection and avoid getting into emotional bidding wars (especially against Texas oil billionaires, as I found out after the sales in New York). If you want to be truly envious, take a look at what the British Museum or other large, public collections have in their vaults. We are mere mortals and caretakers of coins for our brief lifespans, able to accomplish only so much.
Sounds as if there are some war stories to share about bidding against those Texas oil billionaires...?
The point here is whatever your position you have to decide whether you want to enjoy what you can have or bemoan what you can not.
Yah => Mentor always says it best ... Hmmm, although Marsha always gets all of the praise!! => you guys are all pretty cool (great bunch of coiners)
Or obtaining better examples of coins they do have. My own collecting goal is--in part--to assemble coin for coin a higher quality collection of RR silver than is found in the British Museum or anywhere else.
My goal is to build a small, but high quality collection of diverse Worldwide coinage in gold/silver/platinum. I do not collect anything past 1980, since most post 1980 coins are boring.... One of my endeavours is to obtain the complete 1974-79 Worldwildlife Conservation coin series/ 24 Countries each minted 2 silver crown sized coins/ plus a crown sized gold piece. I really like wildlife themes on coins. Here are two I have ...
Good point. I have warmed to the idea that we only borrow our coins for a while. I am still working on how to summarize my collection.
My goal is to merely collect coins that absolutely rock and that I can afford and that soothe my need to collect ... Hey, I'm not a Rockefeller, so I don't pretend to be one (coins are merely a fun hobby for me => not a break-neck death-ride into debt!) ... gawd, I must always try to remember that!
If I buy coins that I enjoy and that teach me something (and perhaps can be used from time to time to teach someone else something) then I have achieved all I set out to do and more. I can remember when I was young and first became aware that ancient coins existed thinking "one day I would like to have just one coin from ancient Rome," today I have hundreds. Life is good!
