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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2519652, member: 78153&quot;]Agree with this approach except that I would consider selling unwanted coins and using the proceeds to buy coins I really wanted.&nbsp; But to do that, someone needs to define their goals.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what I did in 2006.&nbsp; Between 1998 when I resumed collecting and June 2006, I bought a lot of lower quality material because I was trying to fill holes in sets (no albums here though) and also just because I liked to buy coins regularly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the Heritage Long Beach sale had a big collection with a lot of coins I really wanted buy.&nbsp; Coins I had never seen before and many only occasionally or not since.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t buy everything I wanted but the only way to justify spending what I did (to myself) was to sell from my current holdings which is exactly what I did.&nbsp; I had never sold anything before and it was certainly a learning experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ended up selling about 100 coins through eBay, overall breaking about even.&nbsp; I used the proceeds (about $6000) to buy nine coins which I liked a lot more.&nbsp; I still own all of them today. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since then, I have accumulated other coins that I also would be better off selling but it is a lot of work and the pricing is weak.&nbsp; As an example, I have abandoned any attempts to mostly complete the full South Africa Union series because I can no longer buy the coins cheap as I did prior to 2010.&nbsp; I almost exclusively buy pillar minors with an occasional coin from my other series, such as Bolivian Republic decimals.</p><p><br /></p><p>The prices are also higher since I started which is annoying but this is offset somewhat by better availability.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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