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Is It Harder to Find a Coin, or to Pay For It?

CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Do you always have cash available waiting for the right hard-to-find coin?

Or do you more typically find the coin before you find the cash to pay for it?
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  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 6,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The more cash I have, the more I look

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  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Right now I have the cash just need to find the right pieces.

    When I started collecting it was by far the other way around. Now that Ive grown up a bit I take my time, havent bought a coin for my barber dime set since January.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    at this stage of my collection, it is harder to find the right coins. No contest.
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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The more cash I have, the more I look >>


    +1
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  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭✭
    To me it is not a question of just finding a coin or having enough cash around. It is finding a coin at a price I am willing to pay. The pieces cannot be separated.
    image Respectfully, Mark
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    With Mercury Dime Varieties it is mostly the difficulty in locating the right example and by right example I tend to mean Top Pop examples....but in some cases ANY example would be nice to locate. Some of them are very rare.

    Although with some coins...the cash just isn't around these days unfortunately. image
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  • michiganboymichiganboy Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭
    Finding the right coin is the hard part. sometimes I just buy stuff because I can't find the ones I really like,
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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Money is much much much harder to come by.

    If money was no object I could complete the Complete Dime Complete Variety Set in 1 year or less!
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On one project I am working on it hard to find the money and on another it's the coins.
    My date set of halves have hit dates that when the coins become available I'm often out bid on them.
    And on the Classic Commemorative s in AU I am now at the point that the coins just are not on the market in the grade I want for the set.

    image
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  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    It depends totally on the coin.
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  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    At this point in my life, it is much harder to find the coin than to pay for it.....
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
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  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Finding coins I want is MUCH harder.
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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    finding the coin crowd here...image
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    I just wing it, i find the item and then scamble to put the pennies together.
    Mark
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    working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!

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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Do you always have cash available waiting for the right hard-to-find coin? >>


    A hard-to-find coin is not "right" if the price is all wrong. In my universe, anyway...
    My Roosevelt Dime Registry Set
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,535 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Do you always have cash available waiting for the right hard-to-find coin? >>


    A hard-to-find coin is not "right" if the price is all wrong. In my universe, anyway... >>



    This. At the last major show I attended, I found three (to me) expensive type coins, all of which would have been acceptable for my collection. Pricing went from to much too something I can't write on this forum, at least not in English.

    One dealer priced his material so high, I think he cared for his coins more than he cared for his children.
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    "Seu cabra da peste,
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  • ajmanajman Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭
    For me I've had the cash but was afraid to jump. Now I'm justing looking for the right coin to come along regardless of price, preferrably with a CAC sticker.
    Beer is Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy -Benjamin Franklin-
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

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    << <i>Do you always have cash available waiting for the right hard-to-find coin? >>


    A hard-to-find coin is not "right" if the price is all wrong. In my universe, anyway... >>



    This. At the last major show I attended, I found three (to me) expensive type coins, all of which would have been acceptable for my collection. Pricing went from to much too something I can't write on this forum, at least not in English.

    One dealer priced his material so high, I think he cared for his coins more than he cared for his children. >>




    Here, I'll write it for you: To je govno.image
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    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,630 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    Here, I'll write it for you: To je govno.image >>



    I looked that up on google. It wasn't a very nice thing you said image
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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Initially, it's harder to find; once found, the emphasis may move to the other side.
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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is much harder to find the right coins.
  • NewEnglandRaritiesNewEnglandRarities Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭✭
    As a colonial coin dealer who comes across some really rare pieces a few times a year, I find the following statement fits the OP question. "The opportunity to buy the coin sometimes is rarer than the coin itself."

    Not quite a full answer to the original question, but I think from a collector POV, we always find a way to pay for the coin if it is something we have been searching for and really desire owning.

    New England Rarities...Dealer In Colonial Coinage and Americana
  • aclocoacloco Posts: 952 ✭✭✭
    Equal.

    Funds availability vary by collector as much as coin availability varies by series/grade.

    Some on this site are looking for a population 1 in a grade. Some collectors are looking for a coin of population 1. In probability terms, that is the same end result. For those wanting to argue the math, don't bother....a case can be made on either side of this debate.
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  • icsoccericsoccer Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭
    Find.
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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,535 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Do you always have cash available waiting for the right hard-to-find coin? >>


    A hard-to-find coin is not "right" if the price is all wrong. In my universe, anyway... >>



    This. At the last major show I attended, I found three (to me) expensive type coins, all of which would have been acceptable for my collection. Pricing went from to much too something I can't write on this forum, at least not in English.

    One dealer priced his material so high, I think he cared for his coins more than he cared for his children. >>




    Here, I'll write it for you: To je govno.image >>



    Da, to je bila puna govanaimage
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,165 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It depends on your perspective. There are very few coins that I both want and could realistically afford, and for those, I'm very, very picky about the right look. Thus, finding the coin is much harder than paying for it. If I were to expand the question to coins that I couldn't realistically afford (maybe I could pay for them, but it would be irresponsible to put the funds in coins vs. savings or some other more necessary endeavor) but would love to own, then the money issue creeps in. I'd love a mid-grade chain cent, but even a low-end one would be a poor use of my funds right now. I bet I could find a nice one with some looking, but there's no point in that exercise.

    Many of my favorite pieces are the ones I've waited the longest to acquire. I wanted an NJ copper for a solid decade (maybe longer, actually...) before I got one that had the right look and was in my budget. But I love the coin and have no regrets that I didn't settle. The same goes for many other pieces I hold. So if I don't have a coin to spend the money on, no big deal. There's no shame in not settling for something less than the ultimate prize I'm after.
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,364 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The coins find me. I hug my banker's ankles and beg.
  • RedTigerRedTiger Posts: 5,608 ✭
    Virtually all the U.S. coins I am interested in tend to be relatively common, typically up for sale or auction several times a year or more. What makes it difficult is finding the right ratio of quality to price, for coins in a certain grade. So in this poll, I would vote pay for it. My want list could be filled within a month, if I wrote a blank check, but I have zero interest in doing that and being buried in coins at an immediate 50%+ loss.
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  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Probably harder to find the right one. Affording it usually isn't the problem in the first place because if I couldn't afford it, I wouldn't have looked to begin with
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
    when i got the cash then i do the looking. no cash, no coin.
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm extremely selective and probably buy 1-2 coins per year so finding a satisfactory piece is easily the most difficult.

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Right now, both are tight!

    WS
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