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Do you try to make every move count when it comes to coins....?
bidask
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I have been buying coins very sporadically for my entire life. That's right I have been just another coin addict.
From weird moderns like with marijuana on it to very rare coins.
Today I stood literally 10 feet away and watched for a couple hours these guys try to make every move count.
Really fabulous to watch.
And it got me thinking, I need to make my coin decisions to purchase....and sell ........really count.
These guys make every move count
The players....
From weird moderns like with marijuana on it to very rare coins.
Today I stood literally 10 feet away and watched for a couple hours these guys try to make every move count.
Really fabulous to watch.
And it got me thinking, I need to make my coin decisions to purchase....and sell ........really count.
These guys make every move count
The players....
I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
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Then there is the competence level. Only maybe 0.001% of chess players (one in a 100,000 or one in a million of players that know the basic rules and claim they can play chess) can hope to compete in a top level chess tournament. Do you really think that you are in that top percentile of coin collectors/dealers? Is a person fooling themselves if they think that? If a person thinks that, it seems far more likely they are yet another coin deek that is taking themselves and their hobby WAAAAY TOOOO SERIOUSLY. Aren't hobbies are supposed to be fun?
It takes a lot of work to get better at chess. These days, if a young person isn't very good at chess by age 16, they have very little chance at a national championship. Now to coins, is a person putting in serious work to get better at coins? For coins that might involve, taking more seminars, working the bourse to develop contacts, studying as many coins and auction results as possible to get better at grading and pricing? Or are they more interested in having fun, at chess or with coins? I vote hobby for both. I am long past the days of getting better at chess. I might enjoy a casual game or playing on cheesy level against the computer, but I won't study chess any more. I've also pretty much given up on getting much better at the coin game too, though the actual status is inactive for coins.
Any way, top chess players are lucky to earn peanuts, while top coin dealers sometimes earn millions and have two Ferraris, plus a Lexus SUV in the garage at their beach house. So if financial reward is the goal, the chess players are wasting their time and brain power. I'm sure most chess champs would test far higher in IQ than most coin dealers, but they choose to tilt at the large windmill of trying to eek out a living playing (and teaching) chess.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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I prefer to enjoy coins, make some mistakes here and there, and treat it like the hobby it is.
When I buy coins for my personal collection, sometimes my rules fly out the window and I make place a nuke bid.
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Im going back down today. Fabianno Caruana game yesterday was unbelievably brilliant.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
In coins, almost every mistake is reversible, usually at a cost, but reversible.
Big difference!