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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2025734, member: 112&quot;]I could share numerous stories and examples of the benefits of being patient. And I could share many stories from my youth of where being impulsive and impatient had the opposite effect. I guess what I&#039;m trying to say is that I learned my lessons the hard way, made way more than my share of mistakes. When it comes to coin collecting, just about any mistake or screw up you can think of - I&#039;ve done it. And usually several times.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that is why I do what I do now. I no longer collect coins, I merely study them. But all of the lessons, the hard lessons, that I have learned over the years, those are things that I try to point to people today so that they can learn from my mistakes, so they can learn what not to do, without having done it themselves like I did.</p><p><br /></p><p>You want bad ? I can tell you about the bad. About wanting a particular coin and buying the first example that I managed to run across, even though it was not really the coin I wanted for my collection, at least not as nice of one as I wanted. And then, a few months later, sometimes even a matter of weeks, finding another example that was the coin I wanted, and at half the price of the first example. I&#039;ve got lots of stories like that. Way too many to list here.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;ve also got good stories. Like when I was trying to assemble examples of all of the original Mint Sets and Proof Sets from 1936 on. I can tell you about how many years I searched, about the thousands and thousands of sets I picked through one at a time at coin shows, at dealer shops, magazine ads, and later when the internet came along through all that I could find there. And only buying the finest examples with the nicest coins. It took me many years, decades. But in the end I had all of the original Mint Sets back to 1949, most of them with great luster, clean coins, and more than a few with gorgeous toning. The original Proof Sets I had back to 1950, again each with exceptional coins, and almost every older set containing at least 1, 2, or 3 cameo or deep cameo coins, and all of the newer sets in deep cameo. And each and every one in original mint packaging. </p><p><br /></p><p>But even with all of that patience I never managed to obtain original Proof sets from &#039;36 to &#039;41. Even in all of those years I never managed to even find an example of one of those original sets, with one exception. Not long before I gave up on US coins and switched to collecting world coins I did find a single example of a 1941 original Proof set, it was the only one I had ever even heard of being for sale. But at the time I just didn&#039;t have the money so I had to let it go.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess the point is that patience allowed me to assemble what in my opinion was one of the finest collections of original Mint and Proof Sets ever put together, even if it did take me almost 30 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the benefit of patience, and what the lack of it can do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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