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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 24559946, member: 27832"]"What can I <i>do</i> with this stuff"?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Organize</i> it! Then <i>re</i>-organize it! Catalog it! Brag about it! Learn (more) about it!</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, you know, sell it. But then what can you do with the <i>money</i>?</p><p><br /></p><p>For a while, I felt fairly confident that I could have fun with coins in both directions -- seeing how nice or how cheap I could get them, then seeing how much I could get for them. But lately I've sort of fallen off both ends. And in general that's an expensive approach, because unless you're <i>very</i> lucky, <i>very</i> skillful, and/or <i>very</i> patient, you usually sell for less than you paid. Except, of course, when everything's done at face value.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sometimes lucky, middling skillful, and quite patient. I'll get back to it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 24559946, member: 27832"]"What can I [I]do[/I] with this stuff"? [I]Organize[/I] it! Then [I]re[/I]-organize it! Catalog it! Brag about it! Learn (more) about it! Or, you know, sell it. But then what can you do with the [I]money[/I]? For a while, I felt fairly confident that I could have fun with coins in both directions -- seeing how nice or how cheap I could get them, then seeing how much I could get for them. But lately I've sort of fallen off both ends. And in general that's an expensive approach, because unless you're [I]very[/I] lucky, [I]very[/I] skillful, and/or [I]very[/I] patient, you usually sell for less than you paid. Except, of course, when everything's done at face value. I'm sometimes lucky, middling skillful, and quite patient. I'll get back to it. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
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