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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3786531, member: 90666&quot;]The red tags are &quot;no coin here&quot; space fillers, colour matching the red Abafils! No text on the back.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;purge&quot; as you describe it, is likely continuous. I have quite a few coins on the side that don&#039;t feature in these red tray photos, bought for study purposes, or from older resources eg group lots, especially bronzes,&nbsp; perhaps obscure symbol or legend varieties of silver, or that don&#039;t now make my display grade, and there will always be upgrades, and sometimes I will feel a coin in these abafils no longer fits, or just need to sell a better coin to make some cash. The display groups, as these are, have got to look right and tell a story, being a collection. Not every coin is part of the main storyline, or may be now but not always forever. Consistent experience is that when I pull a coin that doesn&#039;t somehow fit the narrative,&nbsp; the result is my collection looks better not worse for being one coin less, and that&#039;s one I can now pass on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone has their own way of collecting. This way of putting together display sets is one of my techniques.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a small but significant number of cases I regret selling a coin. There&#039;s several months between consignment and sale, and moods change. When a sale gets listed, I kinda want about a quarter of the coins back, as in, they would be coins I&#039;d consider bidding on if I saw them elsewhere. But I resist the urge and remind myself of my credit card bills. But each sale has at least one coin I super regret putting up. In those cases, as a path of least regret, I tend to poke some friends and encourage them to get for their own collections. And maybe hope if they win it, that they&#039;ll let me have it back some day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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