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Message:: [QUOTE="satootoko, post: 89003, member: 669"]If you said those were among the worst ways to invest, I would absolutely agree on all but point 4.  (Point 5 is a given, for investing, collecting, or even just hoarding.) But this thread is supposedly about ways to collect, and that's a whole different beastie. Ensconced in my collection is an old Russian copper, from the time of 18th Century Empress Elizabeth.  My mother was born in Yelsvetograd (Elizabeth Town in one of several variant non-cyrillic spellings), and when I spotted this coin in an EBay auction just minutes before it closed, I violated your rules 1 and 5, but its one purchase I'll certainly never regret.  One of these days I may even use it as the foundation of a type set of pieces from that reign. On more than one occasion a friend has recommended that I check out a coin being auctioned, or being offered by a dealer, and I wound up buying.  They didn't tell me to buy so I could make a million, they simply alerted me to something I would have bought no matter how I found out it was available. There are a myriad of "right" ways to collect, and each and every one of them is the "wrong" way for someone else.  My way is right for me, but not for you, and certainly not for GDJMSP.  His quite different way is right for him, but not for you or me; and your even more different say is right for you; but definitely wrong for me or Doug. Our great hobby just wouldn't be as great and inclusive as it is if there were a czar of procedure who could set collecting rules for everyone. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]

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