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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 1709985, member: 33176&quot;]Yes, Doug, I do agree this is a very good article.&nbsp; Even with that being said, first the author says (“buy only what you really like and that which gives you pleasure to own,” and “periodically sell some of your coins&quot;) </p><p>although if you buy what you like, how can you sell them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And in the next paragraph </p><p>(I have often argued that it only makes sense to buy coins that you think will go up in value.)</p><p>These might be mutually exclusive.</p><p><br /></p><p>My prize coin (which some here might scoff at, but it&#039;s my baby) is a 1794 large cent that I bought perhaps 40 years ago for $300 from a company called First Coinvestors that was one of the early ones pimping coin collecting as an investment.&nbsp; I can probably get more for it than I paid, but probably not more than inflation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, coin collecting is a hobby, but one in which we hope to lose less money than we would with disposable goods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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