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saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
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max out your credit card(s) for the first time, (like your wife), because "when will you have ths opportunity again"?? I admit it...I did it 6 months ago!!image
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  • GonfunkoGonfunko Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭
    How about get an advance on your allowance into infinity?
  • coinguy89coinguy89 Posts: 2,151
    It'll happen to me in the future, when I have credit cards and a wife.image
    Scott Hopkins
    -YN Currently Collecting & Researching Colonial World Coins, Especially Spanish Coins, With a Great Interest in WWII Militaria.

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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never maxed out the cards, but I have admittedly dipped into "sacred" accounts to get the cash before...and will probably do it again...hopefully soon! There seems to always be another must-have coin just around the corner.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • FrattLawFrattLaw Posts: 3,290 ✭✭
    None of the coins I collect would require me to max out my credit cards to buy it. That must be one expensive coin!

    What was the coin you bought?

    Michael
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The coins I collect are generally affordable. However, there are a few collections out there that, if sold, would undoubtedly force me to stretch my finances well beyond the limits of sanity, much less reason.

    Bring 'em on! image
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • CratylusCratylus Posts: 871 ✭
    It would have to be a pretty big "MUST HAVE coin" for me to do it, but I admit it: if the right coin came along, I definitely would do it.
  • DragonAzzDragonAzz Posts: 165
    Although I have been tempted, I haven't done it.

    If I don't have the cash, I don't buy it.
    "DragonAzz doesn't strike me as a nutcase." clw54 06/18/06

    The good thing about having multiple personalities is that there's always a designated driver.

    Yes, I'm an agent of Satan but my duties are largely ceremonial.
  • Purple73Purple73 Posts: 2,016 ✭
    hmmm.. dont have credit cards...just don't need any. Don't have a wife..thats prolly why I don't need credit cards.

    "when will you have this opportunity again"

    Thought this very thing 5 years ago for a trip to Australia. Will think it again when I see a must have coin.


    PURPLE!
    Founder of The Circle of Crust™
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I can think of all sorta of big buys that i would like eventually. Have to soften the wife up first. proof flying eagle cents, proof largecents and half cents. Early type (gold, chain cents). I only buy with available cash.
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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    there was a 1913 Saint MS65 POP 6!! none higher...hadn't been a PCGS 65 on the market for a decade...is that "must have"?? OH YEAHHHH BAAAABY!!image

    And I NEVER even used Visa, MC except for places that didn't take AMEX...but I jus haaaaaaad to have this coin. I'm happy to say that it has been payed, and I'm very lucky to get it. Now where's the next "max-out"?image
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  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    Pics?
  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Saint Guru,

    I did it one time, and it was well worth it. A coin that I wanted came available and I had very little money at the time. I scratched up all I had and took a cash advance to get the rest. At 2% it cost me a couple of hundred, but had it payed back in less than 60 days. But the good part was that during that two months, that coin rose approx 1600.00 in the cdn. So IMO it was worth it and I actually saved in the long run.

    jim d
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
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    JUST HAD TO HAVE IT!!!!
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  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    Very nice!image Congrats. BTW, who is Brahin?
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    maybe if you click on the registry set link on my sig line you will see....image
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  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some day I'd like to upgrade this 1799 Draped Bust Dollar with a PCGS AU-58, and also get the earlier Small Eagle Type as well as a high grade XF-AU Flowing Hair Dollar.

    My medium-term goal is to have one of each of the 3 Early Dollar Type Coins mentioned above... I am in no big rush, and it's fun shopping for just those right coins... image

    I personally would not purchase any coin on credit, and would only pay cash which was on hand, or which I generated from selling other coins in my collection to consolidate or upgrade to better coins.

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    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

    "Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    So far I've resisted temptations to overspend myself. But there is one coin I'm going to start planning to save up for and buy. A 1797 dime or half dime with 16 stars in VG or so condition.
    Blog and Pics
  • 12345678901234567890 Posts: 395
    As soon as I get a credit card and max it out, I'll tell you. image
    ~Richard Dorrance
  • slideridersliderider Posts: 1,834
    I would do it for one of the MS68 silver Roosie dimes.
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  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    max out your credit card(s) for the first time, (like your wife),

    Although she allows herself to do it, if I did it, my ganoingas would be in a sling.image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    YOUR ganoingas ??? Now that's a new variety of NUT!!!image
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Gonna do it in about a week.
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    I ain't sayin

    Tomimage

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • CramptonMotorsportsCramptonMotorsports Posts: 81
    I haven't yet but I've thought about it for a WTC Recovery SAE or GAE
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    My eyes have exceeded my paw,s capacity to grasp.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • dimplesdimples Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭
    I thought you had to reach 90% to get your name on the holder.image

    Dan

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