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...your house or your coins?

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,082 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My house is not fulla coins!!
    theknowitalltroll;
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    Man, this is a hard one to figure out, I'll let some more people post before I make a move-------------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You can't live in a coin, but you can always sell your house.image
  • Great idea, thanks!

    If I can talk the wife and kids into selling the house and buying an RV, I'll have
    more money each month for coins AND can attend more shows!

    I think I can sell the kids on the adventure aspect!
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,082 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My coins are not worth more than my house and I would not give up my house to keep my coins.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    If it ever came down to the house or the coins for me, I would already be in a heap of trouble considering I rarely spend more than $10 on one coin or $100 in a month on coins.
    C. D. Daughtrey, NLG
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    My numismatic art work:
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    USAF veteran, 1986-1996 :: support our troops - the American way.
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  • HadleydogHadleydog Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭
    House.
    Horse for that matter too!image
  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭
    I can always find another house I like as well as the one I own, I don't think I'll find coins I like as well as the ones in my collection.
    Mike Hayes
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    Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !

    New Barber Purchases
  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977
    Which House?image
  • anoldgoatanoldgoat Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭
    It's hard enough to buy a home here in the valley. Think I'll keep it.
    Alright! Who removed the cork from my lunch?

    W.C. Fields
  • GooberGoober Posts: 980 ✭✭✭
    Wow, the wife actually asked me today if I had enough value in coins to buy her a new house. Of course the answer was no, is no, but I can't seem to get her to believe it.
    Prost!

    Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,082 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How bout my coins for YOUR house?
    theknowitalltroll;
  • Or my house for your coins ?
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  • Funny, That is a decision that I will have to make in the very near future, tough call. I could use some opinions. I do love both, and it's really hard to choose on one or the other.
    Building 33-47 Mint Sets always looking for MS67s PM with any coins you might have for sale.

    Mike
    idocoins
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    OK, I decided. I couldn't do the house now because since the roof blew off the whole place is brand new and besides then the wife would leave and she"s too good of a cook. Before the roof blew off it would have been a different story-----------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    What coins?
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    "A horse, my kingdom for a horse" Richard III
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭
    It's easy...
    You get an equity line on your house, don't tell your wife, and buy as much coins as your equity line can afford.
    Been there, done that...
    At 3.75% annual percentage rate, it's like the old college loans at 1% that allowed us "do deals", it is fun.
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭
    My house for the time being. However, the coins are quickly catching up.

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • GandyjaiGandyjai Posts: 1,380 ✭✭
    I could have paid off the house by now, if it wasn't for coins!image

    Gandyjai
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,082 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<It's easy...
    You get an equity line on your house, don't tell your wife, and buy as much coins as your equity line can afford.
    Been there, done that...>>

    Kinda hard to get a home equity loan or line of credit for yourself if the wifey is a joint owner of the home. She has to sign too!!
    theknowitalltroll;
  • I just built an all brick house and sold all my coins to do it. Now I'm starting over again. The final coin collection will be the best though. image
  • RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>She has to sign too!! >>


    True...impossible w/o their sig. too...
    Piece of cake... but that's another thread... image
  • smprfismprfi Posts: 874
    I don't ever see myself getting into that type of posistion to have to make that decision.
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,379 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well,

    Since I have been told by an ignoramus that I bought a house that was $100,000 too expensive for me (but it was only $50,000 to start with image (joking on that part)) and had to resort to selling a, how did the old fool say it? something like... "piece of crap $300 coin" to pay for it.....well, I think I would keep the house image

    Since I have spent the last couple of weekends moving in....what fun what fun....and still have to put my old house on the market (gotta love dual mortgates image...heh heh heh), I haven't been buying too much.

    But, it is good to get back into some of the things I want with coins. I didn't sell that "piece of crap" coin (which is an NGC MS65 morgan...and, I kind of like it....but, I did have to scramble for funds at the last minute as I had enough for a downpayment for a $500,000 house, but we bumped to a larger one close to work that was $600,000....makes a difference in the downpayment...especially when one is paying for child card (~$1000/mo in this area for a 2yo image ). I did sell 5 out of the 7 L&C C&C sets though image that payed me back a tad bit.

    So, since I don't have the 1 of a kind coins that others do, the question is a super easy one to answer....keep the house. The coins I have can be replaced. My son's well being growing up is more important and I can always get him more coins to replace these if necessary as they are not rare at all.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    I live in my dream house. I was in a econo appartment for six years before I bought this house. If it came down to the house or the coins... every coin would be sold so I could keep the house.

    I have quite a bit invested into my collection. The reason I can justify the level of my investment is because of my willingness to sell it if the need should arrise. It's a hobby, and a financial tool. Some people use savings accounts to stash back money; I use my coin collection.

    David
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,082 ✭✭✭✭✭
    << She has to sign too!! >>


    True...impossible w/o their sig. too...
    Piece of cake... but that's another thread... image

    I spose one could always find smoeone to sit in for her for a short while as long as the bank people don't know who she is.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    I actually went through that scenerio two years ago. In July 2002, I got laid off from work, it came down to sell the coins and pay off the house and cars. Or have a great Morgan collection living under the I-290 overpass in a cardboard box. I decided to sell off the Morgans and the Lincolns, I wish I could have waited 2 more years for this WHITE HOT coin market!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    not sure if the question is, which is worth more, or which would be sold last.

    anyway, answer to both is, house.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

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