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<p>[QUOTE="mrbreeze, post: 4670843, member: 86726"]Really love the responses so far...tons of great insights into the question. I would add that I am all over the buying spectrum. I buy emotionally, financially, spot filling, etc. In reading all of the responses, I have started to think that there might be a money inflection point where I start to drift to comparisons. When I spend less than $50, lets say, it's usually like this - See cool coin, check wallet, buy coin. But, I will give you a real life example of my brain freeze. I have been saving for some time for a few special Roman coins on the long term buy list. Well, one of them was a Julia Titi denarius. One was just sold recently at auction and as it rose up the dollar scale, all I could think was that I could buy 3 Solidi for the bid price. Then I thought, who would pay the same thing for 1 silver coin vs 3 gold coins? Don't get me wrong, I'll get one eventually, but I don't like the second guessing. I want to buy it because I saved for it, it made since for my collection and I found it attractive. Period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mrbreeze, post: 4670843, member: 86726"]Really love the responses so far...tons of great insights into the question. I would add that I am all over the buying spectrum. I buy emotionally, financially, spot filling, etc. In reading all of the responses, I have started to think that there might be a money inflection point where I start to drift to comparisons. When I spend less than $50, lets say, it's usually like this - See cool coin, check wallet, buy coin. But, I will give you a real life example of my brain freeze. I have been saving for some time for a few special Roman coins on the long term buy list. Well, one of them was a Julia Titi denarius. One was just sold recently at auction and as it rose up the dollar scale, all I could think was that I could buy 3 Solidi for the bid price. Then I thought, who would pay the same thing for 1 silver coin vs 3 gold coins? Don't get me wrong, I'll get one eventually, but I don't like the second guessing. I want to buy it because I saved for it, it made since for my collection and I found it attractive. Period.[/QUOTE]
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