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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7325795, member: 10461&quot;]My hotel night auditor’s salary is certainly not going to finance any aurei in this lifetime.&nbsp; Really, I <i>should</i> be collecting $25-50 coins, but I’m passionate enough about the hobby to have somewhat more expensive tastes than that.&nbsp; I put pretty much all of my disposable income towards it, without letting other hobbies, or travel, or a better car, etc. intervene.&nbsp; I do have to focus some.</p><p><br /></p><p>I stay down in the 3-figure price range, and <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/174918/coins-european-medieval-to-switzerland-basel-gold-guilder-goldgulden-of-frederick-iii-holy-roman-emperor-ca-1452-1478" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/174918/coins-european-medieval-to-switzerland-basel-gold-guilder-goldgulden-of-frederick-iii-holy-roman-emperor-ca-1452-1478" rel="nofollow">the most expensive coin I presently own</a> cost me slightly less than $700.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do like to think that my collection “punches above its weight class”, to use a boxing metaphor.&nbsp; “Bang for the buck” has always been important to me, particularly since my supply of bucks is so limited.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did have the opportunity to buy a Nero aureus in the late 1990s, for $900-something, but I passed, because that would have been (and still would be) an enormous outlay for me.&nbsp; That sounds like a good price, but who knows.&nbsp; This was in my pre-internet era mail-order days- and <i>sight-unseen</i> mailorder at that.&nbsp; Remember the bad old days of sight-unseen mailorder?&nbsp; Haha.&nbsp; I sure do- and not too fondly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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