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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 387309, member: 5629&quot;]:hail:&nbsp;&nbsp; BEEN THERE! DONE THAT!</p><p><br /></p><p>And if I could go back in time and reconsider spending $20-$30 for a few good hours at the arcade....I would take twice as much and spend all day there!</p><p><br /></p><p>Being young happens only once in your lifetime, and you should spend it doing what is enjoyable, while at the same time being responsible.&nbsp; Even as you grow older, there is no problem with enjoying yourself and entertainment.&nbsp; Just do it wisely.&nbsp; If Stainless has no need to be worried about life in all of its abundance of worries and troubles of being an adult because he&#039;s a YN, let him spend every dime he has.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I fully agree with the Toad here, except for one thing.&nbsp; I do not believe that many of the CT members are &quot;too serious&quot; about coin collecting.&nbsp; They&#039;re too serious about coin investing and future returns.&nbsp; I buy coins and sell them based upon the short term prospect of returning a small to nominal profit.&nbsp; This is speculation, a form of very risky investment.&nbsp; Other purchases may be for coins intended to return a profit at a much later date based on historic trends and current market conditions.&nbsp; Yet another form of investing.&nbsp; Others purchase coins because they want the best of the best, or are working toward such, with the intent that &quot;some day&quot; these will benefit their posterity or even their own retirement.&nbsp; I&#039;m sorry, but this is not &quot;serious collecting&quot;, this is also investment.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many ways to invest through coins, just as there are many ways to collect.&nbsp; I go through my thousands upon thousands of rolled coins annually.&nbsp; I also cherrypick when/where I can to find interesting and unusual specimens.&nbsp; I will purchase online and on the Bay for a good value to study specimens i have never touched before or because I am looking to fill holes for myself or someone else.&nbsp; I invest, deal, study, research, AND collect.&nbsp; I try not to lean too far one way or the other, and try to balance my interests evenly.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, when the question comes up about a &quot;good deal&quot; or not, it all depends upon the reason for the purchase.&nbsp; Investment? Speculation? Pure collecting? A gift?&nbsp; Depending on the situation, a coin that was not a &quot;good deal&quot; in one respect, may very well be a steal in another.</p><p><br /></p><p>Too serious about investing.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a trap and temptation all of us face every time we see a coin. And there really is no fault against it either.&nbsp; If your intent is to profit in speculation, then of course Stainless made one of the worse purchases possible.&nbsp; But if he is trying to feel the playing field on Morgans and absolutely loves the baked-in colors he expects to see on the coin in person, then all the more, $25 shipped is not a bad deal at all, especially since &quot;trying this at home&quot; may simply destroy a perfectly good Morgan worth $16 by his trying to bake one himself. (not to say that the Morgan he bought isn&#039;t already ruined with respects to investment and most &quot;natural&quot; collectors.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Stainless, if you like the coin when it arrives, great job! :thumb:&nbsp;&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like it, then make sure the coin pictured is accurately depicted before making such purchases again.&nbsp; But, we can only take the word of the seller, really, when it comes to internet purchases.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like the coin when you get it, do not buy from that seller again, let him know you will not, and let him know why.&nbsp; And don&#039;t forget to just have fun! That&#039;s what collecting is all about![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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