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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2018295, member: 19463&quot;]I really wish more of us could agree that coin collecting does not have to be a competitive sport.&nbsp; For that matter, I wish more of us could agree that <u>life</u> does not have to be a competitive sport.&nbsp; Maybe we could have fewer wars, fewer starving masses nd few people who feel the need for private bodyguards for good reason.&nbsp; Most of that last sentence is out of place here but the part on coin collecting is very much on topic.&nbsp; Instead of comparing your miserable losers to my corroded abominations lets try to see who can enjoy what it is we are here to do.&nbsp; If the fun you get out of collecting coins is having a better collection than someone else, please do not visit the British Museum.&nbsp; The Queen wins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Did I mention a conversation I had at a show with a dealer who is considerably older than I am?&nbsp; I asked how long he intended to keep doing these shows.&nbsp; His answer was, &quot;As long as I enjoy it.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; His sales at the show were not on the level of NFA&#039;s last auction (or, for that matter, big houses still in business) but I don&#039;t see him getting morose about it.&nbsp; This is less a problem considering that most of us on CT don&#039;t remember who NFA was and why I mention them now.&nbsp; The catalogs are worth seeing.&nbsp; I have most of them and enjoy greatly the few coins I won from them.</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; scroll to NFA, halfway down the page </p><p><br /></p><p>Before you buy the following book new, notice there are several 1 cent + post used copies. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fun-While-Lasted-Rise-Fortune/dp/0786868643" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Fun-While-Lasted-Rise-Fortune/dp/0786868643" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Fun-While-Lasted-Rise-Fortune/dp/0786868643</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The link below dates to 1993 which is long enough ago to be humorous when it predicts the end of the coin market ... &quot;tomorrow&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/millionaires-coin-sale-unsettles-money-market-a-huge-investment-collection-goes-to-sothebys-tomorrow-its-sale-could-undermine-world-prices-geraldine-norman-reports-1509860.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/millionaires-coin-sale-unsettles-money-market-a-huge-investment-collection-goes-to-sothebys-tomorrow-its-sale-could-undermine-world-prices-geraldine-norman-reports-1509860.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/millionaires-coin-sale-unsettles-money-market-a-huge-investment-collection-goes-to-sothebys-tomorrow-its-sale-could-undermine-world-prices-geraldine-norman-reports-1509860.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is not always a matter of &quot;how much&quot; so much as &quot;how&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Conversely, lets not have an ugly dog battle.&nbsp; You&#039;d lose.&nbsp; Come to think of it, I&#039;d lose, too, after all we have a couple people here who collect Dark Ages and Central Asian.&nbsp; Them dogz iz uuugly!&nbsp; (No offense, you know who you are!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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