How long have you been a collector?

markn · January 20, 2014, 03:55:34 PM

Quote from: 'trout' pid='40064' dateline='1390194682'Maybe I am just nit picking but can the OP edit the title of the thread to read How instead of Who please

Done.

I've been collecting on and off since 2005. I used to have some coins when I was a kid and can remember making stacks of round 50 cent coins that my father had stashed away in a piggy bank. Funnily enough when I started collecting my dad gave me that very same piggy bank but there were only a few of the round 50's left in it. The rest had disappeared (sold) in the silver rush of the early 1980's.

Goldseeker · January 20, 2014, 04:37:40 PM

I started around year 2000 and I treat it as my second Superannuation Fund. Why? Because I can control the contents of the collection myself.

Come 10 May 2014 then I may considering disposing of the collection as I am really starting to lose interest.

trout · January 20, 2014, 04:47:47 PM

Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='40079' dateline='1390198060'I started around year 2000 and I treat it as my second Superannuation Fund. Why? Because I can control the contents of the collection myself.

Come 10 May 2014 then I may considering disposing of the collection as I am really starting to lose interest.

Sorry to hear that Bruce.
Take some advice of someone that has "Lost Interest" on a few occasions. KEEP the stuff that was hard to get because it will be even harder to get when the urge comes back.
Trust me "Been there Done that" :ok:

Unicorn · January 20, 2014, 04:51:42 PM

:i_agree::yeah_that::yeah_what_she_said::agreed: with Trout ..... I regret the day I had to sell my key collection, though it was totally unavoidable at the time.

Fordprefect · January 20, 2014, 05:25:37 PM

August 22nd 1957, still have item, but not a coin.
Birthday Card from Grandfather
"Hang onto this Robbie might be worth a quid one day."
It's a bit ordinary but still got it.:angel:

interest · January 20, 2014, 10:11:37 PM

Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='40079' dateline='1390198060'I am really starting to lose interest.

wow goldie I thought you was a very dedicated collector, never did I expect to hear those words from you.

Maybe it's the same reason as I.

But I will be taking advice & holding on to my hard to get stuff.

Goldseeker · January 20, 2014, 10:18:47 PM

When you see me getting rid of the harder $1 coins in folders, like the HMAS Sydney 11 VIP, then you know I am really giving it up.

Fulvio · January 21, 2014, 12:27:51 AM

Quote from: 'Fordprefect' pid='40094' dateline='1390200937'"Hang onto this Robbie might be worth a quid one day."

More than a quid. :yahoo:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/like/151209187671?hlpht=true&ops=true&viphx=1&lpid=94