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Ever Buy your wife a coin and then sell it?
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For years I have been buying major error coins for my birth year and my children's birth years. My wife had little interest in error coins so I resisted buying coins for her birth year. For some reason, many examples of major error coins from her birth year just came to market within the last year or so.
So I started buying her (me) some very nice 3 and 4 figure error coins. Like all my coins, I put them into inventory. The coins seem to sell in days and I just can't hold onto them. I think I should have been buying her birth year coins all along 
I just got this one in and showed it to her yesterday .....
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As long as she enjoys the cash from the sale, I would imagine she would be fine with it
She really likes error coins now
No, but the lovely Mrs. Hydrant did buy a couple of coins for me. They were $20 St. Gaudens. She got a great deal on them. Way under melt. Around $50 each I think. She was so proud and still is. She bought them from one of those late night T.V. scam artists. Only thing is, she never has been able to figure out why I use them for paper weights instead of keeping them in the safe with all the other valuable stuff. I'll never tell her. Wonderful girl. 42 madcap years together, and still.....a.....Wonderful girl.
That’s awesome @Hydrant!
Bough my wife a 1942 6 coin proof set, probably 50 years ago. Sold it several years later at a nice profit and she could care less.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
I just claim that all of the coins I buy are "ours".
"We just got an 1821 quarter!"
"That's nice, honey. I'm going to buy us a new purse now....."
We get along just fine. (And I have lots of purses to choose from.)
No.
If I ever bought my wife a coin she would see through that so quickly her head would spin on its axis. She would likely counter by buying me a Gucci handbag and a pair of pumps.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Ever Buy your wife a coin and then sell it?
"It"...do you mean the "coin" or the "wife"?
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If you live in a community property state, all you buy are hers.
My wife does not appreciate coins, so I have never purchased one for her birth year. I did recently purchase a very nice rod and reel for her on her birthday. She doesn't fish.
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So, I had never seen an "eleven cent" piece dated 1965 until about 4 or 5 months ago when I won one at auction.
I showed it to the wife and she thought it was cool. Put it into inventory. It sold in about a week. I was kinda bummed being the first year of the clad issue and all. I then quickly located two other examples of an eleven cent piece of that date and bought them up. One sold two weeks later. WOW.
I really, really do not want to sell this last one ......
No way would I sell such a coin. Here's one she saw at a coin show and said she liked so I bought it for her. I don't normally buy certified bullion but she likes it so it's a permanent edition to my (her) collection. I can remember buying this coin from Steven Sanders (may he RIP) about 10 years ago. He was absolutely the best coin dealer I even dealt with.
Oh great, now your wife's age is known to a buncha strangers. Boy, are YOU gonna get it!
....or how about Selling Coins to Pay Off A Wife
in a divorce ?
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I wouldn't dare do something so foolish, but I did give her a decent chunk of silver for our recent 25th anniversary. When I do notify her of a coin acquisition, her favorite comment is "Equal and opposite reaction."
Usually this takes the form of furniture, or a remodel, or a family vacation, or clothes, or a new car, or ...........
No
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Years ago bought raw XF/AU common gold type for her to wear. Closest I've come. No luck in stimulating interest otherwise.
Oh, and then sold them all during hard times.
I've never been married but this thread brought back an old memory that made me laugh. When Aki (my icon dog) was a young pup, I started collecting dog medals for him. (Yes, really.) It probably took me a month or two before I realized that he would never appreciate them, so I sold them off and moved on.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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My ex-wife called.
She said that, based on many many other coin dealer's wives' and ex-wives' anecdotal remarks, you're a dumb-ass.
No I have never bought my wife a coin. But this is probably the closest thing to it that I bought her. She loves clowns and it’s in the original case. In the end everything is hers anyway.
You are lucky, Chris. I am still trying to convince my wife and son to get interested in error coins. My wife prefers circulated/uncirculated banknotes more...
My wife is very understanding about myself buying coins .
She just takes the credit card and treats herself as well to something she likes.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
.> @bidask said:
I believe that to be the identical approach to that taken by Dr, James Wilkison, the celebrated gold pattern collector, and his spouse.
And President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines 
So apparently there are still mixed reviews.
I think your prices are too low
Nope, never bought the wife a coin
But prior to every show , I always ask if she needs anything!!
I have purchased a couple of coins for my wife.... she does show appreciation and puts them on display... Though she is not a coin collector, the one's I purchased have a theme she does like...and no, I have not sold any...her's or mine...
Cheers, RickO