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Do you consider your style of collecting an art form?
gtstang
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From the way way you obtain your coins to the order in which you buy a certain coin. How your taste has evolved over time and how you know when you see a coin that it is a part of you and belongs in your collection.
So, is the way you collect an art form?
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Naaa ... don’t got that much class ...
Seriously I have never thought of my collection as an art form.
Say what?
Yes, I absolutely consider what and how I collect an Art Form. I come from an Art background.
@ErrorsOnCoins That thing is freaking awesome!
No.
Yes, I tend to consider aesthetics when putting a group together. How they look as a group is important to me. I dabble in structural steel artwork. A piece below I built for our community greenway.
Collecting art is curation, not creation. It's about art, but it isn't art. Unless you get too weird and philosophical about it.
I think he's just trying to smoke out the weirdos who respond "yes".
The Art of Losing money?
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
Very much like a Jackson Pollock painting.
Mine is more like.... um... well, scatter brained. lol
I am an artist. My artistic tastes make me look for artistic coins 👍
This represents my way of coin collecting style
...... a free form & style
void of any principle
No.
PF that’s obtuse! This is a coin forum—whaddya talkin?
Sometimes it feels like this...
And sometimes it feels like this...
U.S. Type Set
Only if I’m allowed to color outside the lines.
Im just part of the puzzle.
My coin collection used to be art like this -
Now, it is much more like this -
My canvas is never ending and always changing.
I hire a small operatic ensemble to play a few symphonies in the background while viewing coins at shops and flea markets, to approximate the would be viewing environment of the coin back at one of my estates should I purchase it. I have many leatherbound books.
Something like that had to be intentional.
I like to find coin a good coin match that’s my artistic abilities
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923
When you collect like a curator it's quite hard to put down one's pipe and beret I rather dare say.
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
I have some white and some toned coins in my set. Each different and unique. Very eclectic....kinda like abstract art; I guess.
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
No. Though I have tried to come up with a unique, artistic way to display my coins, I have failed so far.
LIBERTY SEATED DIMES WITH MAJOR VARIETIES CIRCULATION STRIKES (1837-1891) digital album
Many items I collect are art but style of collecting is another story.
I consider John Jay Pittman’s Statue of Liberty bidding a form of performance art.
My clicking on Heritage Live buttons not so much!
Picasso
Oil on canvas.
Unfortunate picture but I couldn't resist.
:'(
Yes, and like some art, it (my collecting habits and art) is often misunderstood.
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Those who post photos of their coins seem to have elevated their collecting to an art form.
Then there are the Picassos among us who seem to have taken artistic license to the level where a dully colored coin becomes pictured as a brilliant toner.
no, not in the least bit
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Kind of resembles your Franklin slab(s) that survived the Paradise fire.
Life imitating art?
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"To Be Esteemed Be Useful" - 1792 Birch Cent --- "I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin
This has to be one of the coolest errors EVER!
Kind of reminds me of this...
Uhhhhh.......no.
"Do you consider your style of collecting an art form?"
No, I more compare it to fishing with dynamite.
I custom order them with Two Dates ...
I consider it to be more of a mild psychosis myself.
A collection might include art, but of itself is not art - it is only a container. However, Glenstone Museum in Potomac Maryland comes close.
The recently opened "Louvre" in Abu Dhabi is a similarly artistic container. Perhaps we'll end up with macro-museums which encapsulate entire museums as exhibits within the macro-museum. That will come only after we have slabs for our rare slabs.
But, to the original post, a collection does represent creativity and personal taste so I suppose it could be considered art. It's similar to interior design: I wouldn't call MY house "art" but there are some beautifully designed interiors where the collection of pieces is greater than the sum of its parts.
I consider the way I live an Art Form!!