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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Honolulu Dick, post: 972860, member: 24745&quot;]Maybe it should be the topic for a new thread, but a thoughtful question has been asked.&nbsp; And that is, &quot;Can you really pay too much if it is something you really want?&quot;&nbsp; Unfortunately, the answer, all too frequently, is yes.&nbsp; Not only do we often let our heart overrule our brain, we allow ourselves to rationalize a justification to purge our guilt.&nbsp; No doubt a reward for being at the top of the food-chain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many are the times when I have been heart-happy and stomach-sick over the purchase of a collectible that I just couldn&#039;t live without, regardless of price.&nbsp; Fortunately, time cures many ills.&nbsp; Time also allows collectibles to appreciate in value.&nbsp; Acquiring those items had me living on soup and peanut butter sandwiches or begging the boss for overtime hours.&nbsp; However, they are now valuable assets, being worth many times the price and anguish that they once cost me.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the late &#039;50s, I was in my early 20s and devoured anything and everything pertaining to the Civil War and WW II that I could swindle from its owner.&nbsp; Stumbled across a pristine 1917, WW I, 9mm Luger, with original holster, belt and large &quot;God With Us&quot; [only in German] belt buckle, an extra magazine, take-down tool and all numbers matched.&nbsp; The owner insisted on a then steep 25-dollar price and wouldn&#039;t budge.&nbsp; I worked&nbsp; a second job at a gas station to earn the extra needed.&nbsp; Pumped gas on a Friday evenings and weekends, and gave-up beer and dating.&nbsp; My parents thought they had failed at being good parents.&nbsp; Long story short, I still have that Luger and by today&#039;s standards, I&#039;m guilty of theft.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same sort of a situation with my Athena Owl coin.&nbsp; Had to give-up many small joys to obtain a single, but bigger one.&nbsp; At the time, I paid a belt-tightening amount.&nbsp; Now, several years later, the cost for this beauty has risen to the point where I can say that mine was purchased for a bargain rate.&nbsp; Same also applies to an earlier purchase of a Spanish Colonial, 8-R, cob coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were times when I was in a position where I should have sprung for a Tyre Shekel [famed for the Biblical 30-pieces of silver].&nbsp; The price of these coins has always been a stretch for the working-class and something always came along that demanded a higher priority.&nbsp; Recent interest by other than coin collectors had doubled the price of this coin, making what was once a stretch into what is now a pole-vaulting leap.&nbsp; I keep kicking myself for not having added this coin to my collection earlier.&nbsp; Justifying today&#039;s asking rubs hair the wrong way.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, when is paying too much, too much?&nbsp; Ask a bunch of people and you will get a bunch of differing answers, indicating that there may be no one right answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just sharing a couple of thoughts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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