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<p>[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4095457, member: 15481"]When I started collecting, I jumped at any bargain I could find. I spent hours and hours looking for the cheapest way to build a collection of great volume. I didn’t care too much about quality or limiting the field of collecting, as long at it was a coin, it was a good one. Then, having some spare cash and thinking it was a good price, I bought this coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1065713[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That was a collecting-life changing experience. Ancient coins of this quality is borderline art, I think. Selling off my lesser quality coins, I also got to understand that what’s cheap to buy also pays little off when selling, and that selling huge quantities takes time and effort. I now try to limit my collection to less than 500 coins, and upgrade in quality rather than expanding into new territory. </p><p>I’m still glad I started out with a wide area and a lot of volume, though. I learned a lot from it, and it narrowed naturally from there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4095457, member: 15481"]When I started collecting, I jumped at any bargain I could find. I spent hours and hours looking for the cheapest way to build a collection of great volume. I didn’t care too much about quality or limiting the field of collecting, as long at it was a coin, it was a good one. Then, having some spare cash and thinking it was a good price, I bought this coin: [ATTACH=full]1065713[/ATTACH] That was a collecting-life changing experience. Ancient coins of this quality is borderline art, I think. Selling off my lesser quality coins, I also got to understand that what’s cheap to buy also pays little off when selling, and that selling huge quantities takes time and effort. I now try to limit my collection to less than 500 coins, and upgrade in quality rather than expanding into new territory. I’m still glad I started out with a wide area and a lot of volume, though. I learned a lot from it, and it narrowed naturally from there.[/QUOTE]
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