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Where has all the PASSION gone?

I've been so busy with work that I missed the last Stack's auction completely (even after I'd marked 5 lots I wanted to bid on). When I was out of work coin collecting kept me intrigued and led me to write about coins.

I guess I'll only have time to focus on coins when I'm not busy and thus not making much money. If that's the case, I'll get the passion back but not have the means to complete my British commonwealth and other sets. Shall I hope I don't have much time to collect in the future? image
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  • Hi Shiro -- I know exactly what you mean. But still, from time to time in busy times, when I go to my coin collection and start to work, some kind of passion and energy returns. Actually it is a calming passion.
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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gee, I wish the guy that outbid me on some medals at the recent Stack's mail bid auction had lost his/her passion. Absolutely insane, both my competition and me!
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
    When I bid $550 on a coin that prices at $400 in Spink (we're not talking Krause undervalues here) and still don't win, I have to choose between losing a bit of passion or a lot of money. I chose the former.

    My passion gets me in too much trouble.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Don't worry Shiroh, the coinaholic in you won't let you miss out to much longer (work or no work).
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Don't worry Shiroh, the coinaholic in you won't let you miss out to much longer (work or no work). >>



    Perhaps I'll actually have some cash on hand when the next Waitangi crown comes up at auction?

    My core collections still interest me, but the fringe stuff looks really blah. The last coin I bought (a month ago) is a US trade dollar. I started with those a long time ago and didn't think I'd be buying any more for a long time. Go figure!
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,436 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My core collections still interest me, but the fringe stuff looks really blah >>


    Exactly how I feel.

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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>My core collections still interest me, but the fringe stuff looks really blah >>



    I enter that phase sometimes, nothing interests me except British coins. At other times (like right now) I want everything! Most of the everything gets sold sooner or later, but I have never sold off the core British collection.
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  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    Hey, some of the interest is coming back.

    It all started when I moved my collection of British Honduras 25 cent pieces. They're kept in a Whitman folder for British shillings, just as I bought them from a Heritage auction last year. The holes are a bit too wide for the early coins, and a nice 1895 25 cent piece fell out as I moved it. I picked it up to look at it, examined the nice strike, luster, and toning, and I fell in love again. Maybe I'm just tired of buying more coins.
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    This may seem really weird, but I recently received the latest brochure from the Royal Canadian Mint that got me interested in buying the latest in cheesy, quasi-numismatic products. I say "quasi-numismatic" because their numismatic value is low and the packaging interest is high for its strangeness. How about a commemorative silver dollar with a DVD-ROM? Or how about a Terry Fox dollar in fancy packaging> Weird, I tell ya-- just plain weird.
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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    Maybe I'm just tired of buying more coins.






    You're not alone shiroh. I've been struggling lately not to stop buying coins completely, but it seems unavoidable in the near future. Darkhorse's photos allowed me to rediscover my own coins and this doesn't make things any easier. The more I look for that passion, the less I get it.
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