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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2744391, member: 82549&quot;]In all honesty, I have to admit to a mercantile element in my own collecting. I&#039;ve spent a lot of time and labor slowly putting together my <a href="http://feltemp.com/Emperors/Emperors_Page1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://feltemp.com/Emperors/Emperors_Page1.html" rel="nofollow">Roman Emperor</a> and my <a href="http://feltemp.com/Constantine_1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://feltemp.com/Constantine_1.html" rel="nofollow">Constantine the Great</a> collections, and I take some pride in the fact that they are probably worth a few thousand dollars or so today. I spent years building up these collections with the money I earned by buying uncleaned coins, cleaning, IDing and then selling them on eBay and, even though my main motivation has always been just the joy of discovering nice coins under all the dirt and encrustation and solving the puzzle of where the coin is from, when was it made, who&#039;s depicted on it, etc., when it finally comes time to sell these collections--probably when I retire, assuming that none of my children or hypothetical grandchildren show a great interest in them--I hope to get a good return on my investment of time and labor.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, yeah, in my own modest way, I&#039;m not above the same profit-driven motives of the high-end collector/investors whom I like to snark about. It&#039;s just easier for me to pretend otherwise because I&#039;m at such a smaller scale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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