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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samclemens3991, post: 2691315, member: 82181&quot;]I have an odd relationship with selling coins.</p><p>When I was 18 I was one of those people who made a killing off the Hunt brothers.&nbsp; My best friend brow beat me into selling much of my collection.&nbsp; His reward?&nbsp; I treated him like dirt for month&#039;s and it ended with me throwing him out of our dorm room.&nbsp; His parting shot was, &quot;So tell me this big shot.&nbsp; what kind of coin dealer can&#039;t sell coins!&quot;</p><p>Mike was the one person who new about my grand plan to get a business degree and become a coin dealer.&nbsp; It was a direct hit.&nbsp; That was when I learned I was a hobby guy.</p><p>I have sold several coins over the decades, but to do it on a daily basis?&nbsp; not when I realized how attached I get to coins.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Jump forward about ten years.&nbsp; We had two tragic things happen at once.&nbsp; My very pregnant wife became very ill and my oldest child failed an eye test at school.&nbsp; In a two&nbsp; month period we spent all our time and money trying to save the life of my wife and unborn child.&nbsp; We saved my wife.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Dead broke we are told by an eye doctor that Allison will go completely blind if she does not have an operation within the next three months.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our Insurance provider disputes the diagnosis and has 90 days to ponder an appeal.&nbsp; The hospital says I am self employed so to schedule an operation I will have to provide 50% of the payment in advance.&nbsp; It is an 8,000 dollar operation.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Everyone and all turn us down for equity loans, personal loans, credit card deals.&nbsp; I take every slabbed coin I own and send them to a national dealer.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; I can still remember the dealer having a breezy chat with me about coins.&nbsp; My hand was shaking so bad I missed every third word.&nbsp; Then he apologized and said all he could offer me was such and such.&nbsp; I dropped the phone and had to make him repeat it.&nbsp; it was enough to pay for Allison&#039;s operation and keep us financially afloat for another month or two.</p><p>&nbsp; Over the years I have made several collections.&nbsp; If I had to guess I have broke even 40% of the time.&nbsp; Made money 30%, lost money 30%.&nbsp; I just know I am a hobby guy and except for a rare occasion or two have never really worried about the money as much as I just enjoy the hobby.&nbsp; Life is strange.&nbsp; I will never know if my plan to flip Morgan dollars for a profit and invest in Bust dollars would have actually worked.&nbsp; I was smarter at 18.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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