setting your collecting habits aside

laserart

what's the longest you haver ever gone without the urge to collect coins or anything else for that matter? Then, what sparked your interest again? I seem to be in a duldrum, collecting.

theboz11

1 hr. Then again that might be stretching it.

laserart

So, you're hooked huh?

Zoins

Many years. I was brought back by:

- interesting replica coins like George T. Morgan's $100 Union
- appreciating US moderns
- low mintage, hard to find world moderns

theboz11

<< <i>So, you're hooked huh? >>



Please help an obsessive compulsive coin collector

satootoko

Not always coins, but there has never been a time that I can recall when I didn't collect something.

Guess I'm just obsessive-compulsive to the core.

WhiteTornado

In the past I have gone several months without doing anything with my coins. Usually my breaks are shorter, like maybe a month. What usually gets me involved again is changing up some aspect of my collecting. I may abandon series or types which no longer interest me or for which I cannot afford the semi-key or key coins. This normally involves selling/trading some of my existing collection and also seems to tie in with efforts to get more organized: getting more holders, reorganizing my binders and coin books, etc. Overall, it's the feeling of heading in a new direction that gets me going again.

laurentyvan

Now that I have been in a selling mode for two months I no longer view the nice coins I see as an aquisition, but rather as a potential sale, price asked vs potential selling price. Otherwise, for more than three years never had an urge to sell, only acquire.

In the past did stamps for several years but F&SF paper and hardcover for 45 years. Now I'm selling that off as well, but slowly, like the coins. I have yet to experiment with the 600 comics in bags and backers from the 1950's on.

ajaan

When I lived in Thailand from 1984 to 1989 I was forced to collect stamps but other than that I would say for a few years in High School and College I really didn't collect anything.

rhound1977

Speaking only to coins a little over 25 years, got started in 2000 with state quarters then a US type set, sold all the US and only collect world mostly anything British.

I still do some collecting of Rocks and Minerals, but they take up more room.

lordmarcovan

About six years. 1984 to 1990. Dropped out of numismatics nearly completely. That was my ignorant "Dungeons & Dragons" period, when I should've been studying in college or working, or both. D&D was a great role-playing game (the greatest, in fact), but in the grand scheme of things it was a colossal waste of time, considering I could've been working on bettering my situation in real life instead of in some fantasyland. Oh, well. The D&D years had one legacy that survived. My favorite D&D character? Guess his name.