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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rick, post: 63745, member: 1235&quot;]wow! some of these comments explain how I feel better than my original post!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For a long time, I thought that I would keep the entire collection - truth be told, even when I began to feel this way, I still picked up the occassional cheap coin that caught my attention.&nbsp; I don&#039;t really regret the idividual purchases - but as a whole, if I had all the funds to work with again, I think my collection would look vastly different.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for collecting foreign coins in quality - most of it comes from experience.&nbsp; Last year, about this time, I went to my first show.&nbsp; Since I collect foreign coins, almost exclusively at this point (I&#039;ve been thinking on starting a large cent collection), automatically I would say that 90% of the dealers inventory is excluded, because I would say that no more than 1 out of every 10 dealers at the shows I have been to, carry a significant selection of world coins.&nbsp; Then say I am looking for a specific country I had in mind - well, that will exclude about 90% of what is left.&nbsp; So now I&#039;m looking at 10% of 10% - 1% of coins at a show are within my focus group...&nbsp; and I haven&#039;t even begun to match up dates or denomination or grade.&nbsp; Before you know it, I&#039;ve forgotten my original intent, and I&#039;ve become satisfied with picking up a piece here, a piece there - digging through the &#039;bargain&#039; coin bins for an interesting piece.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am happy to say, that at my last show - I was far more selective.&nbsp; It was, fortunately, a larger show, so the 1% I mentioned before was a suitable selection of inventory, and I managed to pick up pieces I actually went there looking to buy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I will never go back to purchasing the way I used to, but I&#039;m waffling on whether I should sell the lot for funds to buy things more in line with my focus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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