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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nap, post: 4672079, member: 73099&quot;]You know, I sometimes do.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some rarities that have little historical connection but that I &quot;must&quot; have to finish a set, and I may eventually spend silly amounts on them, however when I step back I realize I am chasing them not because they are rare, or interesting, or attractive, but because they are a missing piece in an incomplete set.&nbsp; And my nature (and the nature of many collectors) is to fill that hole.&nbsp; In the end, it&#039;s sometimes a bad acquisition strategy, and once the numbers become large, you have to step back and ask yourself &quot;is this how I want to budget my limited funds?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And so some holes that are not impossible to fill go years without procuring a specimen.&nbsp; </p><p>But in the end, usually one of two things happens (and sometimes both).&nbsp; </p><p>1) The collecting mentality wins and you buy the damn thing</p><p>2) You get tired of this perpetually incomplete set and give up, maybe sell the set, maybe not, but certainly move on to something else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are some coins that are truly coin perfection- high artistic merit, historically important, large size, high quality precious metal, available in high grades.&nbsp; These are the pieces that transcend numismatics, and sell for amounts that don&#039;t seem commensurate with their availability, yet always seem to appreciate faster than ugly rare ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the opposite side of the perfection scale are medieval coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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