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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8380690, member: 100459&quot;]I like the comparisons of cars to coins.&nbsp; My wife and I are retired state employees.&nbsp; We both get our state retirement and Social Security Income.&nbsp; That said, we have found that we can afford any car we like.&nbsp; We own 4 Toyotas that are serviced at the dealer to make sure that if a part needs to be replaced, the part will be manufactured for Toyotas.&nbsp; We bought our first Toyota in 2007.&nbsp; It is a Camry 6 Cylinder LE with 66,398 miles on it.&nbsp; It is stored in a garage in our home in town.&nbsp; My wife saw a black Camry SE when we were at the dealer having one of our vehicles serviced.&nbsp; As we sat in the waiting room, she decided that she wanted that car.&nbsp; It is a 2015 Toyota Camry SE.&nbsp; It had all the servicing papers in a binder (just like I do) and it had everything she wanted, so she bought it.&nbsp; It now has 50,150 miles.&nbsp; It, too, is house in the garage in town.&nbsp; I traded in my 2007 Toyota Tacoma, 6yl, TRD for a brand new 2015 Toyota Tacoma TRD with the extended cab.&nbsp; It now has 63,683 miles on it.&nbsp; When my wife&#039;s mother died in 2009, she inherited her mother&#039;s home in the country and a 2003 Toyota Corolla SE with 160,879 miles.&nbsp; The truck and Corolla are stored in the carport at her mother&#039;s home.&nbsp; We have people on a wait list to buy any of our vehicles.&nbsp; We also inherited 4 dogs and 2 cats from her mother.&nbsp; With our 3 dogs and now her 4 dogs and 2 cats, we were required to move to our &quot;country home&quot;.&nbsp; The city only allows its citizens to have 3 pets.</p><p>We installed a fence around about an acre so they can run and fight.&nbsp; Thankfully most of them passed and we were without any cats and 3 dogs.&nbsp; However, we are back to 4 dogs and 1 cat.&nbsp; Our &quot;country&quot; home is down a dirt road and people love to drop off dogs in front of our home, so, someone left an 2 month old Australian Shepherd.&nbsp; So we have as many dogs as we do cars.</p><p>Enough said about that...</p><p>Each of us has their own idea of what type of coin collection they will have and it will change many times over the years.&nbsp; I inherited half of my father&#039;s collection, which started me down the coin collection route.&nbsp; As with cars, I do a lot of research to determine how I want to collect coins and which coins we like to collect.&nbsp; I have bought many coins from ebay and have only had one hiccup.&nbsp; I have also bought several coins from Mount Vernon Coins and have been pleasantly surprised with the coins I bought from them.&nbsp; My main collections are purchased from the U.S. Mint.&nbsp; I know there are many people that don&#039;t like to buy from the Mint, but that is their choice.&nbsp; I have only been disappointed&nbsp; a few times when coins I was hoping to buy, were sold out within a few minutes of issue.&nbsp; The fiasco the Mint had this past year with the 2021 Morgans and Peace Silver coins, was disappointing, however, I did get 3 out of the 5 Morgans from the Mint.&nbsp; I did get the 2021 Peace Silver Dollar from Mount Vernon.&nbsp; I did get the 2016 gold dime, Standing Liberty and Walking Liberty from the Mint.&nbsp; The only time I sent off coins to be graded, was when I bought my first gold coins from a dealer.&nbsp; He took them to a &quot;Show and Tell&quot; of coins and had them graded.&nbsp; One of them came back &quot;Detailed-Obverse Scratched&quot;.&nbsp; The dealer offered to buy it back, but I declined.</p><p>Collecting and Purchasing other things are similar.&nbsp; It all depends how you approach them.&nbsp; Best of Luck to you all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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