What do you do when you wake up in the night and.....

SwK

WoW I spend and have spent all my spare money on bits of metal, coins to be exact, the coins in fact look horible and when I bought them I thought they were great - am I loco? you go into a nervous state, start sweating, feeling nausea, decide to sell for any amount of money in the morning, and decide to have "wine, women and the local casino"

Do you have a story the same or similar?


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SwK
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laserart

My first thought was that is normal, but then on second thought..................................?

canadacolornut

Well if my collection was Pokemon cards I would not only start sweating, I'd DO
something about it.

Coins, however, will endure. Up and down maybe but at least you can always buy
a loaf of bread, with the silver and gold ones at least

JamesMurray

If im reading this correctly i think it must be something quite commen among coin collectors.A few days ago i toted up what id spent over the previous month on what for all appearances sake looks like a small handfull of discoloured old scrap metal discs.
I was staggered at the final figure.Suffice to say it was the total for 24 ancient british coins , Edward l & ll , Henry Vl , William and Mary etc etc

It was enough to give me pause for thought , considering i put every disposable cent into ancient coins.I try to offset it with occasional purchases of bullion,as mentioned by a previous poster , one is not likely to go without a loaf of bread if your paying in gold or silver bullion.
I bought roll after roll of mercury dimes just for that purpose...if it were to ever come to that.

I suppose its down to why one own such coins , is it an investment for future gain or is it because you love the history and owning a part of it.Mine is the latter so i dont really pay too much attention to what the market is doing in ancient coins.I do however watch bullion prices keenly.