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SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭
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In this thread I mentioned I had carted everything to a local dealer with the idea of selling. Well, I picked up a check this afternoon, shook the man's hand, said "Thank you!" and walked out without looking back. For the most part it's been fun but it's time to get out.

Thank all of you for your help and good luck with your collecting! image

Scioto
GO AHEAD! I DOUBLE-DOG DARE YOU TO RATE ME A 1!

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  • CgbCgb Posts: 710 ✭
    I hope you can still stick around these boards.

    I suppose if you no longer enjoy it, getting out may not be a bad idea.
  • BRdudeBRdude Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭
    You'll be backimage I left myself in 2002, but never left permanently. Got the bug again early this year, and have enjoyed my return. I always dabbed a bit in paper, MPC's and such. You may just need some time. Hope your not leaving here Sciotoimage
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, that was pretty efficient. I should have hired you to handle my dispersal.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow, that was pretty efficient. I should have hired you to handle my dispersal. >>




    image
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm sure everyone will welcome you back if you ever change your mind.

    Good luck in any case.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Wow, that was pretty efficient. I should have hired you to handle my dispersal. >>




    image >>



    What? This guy means business. I am too chicken to go cold turkey. image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is there a patch for that?
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Riiiiight.

    You think you can just leave like that? You'll collect until we tell you to stop and you'll like it! Punk!




  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PS-unless you needed the money now (is that the case?), then why not just stop collecting and let your collection increase in value? Was it not a good investment?



  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,998 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How long have you been collecting?
  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424 ✭
    Please say it wasn't Allens coins?

    One less local collector image
    Want to buy an auction catalog for the William Hesslein Sale (December 2, 1926). Thanks to all those who have helped us obtain the others!!!

  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,894 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>In this thread I mentioned I had carted everything to a local dealer with the idea of selling. Well, I picked up a check this afternoon, shook the man's hand, said "Thank you!" and walked out without looking back. For the most part it's been fun but it's time to get out.

    Thank all of you for your help and good luck with your collecting! image

    Scioto >>



    You wil be back soon.......nice try!!!image
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    There is a part of me that is envious. It sounds liberating. Was it?
  • LickThoseStampsLickThoseStamps Posts: 1,028 ✭
    I hate to break the news, but it takes twelve steps to become an ex-collector. You tried to do it in one!image
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    just goes to show quality over quantity.

    that way you would only have a handful of coins and really no
    need to sell them.

    but since you accumulated a bunch of stuff??? you felt strained by
    it and let it go?
  • ArizonadesertratArizonadesertrat Posts: 566 ✭
    Uh-huh. 25 years ago, I would have called myself a reformed coinaholic. I had some bad experiences with coin dealers, and just quit collecting. I didn't sell my collection, and dutifully carted it from one safety deposit box to another as I moved from Florida to California to Utah and, earlier this year, to Arizona. The availability of dealers (and retirees who are selling off their collections piecemeal) reawakened my interest in coins. Last January, I spread my collection out on the dining table, looked through sets of Barber halves, SL quarters, and type coins that I had assembled years ago, looked at some beautiful type coins that my grandmother gave me, and I went off the wagon. I am actively collecting, hopefully in a much smarter manner (emphasis on quality) than when I was in my teens and early twenties.

    If you were a collector and not just an accumulator/investor, you will be back. Once bitten by the coin bug, you are marked for life.
  • NHSBaseballNHSBaseball Posts: 2,470 ✭
    Good luck! I stopped collecting for over 11 years after my entire collection was stolen while I was in college. It was just too painful
    to contemplate starting over. Then, 3 years ago, I went to a flea market with my wife and daughter and came across a "junk" dealers
    table and was stopped cold at the sight of a very average, non-descript 1943 Walking Liberty Half. Bought 3 coins and a Dansco album
    and was off to the races again.
    "College men from LSU- went in dumb, come out dumb too..."
    -Randy Newmanimage
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>If you were a collector and not just an accumulator/investor, you will be back. Once bitten by the coin bug, you are marked for life. >>

    Have any collectors quit and not come back?
    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • hubirdhubird Posts: 589
    ah yes, how many collectors have been dragged back in, kicking and screaming, by the never-ending lust for a Walker? image
  • ArizonadesertratArizonadesertrat Posts: 566 ✭
    I sold my Walkers, and most of my other 20th coins, this year (after resuming coin collecting in Jan. 2007). What enticed me to come back were 19th-century coins.
  • curlycurly Posts: 2,880 ✭


    Goodbye, brother. We all have to move on sometime.
    Every man is a self made man.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just hope you didn't sell your books, as this way you can continue to enjoy the hobby from the sidelines... till the force pulls you back in.
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What? This guy means business. I am too chicken to go cold turkey. image >>



    Me too. I didn't even consider selling my Dansco 7070.

    It would be too much work to glue all those slabs back together image
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I doubt you should have "thanked" your local B&M shop for buying everything in one shot. More than likely he get a far better deal than you did.

    roadrunner
    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good luck Scioto... if you come back, it will be a start from scratch. It will be interesting to see what 'tips you off the wagon'... and something will... imageimage Cheers, RickO
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    hopefully this isn't the sign of an impending trend where every member who sells and "gets out" is obliged to post a thread here and say i'm out of coins, it's been fun, blah blah blah..............

    that would be almost as pathetic as the rash of "I'm leaving this place" threads which were common several years ago.

    so, who's next???image
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭


    << <i>hopefully this isn't the sign of an impending trend where every member who sells and "gets out" is obliged to post a thread here and say i'm out of coins, it's been fun, blah blah blah..............

    that would be almost as pathetic as the rash of "I'm leaving this place" threads which were common several years ago.

    so, who's next???image >>




    Don't tempt me, Keets. image

    image
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I think it's hysterical how collectors see themselves as addicts with little power to control their desire to collect coins.... image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I quick from age 18 to 26... then those state quarters got me back in. :/

    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • BarbercoinBarbercoin Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭
    Scioto,

    I hope you've enjoyed the ride. Take some time and relax.

    Godspeed

    WTB: Barber Quarters XF

  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,772 ✭✭✭✭✭





    I doubt you should have "thanked" your local B&M shop for buying everything in one shot. More than likely he get a far better deal than you did.



    I agree!

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