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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2514052, member: 10461&quot;]I do fully intend to add a Spanish Colonial (maybe a Pillar 8-reales piece or a smaller gold denomination) when I can swing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I know slabbing ancients is counter to tradition, and I&#039;m perfectly happy to collect my ancients raw in other contexts.&nbsp; But for the purposes of the whole &quot;Box of 20&quot; thing, these particular ones get entombed in plastic.&nbsp; Their next owners can always liberate them, but some are going to be with me a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sticking to 20 pieces?&nbsp; Yes, it&#039;s difficult, and gets increasingly challenging as I acquire coins I really like.&nbsp; But in the course of two past disasters that wiped out my collection (a 1995 de facto bankruptcy and a layoff in the 2008 recession), I&#039;ve learned some detachment, and each time I got back on my feet I rebuilt the collection better than it had been before.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On the modest earnings of a hotel clerk (my salary is barely above the minimum wage in some places), if I&#039;m to afford nice coins, I <i>have to</i> stick to a small collection.&nbsp; So each one that leaves the collection helps finance the one that takes its place.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nowadays, I&#039;d rather have twenty nice pieces than one or two hundred &quot;OK&quot; pieces.&nbsp; (But this was not always the case.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I do dabble in some less expensive sideline collections occasionally, but this one is the &quot;core&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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