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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3700171, member: 96864&quot;]Definitely! People who are more comfortable buying from dealers at retail will almost invariably lose money when it&#039;s time to sell. Those dealers obviously obtain their inventory at a lower price than they offer it for, so if your pockets aren&#039;t bottomless and you love the thrill of the hunt then it may be rewarding to spend the time searching for the same sort of deals those retailers search for.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From what I can tell, it&#039;s a rock-solid fact that you&#039;d realize appreciably more than you&#039;ve got tied up in the coins. It&#039;s a common-sense and shrewd approach to collecting in my eyes. Clearly you&#039;re also a hobby dealer and approach matters differently than those who are only &quot;coin&quot;sumers, and it seems like quite a viable general strategy unless one is a highly specialized collector.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Unstated but implied was a hypothetical situation where some horrible (or extraordinary) exigency trumps the emotional attachment and forces sale. There&#039;s absolutely no way that I&#039;d be able to wake up one day and randomly decide to sell everything. I plan to be buried with the bottom Roman Plumbata dart tip in my avatar pic clutched in my right hand for example. It&#039;ll be worth way more to me in the afterlife than it would be to anyone alive anyway. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So to be clear, you don&#039;t agree with the goal of paying below retail for items in one&#039;s collection? You don&#039;t agree that one should try to have a collection worth the same or more than one paid in the event that if disaster forced you to liquidate you&#039;d match or exceed the performance of that money if it had been in a savings account instead? Seems rather silly TBH.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of a handful of illustrative examples from the past 2 weeks (good deals have been flowing lately):</p><p><br /></p><p>I got this lovely obol of Phlious in Phliasia, Peloponnesus for 43.76 shipped. Phlious was an obscure polis that I am extremely interested in and specifically collect (message me if any of you&#039;ve got Phlious coins to sell!). This particular type of their silver fractions seems to be the most common, so I knew I could wait until the right one at the right price came along. This was that one. As expected it is indeed much better in-hand than shown in the seller&#039;s terrible pics I cropped down here:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]991507[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]991508[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose you disagree with the &lt;44.00 purchase, and instead think I should have &quot;invested&quot; 155.00 + shipping (a fair retail price) on this lower-grade VCoins example (much nicer photos though, maybe that&#039;s what the extra 110+ pays for?):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]991521[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand that it isn&#039;t a 4+ figure &quot;investment grade&quot; coin, but prefer to think that by making purchases like this my collection(s) will always be worth more than I paid, which is pure gravy on top of the considerable daily pleasure and enjoyment that collecting, researching and learning brings into all of our lives.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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