WOULD YOU STILL COLLECT COINS IF.............

1040taxman

I just wanted to find out how many of you would still collect today if your coins had almost no worth over face value? Would it still be something worth doing??

jbsteven

like pocketchange?

nope

Compa

Absolutely!!!!!

My biggest problem with collecting now is the cost

kieferscoins

<< <i>just wanted to find out how many of you would still collect today if your coins had almost no worth over face value? >>



Of course. Some sample slabs are very close in value to their face value (at least when they are given away).

Cameron Kiefer

fcloud

Yes I would! I collect for fun. The potential profit thing is nice, too. But, at face value there is no downside risk!

09sVDB

Absolutely. That's how I started anyway. I would guess I collected for about 10 years before I bought my first coin.

Myriads

Yes no question. I colect for the fun and knowledge.

Myriads

FC57Coins

That's kinda what darksiders do isn't it?

CoinAddict

Yes I would.

lordmarcovan

Sure. Maybe not as avidly, but why not?

Cam40

That's kinda what darksiders do isn't it?

lol

a2labmom

I certainly would collect regardless of the value of my coins. I collect for the enjoyment and also to learn a bit about American and world history through coins.

BigE

I'm with Frank, it would be like collecting worthless foreign junk--------BigE

lordmarcovan

I believe the Cigar Smoking Pug's "that's kinda what darksiders do isn't it?" comment was in regards to Myriads' saying, "I collect for the fun and knowledge."

Collecting for the fun and knowledge is exactly what Darksiders do. Since one cannot spend drachmas or florins or yen or dinars here in the U.S. of A., anyway, you can pretty much assume Darkside coins have NO face value. Many have monetary value, though. And even the cheap "junkbox" coins with very little monetary value can be quite fun and educational (and often pretty old, too).

XpipedreamR

Yes, and it would be a lot cheaper, too

ksteelheader

Actually, truthfully, I still would....Ken

Catch22

Not unless I thought they would increase in value at some point in the future.

BillJones

Absolutely! If I could get the early coins that I need at a few hundred dollars a piece, I'd be has happy as a pig in poop! It will never happen. If it did the rest of the economy would be such a state that all of us would be on the road to poverty.

nwcs

Actually, yes. In fact, now that I have sold the vast majority of my coins and almost all my really valuable ones, I'm in this general area. If you take away the dozen decent value coins I have left (only 2 of which I'm going to part with in the future - the rest are permanent collection stuff) almost all that which remains is either face value (old wheats) or not too much above face (MS-63 to MS-66 Jeffs from the 30s-60s). And now that I'm buying a car tomorrow, it'll stay that way for a good year or two. So I'm glad I'm happy to cherry pick jeffersons and not spend too much and enjoy it just the same. And if I slab, it'll be for resale only. I hope to make some money now and then that way as I get better at cherrying coins.

khalleyplayer

Absolutely!!!!

Even though Im new to coin collecting I know coin collecting can be fun no matter what.

lclugza

Yep- in fact, I'd collect even more coins!

cladking

<< <i>I just wanted to find out how many of you would still collect today if your coins had almost no worth over face value? Would it still be something worth doing?? >>



Sounds great. I could finally afford to collect everything. The downside would be
trying to make change when buying a dinarius.

sumnom

Of course! What an odd question. I collect coins because I find them of intrinsic interest.

hamiltonjh

Yup. sure would. I like them for many reasons. Simply, I like to look at them for one.
If I could continue to get the coins I like to look at at face value, I'd be happy, and have a helofalot more in my collection.

Jody526

Of course. I collected for many years before buying a coin. And I still collect coins from circulation.
I've never bought a coin with any intentions of reselling it. Circumstances may dictate that I do that someday, but for now I just enjoy owning them and giving a few away ocasionally.

newbiecollector

Like many have stated here I certainly would. IMHO to use Collecting and Value is almost an Oxymoron.

I collect for eye appeal and history. I think to consider coins as a "value" investment is very limited in vision.

As I said it is just my view.

LAWMAN

I started that way in the 50's. Had friends picking DDO's out of circulation in Boston. I started several great collections out of pocket change and my friends and I would drive the local banks crazy getting rolls and rolls of coins to go through. It was fun then.

mgoodm3

If they were still rare and unusual, yes.

MrEureka

That's kinda what darksiders do isn't it?

To an extent, yes. Same as collecting US coins fifty years ago. Back then, US coins were almost free, much was left to discover, and there were no TPG's and government agencies to protect collectors. God, how primitive! Why did they even bother?

Lakesammman

Heck ya - that way I could afford more than just IHC's!!

cosmos66

I wish the coins I collected had little over face value. I am sick of paying hundreds of dollars for a one dollar coin!