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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2663660, member: 19463&quot;]I envy and pity simultaneously those of you for whom money is the limiting factor on your collecting activities.&nbsp; It is equally troubling to have money set aside to buy something special but fail to find anything you really want.&nbsp; I am as likely to find coins I really want among the under $100 group as in the over $1000 material.&nbsp; That is good except for the fact that I can&#039;t just send $10,000 to a dealer and say buy me something I&#039;d like.&nbsp; That was the Hunt Brothers style of collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting for reasons other than cash value does avoid one fact.&nbsp; It make no difference how much the value of a collection goes up or down unless and until it is sold.&nbsp; Aurei do not send quarterly dividend denarii.&nbsp; For those whose main desire is to prove how smart they were to buy such a good investment, the turn-around might be a matter of hours.&nbsp; Those of us who enjoy Scrooge McDuck style diving in our vaults full of coins we will never know, much less care whether that $100 turned into $1000 or $10.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A variation on Valentinian&#039;s subject makes me wonder:&nbsp; When our governments make collecting coins illegal and send all the dealer/auctioneers off to jail, how many of us will retain even a passing interest in coins?&nbsp; We can study fine art and architecture never expecting to buy the Mona Lisa or the Colosseum.&nbsp; When all I can have are the books, will I still want them?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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