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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 7721493, member: 90666&quot;]Its 5%</p><p><br /></p><p>My coins cost 650 francs, 1300 francs, 2100 francs, 2250 francs. Maths. 5% isnt a lot. Somewhat over $300 or so at this sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a retired mechanical engineer on a pension.</p><p><br /></p><p>I fund my collecting thru selling coins I bought 20 years ago at a gain, and by gradually shrinking the size of my collection as I move upmarket. Some available this week as many will know.</p><p><br /></p><p>One agent represents maybe a dozen collectors. They get a few hundred dollars from a few different collectors and their trip to Zurich is funded.</p><p><br /></p><p>A hobby which is accessible to a retired mechanical engineer on a pension isn&#039;t a rich persons hobby. But you do have play it with very high levels of skill, buying the right coins at the lowest possible price.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always, consistently, argued on CT for taking this hobby seriously, doing oodles of research, viewing coins in person, researching quality, strikes, surfaces, die engravers, scarcity obsessively, researching provenances and the history and importance of prior collectors and so on. That&#039;s how I can collect the way I do on an engineer&#039;s pension. </p><p><br /></p><p>Do the work!!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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