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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3524129, member: 57463"]See my comments listing just some of the coins priced at a few thousand or a few hundred. </p><p><br /></p><p>As you said, and I do agree, the best advice for anyone from this book is to buy quality. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for those world-famous coins, I have written articles for <i>The Numismatist </i>about famous collections and the owners would have made more money sticking to the day jobs that afforded them the coins in the first place. But even for coins with names, it is not about the money. It is the collector's passion. </p><p><br /></p><p>I found a lot of that in this book. Shippee was a collector long before he took on this challenge. He had completed the US Type Set in 2007 and then made up his mind to pursue a collection that could be sold for a profit in under ten years. </p><p><br /></p><p>Shippee's passion is not my own, but I appreciate his. When I read this, I thought about what it would take to build a resaleable array at our level of income. I believe that it can be done. I just have no interest in it. The thought of looking at coin after coin, hour after hour, day after day, weekends... nights... It left me feeling tired. But people here do just that. It is how they participate in the hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3524129, member: 57463"]See my comments listing just some of the coins priced at a few thousand or a few hundred. As you said, and I do agree, the best advice for anyone from this book is to buy quality. As for those world-famous coins, I have written articles for [I]The Numismatist [/I]about famous collections and the owners would have made more money sticking to the day jobs that afforded them the coins in the first place. But even for coins with names, it is not about the money. It is the collector's passion. I found a lot of that in this book. Shippee was a collector long before he took on this challenge. He had completed the US Type Set in 2007 and then made up his mind to pursue a collection that could be sold for a profit in under ten years. Shippee's passion is not my own, but I appreciate his. When I read this, I thought about what it would take to build a resaleable array at our level of income. I believe that it can be done. I just have no interest in it. The thought of looking at coin after coin, hour after hour, day after day, weekends... nights... It left me feeling tired. But people here do just that. It is how they participate in the hobby.[/QUOTE]
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