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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25893737, member: 10461&quot;]Good heavens, how much time do you have?&nbsp; It could take me <i>days</i>, and an entire <i>thread</i>, to recount my past &quot;seller&#039;s remorse&quot; coins.&nbsp; In 48 years, mostly due to financial instabilities in my life, nearly my entire collection has been burnt to the ground and rebuilt- perhaps three or four times.</p><p><br /></p><p>One involuntary selloff was in 2008, when I was laid off in the Great Recession, and sold my entire Roman coin collection.&nbsp; I also sold all the gold off my famous <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/">Holey Gold Hat</a>.&nbsp; Then I rebuilt, but around 2013-ish I sold off almost everything again (intentionally that time- a self-induced purge).&nbsp; Built back yet again, but when my credit card debt mounted to alarming levels, I did another major purge of my collection in the late 2010s.&nbsp; But each time I&#039;ve &quot;built back better&quot;, and put to use all the lessons learned.</p><p><br /></p><p>And one of the most vital of those lessons is <b><i>material detachment</i></b>.&nbsp; While I do get sentimental pangs over some coins I&#039;ve sold off, in the grand scheme of things, it&#039;s all just <i>stuff</i>, right?&nbsp; Over time, we&#039;re just temporary caretakers of these things, after all.</p><p><br /></p><p>One piece I really regret selling was an incredible gilt proof Irish 1805 penny, in NGC PF64 UCAM.&nbsp; Sadly, no pics of it survive.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/greece-kingdom-of-macedon-silver-mercenaries-drachm-of-king-perseus-ca-175-170-bc.286582/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/greece-kingdom-of-macedon-silver-mercenaries-drachm-of-king-perseus-ca-175-170-bc.286582/">This little Macedonian Choice MS gem</a> that went to live with [USER=17304]@kazuma78[/USER] is one of my more lamented sold coins.</p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/hqocBl9nQKCOoW914A9Z_Thessaly-Pseudo-Rhodian-drachm-091100-frame-v2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-roman-empire-orichalcum-sestertius-of-hadrian-134-138-ad-ex-boston-museum-of-fine-arts.286585/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-roman-empire-orichalcum-sestertius-of-hadrian-134-138-ad-ex-boston-museum-of-fine-arts.286585/">This Hadrian sestertius</a> with a former Boston Museum of Fine Arts pedigree is another &quot;seller&#039;s remorse&quot; coin for me.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FAncientRome-Hadrian-Sestertius-042000-coin-800x500.png&amp;hash=d6e3e2938d395db45adcee9c08f862f2" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In recent years, I did buy <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/258784/coins-roman-empire-ca-117-138-ad-bronze-sestertius-of-hadrian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/258784/coins-roman-empire-ca-117-138-ad-bronze-sestertius-of-hadrian" rel="nofollow">another Hadrian sestertius</a> to &quot;replace&quot; the one above (not quite), and as a &quot;consolation coin&quot;, it&#039;s certainly not bad (it got a &quot;Fine Style&quot; designation from NGC).&nbsp; But it doesn&#039;t hold a candle to the one above, in my opinion.&nbsp; I do still own this one, however.</p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/2e7e06a5d8ca4f8ba2834ffa1a34eefc.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS- [USER=59737]@Seattlite86[/USER] - cool klippe!&nbsp; I have owned (and sold) a couple, but never in a full thaler denomination.&nbsp; I do have <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/273682/coins-exonumia-tokens-weights-germany-wurttemburg-ca-1904-silver-klippe-stuttgart-numismatic-association-happy-new-year" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/273682/coins-exonumia-tokens-weights-germany-wurttemburg-ca-1904-silver-klippe-stuttgart-numismatic-association-happy-new-year" rel="nofollow">one klippe</a> in my current collection, but it&#039;s actually a 20th century piece rather than 17th century.&nbsp; So it&#039;s not a &quot;real&quot; klippe in my estimation.&nbsp; But it&#039;s pretty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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