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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 5450347, member: 72790"]I can afford to spend about $100 a month on my collections. For some coins, $100 will buy a nice coin like common Republican denarii or a decent denarius of Trajan or Septimius Severus. No, not top notch condition and not rare ones but I want to have representative examples of important rulers and such coins need not be in EF conditions to be that. I have never had any problem with honest wear. To me that just means a long history of coins from Ancient times having been handled by many Ancient people. I stay away from damaged coins, especially corrosion as junk stays junk forever and no matter the rarity of the coin it's going to look like indecipherable junk to me and everybody else forever. I'd rather look longingly at an EF double denarius of Gordian III than an About Good denarius of Julius Caesar. Now, since I like to read, even study Ancient history, there may be times when I want to get a decent representation of somebody or somewhere that I don't have. In that case I take that $100 a month set aside and put it away for several months until I can buy that really nice sestertius of Vespasian or Antoninus Pius. It's taken a while but I have a nice collection of decent looking coins and I enjoy handling them (not recommended for EF coins), feeling that connection straight back to Fifth Century Athens or First Century Rome. One other thing one can do. Trade up at shows or clubs. Take the fifty dollar coin and fifty dollars in cash and come back with a hundred dollar replacement. And for heavens sake, unless you are running a business and need to pay bills, remember it's a hobby and you are supposed to enjoy it, not lose sleep over it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 5450347, member: 72790"]I can afford to spend about $100 a month on my collections. For some coins, $100 will buy a nice coin like common Republican denarii or a decent denarius of Trajan or Septimius Severus. No, not top notch condition and not rare ones but I want to have representative examples of important rulers and such coins need not be in EF conditions to be that. I have never had any problem with honest wear. To me that just means a long history of coins from Ancient times having been handled by many Ancient people. I stay away from damaged coins, especially corrosion as junk stays junk forever and no matter the rarity of the coin it's going to look like indecipherable junk to me and everybody else forever. I'd rather look longingly at an EF double denarius of Gordian III than an About Good denarius of Julius Caesar. Now, since I like to read, even study Ancient history, there may be times when I want to get a decent representation of somebody or somewhere that I don't have. In that case I take that $100 a month set aside and put it away for several months until I can buy that really nice sestertius of Vespasian or Antoninus Pius. It's taken a while but I have a nice collection of decent looking coins and I enjoy handling them (not recommended for EF coins), feeling that connection straight back to Fifth Century Athens or First Century Rome. One other thing one can do. Trade up at shows or clubs. Take the fifty dollar coin and fifty dollars in cash and come back with a hundred dollar replacement. And for heavens sake, unless you are running a business and need to pay bills, remember it's a hobby and you are supposed to enjoy it, not lose sleep over it.[/QUOTE]
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