Why do some collectors only want the good coins?

[Fulvio]

ANYONE can do this But it does take time and effort, Nothing truly worthwhile comes without pain and effort.

I absolutely agree with that. Furthermore, I would put you up near the head of the pack, in both effort and results, AJ. You're in the same league as Goldy when it comes to being able to pull stunners out of the pond, and especially identifying new errors. So don't be all down on yourself, OK?

But of course the finding is only half the story. The other half is disposition of the booty. Either you have a money bin like mine to consign them to, or you try and flog them off, like, say, fish-boy for example.

And therein lies your problem.

Chances are nobody here has deep enough pockets to permanently bury unlimited quantities of finds. I didn't, and had to hand over all my UNC notes in a recent transaction, and I'm now skint. I'm praying the green $2 don't drop before I can rebuild, or I won't be in a position to go hunting.

OTOH, it pretty much seems that selling stuff is a waste of time, unless you're at the top end of town. The costs kill you, and the demand isn't there, except for "the good stuff".

I think this is deplorable. And worse, I don't really see a solution. There are really only three options, none ideal.

1. Join the pack, and ignore everything but the "good" stuff.
2. Educate, push, prod and browbeat existing collectors into showing more interest.
3. Expand the pool by getting more people into the hobby.

#1 is a form of surrender, and unpalatable. #2 is :dead_horse:, at least with this crowd. And best of luck with #3, especially the young 'uns.

I'd be happy to hear of a fourth option. Meanwhile I'm reminded of Malcolm Fraser's words "Pessimism and Panic, Defeatism and GLOOM!".
Oh, nearly forgot...

WHO was it that kept everyone in the dark for ages about the bubbles?

He who lives in glass houses...

[emu666]

I think the collectors that are willing to go that extra Mile, Spend time and effort on research or simply willing to have a "Punt" that seem to regularly get the "Sweet" coins.
Even "Thinking outside the square" and trying something completely different   to what other collectors are doing can help to achieve whatever your collecting goals are.

I would think that EVERY collector would like to have the top of the wazza coins, not just some of them :ok:
This alas is just a pipe dream for me and many other collectors But we CAN dream and even sometimes achieve that dream.
I for one simply think "Good on Ya " when someone else snares a stunning coin and don't begrudge them one iota for their achievement .
A bit like seeing someone win the lotto, Why not be happy for the winner and not begrudge them their good fortune :ok:

Like Mark mentioned keeping an eye out for the scarcer coins and doing some "In depth research" CAN pay off eventually, For instance the incused flag 50 cent coin.
Every man and his dog just considered these as a common cheap variety and pretty much ignored them.
I Did  mass of research on this particular coin and came to the conclusion quite a while back that these would be scarce/rare in high grades due to then not being "Discovered" for such a long time.
I spent a year or so buying about 70   of these coins and cherry picked some nice ones at an average price of about $25 each.
I have sold most of the coins that didn't make the "Cut" and gave quite a few away as well.
This is just one instance of thinking "Outside the Square" and getting good results.
ANYONE can do this But it does take time and effort, Nothing truly worthwhile comes without pain and effort.
As far as sharing information goes , I posted on CCF regarding the incused coins a year or so ago and stated then that these would be a future "Sleeper" and well worth doing the hard yards on.

You were certainly correct that they were undervalued in unc.


mmm, any predictions on the next big thing?

[trout]

mmm, any predictions on the next big thing?

Not yet But I have always had an open mind and got my thinking cap on

[Triggersmob]

even for a day would be nice to be normal again.

Hey, were here aren't we? So we are far from normal