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<p>[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3275479, member: 78244"]I first started with set collecting as with just about everybody else, but I quickly got bored of that since having a bunch of the same coin (albeit embossed slightly differently) is not interesting. I sold most of my sets to help fund my US type set, which I did find interesting for several years. It was nearly complete per 7070 standards, but given my budget I could not really afford to fill the last hole or upgrade the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus I started trolling eBay to get these on the cheap, as well as other coins which I could flip for a profit to pay for the ones I wanted to keep. This turned out to be very successful, and I was upgrading my collection. But the more I did this, the more boring several of the types became, and I had little motivation to pay up to upgrade them. With this I stopped pursuing my type set. I was also starting to collect ancient coins a little more at this time, and I was coming to the impasse of “do I was to spend $$$ on a single US coin for my collection, or a bunch of ancient coins?” Increasingly the ancient coins won out as US coins became more boring.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I started dealing quite seriously this past summer, I realized that the only US coins that I found interesting were those not struck in collars (pre-1836) because they had hand-made character and were not boring mass-produced copies. But these in any decent grades are extremely expensive (with the exception of capped bust halves), prices where I could buy several historic and iconic ancient coin types in great condition. Since I prefer to collect stories rather than money (investment is not my concern), I naturally leaned toward the cheaper, more-historic options offered by ancient/medieval coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last straw was my frustration with the US coin market. The coins themselves don’t matter as much as the plastic tombs in which they are housed, so raw coins are relatively worthless compared to their slabbed counterparts. And when you submit coins to the TPGs, their value was completely dictated by the grades assigned, correct or not. This makes US coins a commodity more than a collectible. And then of course you have constantly-moving goalposts which keep you from knowing what grades you are going to get. I decided to hell with it all, and so I moved to collecting coins where I do not have to constantly worry about what some anonymous grader would say about it. Plus ancient/medieval coins are not commoditized because they are each unique and cannot be commoditized.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3275479, member: 78244"]I first started with set collecting as with just about everybody else, but I quickly got bored of that since having a bunch of the same coin (albeit embossed slightly differently) is not interesting. I sold most of my sets to help fund my US type set, which I did find interesting for several years. It was nearly complete per 7070 standards, but given my budget I could not really afford to fill the last hole or upgrade the coins. Thus I started trolling eBay to get these on the cheap, as well as other coins which I could flip for a profit to pay for the ones I wanted to keep. This turned out to be very successful, and I was upgrading my collection. But the more I did this, the more boring several of the types became, and I had little motivation to pay up to upgrade them. With this I stopped pursuing my type set. I was also starting to collect ancient coins a little more at this time, and I was coming to the impasse of “do I was to spend $$$ on a single US coin for my collection, or a bunch of ancient coins?” Increasingly the ancient coins won out as US coins became more boring. When I started dealing quite seriously this past summer, I realized that the only US coins that I found interesting were those not struck in collars (pre-1836) because they had hand-made character and were not boring mass-produced copies. But these in any decent grades are extremely expensive (with the exception of capped bust halves), prices where I could buy several historic and iconic ancient coin types in great condition. Since I prefer to collect stories rather than money (investment is not my concern), I naturally leaned toward the cheaper, more-historic options offered by ancient/medieval coins. The last straw was my frustration with the US coin market. The coins themselves don’t matter as much as the plastic tombs in which they are housed, so raw coins are relatively worthless compared to their slabbed counterparts. And when you submit coins to the TPGs, their value was completely dictated by the grades assigned, correct or not. This makes US coins a commodity more than a collectible. And then of course you have constantly-moving goalposts which keep you from knowing what grades you are going to get. I decided to hell with it all, and so I moved to collecting coins where I do not have to constantly worry about what some anonymous grader would say about it. Plus ancient/medieval coins are not commoditized because they are each unique and cannot be commoditized.[/QUOTE]
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