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  • Che_GrapesChe_Grapes Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a friend who collects only coins with milk spots ...

    What is the allure? That’s the wrong question - the real question is why are you all so crazy?
    Because collecting coins is not rational - we are all a little nuts to spend this much time and money on coins - and they answer? We are all just a little crazy 😄

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MasonG said:
    There are two types of toning: attractive and ugly. Of the two, ugly toned coins all look the same- ugly.

    Oh, cmon. You can be ugly or uglier.

  • MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @MasonG said:
    There are two types of toning: attractive and ugly. Of the two, ugly toned coins all look the same- ugly.

    Oh, cmon. You can be ugly or uglier.

    I suppose, but if you stop your evaluation when you reach the "ugly" threshold, you never really get into that.

  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 9,008 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Che_Grapes said:
    I have a friend who collects only coins with milk spots ...

    What is the allure? That’s the wrong question - the real question is why are you all so crazy?
    Because collecting coins is not rational - we are all a little nuts to spend this much time and money on coins - and they answer? We are all just a little crazy 😄

    I got some coins for your friend but him know the price of milk has gone up!

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pmh1nic said:
    Let me start by saying to each their own. Everyone is free to collect whatever they want.

    That out of the way I’d really like to understand the allure of collecting a series of coins (Morgan’s, Franklin’s, Washington quarters, etc. ) that are all BU and the same grade?

    I recently finished a set of Franklins. They all 64 or 65 but other than a few BU coins most have some measure of toning that differentiates them. From
    What is the attraction to looking at a row of coins that are essentially the same with different

    I’d add more but you get my point. Enlighten me.

    Right here is where you are implicitly calling your toned coins to be alluring. You ask what the "allure" is to white coins and then highlight your toned coins. The implication is clear. Nit pick this all you want. You are officially the only member of this forum that I have on "ignore".

  • MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:
    Right here is where you are implicitly calling your toned coins to be alluring. You ask what the "allure" is to white coins and then highlight your toned coins. The implication is clear.

    To be fair, it's possible he really doesn't think toned coins are alluring and that he's just indiscriminate in his purchases.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MasonG said:

    @jmlanzaf said:
    Right here is where you are implicitly calling your toned coins to be alluring. You ask what the "allure" is to white coins and then highlight your toned coins. The implication is clear.

    To be fair, it's possible he really doesn't think toned coins are alluring and that he's just indiscriminate in his purchases.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

    Lol. Given what he considers a logical argument, that may be likely. I retract my inference of his implication.

  • pmh1nicpmh1nic Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @pmh1nic said:
    Let me start by saying to each their own. Everyone is free to collect whatever they want.

    That out of the way I’d really like to understand the allure of collecting a series of coins (Morgan’s, Franklin’s, Washington quarters, etc. ) that are all BU and the same grade?

    I recently finished a set of Franklins. They all 64 or 65 but other than a few BU coins most have some measure of toning that differentiates them. From
    What is the attraction to looking at a row of coins that are essentially the same with different

    I’d add more but you get my point. Enlighten me.

    Right here is where you are implicitly calling your toned coins to be alluring. You ask what the "allure" is to white coins and then highlight your toned coins. The implication is clear. Nit pick this all you want. You are officially the only member of this forum that I have on "ignore".

    You can read whatever you like into the post but I never said anything about me set being alluring. Again, you can imply whatever you'd like but I never referred to my set as "alluring".

    Do I like the coins? Yes, one of the reasons I like them is the variety. I don't seen that variety in a set of high grade BU coins and ask others to share there interest and attraction in collecting them. You can read into that question whatever you like.

    Now how much did you sell those Morgans you were hyping for?

    The longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice is it possible for an empire to rise without His aid? Benjamin Franklin
  • pmh1nicpmh1nic Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 3, 2021 8:43PM

    @MasonG said:

    @jmlanzaf said:
    Right here is where you are implicitly calling your toned coins to be alluring. You ask what the "allure" is to white coins and then highlight your toned coins. The implication is clear.

    To be fair, it's possible he really doesn't think toned coins are alluring and that he's just indiscriminate in his purchases.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

    I'm discriminate. I don't like all toned coins. Some are downright ugly and I would characterize them as Ricko would, environmentally damaged. I realize my set would not be alluring to other. That's fine and I'm not offended by or insulted by it.

    On the flip side I don't find a set of high grade BU coins alluring and I asked the question in the OP to understand why others might. Some have considered merely asking the question as being an insult. What can I tell you. I asked the question to get some insight from the folks that cared to respond with more than "it's my right to collect whatever I want" as if that has ever been at issue.

    The longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice is it possible for an empire to rise without His aid? Benjamin Franklin
  • MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rereading the thread, I stopped when I got up to 20 posters who offered their opinions about why they like untoned coins. I'm guessing some people will never get it.

  • pmh1nicpmh1nic Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MasonG said:
    Rereading the thread, I stopped when I got up to 20 posters who offered their opinions about why they like untoned coins. I'm guessing some people will never get it.

    Well if you stopped at post 20 you missed out on some post by others that chimed in on why they like collecting BU coins or like collecting both toned and BU coins.

    The longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice is it possible for an empire to rise without His aid? Benjamin Franklin
  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MasonG said:
    Rereading the thread, I stopped when I got up to 20 posters who offered their opinions about why they like untoned coins. I'm guessing some people will never get it.

    BALONEY!

  • MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @MasonG said:
    Rereading the thread, I stopped when I got up to 20 posters who offered their opinions about why they like untoned coins. I'm guessing some people will never get it.

    BALONEY!

    I disagree. I think it's clear some people will never get it.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MasonG said:

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @MasonG said:
    Rereading the thread, I stopped when I got up to 20 posters who offered their opinions about why they like untoned coins. I'm guessing some people will never get it.

    BALONEY!

    I disagree. I think it's clear some people will never get it.

    I think some people won't even know that you're taking about them.

    Just exactly what are you trying to sell?

  • MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 3, 2021 9:20PM

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @MasonG said:

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @MasonG said:
    Rereading the thread, I stopped when I got up to 20 posters who offered their opinions about why they like untoned coins. I'm guessing some people will never get it.

    BALONEY!

    I disagree. I think it's clear some people will never get it.

    I think some people won't even know that you're taking about them.

    Just exactly what are you trying to sell?

    A bunch of coins (not here). Some are toned, some aren't.

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