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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 2506978, member: 25270&quot;]I’m kind of in a rut when it comes to coins. Perhaps burnt out, though that may be going too far. I started collecting world coins because of the history and because I could collect so many different old coins from so many countries for so little money compared to U.S. coins. But now I have all the cheap coins, and all I ever do is get outbid on the more expensive coins I need for my collection. Then I start to think about what my motives are for collecting certain things. I’ve always been someone who wants to complete the set and get every coin in the series. I’ve managed to do that for a few of them, but for many either there are a plethora of dates that I still need, which rarely come up for sale and sell for too much money when they do, or I started to wonder why I was collecting them in the first place. Recently I decided to sell off much of my Finnish and Belgian collection, because what’s the point? They’re not particularly attractive, I have no connection to those countries and there is little collector interest. I have too many coins to comfortably look at, and right now I have binders stacked up in a closet. Even with a good organizational system, trying to find any particular coin can be a long process of moving heavy albums and looking for the right one.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s no fun when all you ever do is lose auctions for the coins you need, which always sell for more than you are comfortable spending. For a while I got interested in more artistic, less historical coins, like ones with animals on them, but most of them are silver, made for collectors, low mintage and sell for $30, $40 or more. My wife and I have our first baby on the way and want to buy a house. I just found out how expensive daycare is, and it was kind of a shock. I don’t see how I can justify buying $50 coins in this environment. I even wanted to sell some of the coins that don’t mean as much to me to cut down on the space and raise some money, but my eBay auctions get no attention, and coins that I used to sell easily sit there unnoticed for month after month.</p><p><br /></p><p>I feel like I never see anything new anymore, and if I do it’s incredibly expensive. I always knew that there would come a time when I could no longer afford to spend money on coins, and I guess that time is here. But even if I could afford to keep spending, as the prices go up, it’s harder and harder to justify.</p><p><br /></p><p>So anyway, just saying. I’m not sure where to go from here with this hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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