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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 4025606, member: 4626&quot;]I agree with that sentiment essentially but I still wouldn&#039;t say such a sentiment has anything to do with investment; it&#039;s just being an educated consumer and ensuring your getting your money&#039;s worth when making a purchase.&nbsp; I&#039;m certainly not opposed to that, but I&#039;m doing so just to make sure I&#039;m not overpaying for a coin I want; it has nothing to do with what that coin will ever be worth in the future, so it&#039;s still not &quot;investing.&quot;&nbsp; Any money I spend on a coin I want is never lost.&nbsp; And I&#039;d never buy a coin I don&#039;t want regardless of how much I think it may appreciate in value.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I guess our disagreement then is just a matter of semantics, because I do agree with the principles you&#039;re advocating for... I just don&#039;t consider them as having anything to do with investing.&nbsp; You&#039;re using &quot;investing/investment&quot; to mean things I would never use them to mean.&nbsp; What you&#039;re describing isn&#039;t &quot;investment strategy&quot; it&#039;s just being an educated consumer.&nbsp; To me &quot;investing&quot; strictly means attempting to grow your wealth, and thus buying something as an &quot;investment&quot; strictly means buying it with hopes it will appreciate in value, and that appreciation can be realized when it is sold.&nbsp; I don&#039;t &quot;invest&quot; in coins with the hopes of selling them at a profit; I buy coins because they&#039;re coins I want to own because I find them aesthetically pleasing and/or interesting.&nbsp; That&#039;s a pretty clear distinction in my way of thinking and why I don&#039;t associate &quot;investing&quot; with &quot;collecting&quot; (and why I get annoyed when people act like the two things are inseparably intertwined).&nbsp; One can certainly do both, but they&#039;re still entirely different and separate things.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well I&#039;m certainly not one of those collectors then!&nbsp; If all my coins became worthless tomorrow, I wouldn&#039;t enjoy them any less, because the pleasure I got from owning them never had anything to do with what they&#039;re worth.&nbsp; And that&#039;s the sentiment behind my insistence that I&#039;m a collector of coins, not an investor in them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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