What do you do between purchases?

*Read about coins/read about other stuff.

*Do foreign-language internet searches for new retail sites and forums that I haven't found yet (that relate to coins).

*Translate information and write articles on Korean coins that haven't been written about yet (in English) for my website, or for publication when I get the chance, kinda like these:
http://dokdo-research.com/hwancoins.html
http://dokdo-research.com/fivemillenia.html
http://dokdo-research.com/fifthrepubliccommems.html

*Lurk on forum sites or coinbooks.org, mostly just to read about the interesting and unusual.

I think the point is to stay "productive" somehow when the funding gets low, so you're not jonesing so much for another coin buy.

 

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...you're not alone, that's exactly what I am doing after each purchase

 

Fill my Franklin Danco with BU examples. Collect Silver proof Roosevelts. Roll search.

 

Buy Dan Carr overstrikes just to rile folks up on CoinTalk.

 

This was helpful, I didn't know about the Coin Show podcast. First time I have used the podcast feature on my iPad, and I'm loving it. Wish I could go to the big show in Chicago, but ther is just too much going on. Thanks stoster38
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Bump

 

I'll go through my personal inventory and see what I might want to sell or upgrade at the next national show. I still have graded and raw coins I want to liquidate. Most are modern U.S. Mint releases. But there are also a few old pieces I feel I can sell to dealers while at shows. I'm at a point I no longer collect sets of anything. I would rather have a few great coins then 100's of VG30 or higher coins.

 

I am in a huge gap in purchasing that will likely persist for several years as I work to change career paths. During that time, however, I will continue to keep up with the coin market and the newest hobby news and research. I am even contemplating opening a coin related business to help pass the time, and perhaps serve as a source of income that could narrow the gap before the next purchase.

For shorter gaps, I do lots of research on the market, and religiously stalk the newest listings of dealers that deal with my areas of focus and the latest auction catalogs.

 

A part time coin related business doesn't make enough money to invest your time in. You might do better working for a larger numismatic store, if you have one, and get paid an hourly wage. Consider it an educational experience that is being paid for by someone else.

 

You're probably right, but I was hoping for something that I could have a flexible schedule with.

 

What do I do between coin purchases?, let me see: I guess I think about the next coin to add to my collection.

Who Is an Coin Addict?
Most of us do not have to think twice about this question.
We know!
Our whole life and thinking is centered in coins
—the getting and collecting of coins and finding ways and means to get more.
We live to collect coins and nothing else.
Very simply, a coin addict is a man or woman whose
life is controlled by the collecting of coins. We are people in the grip of a
continuing and progressive act of having fun and learning about the history and artistry of coins.

 

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What do you do between purchases?

Scratch my bottom, wiggle my ears, twiddle my thumbs, and wait for the next coin of the century.........

 

I know the feeling, man.