I recently started collecting ancients about 6 months ago when I found a
Ptolemaic coin in my local coin dealers "random box" for 45$... since then I can't
help but look for the next beauty! BUT coins that I plan on re-selling I try to have graded and encapsulated. It just gets a bigger profit. Sadly ppl nowadays feel the need to have to have everything "verified" or protected. I even see yo MTV RAPS cards graded and encapsulated... lol
Price tags of 1500$. Back in the day I would buy 20 boxes of those cards for. 99 cents each box. But anyways...
The coins I plan on keeping I now keep in acid free little envelopes. I'll write all the info on the outside of the envelope and on the other
side I'll write the date I found it, how much I paid for it and the date I "sealed" the envelope. When I get a hankering for coin touchy I gently slice open the top of the envelope and slide the coin out. Then I get to start all over again with a new envelope!
But honestly im saving$ for a cabinet with lined drawers as above. That way when the urge hits, I can just open a drawer. Although having slabs prevents one from getting busy with the coin, on the other hand, they feel like a weird futuristic form of currency when I hold a bunch of them at once. Like really thick baseball cards or something. But sometimes I'll think I here the image on the coin screaming for air so at that point I'll put it on sale and
hope someone buys it. I can't have
Tiberius crying about oxygen when guests are over or im in the middle of a
good book or something lol
