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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;acanthite, post: 205897, member: 6647&quot;]Ed, I would consider myself a collector.&nbsp; I have never sold a coin.&nbsp; This does not mean that I do NOT try to get the best deal possible.&nbsp; My collecting budget, in theory, is at a fixed level, and hunting around for good deals allows this budget to be stretched into additional material.&nbsp; Also, if a coin has a nasty scratch on the portrait, I won&#039;t buy it, not due to the difficulty of &#039;flipping&#039; it, but for the same reason that I wouldn&#039;t buy a painting with a hole poked in it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t know if anyone will ever make money off my collection.&nbsp; I am trying to teach my daughter a bit about coins, hopefully someday she will appreciate them enough that my collection will not merely be viewed as a cash cow.&nbsp; At any rate coins have done for me everything I would want from them; appreciation of art, motive to research history, and a counterbalance to stresses elsewhere in life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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