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I think I have a case of coin burn out...

RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Not long ago, I was frustrated with the relative lack of "good coins" available for me to purchase. I whined about it in a thread here. Shortly thereafter, I was inundated with wish list (different than want list) coins; I sucked up what I could and then some.

Now, I feel like the starving man who ate too much too fast. Where once I would have been thrilled to have a Hershey bar, even a truffle from Godiva holds little appeal or interest.

I think I am in a coin buying funk. What do you think?
My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    Send all your neat gold coins to me and I'll keep them until you beg to have them back image
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I think many of us share your funk. Could be due to the stress

    of the upcoming elections as well as too much, too soon and too far.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can't really find anything good to buy, either. I have everything I need, and everything I want is too expensive image

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Sell some and go hunting. That works for me.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • jacktheknifejacktheknife Posts: 1,547 ✭



    I'm there as well. I've looked at several nice Lincolns lately and just haven't been able (or had the interest) to pull the trigger. I'm a little bit out of it as well

    Jack
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is not about not wanting or liking my coins. I have already pared down to the ones I need. image

    I do not feel election stress or any external stress that is out of the ordinary.

    I still can find nice coins that strike my fancy.

    It's not about the money--I have a credit at my favorite dealer from coins sold.

    I do not hunt--perhaps I should take it up.

    Despite my aversion to any newp, I still enjoy the forum and reading about coins. I am learning coin photography and working on my own website.

    I have just lost the appetite for buying coins. I'm full.

    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    May I suggest... if you feel burned out... stop looking for coins to buy... just enjoy your coins, enjoy the coins our friends show off on the forums, and just relax for a bit... take a little vacation from buying... I go actually go through the cycle very frequently... I'll go quite a while without buying coins, then I'll go on a buying spree, and then just stop for a while, then go on another buying spree... and you could always pick up another series... how bout something cheap? Something you can go to coin shows and shops and hunt down? Say maybe... a circ set of Buffalos, if you like Buffalos, or some other series that you like coins from that might be cheap, but still enjoyable. While right now I'm low on funds... I still get the thrill of the hunt... but instead of looking for coins in the $50-$100 range, or in your case maybe the $500-$1500 range image I'm hunting for a coin that's worth only a couple bucks, but is still, in my eyes, a gorgeous coin...
    -George
    42/92
  • slideridersliderider Posts: 1,834
    Maybe it's time to branch out in a new direction. Is there a series that you haven't focused on yet? Maybe an area of exo-numis that parallels your coin collecting interests?? If not, you could always get into philately and go whine to the creeps over in the Stamps forums. image
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  • DaveGDaveG Posts: 3,535 ✭
    I've been full a couple of times myself - don't worry, it'll pass.



    In the meantime, try a new book, coin related (Fractional Money by Neil Carothers, a doctoral dissertation from 1930 about how coins, primarily smaller than $1, were used in the 18th and 19th centuries), or not (Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson, a new, really cool book about scuba divers discovering a U-Boat) or a movie (I just got a copy of Streets of Fire, a 1984 movie by Walter Hill, starring Diane Lane and Michael Pare, with a great soundtrack).

    I expect that by the time of your next coin show (mid-November?) you'll feel better!

    Check out the Southern Gold Society

  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Carothers is a classic, good read.

    Might I suggest some vest pocket dealing to relieve your coin funk?
    Newman Numismatic Portal, www.NewmanPortal.org
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,336 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thin your collection a bit and take a few months off. The interest will return.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I expect that by the time of your next coin show (mid-November?) you'll feel better!

    Next coin show is in four weeks. I will have to rally.

    Lots of good suggestions. Some I am already doing. (Not stamps!)

    Football, anyone?
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • UncleWigglyUncleWiggly Posts: 2,467
    All I know is that I went to Pittsburgh to buy coins and came back with currency instead. It's definitely a nice break. Now my interest in coins is returning somewhat, enough where I can at least pick out the ones I am going to sell.


    Jerry
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    i know exactly how to cure your doldrums. TRADE some of your coins .... w/ a fellow COLLECTOR.

    believe me, it sounds simple, but is subtly much more complex then you might think.

    good luck!

    K S
  • WACoinGuyWACoinGuy Posts: 1,110


    << <i>May I suggest... if you feel burned out... stop looking for coins to buy... just enjoy your coins, enjoy the coins our friends show off on the forums, and just relax for a bit... >>



    I'll second that advice. My coin buying has slowed down a bit lately, and I've been enjoying updating my records of my coins -- making sure I have photographs of all of them. I have a bunch of proof sets that I haven't photographed yet -- getting an accurate picture of a proof coin is hard!
  • WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭✭
    That's exactly why/how I got into sample slabs - as a temporary diversion from my type set.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Go with the photography thing. Catalog your coins. get to know them with giant pictures.
    coinimaging.com/my photography articles Check out the new macro lens testing section
  • coachleonardcoachleonard Posts: 995 ✭
    Start a British type coin collection-- by monarch!
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    Now come on...you can stir up the old OCD...buy BIGGER MORE COSTLY COINS!!!image

    That'll get you blood flowing!!
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  • greghansengreghansen Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭
    Sell every coin you can find in your house that is worth less than $1,000.

    If you find you've sold a coin you really like and must own...buy it back...but in a higher grade over the $1,000 threshold.

    I say this toungue in cheek...but it would be interesting to see the results if anyone had adopted this policy.

    Greg Hansen, Melbourne, FL Click here for any current EBAY auctions Multiple "Circle of Trust" transactions over 14 years on forum

  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    buy BIGGER MORE COSTLY COINS!!!

    SG, Been there, done that. It ain't gonna work this time.

    Start a British type coin collection-- by monarch!

    You really want to me to stop buying coins...

    TRADE some of your coins .... w/ a fellow COLLECTOR.

    Neat idea, Karl. I will PM you my coins to trade list.

    Go with the photography thing. Catalog your coins. get to know them with giant pictures.

    Bingo. I am gearing up the photography, and airplanenut is helping me develop a website for my collection.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Start a British type coin collection-- by monarch! >>



    imageimageimageimageimageimage

    I'll Stick with Vic!!!!
  • MassFullStepperMassFullStepper Posts: 349
    DaveG gave some good advice....'Streets of Fire' is a solid movie...and if a movie with two guys duking it out in a street fight, with SLEDGE HAMMERS, coupled with a great soundtrack, cant get you out of your funk, then you ARE burnt out.....
    'My name is...... Shakezula, the mic rulah, the old schoola, you wanna trip, I'll bring it to ya.....'
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Can you share some of your burnout with me?? I've been spending way too much money and time on coins lately...... image

    BTW, Massfullstepper has the 2nd greatest icon pic around here...... but it still can't top the person who has the roll of toilet paper for their pic...
    image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • coynclectercoynclecter Posts: 2,111


    << <i>Streets of Fire, a 1984 movie by Walter Hill, starring Diane Lane and Michael Pare >>



    Pare does provide the totally WORST acting of any lead in any film in 50 years. That really should catch your attention.
  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
    RYK, I share your frustration. My problem is that the coins I am interested in and have been collecting for the past ten years or so have at least tripled in cost/value over the last four or five years. I am having trouble justifying some purchases. TomT.
    TomT-1794

    Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org

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