What got everyone started on collecting/buying?
- TheFrenchDog
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What got everyone started on collecting/buying?
I look forward to using some of my spare income now on buying smaller gold bars and silver coins every month. Wish I started sooner as another means of saving, rather than peeing it against a wall lol.
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- trayModerator
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- denby
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Great to see another Scotsman on the forum too. We have 5 or 6 Scots at the moment.
Soon be able to have a game of 7 a side football together!
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- ArcaneCollector
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Since then I used that same excitement to start this hobby to help me focus on something that I can do.
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- The Cat's MotherModerator
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I've always collected books. Well, amassed them really: collected sounds as though there was a method in it.
Then I went on to Crown Derby paperweights, but stopped when so many were being issued that I stopped taking pleasure in them. I would like to downsize my collection if anyone is interested.
Then came studio glass. That started when I saw a beautiful bowl by Peter Layton in a gallery in Nottingham. That interest is alive and well. Glass is such a stunningly wonderful medium, and the artists are amazing. I had a taster session once, and it's a lot harder than it looks.
After that, when I moved to a house with a garden, I found out about carnivorous plants and now have a greenhouse full of sarracenias (the North American pitcher plants). They have the great advantage for me of thriving on neglect. As long as they are always wet - they are bog plants and stand in water all year round - there are only really two times a year when a fair amount of work is needed. I'm in the middle of one at the moment!
Finally, there's silver. I started collecting coins in 2017 when I saw a video about the Queen's Beasts. Then I found that wherever I looked there were other beauties. Then I found Martin's site, through eBay, and didn't let that awful tie in his photo put me off. The rest is history, but I bet Martin wishes he'd come off eBay a year or two earlier.
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- Jazz
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https://youtu.be/8C974DfjDTI (copy link into youtube.)
And was really interested in buying silver coins and bars. At first i found it expensive but over time wasn't too bad. Glad i have built my collection to where i an now
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I see gold & silver as honest money (I doubt it'll ever be REAL money again); I like the fact I can hold it (Don't worry I wear gloves!

Only concern is nobody in my friends, family & colleague circle gets it, they think I'm some silver foil hat wearing freak ("Why does he buy silver for?")
When I die, will they spend it straightway or just chuck it in the grave with my rotting body?

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Jazz wrote:My story is i watched a video of ace bullion below
https://youtu.be/8C974DfjDTI (copy link into youtube.)
And was really interested in buying silver coins and bars. At first i found it expensive but over time wasn't too bad. Glad i have built my collection to where i an now
And yet you still never left a comment on the video.



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- Jazz
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Admin wrote:Jazz wrote:My story is i watched a video of ace bullion below
https://youtu.be/8C974DfjDTI (copy link into youtube.)
And was really interested in buying silver coins and bars. At first i found it expensive but over time wasn't too bad. Glad i have built my collection to where i an now
And yet you still never left a comment on the video.![]()
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Im forgetting these days


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- Bondie
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- Periodic Table
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