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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 220210, member: 6370&quot;]Thing is, its not true that high quality coins means dumping a lot of money for it and only buy a few a year in my world which is the point that I have been trying to make. It matters what you collect. You can get a very nice quality Constantine coin (a REAL ancient coin) for rather cheap...of course it will cost more than one in poor shape but for one in poorer shape you can get for anywhere between 3-10 dollars...one in nice shape (common issue) you can get for maybe 10-20 bucks more and if you find a real good deal (and they do exist) you can get quite a horde of real good quality ancient coins for the price of one poor quality Liberty Bust. You can buy the coin in my sig for less...so I guess it just matter what you collect and how you go about it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Maybe its because I do not collect sets of the same type coin that I dont get why one would teach a young collector to spend good money on poor quality coins...I collect individual coins save for Roman coins and I collect at least one of each emperor (not full sets of each emperors coinage) and still I only want the best I can find for the price I want to spend. If I am going to spend my hard earned money on an example of, say...an Etheopian coin of Haile Selassie I...it will be the only coin in my collection of the type (as I wont collect all the dates and types) so I want it to be a real nice example of that rulers coin...same with almost every type of coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I guess it IS all in how you approach collecting but I would rather spend a bit more to get a nicer example then to buy a worn example only to, later down the line, have to replace it (like the notgeld example I cited) and by the same coin twice. I would try to instill in the youngun a healthy respect for money and a good deal. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For a collector like me, there will still be MANY chances to buy good condition coins at affordable prices...I have never felt like I am hampered from getting new coins because I want good quality...but again...on the whole, I buy colelct pretty much every type coin out there so there will always be coins out there to by that are cheap even in good condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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