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Do you ever think about selling your collection and walking away from the hobby?

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  • FlatwoodsFlatwoods Posts: 4,245 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes

  • JeshJesh Posts: 277 ✭
    No. That is why it's a hobby!
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Most of it; mite hold back a box 'o twenty even the I really don't subscribe to the concept.
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  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nope

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  • canadanzcanadanz Posts: 618 ✭✭
    No, but I've thought of selling off most of it and starting over image
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    That's exactly what I'm in the process of doing right now.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    yes
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  • JeshJesh Posts: 277 ✭


    << <i>That's exactly what I'm in the process of doing right now. >>



    Got anything good for sale?
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    I have thought of selling, but not walking away. I often wonder what the hobby would feel like without owning any coins------------------------BigE
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  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,936 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I did that as an undergrad, but since I have been back in the hobby-industry I have not thought of leaving again.
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  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭
    No. I take breaks now and then.
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Occasionally
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  • PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭
    I already did it once. I stopped actively collecting in 1986, and sold my collection about 1989 or 1990. I wish I hadn't, because I started collecting again in 1999. -Preussen
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  • BigRickBigRick Posts: 1,334
    Yes (& have done so several times - sorta like quitting smoking).
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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    no

    I am going to jump into chinese silver crowns but am in awe of the competitionimage
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    I give away money. I collect money.
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  • RampageRampage Posts: 9,494 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only parts of it in order to put it towards something else in the collection.

  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    << Got anything good for sale? >>

    Soon. Might need to define good, though. hahaha I was mostly a Morgan collector.


    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Once or twice a year I get tired of collecting and feel like getting out. I usually just step back and take a breath. It goes away.
  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,595 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, but I do shift my focus from time to time, and part time dealing keeps it fresh for me also.
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  • RyGuyRyGuy Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭


    << <i>No, but I've thought of selling off most of it and starting over image >>



    I've actually done this. I don't regret it one bit.
  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    I walked away for about 8 years, kept the core of the collection but didn't add to it or even look at it much. Then about 2006 I got the bug again and started activly adding to the collection.
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  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    I do not think about selling, although my purchases are way down from years past. I have been on a gun buying binge the last few months.
    Mark
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If funds weren't a limitation, I'd probably go after it harder than ever.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • okracerokracer Posts: 436 ✭


    Sometimes.....but only because I have other collecting interests, and I think of selling coins to fund those other "hobbies" !







    ......I collect old stuff......
  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
    Not really, but from time to time I'll "hibernate" from active collecting for a while, and focus more on research and writing.


  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The only reason I could think of selling my collection would be to fly away from it image
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  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, but I am always thinking of ways to keep fewer, nicer coins and that means selling from time to time.

    Tom

  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    Yes I have. It's on my mind a lot right now since I just turned 62. I have no one to leave it to and have no one that is interested in my collection so why go to the "Great Bourse in the Sky" and just leave it up for grabs. I have put a lot of time, love, and money into the collection in the last 15 years and would hate to know it fell into the hands of someone that knows nothing about coins.

    Ron
    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    I think about it but I haven't done it - yet. Right now I am just thinking about a major culling operation.
  • elwoodelwood Posts: 2,414 ✭
    Yes, I sold almost everything about 4 years ago.
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  • StubbyMcNumbthumbsStubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭


    << <i>I already did it once. I stopped actively collecting in 1986, and sold my collection about 1989 or 1990. I wish I hadn't, because I started collecting again in 1999. -Preussen >>




    Same here! Almost the same dates/timeframes too! Scary.

    Sold all my coins back in '89 and started collecting antique Winchester lever action rifles. The guns got sold around 2002/03 while preparing for the move to Australia (didn't want to deal with the paperwork and severely restrictive gun laws here) and started collecting coins again.

    Sure wish I had my original collection back, I couldn't afford to replace it today.
  • ArizonaJackArizonaJack Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭
    Have sold several times over the last 30 years or so, never walked away. Just started over, smarter.
    " YOU SUCK " Awarded 5/18/08
  • BaseballAbsBaseballAbs Posts: 2,621 ✭


    << <i>Yes I have. It's on my mind a lot right now since I just turned 62. I have no one to leave it to and have no one that is interested in my collection so why go to the "Great Bourse in the Sky" and just leave it up for grabs. I have put a lot of time, love, and money into the collection in the last 15 years and would hate to know it fell into the hands of someone that knows nothing about coins.

    Ron >>



    You could leave it to me, I'm interested!image
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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nope
    It's my hobby.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    I left my collection, including a 1794 half dollar, in a shoebox for 10 years plus while I did other things. --Jerry
  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    I sell as needed often, walk away? naw.
  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭
    Never completely, but have taken breaks and have refocused.
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
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    Box of 20
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  • AU58WALKERSAU58WALKERS Posts: 3,562 ✭
    every day
    "Everyday above ground is a good day"

  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
    Blasphemy!

    I guess when you get in over your head. But then you take a chill pill.

    image
  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,422 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My first goal was to complete my set which I did. I have thought about selling off a majority of my collection but only so I could use the money to upgrade what I think is the top five or ten in the series. However, I have been thinking of trying to complete another set but have not decided what I would enjoy collecting the most.
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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,721 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Many times
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  • scottgardenerscottgardener Posts: 1,205 ✭
    No, but I have thought about up-trading, selling off a bunch of coins to buy one really grand and otherwise unobtainable piece.
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  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I have thought of selling, but not walking away. I often wonder what the hobby would feel like without owning any coins------------------------BigE >>



    i did exactly that. sold all my gold coins and used the money elsewhere. i kept
    a lowball coin, horded wheat pennies, misc silver coins (bullion), and other things
    that did not require security to keep.

    but i stayed in the hobby. in the sense of reading these forums, checking out
    ebay/heritage/stacks/etc... when i am in the mood but i am not buying anything.

    it was just getting too expensive. buy a coin, look at it for a few weeks, and then
    toss it into the safety deposit box to sit. not exactly fun after a while. everything
    i wanted just kept going up in cost and i decided i wanted out because i knew
    i did not have whale money and the coin money was better spent somewhere else.
    Plus this hobby seemed to revolve around getting a "fix" every once in a
    while... "fix" meaning buying a coin or it got "boring".

    i get all the action (except owning physical coins) but feel no need to "buy stuff".
    plus there is no stress. now it feels like a real hobby.
  • TevaTeva Posts: 830 ✭
    I have never even thought about it like that.
    That sounds like something a golfer would do??
    I think every collector may come to a point where
    they may want to sell so there familys are not burdened with the process. I guess anyone can get burned out on anything
    but I just put my stuff in the safe and work on one of my other projects when I get frustrated.
    Give the laziest man the toughest job and he will find the easiest way to get it done.
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I have thought of selling, but not walking away. I often wonder what the hobby would feel like without owning any coins------------------------BigE >>



    i did exactly that. sold all my gold coins and used the money elsewhere. i kept
    a lowball coin, horded wheat pennies, misc silver coins (bullion), and other things
    that did not require security to keep.

    but i stayed in the hobby. in the sense of reading these forums, checking out
    ebay/heritage/stacks/etc... when i am in the mood but i am not buying anything.

    it was just getting too expensive. buy a coin, look at it for a few weeks, and then
    toss it into the safety deposit box to sit. not exactly fun after a while. everything
    i wanted just kept going up in cost and i decided i wanted out because i knew
    i did not have whale money and the coin money was better spent somewhere else.
    Plus this hobby seemed to revolve around getting a "fix" every once in a
    while... "fix" meaning buying a coin or it got "boring".

    i get all the action (except owning physical coins) but feel no need to "buy stuff".
    plus there is no stress. now it feels like a real hobby. >>



    This is a really interesting perspective. Thank you for sharing it. You've given me something to think about.
  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭
    In the process now, but not walking away. Just downsizing. What I keep will be long term for 20 years.
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    Box of 20
  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,764 ✭✭✭✭
    Sold 99.99% of it once and walked away for nearly 3 years. Back now and refocused on my Dansco 7070.
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  • ROBBItheOKIEROBBItheOKIE Posts: 369 ✭
    Didn,t sell any of my collection, but walked away twice in my life.

    1st time whole collection stolen, to crushed to start again. 2nd was a self imposed break that lasted 5 years.
    COINHUNTER
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yes I have. It's on my mind a lot right now since I just turned 62. I have no one to leave it to and have no one that is interested in my collection so why go to the "Great Bourse in the Sky" and just leave it up for grabs. I have put a lot of time, love, and money into the collection in the last 15 years and would hate to know it fell into the hands of someone that knows nothing about coins.

    Ron >>



    This is exactly why I am selling now. Walk completely away. Probably not. I can't stop buying stuff.

    Ken
  • sonofagunksonofagunk Posts: 1,349 ✭✭


    << <i>That's exactly what I'm in the process of doing right now. >>



    Me too
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