So now I know what John Lennon was singing about in his song Cold Turkey..... Current economic conditions have business at a crawl and I have put myself on a coin diet..... Gawd this hurts..... So I need the community to post photo's of your most spectacular coins. Maybe photos will ease the pain of withdrawal.
I hear you sir. I went a couple of months without something coming in, (wife has mother here and spending money like its hot), so I passed on some auctions for a while. Now, I have bought some thing but from Europe so waiting for the coins to show up. Here is a Trajan sestertius on my office chair arm.
That's a mighty big "maybe" buddy ! My guess would be there's a higher probability seeing all those coins you'd like will only make things worse
Btw, are you like me and leave around bags and boxes of coins lying around? That is what I do when no stuff coming in, dig around stuff I bought years ago. I could go to SDB and visit coins I haven't seen in decades or more, but I admit usually am too lazy to bother. I do think my SDBs drive me buying more coins, I do not see all I already own so I buy new ones so I can play with coins. Here is one with Jason cutting off Medusa's head for you man:
I've put coins to the side for now...working on a Mardi Gras Doubloon sub-collection though (aluminum is much cheaper!).
Be careful, it can be fun and depressing. Once I was putting away a nice pillar dollar, because I thought "hey, I always wanted to own a nice pillar dollar". I found 4 others already in the SDB. At least it was jarring enough I now know I DO own at least one nice pillar dollar. Still didn't stop me though, I have bought 4 more since just because.
I went through the very same thing with 1853 A&R halves. I too have four of them. Possibly more... And discovered that after I posted here a few months back asking for help locating a really nice one.... Perhaps I should dig out the old stuff and see.
Boy that "just because" part makes me feel so much better Ya see, I always had to have a valid reason to justify buying another coin - it had to be a day that a Y in it
My main reason is always........coins. I guess I forgot about a group I bought Saturday. Baggy of ancients, at least half just junk. Decent Macedonian tet under the Romans, ok Postumus double sestertius, nothing I really collect but.. COINS!
Here is one of my favorites and one that is quite unique. This is a 2011 ASE DDO from the 2011 Anniversary Set. It is not very popular but I found 2 of them in me accumulation.
Talking about John Lennon, I mentioned earlier today that there are 5 Beetles on the cover of Abby Lane.