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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2795355, member: 10461&quot;]I remember passing up many nice tokens in the days when I was keeping tight focus on &quot;sets&quot;.&nbsp; Nowadays I don&#039;t have to.&nbsp; I&#039;m free!&nbsp; (Or &quot;free<i>style</i>&quot;, anyway.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In my &quot;Eclectic Box&quot; era, as y&#039;all have seen, I grab whatever catches my fancy, whether it be a coin, token, jeton, or medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you could say I&#039;m a &quot;jack of all trades&quot; and the absolute <i>opposite</i> of a specialist.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that I would somehow land upon a Civil War token that was desired by someone who <i>is</i> a specialist and <i>does</i> have a specialized collection is rather flattering.&nbsp; Goes to show that my gut instincts are occasionally sound, even when I don&#039;t completely know everything about the item I&#039;m buying.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, I <i>did</i> have some luck in the acquisition of the Monitor token, too.&nbsp; Another token specialist (&quot;Broadstruck&quot;&nbsp; on Collectors Universe) had given me a heads-up on it, and I nabbed it on eBay for less than half of what it had fetched in the 2010 Stacks-Bowers Baltimore sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Had I paid through the nose for it, I&#039;d no doubt have been even more mulish and stubborn a swapper here.) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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