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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2990346, member: 10461&quot;]Just a hotel clerk&#039;s salary - barely above the minimum wage in some states.&nbsp; No side job, at least for the last six or seven years.&nbsp; And to keep things harmonious on the home front, I seldom draw any coin money from my paycheck anyway.&nbsp; <font size="3">(Though there <i>have</i> been times when I had to sacrifice a coin to deal with some household or automotive emergency.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>My collection has had to feed itself.&nbsp; I sell and swap coins in order to buy <i>other</i> coins.&nbsp; When I started this project after my &quot;Great Purge&quot; in 2013, I sold off 90-95% of all my numismatic material, and that represented over 20 years&#039; worth of collecting, most of which was acquired by swapping, selling, cherrypicking, and &quot;flipping&quot;.&nbsp; That was the seed from which this all grew, in only four years&#039; time.</p><p><br /></p><p>One can build a nice (if small) collection this way, even if the going is slow and the growth very gradual.</p><p><br /></p><p>It also helps to collect World coins, I think.&nbsp; One gets so much more &quot;bang for the buck&quot; there.&nbsp; But you already knew that.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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