Yes, but I generally don't like doing that. I did with this one. I won this at a coin club auction. I don't collect buff's. The soap bar slab and toning caught my eye. I also like AU55 grades.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
Thanks for bumpuing @OAKSTAR - even if you thought you were on the US side! By the way, I sent in the 1000 Kroner from the OP and it graded as a 68! This was a top pop, although another 68 with more color just graded, too.
Yes, like that better than the ?maid walking the cow ( I have the two coin set and the gold which you ought to probably get as well - it tends to tone somewhat reddish but like the Viking at the steering oar).
Love that Milled British (1830-1960) Well, just Love coins, period.
Modern Italian commemoratives are rather overlooked outside of Italy - except perhaps when people like me find stuff like this for sale and like the artistry and the linking of historical Italian coinage on a modern commem.
Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
Does impulse mean: you’re sitting in the auction room (physical or virtual), you’re watching the lots pass by waiting for yours, you see something interesting that you’ve missed, it’s cheap(-ish), boom, click that bid button, it’s mine!
Many times! Especially when I didn’t have a physical catalog to study beforehand.
Sometimes on morning i think about my later yesterday-night bids and think "why?", "what?", "Phhh it's good that another man buy it...". Sometimes i think about some coin "oh... so expensive... I'll buy it in the end of the year or later" and buy it some days later.
Sorry for bad English.
I've made MANY impulse purchases in my years. One particular show I attended maybe 15 years ago, I was looking for a 1917 Standing Lib quarter Type 1 MS 62 or better with full head. Didn't find one that I liked but I did stumble into a whole box full of Civil War Tokens and Hard Times Tokens/Merchant Tokens. They were maybe $5 each so I picked out about 50 of them. Only in the middle of last year did I finally drag them home, bought a couple of references and cataloged them. What fun THAT was. Impulse purchase?? Sure...but it got me started in a whole new area of collecting. Neat coins...great history. Also bought 20 Canadian 1 ounce silver "rounds" about 10 years ago. Not sure why...but I did. I can't remember where they are now but they will turn up in the bank box somewhere. Not treasures, but "I liked them", like the civil war stuff. Fortunately, I can't recall a flop impulse buy...but "the day is young"...I'm not!!
Oh, I did finally get the quarter a few years later.
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I have to many to choose from 😬
Also they did not stay in my collection very long either 😬
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Oh wow, beautiful coins , design and toning!
Coinsof1984@martinb6830 on twitter
I don't think I have a single coin in my collection that isn't an "impulse purchase".
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD.
Simple answer: All the time!
All the time which makes this fun - here are two recent impulse buys
Taler Custom Set
Ancient Custom Set
Several times. It happens when there's just nothing on the want list at a show.
Was that stella made in China? E. Pluribus unun?
Yes, but I generally don't like doing that. I did with this one. I won this at a coin club auction. I don't collect buff's. The soap bar slab and toning caught my eye. I also like AU55 grades.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Is water wet?
Latin American Collection
I don't do sets, I just buy things I like. They're all pretty much impulse purchases.
@MasonG- When you posted, did this thread move to the top?
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Jeeezzzz!!! (&^%(&^%&!?!?$! Never mind!! This is the World & Ancient Coins Forum. I thought I was in U.S. Coin!!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Thanks for bumpuing @OAKSTAR - even if you thought you were on the US side! By the way, I sent in the 1000 Kroner from the OP and it graded as a 68! This was a top pop, although another 68 with more color just graded, too.
My current "Box of 20"
Yes, like that better than the ?maid walking the cow ( I have the two coin set and the gold which you ought to probably get as well - it tends to tone somewhat reddish but like the Viking at the steering oar).
Well, just Love coins, period.
I will answer your post with a picture:
I'm BACK!!! Used to be Billet7 on the old forum.
My PhD is in impulse purchases
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
Modern Italian commemoratives are rather overlooked outside of Italy - except perhaps when people like me find stuff like this for sale and like the artistry and the linking of historical Italian coinage on a modern commem.
I laughed... and laughed... and laughed...
8 Reales Madness Collection
Does impulse mean: you’re sitting in the auction room (physical or virtual), you’re watching the lots pass by waiting for yours, you see something interesting that you’ve missed, it’s cheap(-ish), boom, click that bid button, it’s mine!
Many times! Especially when I didn’t have a physical catalog to study beforehand.
Sometimes on morning i think about my later yesterday-night bids and think "why?", "what?", "Phhh it's good that another man buy it...". Sometimes i think about some coin "oh... so expensive... I'll buy it in the end of the year or later" and buy it some days later.
Sorry for bad English.
Peace.
@pruebas - I think your definition is as good as any.
Here’s my latest (I think - waiting for auction invoice). Denar of Ladislauw II the Exile from the 12th century Poland. It’s tiny - 13mm.
My current "Box of 20"
Ha! Most of what I have was an "impulse purchase" at some point.
PS- nice Icelanders, @bob13- and congrats on making that 68!
Seems like impulse purchases come more often than I like to admit. Here’s a couple
I've made MANY impulse purchases in my years. One particular show I attended maybe 15 years ago, I was looking for a 1917 Standing Lib quarter Type 1 MS 62 or better with full head. Didn't find one that I liked but I did stumble into a whole box full of Civil War Tokens and Hard Times Tokens/Merchant Tokens. They were maybe $5 each so I picked out about 50 of them. Only in the middle of last year did I finally drag them home, bought a couple of references and cataloged them. What fun THAT was. Impulse purchase?? Sure...but it got me started in a whole new area of collecting. Neat coins...great history. Also bought 20 Canadian 1 ounce silver "rounds" about 10 years ago. Not sure why...but I did. I can't remember where they are now but they will turn up in the bank box somewhere. Not treasures, but "I liked them", like the civil war stuff. Fortunately, I can't recall a flop impulse buy...but "the day is young"...I'm not!!
Oh, I did finally get the quarter a few years later.
Piano1
10 minutes ago... again.
You must be strong...
Peace.