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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3262654, member: 27832&quot;]I don&#039;t see a choice in the poll for <b>Opportunist</b>. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In numismatics, and in most of my other pastimes, I don&#039;t focus on <i>getting what I want</i> nearly as much as <i>figuring out what I can do with what I can get my hands on</i>. I think it&#039;s partly being raised by parents who were kids during the Great Depression, but I think it might be partly innate as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if I land a big underpriced lot of Morgan dollars, I suddenly find myself spending more time learning about VAMs. If the pawnshop has some 1901-P Morgans that look too good to be true, I learn more about what strike characteristics really <i>are</i> peculiar to that issue. If the next pawnshop has a batch of Barber dimes, I refresh my memory about key dates in that series, and how much of an impact cleaning has on their value (still trying to break that shop of their bad coin-handling habits). In each case, I&#039;m <i>figuring things out</i> -- and <i>that&#039;s</i> what I live for.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of this is anything that I&#039;d ever be proud to present at an ANA conference, or post as a registry set, or publish as a book. But it&#039;s <i>fun</i>. And, over all, slightly cash-flow-positive. Depending on whom you ask here, that either means I&#039;m not <i>really</i> a coin collector (and certainly not a numismatist), or that I&#039;m some fantastically rare one-in-a-thousand example, or both.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it seems that I&#039;m perfectly OK with that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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