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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 26165, member: 708&quot;]Who said anything about $4000 per month?</p><p><br /></p><p>I stated &#039;seriousness from time/money spent on coins&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As far as i&#039;m concerned if you regularly direct any of you wage to buying coins (no matter how small), but you regularly make allowances for coin purchases then yes you are serious. Even if it&#039;s only $25 per month.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t spend a cent of coins, but spend an hour a week sat at a desk with a big pile of Lincs looking for a certain date, or errors or whatever, then that makes you serious.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you put in time, effort and money on a regular basis no matter how small and you are dedicated to it then you&#039;re serious.</p><p><br /></p><p>Too many people equate serious with élitist. Like you just did.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the most serious collectors out there collect Lincoln cents from change, but they&#039;re not élitist collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Elitist collecting are those that spend say $4000 per month and spend years studying one area in minute. They arenot just serious about the hobby but totally dedicated on a level that might be more prone towards obsessive minutæ. Of course élities can also simply be show offs that have cash to blow, but then they aren&#039;t specialists![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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