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Here's an ebay listing for a 1879 dime morgan head.
Got 5 grand to spare??

http://www.ebay.com/itm/390518628065?ru ... 26_rdc%3D1

Barry does. Buy it, Barry.... please? Man, I would love to own that piece... don't ask me what I'd do with it, it just looks cool!

Why don't we start up a virtual museum of our finest pieces, so that our membership can appreciate what our cumulative purchasing power has achieved?

Huh... I thought either you or the seller made a mistake, but sure enough, that is a Morgan dime...

beauanderos wrote:Why don't we start up a virtual museum of our finest pieces, so that our membership can appreciate what our cumulative purchasing power has achieved?

I kinda like this!

You can see all kinks of pattern coins here. http://uspatterns.stores.yahoo.net

On the bright side there is free shipping!

I never new such a thing existed.

It's a neat coin although it doesn't look like it has as much "color" in hand.

Also, I'm out of the coin buying game for now. I have been out for 10 months and it feels pretty good I don't see myself buying any numismatic coins for the foreseeable future.

That seller has some good inventory!

barrytrot wrote:It's a neat coin although it doesn't look like it has as much "color" in hand.

Also, I'm out of the coin buying game for now. I have been out for 10 months and it feels pretty good I don't see myself buying any numismatic coins for the foreseeable future.

You quit cold turkey style. I see it as human nature to strive to complete things. Coin collecting is a hobby that lends itself nicely to this.

I'd like to know more about the thought process and decision to stop. The pro's and con's as you weighed them. Seems like a nice paragraph that I'd like to read if your up to the typing.

Rodebaugh wrote:

barrytrot wrote:It's a neat coin although it doesn't look like it has as much "color" in hand.

Also, I'm out of the coin buying game for now. I have been out for 10 months and it feels pretty good I don't see myself buying any numismatic coins for the foreseeable future.

You quit cold turkey style. I see it as human nature to strive to complete things. Coin collecting is a hobby that lends itself nicely to this.

I'd like to know more about the thought process and decision to stop. The pro's and con's as you weighed them. Seems like a nice paragraph that I'd like to read if your up to the typing.

+1 to the what made you stop. I have noticed this a lot with the long term members

Not to hijack the thread, but...

Rodebaugh wrote: I see it as human nature to strive to complete things. Coin collecting is a hobby that lends itself nicely to this.

This is a huge idea. Paragraph?! There is a book in this!

Rodebaugh wrote:I'd like to know more about the thought process and decision to stop. The pro's and con's as you weighed them. Seems like a nice paragraph that I'd like to read if your up to the typing.

+1.

Over the years, I too have seen this happen in me. Although, I usually see it not as quitting, but as a shift. Something is important, and we allot much of our time, learning, and resources toward it. Then something else comes in its place. It is also important, for lack of a better word. And we find that there is not room for both in our mind. We find we cannot have two primary focii. One (be it a hobby, pastime, passion, responsibility, anything) rises to the fore, and the other, while previously of tantamount importance... just... fades. It is never gone completely, though. There always comes a time, a new chapter, a new season, where that first thing may resurface and take prominence once more. And when it does, that shift, that swing... It can be subtle or it can be like a light going off or coming on. In fact, that may be just it: it is BOTH a light coming on and another going off.