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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1816262, member: 19463&quot;]My top end coin was $535 in 1995 (from CNG) and did not make the cut when I worked up my list of my favorite 100 coins.&nbsp; Included in the list is one coin that cost $6 although I have to admit that it might have been worth more than&nbsp; even on the day I bought it.&nbsp; Go figure.&nbsp;&nbsp; The price of a coin is related to the opinions of a bunch of people I do not know so I prefer to buy coins I find interesting rather than coins.&nbsp; Certainly I would love to have an EF aureus or twenty but I am able to enjoy at least equally coins that have interest other than their price tag.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When it comes to buying coins I use money I do not plan on needing or ever again seeing.&nbsp; This is the same money that I use when I splurge for a meal at a restaurant or to see a movie with my grandson in a theater.&nbsp; (IMHO, Free Birds was a turkey.)&nbsp; I doubt that our aureus buying members shop at Goodwill or eat at Taco Bell but there is no reason I can not enjoy the hobby as I have for these last fifty years.&nbsp; I do not suggest anyone use the kids&#039; college fund or (heaven forbid) borrowed money to buy expensive coins when their income matches mine.&nbsp; I&#039;m told that the money I have spent on coins is wasted because I&#039;ll not be able to sell the junk for what I paid while I could easily sell a single Ides&nbsp; of March that cost the same as my whole collection.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll not plan on finding out.&nbsp; When I am done with them, the coins will go to someone who might appreciate them, the clothes will go back to Goodwill and we won&#039;t discuss what happens to that last meal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Love your coins for what they are, not what they are worth.&quot;&nbsp; Frank Robinson</p><p><br /></p><p>Pertinax $535 (inc. fees and postage) CNG 35 lot 843 - 1995</p><p>[ATTACH=full]297446[/ATTACH] </p><p>Anonymous Pagan $6 Windsor Coins junk box (Baltimore show) - 2000</p><p>[ATTACH=full]297447[/ATTACH] </p><p>I have a few cheaper but they missed the top 100 just like that Pertinax did.&nbsp; Like Bing, my average coin purchase in the last year works out to about $50 per.&nbsp; The 2013 range is $7 to $400 but I am rarely finding those worthwhile under $10 coins anymore.&nbsp; That is because Steve and the rest of you are paying too much for coins I like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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