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291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,371 ✭✭✭✭✭
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you're priced out of the market.
All glory is fleeting.

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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If so, I'm going down fighting. image
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  • gamr0ngamr0n Posts: 608
    lies!

    The coins I buy are raw and low quality; consequently, they are affordable.
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  • 1921obsession1921obsession Posts: 559 ✭
    The day I get priced out of my market, we all need to quit. image
    Proudly upholding derelict standards for five decades.
  • CoindexterCoindexter Posts: 1,074
    I've been priced out of the market since 2004. Being a spectator gets boring sometimes, but I still have a lot to learn so I'll live with it.
  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,814 ✭✭✭
    I'm not out yet!

    But I'm getting really really close.

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    etexmike
  • SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭


    << <i>you're priced out of the market. >>



    Actually, I'm not. I'm a from change collector with all my "key coin" purchases behind me.

    image I get to enjoy the hobby.
    GO AHEAD! I DOUBLE-DOG DARE YOU TO RATE ME A 1!
  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    I'll just take a lesson from the government and I'll continue to throw money at the problem.
  • DeusExMachinaDeusExMachina Posts: 1,325 ✭
    Not yet, but I can say I see a lot more junk offered at higher prices.

    Lets get interest rates rising and real estate bubbles bursting so I can buy more coins. image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I'm so desperate I started collecting glass.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭✭
    A few things are out of my reach, but I just adjust to fill the bill.....
    Collection under construction: VG Barber Quarters & Halves
  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭
    I'll down-grade and buy from another TPG............!!!!
    ......Larry........image
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,670 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I collect almost everything so I'm always priced out of some markets and getting
    steals in others. It's a tough time to collect US coins but there are still some that
    are cheap.
    Tempus fugit.
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,960 ✭✭✭
    If you get priced out of the market on your series, change focus. There is always an undervalued series just not always a desirable series. image
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,239 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>you're priced out of the market. >>



    I feel your pain.image


    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is a sad day when I drop 50 bucks into my gas tank and watch the needle drop ooh soo fast yet, there are still a lot of nice coins out there that are going into that stupid tank that should be going into my collection. It's all relative---- the way the people in charge (whoever they are) have it set up is- you start out with nothing and when you go--you got it--you end up with nothing-----so I am still buying coins no matter what THEY think.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • MAD4MORGANSMAD4MORGANS Posts: 2,044
    I rationalize the price of coins against the cost of a tank of gas too.

    It makes them seem like a real bargain!! image

    If I only had a dollar for every VAM I have...err...nevermind...I do!! image

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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not yet I just won two eBay auctions.
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  • BASEagleBASEagle Posts: 383


    << <i>Not yet I just won two eBay auctions. >>



    Me, too. A 1972 mint set for $4.


  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Almost-There are still a few culls i can afford:imageimage
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  • ModernDollarNutModernDollarNut Posts: 886
    Come on Guys! Look at Ikes and Ike varieties..... Many can be had with some diligence and about $1.25 per at shows. Stop complaining and be on the leading edge of the next major collectible. Or buy rolls of Sacs/SBAs at banks and find decent AUs and some BUs and even a few Wide Rims. It's like being a kid in the local Mom and Pop's till all over again.

    Shift gears and bring some fun back. Rob
    Modern dollars are like children - before you know it they'll be all grown up.....

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  • lonelyplonelyp Posts: 1,634


    << <i>you're priced out of the market. >>



    You'er right!

    But only cuz I keep watchin Coin Vault image


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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Surprisingly, this hasn't happened yet........ but I'm getting a little worried......
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I am not price out of the market, I just choose at this time,

    not to chase coins. I buy nice coins,at realistic prices and

    prepare for the worst that is to come. Remember, things always seem

    fantastic, just before the final curtain falls.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • librtyheadlibrtyhead Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭
    I still have 6-7 people around town that work at gas stations,banks,stores,etc so I look forward to fridays.Otherwise I am chit outta luck!image
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 11,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    291fifth:

    You have a point there! I started buying plastic instead of gold and silver!





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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's not that I can't afford the current prices for the material I collect. Rather, I think that for the most part, they are so ridiculous, that I've bought all of ONE coin in the last six months. I don't even know if I'll bother going to the next major show in my area; if I do, it'll probably be to see familiar friendly faces, not to look for / at coins.
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  • ccexccex Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭


    << <i>If you get priced out of the market on your series, change focus. There is always an undervalued series just not always a desirable series. image >>



    I've felt priced out of the market ever since I got my first Redbook at age 11. All these cool coins I wanted to collect but couldn't sell my soul to get.

    In the meantime, I've had lots of fun with $10 to $500 coins 20 years ago this budget let me buy a nice Flowing Hair Half dollar for my type set. Now I've narrowed my focus to the Dansco 7070 and circulated Barber coins.

    Changing focus to enjoy the hobby within one's budget is the name of the game. In the early '80s. when my prep school and college classmates were going to law school, medical school, or business school to prepare themselves for a high-maintenance lifestyle, I moved to Ghana. That experience taught me how to enjoy life among the freindliest people on the planet, even though there were times during hyperinflation when the local currency couldn't buy anything other than onions, peppers, or palm wine.

    Tonight I had fun going through my duplicate FR and AG Barber halves trying to discern mintmarks which were 3/4 obliterated. If the economy really tanks andcoins become the hobby of the wealthiest, I'll still have a few albums stashed away for contemplation.

    I'm convinced that there are no boring coins, only collectors which are bored with most of them. I can't afford to be bored with my coins.
    "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,371 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe the future for most collectors is collecting acid date buffalo nickels.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • ibzman350ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭
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  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now I'm depressed.
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

    "Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."


    ~Wayne
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    Maybe the buyer's market, but not the sellers!
  • SFDukieSFDukie Posts: 618 ✭


    << <i>I'll just take a lesson from the government and I'll continue to throw money at the problem. >>

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    Don

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