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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 327605, member: 4626&quot;]My coin collection is rather extensive at this point.&nbsp; Most of the coins I own aren&#039;t of huge value but a few are.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Except for a handful of coins I got from my grandmother most of the coins I acquired myself.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m still very active and will never consider my collection complete as long as I&#039;m still alive and can afford to add to it lol.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah right, I wish lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>Nope, sorry, I still care very little about the value of my collection.&nbsp; Whether it becomes worthless tomorrow or doubles in value I still have the same coins, and I collect the coins for their own sake, not because I hope they will go up in value.&nbsp; I honestly don&#039;t care what they&#039;re worth beyond wanting to get a fair deal for my money when I buy them.&nbsp; I&#039;d be prefectly happy for coin values to drop, because then I could afford even more coins.&nbsp; And I don&#039;t fit into any of your 4 categories, sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As I saw someone post on a website when asked whether his criteria was subjective and arbitrary:&nbsp; &quot;Subjective, yes.&nbsp; Arbitrary, no.&quot;&nbsp; I&#039;ll go ahead an embrace my selectiveness.&nbsp; I know it&#039;s purely subjective but I honestly believe a true collector is someone who collects coins for no other reason then he wants a collection of coins he likes, and not someone buying them because they hope they go up in value.&nbsp; I have room in my definiton for someone hoping for the coins to go up in value but that&#039;s not his primary motivation, though I&#039;d still think of them as somewhat less of a pure collector.&nbsp; Someone who buys a coin solely becuase they hope it will go up in value I don&#039;t consider a collector at all; such a person is just an investor or speculator.&nbsp; Just my opinion for whatever it&#039;s worth, but I firmly stand by it.&nbsp; Whether it&#039;s coins or stamps or rocks or beanie babies a true collector sees the items in his collection as something to be valued for their own sake and not merely as commodities to buy with the hope of selling them later at a profit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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