It has been close to a year now that I first became involved in numismatics. I was buying and selling gold and silver bullion prior to becoming intrigued by the coins that I saw being bought and sold on eBay. It was not so much the buying and selling that intrigued me as it was the history involved with these coins.

It was not long after discovering this hobby I decided to become involved and it has been a year, or close to it, in which I have bought many coins, both raw and certified, and dabbled just a bit in the paper currency arena. I have learned a great amount from other more experienced collectors but I would have to admit that the tuition I have paid in various bad purchases and other mistakes has been steep.

On the other hand, I have enjoyed this hobby very much. There are many aspects (such as the hunt and eventual find of a piece of history that brings me immense satisfaction) that I am going to have to go through some sort of withdrawals (similar to that of a drug addict stopping cold turkey) by putting a end to my purchasing any further coins until I have sold my entire collection in it's entirety.

I plan to take a short break and really evaluate what I like the most about the coins I have collected up to now and re-focus my goals to a reasonable series to collect when I resume and direct my collecting goals to putting together a truly high end set while taking my time to save so I will not have to settle for just any coin.

I have to wonder just how many other collectors out there have chosen to step back, re-evaluate collecting goals, sell their entire collection, and start over from scratch?

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