When it's gone is it really gone?

Thanks, I have a UNC-65 $500 Dollar note 1864 with General "Stonewall" Jackson, that is my fav. note. That was a lot of $ in 1864! Photos 1/2 are Candian obsolete notes, both rare. #3 is a bilateral gynandermorph of a teinopalpus imperial imperial from India. Its half female/ half male/ this is only one known. I sold it 5 years ago for 15K/ bad decision. Could have gotten probably 75K in Japan.
John

 

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..we have that saying here in Missouri, but we end it as, "if it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it!"

 

That's really cool. Sometimes it is a small world. I hope I can keep my coins until I die and then they will pass to someone else.

 

I am hopeing that scientists will find a cure to stop ageing/ even reverse it Immortality would be so nice.....just keep on collecting!

 

i have managed to buy back a few pieces over the years. Typically sold at a time of need. I always feel lucky even just encountering my flip tickets (I make distinctive flips) in display cases out in the "wide world" I've sent many a piece out sporting my handiwork - not necessarily from my collection. When I have both the opportunity and the funds to make it possible, I'll usually go for it.

This Philip III spent a decade "vacationing" with friends before I welcomed it back into the fold a couple years ago.
As for the pieces I sold which I am pretty sure I will never again be able to afford to own even a lower grade specimen of the type - well, I don't like to think about those too much. It is handy, however, to have a reserve of salable material against those inevitable times of need.
I'm sure I have several others - occasionally bought back for less than I sold them for - but I'm not thinking of them offhand. The Philip is memorable for the number of hands it went through before I got it back.

 

Regrets is why I am a hoarder. I haven't looked at my US coins in 20 years, yet they just sit in the bottom of one of the SDBs. I am sure it is a personality flaw, but I would rather not spend as much on my current interests than selling the old interest to free up funds for new purchases. New purchases come from new funds, and just like the Jeff Foxworthy joke about men and underwear, we are making a lifetime commitment when I buy something. Kids can sell them off when I am gone.

To be a little fair to me, my interests change constantly. I go in cycles of about 5 years with ancient chinese coins, I will not care about them at all for 5 years, then that is all I study for the next 6 months. If I sell off everything I don't currently have an interest in, I would be buying back my old coins all of the time.

 

Do you mind sharing an image of your flips? I always like seeing unique styles.

 

My habits never change. As a kid, my favorite car was the 67 Big Block (427-435HP) Corvette, still is today. As a kid I loved gold coins, still do today. Only thing that changed, once I hit 21, I only wanted them in high quality (mintstate) My passion for beautifull coins increases with every year of collecting. So for the others neat things in life....