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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 2555704, member: 40017&quot;]I guess mine has been a slow building &quot;success story&quot; from the beginning. I started collecting again (after giving up in my teens) about 15 years ago. Pretty much my first buy was a box of mixed foreign and British for £50 from an old gent who was de-cluttering. When I sorted through it I quickly dicovered a Bulgarian 10 Leva Gold coin, which at the time was worth about £80, so that was me covered.</p><p>Being new to the hobby, I checked every coin carefully and discovered 4 Portuguese 1926 1 Escudo coins. They were base metal, so I might not have looked to closely, but the book suggested they might be worth $25, so I put one on Ebay. It sold a week later for £212! The other 3 made similar amounts, all going back to Portugal and suddenly I had a battle fund of £800.</p><p>I kept buying lots, putting what I wanted into my collection and selling the rest - somehow making a profit most of the time. On one occasion I got a call from an old lady who said: &quot;My husband died 7 years ago. He sold the best coins before he went and left me with the c**p, are you interested?&quot; I went to see and recognised a decent collection of Indian coins including a lot of silver. I reckoned there was £150 of scrap silver so made a cheeky offer of £80 expecting her to beat me up - but she accepted straight away! It took me 18 months to sell them all on Ebay and by the end I had netted about £4500.</p><p>Now 15 years from start I have a collection worth probably £50k, Spares worth another £10k and a battle fund of £5k - and I have rarely if ever dipped into my wages apart from the original £50. I think that counts as a success story?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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