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BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

Let's say If someone with the wealth of Jeff Bezos ex wife MacKenzie Scott was your new Sugar Mama and gave you a hobby allowance :*

To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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  • PillarDollarCollectorPillarDollarCollector Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A nice coin room would be cool and a them in the entire home that goes with it.

    Interest: Latin American history with an emphasis on colonial Mexico & Peru

    Sports: NHL & NFL

    Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!

  • PillarDollarCollectorPillarDollarCollector Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 11, 2021 3:45PM

    @Crypto said:
    Same as all rich men, alimony obligations

    Caused by the nanny or in her case the pool ''boy'' or the delivery man!!!

    Hey it was worth the half billion dollars right hahaha why even get married when your rich like that

    Interest: Latin American history with an emphasis on colonial Mexico & Peru

    Sports: NHL & NFL

    Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The animal shelter idea is a good one as well as contributing to organizations that are trying to save some of our critically endangered wildlife. As far as coins go a set of Braided hair half cents in proof and all the Buffalo 5c major varieties in the highest grade obtainable, proof Indian Head $2.50 and $5 gold, a set of Gobrecht dollars, and many others. Just give me 25 million for coins-that would do I believe.

  • PillarDollarCollectorPillarDollarCollector Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 11, 2021 4:00PM

    @Crypto said:
    Same as all rich men, alimony obligations

    Love is like a deck of cards first comes the hearth then the diamond then the club and finally the spade.

    Or

    First, comes the engagement “ring”, second, comes the wedding “ring” and third, comes the “suffer-ring.”

    This just a joke not to be used literally in life I don't condone violence in anyway.

    Interest: Latin American history with an emphasis on colonial Mexico & Peru

    Sports: NHL & NFL

    Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!

  • CryptoCrypto Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Circulation strike liberty double eagles

  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would immediately purchase all the high grade key coins to my favorite collections, Buffalo Nickels, IHC's and Walking Liberty Halves, just in case they changed their mind. If I had a second chance, I would buy the high grade well struck coins in these collections that are hard to come by in certain dates/mm's. JMO
    Jim


    When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln

    Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Real estate

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

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Same thing I collect now!

  • PillarDollarCollectorPillarDollarCollector Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @privatecoin said:
    Real estate

    None left your ex wife kept it all.

    Interest: Latin American history with an emphasis on colonial Mexico & Peru

    Sports: NHL & NFL

    Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!

  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’d do as near complete classic US gold set. Then I’d do a global type set of gold. That would keep me occupied for years...

  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @KingOfMorganDollar said:

    @privatecoin said:
    Real estate

    None left your ex wife kept it all.

    Except I don't have an Ex.....and I'm not going to have an Ex.....

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

  • PillarDollarCollectorPillarDollarCollector Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @privatecoin said:

    @KingOfMorganDollar said:

    @privatecoin said:
    Real estate

    None left your ex wife kept it all.

    Except I don't have an Ex.....and I'm not going to have an Ex.....

    Smart man!!

    Interest: Latin American history with an emphasis on colonial Mexico & Peru

    Sports: NHL & NFL

    Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Islands.

    Then I'd start a thread here about what coin I should design first for my new mint.

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oddly, I don't know if I would enjoy a hobby as much as I would enjoy charitable work. Strange, but once one can afford virtually anything, material things and self-interested things lose much of their appeal. However, I would welcome putting this noble thought to the test,

  • CalifornianKingCalifornianKing Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭✭

    I'd start a complete set of Us coins and try to beat Elisberg. With enough money you can do it. Then I'd take the money and buy stocks and crypto for fun! Oh and the usual houses and jets and expensive clothes and resturants and trips, ect

  • Eldorado9Eldorado9 Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would assemble complete proof sets, 1c--->$20.00 from around 1860-1915

  • CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭✭

    High-grade 18th and 19th century type coins, and St. Gaudens eagles and double eagles.

    Jim

    Countdown to completion of my Mercury Set: 2 coins. My growing Lincoln Set: Finally completed!
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,012 ✭✭✭✭✭

    type set of pre 1960 proofs, all the different metals I could find.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 44,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 11, 2021 5:05PM

    @MasonG said:
    I'd fly all over the country (first class, of course), searching in convenience store parking lots for rare error pennies.

    And you'd hire emeraldATV to photograph them for you. ;)

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 33,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 12, 2021 6:12AM

    @Broadstruck said:
    What would you collect?

    Let's say If someone with the wealth of Jeff Bezos ex wife MacKenzie Scott was your new Sugar Mama and gave you a hobby allowance :*

    Don't you need someone to pay for lots and lots of PCGS slabs ;)

  • Pnies20Pnies20 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    18th century gold. The only way I’ll ever be able to afford it 😂

    BHNC Associate member #AN-07 … 88 and counting.

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CalifornianKing said:
    I'd start a complete set of Us coins and try to beat Elisberg. With enough money you can do it. Then I'd take the money and buy stocks and crypto for fun! Oh and the usual houses and jets and expensive clothes and resturants and trips, ect

    Hold on there Bucky... She's only giving you some money for coins.

    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MasonG said:
    I'd fly all over the country (first class, of course), searching in convenience store parking lots for rare error pennies.

    I'm in tears! :D

    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    An ex-wife.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • CryptoCrypto Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge said:
    Servants to remove the Gorilla Glue from my hair.

    When I first heard about that I was like that poor girl, then I found it was a like 40 year old women..... simply can’t fix stupid

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 6,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @oldabeintx said:
    Oddly, I don't know if I would enjoy a hobby as much as I would enjoy charitable work. Strange, but once one can afford virtually anything, material things and self-interested things lose much of their appeal. However, I would welcome putting this noble thought to the test,

    I’ve reflected on this too and wonder if I’d be easily sated and then lose interest. But then again, was Hugh Hefner easily sated? 😮

    "Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The only thing that I would do different is that I would buy a 1921S walking liberty half in mint state 65. I would find the best that I could...one that is truly solid for the grade.

    “I may not believe in myself but I believe in what I’m doing” ~Jimmy Page~

    My Full Walker Registry Set:

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • CalifornianKingCalifornianKing Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭✭

    @Broadstruck said:

    @CalifornianKing said:
    I'd start a complete set of Us coins and try to beat Elisberg. With enough money you can do it. Then I'd take the money and buy stocks and crypto for fun! Oh and the usual houses and jets and expensive clothes and resturants and trips, ect

    Hold on there Bucky... She's only giving you some money for coins.

    Alright. Step one: buy every single expensive coin I can find, then buy several billion in junk gold/silver and lower (2-10k) range coins
    Step 2: Seller lower quality coins and keep only enough to make a large pile to play with and fill treusure chests with. (Obviously keep the higher quality ones)
    Step 3 PROFIT!
    Step 4 buy jets and everything happened.

  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 6,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    To be a multi-billionaire would be an unusual path, I'm sure. Providing I still enjoyed the hunt, and had other things to occupy my time, I probably would concentrate on finding and acquiring;

    Flowing Hair, Draped Bust and Capped Bust coinage, by marriages and interesting and notable progressive die states, original or close to it, Condition Census or close to it.

    I would also attempt a Large Size collection of US Currency by Friedberg #, un-pressed originals or close to it, Condition Census or close to it.

    Probably a few other things.


    “We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”

    Todd - BHNC #242
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge said:
    Servants to remove the Gorilla Glue from my hair.

    You could buy a trained monkey...

    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,733 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's funny. I could have a blast collecting art in that situation, but not coins. Coins are inextricably linked in my head with the game of buying, selling and creating something out of nothing. I wouldn't want to change that.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,378 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1) I'd set up a charity for an adult I know who has cerebral palsy so when the people taking care of him pass on, he would have nothing to worry about.
    2) Probably do more travel. Do that trip to Namibia that I probably won't get around to for all sorts of reasons. Maybe figure out a way to visit Central Asia without worrying whether or not I'd be coming back.
    3) Same wife. Same house. Same car.
    4) Maybe figure out a way to have a bunch of penguins running around, healthy, happy and not eaten by anything. Probably African or Humboldt penguins, as they can deal with weather less extreme than the others.
    5) The only coin I think I'd buy would be a nice Unc either Bust or Gobrecht Dollar.

    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,690 ✭✭✭✭

    Cam & DCam proofs 1800’s through 1942 all denominations.

    image Respectfully, Mark
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,022 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bust quarters

  • CommemDudeCommemDude Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very high grade pre-1838 type coins. Chain cent, Half Disme, Flowing hair dollar etc ... true rarities in my opinion.

    Dr Mikey
    Commems and Early Type
  • 1984worldcoins1984worldcoins Posts: 584 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would complete my 1984 collection and buy all the mega rare gold and platinum pieces and all the rare Franklin Mint sets, and, after that, I would buy ALL the tokens and every circulation world coin from 1984 available to get the best grade possible..

    Coinsof1984@martinb6830 on twitter

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