What’s the specific difference between “Coin Collecting” and “Coin Hunting”? Why would you even be interested in that? What’s in it for you? How does it help YOU win?

Jeez, hold on a second, that’s too many questions all at once. Let’s take ’em one at a time.

The specific difference between “Coin Collecting” and “Coin Hunting” is that collecting can come from a variety of sources — you can buy a coin, trade a coin, that’s collecting — you aren’t really “finding” anything, and what you’re buying or trading for has already been put to a premium price — it’s no longer a “find” but an “acquisition”.

If you want the Magic to work, if you want to trigger off a Lucky Streak — Luck ALWAYS happens in streaks — when you sit down with hundreds or thousands of coins and deliberately inspect them one by one, flipping to see both sides AND the rim, that’s what’s called “Hunting”, and it’s just like hunting anything else.

You’ve got to be quiet, gotta sneak up on the game, freeze in place, breath softly and gently, vanish into camouflage, and WATCH and LISTEN and be ready for anything, even for your game to suddenly appear behind you, charging you head down and bent for glory.

That’s when you FEEL the hunt, and you’ll feel the COIN hunt every bit as much, if you play the game right — I just bagged the coin-hunting equivalent of a rhino, and I’m after a T-Rex.

I’d like to tell you that you’ll get rich quick playing this game, but I don’t think you’d believe me, even though it could easily become true. Okay, I WILL tell you, at risk of being thought of as overly optimistic — YOU CAN WIN! There, I said it, and it’s true. You CAN win, but ONLY IF YOU TRY.

If you don’t even try, you GUARANTEE failure. If you try, you WILL succeed at some point. If you don’t hit right away, you can join the Coinology Coin Club and get some help striking it rich.

What’s the Payoff? What’s the Price?

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