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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8005627, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with your &#039;plan&#039; except for the part about popularity amongst collectors.&nbsp; I really suggest buying coins that you find appealing and not what anyone else tells you is the &#039;in&#039; thing.&nbsp; Fads change.&nbsp; New finds make things available for a while and hard to find later.&nbsp; They also can cause prices to drop if there are more (especially low grade) examples than the market can absorb.&nbsp; While there are &#039;day traders&#039; who make money buying and selling, you don&#039;t here as much from those who buy high and sell low.&nbsp; This makes no difference if you only buy coins you like.</p><p><br /></p><p>I greatly admire Ancient Joe&#039;s magnificent collection but have no use for the artificial limiting of collection size.&nbsp; I also miss how buying only a few $10,000 coins protects you from overspending.&nbsp; Ancient Joe and I have one thing in common.&nbsp; We each have 200 coins for which it would be easy to find buyers in the market. The difference is that I have another 3000 that would not be as &#039;adoptable&#039;.&nbsp; If we each continue collecting for the rest of our lives it will not matter to us whether our coins are popular or not.&nbsp; Don&#039;t spend money on entertainment that you need for life. Coins are entertainment.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe this is the correct answer.&nbsp; Collect generally.&nbsp; IF you are meant to specialize, ou will discover that a lot of your purchases have something in common.&nbsp; You do not have to seek out a specialty.&nbsp; Specialties have a way of finding you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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