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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 5451120, member: 82322"]Most collectors slowly ramp up quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buy at least one really nice coin. Try to get a bargain on it — look for a $500 coin you can get for $240, one you buy in person and looks impressive in-hand. Sit with it for a few months.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have many $50 coins I wish I hadn’t purchased and instead went for the $250 version. I also have $250 coins that I wish I had passed to get more $50 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about collecting one series in “cheap” and another series in “nice”. There is nothing wrong with insisting on AU for your Roman coins but putting together a comprehensive collection of $5 Chinese cash.</p><p><br /></p><p>A reasonable goal is to purchase only things that make people’s jaws drop. Most regular people and collectors will lose their minds when they encounter a Choice AU Alexander tet. Occasionally you will meet rich people who collect mint state aurei. For those people I like to pull out cheap and bizarre Eastern things their procurers never show them, or things with old “important” provenances.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 5451120, member: 82322"]Most collectors slowly ramp up quality. Buy at least one really nice coin. Try to get a bargain on it — look for a $500 coin you can get for $240, one you buy in person and looks impressive in-hand. Sit with it for a few months. I have many $50 coins I wish I hadn’t purchased and instead went for the $250 version. I also have $250 coins that I wish I had passed to get more $50 coins. Think about collecting one series in “cheap” and another series in “nice”. There is nothing wrong with insisting on AU for your Roman coins but putting together a comprehensive collection of $5 Chinese cash. A reasonable goal is to purchase only things that make people’s jaws drop. Most regular people and collectors will lose their minds when they encounter a Choice AU Alexander tet. Occasionally you will meet rich people who collect mint state aurei. For those people I like to pull out cheap and bizarre Eastern things their procurers never show them, or things with old “important” provenances.[/QUOTE]
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