If your coin collection went away...

If your coin collection was stolen, given away or lost to a natural disaster, would you start all over again or would give up collecting entirely?

For me, I don't own a valuable collection, but it's a unique collection that took unmeasurable amounts of time and sacrifices that could never be replaced. I don't think I would be able to find it in me to start all over from scratch. So although my collection is not valuable to others, to me it's priceless.

What would you do?

-LTB

 

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START ALL OVER AGAIN with a NEW LIFE of COLLECTION...WHY QUIT or Surrender if you love that HOBBY just Keep going going going gone.....till to the last breath..:thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb:

 

I own a very small collection, which would be rather simple to replace, so I would start over. But if I had a unique collection, or a very large/valuable collection, I think it would take a lot of will power to restart....

 

I would mourn the coins I used to own, (and mourn my books more, if I lost them as well), and start over.

Once a collector always a collector. A theft will not change that.

 

I'd definitely start over again LTB...as a matter of fact I've done it once already. Several years ago I was forced to sell nearly my entire collection due to economic hardship. When conditions got better I started again in a small way. Today I'm buying probably as much or more than I did back then. I didn't want to sell my collection, but I did what I had to so never looked back. There was a silver lining though. I'm a much more focused collector now and devote all of my collecting dollars to just a few areas of the hobby. I'm just a collector at heart I suppose.

Bruce

 

Start over once the weeping ended.

 

I've lost the library once and rebuilt that. If I lost my whole collection I would probably collect again, but probably not the same way.

 

Definitely start over, after the mourning period.

 

That pretty much sums it up for me as well. I couldn't imagine not collecting.

 

Its in the blood, so I would most definately have a new beginning.
Now you got me on edge, I'm thinking crazy thoughts. NO...........

 

As much as I would not want to start all over and just moan and groan for the rest of my life, I know I would end up starting over, it has happened to me in other situations, and what ever it is, always ends up better than it was when it was lost, although it costs more time and money and work.

 

Same here.

 

Easy Abe! Go out and buy yourself a coin, then go to bed and post again in the morning.

Bruce