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Just for Fun: Define a "Numismatic Sin"

TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
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In reply to CoinZip's much appreciated weekly listing of nationwide coin shows, I defined what I consider to be a Numismatic Sin:

  • Failure to go to a weekend coin show that is within your normal daily commute!

Have some fun, and define another "Numismatic Sin". See how many of us are going to Numismatic Hell. :)

Easily distracted Type Collector

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    EXOJUNKIEEXOJUNKIE Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Failure to allow your coins to tone naturally.

    Harshly cleaning your coins.

    I'm addicted to exonumia ... it is numismatic crack!

    ANA LM

    USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
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    TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buying a coin with only a vague idea about what they usually sell for. (You'll soon figure out "Who would spend so much for that common coin/variety?") :)

    Easily distracted Type Collector
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    No HeadlightsNo Headlights Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The manufacture of headlights🙂

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    fastfreddiefastfreddie Posts: 2,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buying sight seen over the internet with so-so photo's

    It is not that life is short, but that you are dead for so very long.
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    JBKJBK Posts: 14,812 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cleaning a coin.

    Mishandling a coin.

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    david3142david3142 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Engraving your initial in a major rarity.

    Trying to “improve” an MS67 1893-S Morgan.

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    KindaNewishKindaNewish Posts: 827 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rattler cracking.

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    Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 1, 2018 1:03PM

    I am guilty of this by the 100s. Over 400 actually. It is practically the only way I buy. I occasionally blindly put trust in the grades of Pcgs, but only with a return policy.

    @fastfreddie said:
    Buying sight seen over the internet with so-so photo's

    @KindaNewish said:
    Rattler cracking.

    😬 I have done this only twice before, I prefer to keep rattlers, however, there is no way to update for varieties or better grades without cracking a few... I have close to ten first gens that call for the Kraken

    http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753

    https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/

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    dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Acquiring a 1916 Standing Liberty Head quarter to keep under my mattress. >:)


    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 1, 2018 1:10PM

    Mechanical error on a slab label. >:)

    I'm guilty. :(

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    ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Refusing to look for coins on ebay.

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    BJandTundraBJandTundra Posts: 383 ✭✭✭✭

    Not teaching our kids and grandkids about the history associated with our coins.

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    ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    -Ignoring all coins that don't have a little green oval on them.
    -Dipping off attractive toning.
    -Using PVC flips these days.
    -Passing on a coin that you like because it's in the "wrong plastic".
    -Selling EF-AU coins as BU-CH.BU.
    -Selling problem coins(particularly online) without disclosing the problem.
    -selling fake "original" rolls
    -Cracking out 20+ year old holders for albums

    Collector, occasional seller

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    COINS MAKE CENTSCOINS MAKE CENTS Posts: 1,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bashing people for collecting coins they way they enjoy instead of the way you enjoy

    New inventory added daily at Coins Make Cents
    HAPPY COLLECTING


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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,544 ✭✭✭✭✭

    showing a coin here saying its an error when it was found in a parking lot. (wtf) for what its worth

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    BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,417 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BJandTundra said:
    Not teaching our kids and grandkids about the history associated with our coins.

    I did that. My sin is not pushing the issue.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
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    david3142david3142 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ChrisH821 said:
    -Ignoring all coins that don't have a little green oval on them.
    -Dipping off attractive toning.
    -Using PVC flips these days.
    -Passing on a coin that you like because it's in the "wrong plastic".
    -Selling EF-AU coins as BU-CH.BU.
    -Selling problem coins(particularly online) without disclosing the problem.
    -selling fake "original" rolls
    -Cracking out 20+ year old holders for albums

    It seems that your 4th and last items are somewhat in conflict. The lesson from the first and fourth items is “the coin is what matters”. Why would it matter if it was in an old holder provided the coin is kept carefully afterward? I mean, I wouldn’t crack a Regency holder but that would be a financial sin not a numismatic one.

    I most definitely agree with all the items but the last one.

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    tyler267tyler267 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭✭

    Buying and using one of those coin cleaning kits they used to sell at hobby and coin stores, the kits included a wire brush, cleaning solution, and instructions on how to properly use the wire brush and cleaning solution to make your coins shine. I always think of those kits when I see a whizzed coin that looks like it could have been nice if it had been left alone.

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    ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @david3142 said:
    It seems that your 4th and last items are somewhat in conflict. The lesson from the first and fourth items is “the coin is what matters”. Why would it matter if it was in an old holder provided the coin is kept carefully afterward? I mean, I wouldn’t crack a Regency holder but that would be a financial sin not a numismatic one.

    I most definitely agree with all the items but the last one.

    I see your point, but not purchasing a coin is different than cracking one out of an old holder. My point was that I wouldn't crack an old holder just for the convenience of adding to an album.

    Collector, occasional seller

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    privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Selling Chinese counterfeit trash.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

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    david3142david3142 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ChrisH821 said:

    @david3142 said:
    It seems that your 4th and last items are somewhat in conflict. The lesson from the first and fourth items is “the coin is what matters”. Why would it matter if it was in an old holder provided the coin is kept carefully afterward? I mean, I wouldn’t crack a Regency holder but that would be a financial sin not a numismatic one.

    I most definitely agree with all the items but the last one.

    I see your point, but not purchasing a coin is different than cracking one out of an old holder. My point was that I wouldn't crack an old holder just for the convenience of adding to an album.

    Fair enough. You’d still have the hole filled in your collection even if it is technically still open in the album itself.

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    SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,279 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buying an ugly 66 instead of a pretty 65.

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    tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cracking a gem beautifully toned CC Morgan out of a GSA holder and dipping it back in the day. (I'm guilty)

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

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    ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 1, 2018 7:22PM

    :'( Dipped the 2 Morgan my Mom gave me in jewelry cleaner but that was how it started .......

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    BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Putting an AU IHC in a carnival souvenir coin press.

    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

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    markelman1125markelman1125 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Polishing my first Morgan dollar 👹

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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 43,869 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buying a gold tooth in a coin shop. Forgive me brethren.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looking at a coin at a coin show when first arriving, knowing that it is the ideal one for your collection, but deciding to look further 'just in case' there is a better coin/deal out there. Then returning, and it is gone..... :'( Cheers, RickO

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    ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2, 2018 8:46AM

    So I cracked an 1884-CC $1 in 65DMPL and very lightly dipped it and it came back "cleaned" on account of, I'd presume, having a bad hair(lines) day. So I dipped it again, this time undiluted (with a Q-tip, fields only), and "they" figured out the hairlines were die polishing (duh!) and it came back 65+DMPL and stickered.

    Count the sins >:)

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell

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