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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4901655, member: 19463&quot;]Auction companies print a certain number of catalogs and send them to people they hope will bid.&nbsp; If you place a few hundred bids from these books and win half a dozen coins for $10k, you will get many more books.&nbsp; If not, the time you spend on the list may be limited.&nbsp; When I retired to a pension in 2003, I cut waaaaay back on coins for a couple years until I felt comfortable with the reduced income.&nbsp; In the next five years my mail went from one catalog a day on average to one a month as the word got around I was no longer spending.&nbsp; A few years ago, I bought $9000 in one sale and, miraculously, catalogs started coming.&nbsp; Today, the Internet listings make the catalogs a lot less important than they once were.&nbsp; How much would you pay for a stack of 100 catalogs from the last 20 years (since the same info is available online)?&nbsp; Subtract from that the postal costs of those 100 books and you will have the value of the items.&nbsp; I suspect that number will make you feel better.&nbsp;&nbsp; A scholarly book that size might cost $50 but last week&#039;s sale books only have appeal to people like me (and, I hope, you?).&nbsp; They are fun to read. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, If you are wondering what I want for Christmas, buy me the cover coin from Auction 7.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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