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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3561073, member: 19463&quot;]This is an easy answer.&nbsp; Andrew McCabe is a high end collector only interested in the finest and the most rare.&nbsp; furryfrog02 is a relatively new collector on a low budget interested in coins that he finds appealing but not necessarily the one the professional crowd considers worthwhile.&nbsp; There was a time that many of us sought &#039;beginner&#039; coins when we were beginning but today we see more people who start by buying the most expensive coins first.&nbsp; Old-style beginners by coins from different sources than those who goal in collecting is to build a collection that will merit a sales catalog with our name on the cover.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No.&nbsp; There are dealers who buy collections that the major houses would not touch and sell to those of us in it for the fun rather than the profit.&nbsp; My favorite class of these dealers often have coins that are still in flips from a previous dealer who thought he could sell the thing for twice what it was worth but ended up dumping the unsold remainders for less than (often a lot less than) they paid just to get the cash out.&nbsp; This is not a way to get the coin you want when you want it in a grade that will make other collectors envious and assure ten auction houses contact your widow before your body is cold.&nbsp; It is a way to get coins you can enjoy and assure that your widow will recover no more from your coins than she will from your stack of used computer books on Windows 98 that cost you good money when you were learning &#039;tech&#039; twenty years ago.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is nothing wrong with either hobby but it shocks me that we have so many people who think their answer is the only answer.&nbsp; There are a million different ancient coins and almost as many approaches to their collection.&nbsp; I know some of you spent 100 times as much on dinner last night as I did but that does not mean you got 100 times as well fed or enjoyed your Kobe beef and Pappy Van Winkle bourbon more than I did my spinach salad and kefir.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We manage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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