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RYK made an entertaining and thought provoking thread on if a coin is too easy to obtain....
Realone
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and this point was made but it moved to me state the following rule that I live by and that is:
Possession, possession, possession (sure I stole the concept from my ballywick real estate and the location rule) but it is very true and needs to be heard imho.
Aren't coins bought precisely for the sole reason of owning them and with that comes every other reason where by without possession we have nothing, only a desire, a drive or a motivation. Until you are holding what you want in your little ole hand you got squat. Doesn't it often seem that when you desire something bad enough it sometimes makes little difference how easy it may appear to others, you just have to have for whatever reason that you solely determine. How many times have you fretted about a coin, wondering if anyone else will spot/pick up/ notice what you see in it, whether that is grade, eye appeal, attribute or rarity, whatever drives you to want it screams at you and yet it is missed by practically everyone else because everyone else believes it to be common/easy. Note it may very well be realistically common but you see something in it or figure out something about it that makes it valuable to you. How many times have you viewed auctions and ignored the countless number of coins because you assumed they were easy only to find out later you missed something that only one other colelctor saw in that coin. Whether you are money motivated, collection motivated, particular coin motivated the goal is to acquire it everything else is a pipe dream and nothing can be achieved until it is acquired/owned. So whether a coin is easy or hard it makes no difference initially because a hard coin not owned is the same as an easy coin not owned and many times what appears easy to some isn't to one. Again I ask you how many times have you overlooked a coin for being what you thought was easy or common and it turned out that it had attributes that made it just the opposite to a great many collectors or to a few depending on their expertise in that field. Hopefully I got my point across, I am a terrible writer.
Possession, possession, possession (sure I stole the concept from my ballywick real estate and the location rule) but it is very true and needs to be heard imho.
Aren't coins bought precisely for the sole reason of owning them and with that comes every other reason where by without possession we have nothing, only a desire, a drive or a motivation. Until you are holding what you want in your little ole hand you got squat. Doesn't it often seem that when you desire something bad enough it sometimes makes little difference how easy it may appear to others, you just have to have for whatever reason that you solely determine. How many times have you fretted about a coin, wondering if anyone else will spot/pick up/ notice what you see in it, whether that is grade, eye appeal, attribute or rarity, whatever drives you to want it screams at you and yet it is missed by practically everyone else because everyone else believes it to be common/easy. Note it may very well be realistically common but you see something in it or figure out something about it that makes it valuable to you. How many times have you viewed auctions and ignored the countless number of coins because you assumed they were easy only to find out later you missed something that only one other colelctor saw in that coin. Whether you are money motivated, collection motivated, particular coin motivated the goal is to acquire it everything else is a pipe dream and nothing can be achieved until it is acquired/owned. So whether a coin is easy or hard it makes no difference initially because a hard coin not owned is the same as an easy coin not owned and many times what appears easy to some isn't to one. Again I ask you how many times have you overlooked a coin for being what you thought was easy or common and it turned out that it had attributes that made it just the opposite to a great many collectors or to a few depending on their expertise in that field. Hopefully I got my point across, I am a terrible writer.
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I agree, if you want it but don't have it then you don't own it, and therefore your collection is incomplete!
Eventually you may find the piece that fits your collection, but how long are you willing to wait? How
patient are you?
I'm patient, but not necessarily patient enough to wait 20 years for a coin (and this is not a shot at another
forum member who HAD to wait that long to acquire a certain piece). Rather I weigh the value of my time
spent looking for certain coins against how much I am willing to negotiate on a filler coin until another more
attractive piece comes along! Sometimes this is easier said than done.
I am still missing a couple "easy" coins from my collection just because the right ones haven't found me yet!