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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevereecy, post: 4797276, member: 19884&quot;]Hey all,</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the responses.&nbsp; With my love of coins rekindled, I&#039;m going to try to get the rest of the way to a full box before my attention gets diverted into something else.&nbsp; I might cheat a little and finally slab some of the things that I&#039;ve been meaning to slab. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was interesting to see the &quot;not for me&quot; replies to my question.&nbsp; In defense of the method, (briefly), I collect everything from video games, comic books, books, art, and even townhouses.&nbsp; The latter, and my highschool/college offspring keeps my hobby budget in check.&nbsp; Generally, my comfort range for collectibles ends at $200 to $300, and unlike in the past when I sold one kind of collectible to buy another, I&#039;ve learned the error of my ways and only upgrade. I no longer sell one of my best collectibles from one genre to buy another kind of collectible (i.e., sell a comicbook to buy a coin). </p><p><br /></p><p>While I have some items that I love that have very little value, in general, based on how I&#039;ve been doing things, I&#039;m generally filling the box with $100 to $300 items.&nbsp; After that, my plan is to upgrade the items at the same budget level.&nbsp; To maybe I&#039;ll replace a gold half sovereign with a gold (full) sovereign or a much higher grade specimen.&nbsp; While it&#039;s true that I&#039;ll only have 20 items (but I see Ebay sells nice boxes that hold 27!), they&#039;ll be nice items that will ultimately be things that are hard for me to acquire comfortably.&nbsp; There are a lot of coins I&#039;d love to have, but can&#039;t afford...this will be my path.&nbsp; I really do want it to fit in one box.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s worth saying, that I did chase years and mintmarks and own a good number of Danscos.&nbsp; But these days I&#039;d rather go to a show and come back with one nice item.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this brings me back to my original question...did anyone here ever fill the box and then begin upgrading instead of just adding another box?&nbsp; How did that work?&nbsp; I envision bringing my coins to a show for a partial trade or I guess I could always sell something on ebay in advance of attending a show.&nbsp; I&#039;m interested in hearing how the upgrade process worked for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p><br /></p><p>Steve[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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