After your vacation from collecting, what drove you back?

airplanenut

In response to this thread on why you might have left collecting, what brought you back?

When I left for a little while (when I was still new), I promised myself no matter what, I would still buy a silver eagle... that meant I had to go to the shop at least once a year... after a short recess, I was back in the shop, and WHAMMO! Back in the hobby

Jeremy

BillJones

I graduated from grad school, got a job and started to make money.

BigE

We put a new roof on--------BigE

boz

After the "EVIL' one ( my ex wife) croaked, finally got my Masters, started making good money, I returned to something I really loved. Sold all my previous coins and started buying the highest quality Morgans I can afford, or not afford but I get through it. Life is good!!!!

cladking

During my "vacation" from '65 to '72 I still watched the coins in circulation and
I had kept some of my coins. During these years there were numerous times
that the fed released large numbers of old uncirculated coins which had been in
storage for years. Sometimes these would be old circulated coins. It was already
becoming apparent that very few were collecting or paying any attention to the
new coins, but it seemed futile to expend a lot of energy assembling collections
if the government were just going to release large numbers of "rarities" far in the
future. Then I read an article in the paper that said the fed and mint were switch-
ing to FIFO accounting and would begin rotating their stocks of coin. It was 1975
before the old uncs stopped (suggesting a three year turnover). Also in '72 I got
my first steady well paying job. I started collecting the moderns and attempted sets
of the later silver coins also. I quickly gave up on the silver because they were just
as hard to find but would cost far more when they were found. So I started world
coins tokens and medals and have collected these ever since.

Eventually I'm interested in sets of some of the older US coins, especially silver minors
and colonials, but most everything.

Bustman

errr Boz, I'm afraid to ask, but ummh.....how did your wife die?

BigE

Sorry about your wife-----BigE

fantasiize

My vacation was probably from '79 to '94.

I tried to find some very nice Ikes to have a complete set of the last large dollar series AND the dollar series from my teens (that I did not collect as much as I should have). Given that I now had more money than before (but much less time) I also looked at the other areas I had interest in (mostly dollars and silvers, but I look at just about anything). Independent grading services were the new fad too and I acquired a few nice pieces (both quality and quantity).

Now I think I am here to stay, with no more vacations planned (in numismatics, but quite a few in real life).

toyonakataro

Internet

boz

Bustman, Car accident