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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 4025339, member: 4626&quot;]Collecting and investing are two entirely different things.&nbsp; And yes, one can certainly do both, but one doesn&#039;t have anything to do with the other IMO.&nbsp; Speaking only for myself (though I&#039;m sure at least some people agree), what bothers me with people bringing up the word &quot;investment&quot; when the hobby of coin collecting is discussed is it seems to imply the only reason anybody would want to collect coins is because they&#039;ll go up in value someday.&nbsp; That implication always seems to be around even if it&#039;s not stated or even intended.&nbsp; Me, I couldn&#039;t care less whether my coins go up or down in value, and even if every coin I own becomes worthless it&#039;s still a collection of coins I like owning.&nbsp; Not saying everyone discussing &quot;investing&quot; is guilty of this, but it&#039;s always a serious eye-rolling moment for me whenever I&#039;m discussing or showing off my collection and the first question out of their mouth is &quot;what are those coins worth?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m not going to say that everyone who thinks in terms of what coins will be worth someday is not a true collector, but... I do very much sincerely believe that anyone that <i>only</i> thinks in those terms is definitely not.&nbsp; And not to belabor the obvious, but if you sell a coin, that coin ceases to be in your collection lol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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