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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 4062019, member: 73165&quot;]That&#039;s an interesting thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>The year or 2 time frame puts quite a few constraints on what would be considered &quot;replaceable&quot; and what would be considered &quot;irreplaceable.&quot;&nbsp; If a coin does not come to market in a suitable quality in 2 years, that would seem to put it closer to the &quot;irreplaceable&quot; category than the &quot;replaceable&quot; category.&nbsp; I have multiple coins in my collection that I easily spent 2 years hunting for.&nbsp; Likewise, once in your collection, a coin becomes effectively irreplaceable under this definition if it would cost more than ~2 years worth of coin budget to replace.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have any of these, since I tend to buy at least every few months.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I totally agree. I mostly don&#039;t mess with modern MS68/69/70 stuff mostly for this reason.&nbsp; The only coins I&#039;d ever really be inclined to purchase in these grades would be 1950-1970 cameo proofs, or ASEs.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I tend to wait and resist the temptation to cross things off a list.&nbsp; Modern collectors refer to this as &quot;hole filling,&quot; after the holes in their albums needing to be filled with coins.&nbsp; I have so many interests, ancient and otherwise, that I can afford to wait for specimens that excite me, rather than filling any particular space in my collection.&nbsp; (For example, I&#039;m collecting US type coins 1800-present, US commemorative silver coins by type 1892-1954, rainbow toned Liberty nickels, denarii of Antoninus Pius, Civil War tokens from my home state, numismatic items from my home town, <i>etc. etc.</i>)&nbsp; If that perfect A-P denarius is hiding from me, I have an outlet in the form of my type set, or my commems, or whatever.&nbsp; In fact, commems partially led me to collecting ancients, because so many ancient coins actually <i>are</i> commemoratives of a sort.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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