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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7324973, member: 110350&quot;]It really depends on your priorities and collecting goals. I&#039;m sure that there are many collectors of ancient coins here with annual incomes/net worth far, far less than $200K/$1M, who spend at least $4-5,000 per year buying coins. Like yours truly, as one example! In other words, less than what many people with modest incomes and net worth spend on vacations and automobiles and house renovations and who knows what else. And are perfectly capable of doing so without putting themselves at risk financially.&nbsp; If they&#039;d rather buy one aureus per year instead of 50 coins per year at about $100 apiece, what difference does it make? In ten years, they could have a nice little collection of Roman aurei.&nbsp; I certainly could have bought a number of aurei in the last few years for the exact same total expenditure I&#039;ve spent on &quot;lesser&quot; coins.&nbsp; And I suspect that my collection, although much smaller, would be more valuable.&nbsp; But I&#039;ve chosen not to. (I do sometimes reminisce fondly about the days back in the mid-1980s when I was in my late 20s and single and had no children and was paying a comparatively modest rent for my Upper East Side NYC apartment -- in other words, a Yuppie! -- and could, and did, buy 17th-18th century British gold guineas for a few hundred dollars each, at a time when I was probably making about $50K annually. Others I knew spent their disposable income on cocaine; I spent it on nerdy things like old books and coins and antiquities!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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