after how much time without purchasing a coin do you get withdrawal symptoms?

1907Quarter

I seem to run about 8 weeks. how bout you?!

compromonedas

2 weeks!

edmerlr

Maybe two weeks.

I purchase coin A, let's say, on day 1.

I have the seller ship via USPS Priority Mail Insured because I have no patience waiting for Registered Mail to arrive.

He ships on day 2.

I receive the coin sometime between 4 to 6 days after purchase.

Upon receipt, I spend one or two days staring at the coin, fondling the coin, adjusting my written inventory and records, scanning the coin - so the picture is on my hard drive - and then I sadly drive the coin to the bank to be locked away in the dark.

By now it is somewhere between 5 to 8 days after purchase - not counting Sundays.

It takes about a week after this before I start to shake and my thoughts wonder.

At that point, trying desperately to focus my thoughts, my shaking hand touches the computer mouse and I start looking for the next beauty at a bargain price.

Sometimes I am blessed and there is a local coin show about the time I start to shake. I am lucky when this happens. As I walk up to the doors entering to the coin show, the shakes start to go away. A grin appears on my face. My eyes become glossed over. ...I feel like a rooster just thrown into a coop full of virgin hens. ...and I feel great!

BigRed

I have learned to enjoy the wait and hunt. I go for months sometimes.

morganbarber

4-9 days

RYK

17 nanoseconds!

My coin purchases tend to be clustered, rather than spread out evenly over time.

09sVDB

Usually right after I recieve my new purchase I'm thinking about my next one. It's just a matter of $$.

BobGreene

I tend to start getting a little itchy to buy another coin after about 3 months or so.

mgoodm3

I haven't bought one for 6 months (anything expensive that is)and I've sold a bunch of stuff off. I would like to get a new one sometime soon.

Millertime

Normally I start going through withdrawal if I don't have a package on my desk, being shipped or soon to be shipped. I haven't bought anything in a couple of months but I've been so busy coaching Babe Ruth baseball that I haven't had time to go through withdrawal. When I'm not doing baseball I spend my time (and way too much money) on landscaping projects around the house so that also helps with withdrawal.

Millertime

Cladiator

<< <i>My coin purchases tend to be clustered, rather than spread out evenly over time. >>

For some reason or another I seem to be the same way.

Elcontador

I don't get any of them. If I have the $ & the right coin comes along, I buy it. Otherwise I don't. Ie., so far, I've attended two Long Beach Shows and I bought four coins. In all of 2006, I bought two coins.

LincolnCentMan

About a month. It used to be closer to a week. I'm doing better now. Hello, my name is David... and I'm a coinaholic.

-David

jobiwan115

<< <i>About a month. It used to be closer to a week. I'm doing better now. Hello, my name is David... and I'm a coinaholic.

-David >>



That sounds verrrry familiar!

fc

i do not get withdrawl symptoms from not buying coins.

i like to think i have will power and do not need to be treated
like a spoiled kid in order to be happy with this hobby.

collecting wheat pennies out of circulation keeps me honest
and actively looking at coins/change.

as i mature with this hobby i realize most people are just buying
coins because they are bored. they dabble in so many different
series, never complete anything, and wander like the crazy village
drunk from high to high.

FatMan

Many years ago I used to get withdrawal symptoms in 4 weeks or so. Now I often go 4-6 months between coins. I've learned patience is the key to assembling a collection of nice original coins.

SkyMan

It kinda' depends. Buying coins seems to comes in fits and starts for me depending upon the material that is available.

curly

The "itch" never goes away for curly. Mrs. curly calls them my mistresses because as soon as I fine one, I obsess over her until I possess her. I admire her for a few days, then it's off to the bank vault. Then I start the cycle all over again.

Thank God Mrs. curly puts up with me ( 41 yrs. in Sept. ).

DeusExMachina

<< <i>17 nanoseconds!

My coin purchases tend to be clustered, rather than spread out evenly over time. >>



I agree. Great coins seem to show up in fits and starts. I generally find myself scrambling to buy several coins at the same time.

JRocco

Oh boy....
I get the craving as soon as I sign that PO receipt for a coin and sit down at my desk. I am most vulnerable right after I see a new addition to my collection....its a disease I tell ya.

ricko

I never do.... usually, if I buy, it is because it is an item of singular attraction (to me), or, if I am trying to build a series (usually unrelated to types etc). I have no compulsion, just a fondness for nice coins. Cheers, RickO

SilverEagles92

Sometimes I'll buy coin A, and before it even arrives, contemplate the purchase of coin B.

BECOKA

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<< <i>17 nanoseconds!

My coin purchases tend to be clustered, rather than spread out evenly over time. >>



I agree. Great coins seem to show up in fits and starts. I generally find myself scrambling to buy several coins at the same time. >>



I agree also. After the purchase it is fresh in my mind and I can't wait for the next one. The longer I wait the easier it is to pass on something general for something better later.

MidLifeCrisis

<< <i>My coin purchases tend to be clustered, rather than spread out evenly over time. >>


I also seem to buy in clusters but with longer periods in between. I'll go for a few months but then after I buy a coin, it seems like several nice ones come out of the wood work all at once! Just the positive karma generated by that one coin purchase I guess.

jerster

I look at coins every day on the computer, yet seem to have a hell of a time parting with my cash unless something just calls out to me.

OPA

None whatsoever … nada … I get bid time withdrawal symptoms if I don’t sell any…like right now..took some time off during the summer “Dead Zone Time”

TwoSides2aCoin

If you are talking "WITHDRAWAL" symptoms... I get them at the bank before I buy coins, not after

coinlieutenant

About an hour...

speety

I haven't purchased a coin for myself in a couple months.


I have persuaded my dad to purchase some pretty big coins over that same time period though. Since his collection is basically shared with me, i don't have the chance to have withdrawl, i am just constantly on the hunt

yevrah

I can go weeks without buying a coin as long as I buy some silver bullion in between coin purchases.