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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2735299, member: 10461&quot;]There are <i>three</i> nice newps coming, actually.</p><p><br /></p><p>Being the eclectic soul I am, they&#039;re from the three main categories in my Box of 20.</p><ol> <li>Is an Ancient coin.</li> <li>Is a World coin.</li> <li>Is a US coin.</li> </ol><p>We&#039;re only discussing the Ancient here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am swapping away the most valuable coin in my set, essentially splitting that investment into these three pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yes, they are, in my humble opinion, all very nice coins on my budget.</p><p><br /></p><p>My most valuable single piece (@$2,300) has <i>been</i> my most valuable (monetarily, not sentimentally) by a factor of more than 2x.&nbsp; It is/was the only one I paid a four-figure price for.</p><p><br /></p><p>So now everything in my collection will have had a &lt;$1K pricetag.&nbsp; I&#039;m more comfortable with that, really.&nbsp; On my salary, I don&#039;t have any business buying or holding four-figure coins.&nbsp; I&#039;ll stay in <i>three</i>-figure territory (if only just).&nbsp; Granted, I do have three or four that are arguably <i>worth</i> &gt;$1K (if only just).&nbsp; And one of these new three was a $975 coin, so barely below the $1K ceiling.</p><p><br /></p><p>I swapped my keystone coin to a dealer who is sending me Coin #2 and Coin #3 mentioned above (the World and US coins).&nbsp; There was money left over to my credit, so I&#039;m getting a check, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>That check will buy Coin #1 (the Ancient) with a little to spare.</p><p><br /></p><p>I told the dealer who is sending Coins #2 and 3 that I&#039;ll keep mum about the deal until both parties express satisfaction and it&#039;s a done deal.&nbsp; (The commitment is made but shipping and final approvals are pending.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have committed to buy Coin #1 (the Ancient) regardless, and will, one way or another.&nbsp; So I have not promised to keep mum on that, but I will, until somebody guesses what it is. That dealer is just giving me the courtesy of waiting until the first dealer&#039;s check gets to me.&nbsp; The two dealers know and do business with each other, so it&#039;s kind of a triangle.</p><p><br /></p><p>All three coins i am getting are already third-party certified and graded, as was the one I&#039;m trading away (it is also <i>fourth</i>-party certified, by CAC).&nbsp; Not that most of you will care a fig that the Ancient is already in NGC plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Except perhaps my fellow misguided plasticizer [USER=81896]@Deacon Ray[/USER], LOL.&nbsp; And FWIW, it&#039;ll be the first NGC &quot;star&quot; I&#039;ve had, so I can emulate [USER=13450]@Zohar444[/USER] in a tiny way- he has more &quot;stars&quot; than Hollywood.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the remaining question is whether I&#039;m going to expand my Box of 20 into a Box of <b><i>25</i></b> (I&#039;ve actually been using a 25-slot slab box for a year).&nbsp; Or will I stick with a limit of 20 and then have some extras to sell?&nbsp; Time will tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Looking up at my post now.&nbsp; Dang, I type too much, don&#039;t I?&nbsp; Maybe I should have a self-imposed <i>word</i> limit instead of a <i>coin</i> limit, huh? Geez.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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