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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1811297, member: 19463&quot;]I can agree with all the points about selling save one if I first accept that the point of owning a coin is to make a profit or, at least, lose less on the deal.&nbsp; All bets are off if the reason for owning a coin is because you wanted the thing and there were no others available.&nbsp; I rarely see two identical coins I want for sale at the same time but suspect this is a factor when collecting modern coins where exact or very close duplicates are common.&nbsp; I fail to understand the point about not buying duplicates since it makes no difference how many coins you have as long as you are not trying to sell more than one matching coin.&nbsp; I own coins that I paid $100 for and would be quick to buy a duplicate at $20 on the theory that I could find someone I know who wanted it for the $20.&nbsp; The punch line from that TV show on the 1933 double eagles was when the buyer of the $6 mil coin was told of the existence of ten more, he said, &quot;Does that mean I&#039;ll have to buy them, too?&quot;&nbsp; When money mean nothing in the hobby, the rules are different.&nbsp;&nbsp; To him $6 mil means what $20 means to me, I guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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