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Ever just wanna sell it all - be done with coin collecting?

LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,730 ✭✭✭✭✭
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It crosses my mind about once a week.

Anyone wanna give me half a million dollars? Sight unseen! I promise you'll be happy (see the fine print)

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  • AhrensdadAhrensdad Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    That doesn't cross my mind. And as for the other thing, the check is in the mail. Please ship the coins immediately.image
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  • jhdflajhdfla Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭
    I've done it before.
    SeatedQuarters
  • laserartlaserart Posts: 2,255 ✭
    Sure, but what would I do with an extra $37.00?
    "If I had a nickel for every nickel I ever had, I'd have all my nickels back".
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, but there are times when I wish I could be "done" with coin collecting internet forums.

    they tend to both entertain and depress.............and also chew up a lot of time that I should be spending doing my "work".
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I sometimes feel I could be just as happy enjoying the hobby with just my library image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I get the feeling that quite a few will be thinking that on the 25th.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Ever just wanna sell it all - be done with coin collecting?"

    Been there, Done that. 1988 everything went and did not think about coins for 10 years. With the internet its just way too much fun now.

    Ken
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>With the internet its just way too much fun now. >>



    imageimage
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,802 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not in a long, long time.....however, I'm sure it crosses my wife's mind quite frequently!
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  • ajmanajman Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭
    I think about it every time I pay for a coin I want, then quickly forget when I see the next coin on my list.
    Beer is Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy -Benjamin Franklin-
  • slipgateslipgate Posts: 2,301 ✭✭
    If I could get 70% of my collections "value" I'd sell in a minute!
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  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sure...everytime...

    Bernanke/Geithner says things are fine,
    the Dow continues to climb on a thin market,
    CNBC tells me the recession is over,
    Greece seems to have it fugured out,
    and derivatives gain value (according to Buffet)......

    then I put the crack pipe down, blow the smoke from my deluded lungs and continue stacking, not collecting.

    Miles
    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • CoppercolorCoppercolor Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Not in a long, long time.....however, I'm sure it crosses my wife's mind quite frequently! >>



    image
    The sound of my wife agreeeing....
    I'd like my copper well done please!
  • rkfishrkfish Posts: 2,617 ✭✭✭
    never...
    Steve

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I want others to find the joy in it so I don't have all this fun alone.

    ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

  • coinnutcoinnut Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, never
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually, there is one part of my collection I would like to dispose of and never look back.

    Unfortunately, the market is ultra-thin so it is likely to stick around for awhile.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • PCcoinsPCcoins Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭
    sometimes, yes. Not all my coins but most of them.

    But then the next day I'm buying more image
    "It is what it is."
  • GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
    I had to sell all my gold proofs. image
  • EdscoinEdscoin Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I get the feeling that quite a few will be thinking that on the 25th. >>


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  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I had to sell all my gold proofs. image >>



    Might have been the best of timing on that Griv if it was recently!

    Miles
    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • cone10cone10 Posts: 1,021


    << <i>I sometimes feel I could be just as happy enjoying the hobby with just my library image >>



    image

    Every time I go to a big show and see the rows and rows of slabbed "rare coins" it makes me want to sell everything I own. In fact I have been slowly selling off my slabbed collection and I'm putting the money back into circulated half cents and Walkers. So I guess I'm not done with coin collecting just going in a different direction.
    A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
    Yogi Berra

  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
    maybe about 12-13 years from now I will sell a bunch of it (not the half dimes if I can help it)...my daughter should be college-bound by then
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,465 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>sometimes, yes. Not all my coins but most of them.

    But then the next day I'm buying more image >>




    Kinda wut he said.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    With a thread title such as that, feeling like a mouse walking into a glue trap.
  • pakasmompakasmom Posts: 1,920 ✭
    Sometimes. The counterfeiting really gets me down.
    But I guess I like coins more than I like money. Because I'll have a thought like that and an hour later, I'll find myself looking around the BST...
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,730 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OKAY I gave you all a chance.

    It's worth a million, but no one wanted it for half that.

    Oh well!

    image
  • IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭
    Nope -- with the overall economy the way it is, all I want to do is acquire more.
  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,977 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I tried that once.

    "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." - Michael Corleone
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  • RebelRonRebelRon Posts: 544 ✭✭


    << <i>Sure, but what would I do with an extra $37.00? >>

    imageOh,yeah? I might get a buck-two-ninety-eight for mine!image
  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    LINK

    Best,
    Eric
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Question for those that would sell---where would you put the money from the sale of your collection? Paper assets?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    Hi,

    "paper"..and Kodachrome....what I did essentially. I bought more vintage photographs and slides for my collections. It's not bad - I get to enjoy the originals while collecting fees for use here and there. image Look for the book Designing Tomorrow in September from Yale/The National Building Museum. I illustrated the 1939/40 New York World's Fair section. You can see 10 of my 1939 NYWF slides, color corrected and restored by me image

    Best,
    Eric
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,697 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I had to sell all my gold proofs. image >>



    Griv, come back. Go slow.

    ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No. However, I have taken breaks.... as a matter of fact, I seem to be in one now... Cheers, RickO

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