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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 3183653, member: 78244&quot;]As a small-time dealer in US coins, it was disheartening (and I guess demoralizing) to think about most of my coins purely as commodities. I did have some that were really hard to let go of because they had interesting stories or had a very appealing look. But I have been able to use the commodity market to my advantage to pay off my school expenses and ancient coins I want to buy. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I now only buy coins (to keep) for their beauty or they story they tell. Give me an MS seated half dime or an EF shield nickel with a strong Doubled Die Obverse with crazy die cracks (value aside), I would go for the latter. It tells the story of the trouble the US mint had minting coins with the “devil’s copper.” They went through dies so quickly due to cracking, that they really did not care about the quality of the dies, leading to many crazy varieties. The half dime is just a high-grade example of a boring type. I’ve sold off most of my US coins and now only keep ones that are actually interesting. I am unfortunately in the vast minority with this mindset.</p><p><br /></p><p>With US coins, these “interesting” coins can be few and far between, or priced at sky-high prices, making the field as a whole generally uninteresting. Just about every decent ancient/medieval is interesting and many of these are affordable, so you can guess where most of my money has been going over the past couple years. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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