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Message:: [QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2809444, member: 83956"]My advice might be a bit idiosyncratic. I started collecting in 2004 and was fairly avid through 2007. Then I went through a 10-year lull. Maybe bought 1-2 coins per year. I was still casually interested, just not avid or serious. Then I jumped back in late in 2016 and have been making up for lost time. I wish I had more steadily collected. Even if I had collected only 10 coins a year for that fallow period, my collection would have 100 coins more than it does now. I’m not a quantity guy, but I think I missed out on a lot of collecting pleasure. I wish I could tell myself 10 years ago that “slow and steady wins the race.” Building a discriminating collection steadily over many years is probably better than getting coin fever and running hot and cold. My current approach is to set a monthly budget and try to make at least one purchase a month. So I might make one purchase where someone else makes a dozen. But that's all I can afford, so I try to learn as much as I can about the "coin of the month." It's been satisfying through 2017 and I hope that satisfaction continues.[/QUOTE]