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What's the longest You've gone between either buying or selling a coin?

braddickbraddick Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭✭
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For some I'm sure it's questions of days if not hours.
What's the longest stretch of time you've gone between either coin purchases or selling a coin?

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Couple months.

    Edit: not counting long hiatus between 1980 and about 2000.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,205 ✭✭✭✭✭
    About a year, when I went back to graduate school.

    I had no extra money, and I have let my subscription to the Coin Dealer Newsletter lapse. I still belonged to a local coin club and went to as many meeting as I could, but I ddin't buy or sell anything.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1973 - 1986

    Discovered girls and drugs.

    I wonder if one lead me to the other?
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    approx. 12 years
  • segojasegoja Posts: 6,136 ✭✭✭✭
    10 hours....sell me some Ikes!!!!
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  • millenniummillennium Posts: 3,305
    About 30 years.......quit for long time.......now back into it.
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  • ChuckCChuckC Posts: 1,600
    1.) 1988-98

    2.) 1999-2005

    3.) 6 month period in 2005

    4.) 4 month period beginning in Dec 2005

    5.) To date: it's been 4 weeks since I last bought/sold



  • doughmakingdoughmaking Posts: 251
    Prob about a year when i was broke, and couldnt part with my coins.
    Love them busts!
    I am Looking to Buy California Tokens too.
  • ledzep87ledzep87 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭
    As of now, 13 hours 20 minutes and 10 seconds......literally!
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll admit, everyday I try to sell someone a dime for a dollar. They all tell me the same thing. "We don't buy B.S., Joe, we only hear it".


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    you poor folks have to read it.
  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excluding 1975 to 2000... the longest dry spell since has been 3-4 months...L
    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,407 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1955 to 1995.
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    last coin i bought was from you, PC.
    so i go months easily now.
    seems the more i learn, the less i buy. thankfully image

    as for selling, yes i am. one coin a week until i cull
    my collection to above par examples for the grade.
  • thezookrewthezookrew Posts: 650 ✭
    Since I started collecting again, about 2 months. Now that my wife is starting a new business, it will probably be about a year before I can buy anything, and I hope to heck that the business takes off so that I am not forced to sell anything!!!
    TheZooKrew
    Morgan, modern sets, circulated Kennedys, and Wisconsin error leaf quarter Collector
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  • ricmanricman Posts: 313 ✭✭✭
    At least 25 years.
  • ccrccr Posts: 2,446
    About 20 years. Since I`ve been back into the hobby, 8 months.
  • OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684 ✭
    Aeons...





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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I took the common break between ages 13 and 30, spending my time and money on other pursuits image


    so, 17 years. I've been back 8 years now and this time is much more fun !

    since being back, maybe a couple of months.

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  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    33 years--
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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I quit buying for about 8 years after I spent a buncha money on a MS64 Pan Pac half-- then I started making a killing in the tech market in the mid 90s. I didn't buy again until I saw a state quarter, which puzzled the hell out of me.
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