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What's the longest you've gone without buying a coin?

braddickbraddick Posts: 23,970 ✭✭✭✭✭
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As a Collector, what's the longest amount of time you've gone, lately, without buying a coin? Are you the type of Collector who is constantly signing those insurance forms at the Post Office?
Or, do you- on a good month, only receive one or two packages (nice coins though!)?

Are you expecting a coin to arrive this week? Today even?!

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  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    1990-2000: one 3-coin Statue of Liberty set
    2001: 3 coins
    2002 YTD: 3 coins

    [I don't count proof sets]

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    The longest I've gone without buying a coin was from the 5th day of my vacation until I got back (about 14 days). image
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    Obscurum per obscurius
  • MAULUMALLMAULUMALL Posts: 711 ✭
    Expecting 2 today.I think I go in spurts.I'm always looking.Never for anything in particular though.
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am currently in a mode where I am changing my collecting strategy, my problem is, that I don't know what my new strategy will be. So for the time being I am just putting my usual weekly coin allowance into an envelope and watching it grow week by week. It will probably be well over a month before I buy another coin. I figure by the time I figure out what I want to do, I should have a tidy sum to do it withimage
  • oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    I save up then buy a coin, save up buy a coin.... I buy one about every 3 to 4 months. I haven't gone more than four months without buying a coin for about the last six years or so.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    About 35 years.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • beelzebudbeelzebud Posts: 64
    Can go for months without, then I get the "itch" and then HAVE to buy! Probably longest stretch has been 8 months without a coin purchase. Buying habits also change when lives change: for instance, when buying a home.

    Bill
  • newbiecollectornewbiecollector Posts: 2,992
    It is unusual for me to not expecting 1 or 2 in the post each week. NOT super expensive but babies I bought.

    I can not imagine changing!!
    Becoming informed but still trying to learn every day!
    1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003

    International Coins
    "A work in progress"


    Wayne
    eBay registered name:
    Hard_ Search (buyer/bidder, a small time seller)
    e-mail: wayne.whatley@gmail.com
  • RLinnRLinn Posts: 596 ✭
    About 10 years ago I noticed that any money I had available for coin purchases burned a whole in my pocket and I would buy lots of things I liked. However, I found I never had enough money on hand for the items I really wanted. I took a year off from buying and put all of my coin money in a fire proof safe and looked at my current collection every time I got the urge to buy. At the end of the year I was able to be a serious shopper for high grade keys. I how have a totally different approach to buying that allows me to focus on much better coins. I still make smaller purchases, but not nearly so often. For me it is now "How choice?" not "How often?"
    Buy the coin...but be sure to pay for it.
  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Since I started collecting seriously. I have not voluntarily missed a day scanning the internet looking for coins on Ebay and other internet sites in three years. I have rarely gone a full week without buying a coin. I am expecting about 8 coins in the mail this week totaling about $350.00.

    Tyler
  • BladeBlade Posts: 1,744 ✭
    I typically buy 1 coin a month, though that will slow down as my type set requires higher-end coind to keep going. Then I expect to buy 2-3 coins per year.
    Tom

    NOTE: No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

    Type collector since 1981
    Current focus 1855 date type set
  • asnookerasnooker Posts: 246
    I had a two month streak going but fell off the wagon yesterday. It was a coin bought as a gift for someone else, so does that count? lol I must admit while I wasn't buying coins, I was buying collectable signed books. Ebay is addictive and I need help!!!!! We need to set up a 12 step program here!image
    If you give up your rights, in order to maintain your freedom. You will most likely end up losing both!
  • RotatedRainbowsRotatedRainbows Posts: 2,085 ✭✭
    About 6 years 1992-1998, I wish I was expecting packages every week but it is not that easy to find quality material now adays and I will not buy a sub-standard coin just so I have a new coin (I have been thru that phase before). I picked up 2 decent pieces this month (the first since August) but no other prospects waiting in the wings right now.
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Well, between 1990 and 2000 I bought a total of 2 mint sets and 2 proof sets that I can remember. Some coins were given to me, but I didn't get back in till 2000 and then I was buying every 6-9 months till this year.
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  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭
    Just about every week I am expecting something in the mail or I attend one of the many club shows on the weekends that are within driving distance.

    However, (here goes my new rating) I take exception to the (nice coins though!).image

    I buy what I am sure alot of board members would call junk. I only buy circulated coins and very rarely pay more than $50. for a single coin. But I have a great deal of fun buying and selling the way I do.

    To each their own. (The above was not a criticism, just pointing out different strokes for different folks)image

    Joe.
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Within the last year: 1 week.
    Within the last 5 years: 5 weeks.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • DoubleDimeDoubleDime Posts: 632 ✭✭✭
    A year, twice. Both times I was overseas with the Marines.
  • berylcoinberylcoin Posts: 365
    Longest layoff from buying: about 3 years. Other than that I commonly go 1-2 months without buying a new coin, but I'd like to space my purchases out more so I can get a little nicer stuff.

    BC
    Dip Happens...image
  • prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
    It's been eleven days since I bought my last coin & I am having withdrawal symptoms... image
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  • mbbikermbbiker Posts: 2,873 ✭
    I don't have a job so i can't buy coins very often but when i find a way to get some money it all goes to coinsimage In the past 6 months i have only bought about $100.00 worth of coins but i just sold one so now i can go look for some more coins. (thinking about a nice au-unc 2 cent peice)
    Gold + Silver for sale on BST, Eagles, Pandas, ATB's...
  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    About 20 years, I guess. I gave it up in 1979 when my brother stole my collection and sold it all for drugs. I didn't get back into it until 1999 when I bought a bunch of coins for my newborn daughter. That rehooked me image.

    -Bob
  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,546 ✭✭✭
    Well thanks Braddick, now I have to have one. Ebay here I come!!!!image mdwoods
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    We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
  • FrattLawFrattLaw Posts: 3,290 ✭✭
    The truth - or what I tell my wife?

    As an example I've been able to complete the proof Ikes, Sacs and almost complete my proof SBAs as well as start a Peace set - all in about 3 months. Also included in there are numerous other purchases not related to a registry set. Not to mention the proof sets that I purchase to crack out certain coins for submitting and then getting those back from PCGS.

    Hey, now that I think of it, my wife might be right - I'm a coin addict.

    Needless to say my office staff pokes fun @ my "packages" I get and the people @ my local post office now know me by name.

    Though, now with the Peace set, my buying is going to slow down so I can chase the more PQ examples. Perhaps only 5-7 purchases a week image

    Great Thread, now I realize as I sit here in my office with files piled up around me that sooner or later my life will be in shambles thanks to coins.image

    Michael


    MW Fattorosi Collection

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