Have you suffered a hobby related injury?
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So, on Friday night I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. I grab my tablet and see a new listing on eBay of interest. To get a better look I jump out of bed to go boot up my desktop and hurt my left knee doing so. Figured I can't be alone... Anyone else have a nerdy war story to share?
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Larry Briggs has a few stories that would fit this category, and I've only heard the ones that have resulted in hospitalization.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
I liberated a coin from one of the older NGC holders a few years ago. The slab shattered nicely, but not so nice was the triangular shard that I jammed right into my thumb. It took a week to heal.
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nope never had anything related to a coin collecting injury
2003-present
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Bad eye sight for me.
Not me personally but my wallet gets the $#!^ beat out of it on a regular basis.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
Well look what the cat dragged in. It's been a while since I heard anything about you. Welcome back.
Eyestrain from looking at coins through magnifiers. I never crack out coins from slabs, but I could see me getting cut on a sharp plastic shard.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
No coin related injuries - well, I scraped my finger on a sharp edge of the coinstar reject bin once....bled a little... but got the coins. Cheers, RickO
From coin collecting? Maybe a papercut or a staple scratch...
I used to rock climb though... I've got a couple of stories there. ..and one epic mountain bike ride springs to mind...
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Does it count as a coin related injury if your wife finds out what you paid for a coin?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Depends on how nice your couch is for sleeping on.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
Paper cuts from CRH, maybe some undiagnosed nickel poisoning, definitely increased stress levels in the last moments of some ebay auctions.
I was building a display for some of my coins and used epoxy resin to help fill in some holes in the wood. Next morning i could barely open my eyes. Turns out im allergic to the resin....
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Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
I threw my back out lifting my box at the SDB last week.
My pride has been injury quite a few time thanks to you guys!! 😂 🤣
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Does accidentally drinking cyanide count? I've heard stories.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/726955/june-23-1922-former-ans-vice-president-j-sanford-saltus-dies-from-cyanide-poisoning-post-a-d/p1
Haven't done it yet.
Yes. Dropped a 100 oz. Engelhard bar on my foot, fracturing the 2nd toe on my right foot. I must confess that some ungentlemanly oaths quickly followed.
RIP Mom- 1932-2012
Almost got a frying pan to the back of the head once, when she saw what I paid for my 1901-S quarter.😱
Dave
hmmmm... swing and a miss? ;-)
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Do frequent headaches count
BHNC #248 … 130 and counting.
I suffer trauma every time getting an itemization statement from consignments to auction houses or for grading fees.
Just my back, occasionally, from getting in and out of my car. After visiting my 15 banks per day!
Other than that, I'm good.
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Hobby related injuries include: multiple staple punctures and scratches in and on my hands, seeing coins I have sold get grade increases from buyer resubmissions, hurts, and my monthly budget has been injured a time or two also.
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=142753
https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/
Do hurt feelings count? 😆
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Crab thrown in my eye, by the well-known forum numismatist next to me, during a coin show dinner.
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
While waiting my turn in a fairly crowded shop, I figured I'd pass the time pawing through a huge "junk" box full of coins in 2X2's. While digging deep, I took a staple a good distance under the fingernail. I loudly blurted "the" forbidden word to use in front of a lady (yeah, that one). Luckily, only one lady in the shop, and she subscribed to the cursing is excused when an injury is involved rule, so all was forgiven.
Just minor scrapes from shards from cracking TPG holders, and poking of fingers with staples from trying the carefully liberate coins from 2x2s. Plus any long-term effects of acetone vapors.
Trigger finger going through US Mint reports in NNP on my iPad.
Yes….my wallet has been devastated by this hobby!
Larry Briggs mistook dip for his blue Gatorade within the past year. This is one of the hospitalization stories I was referring to. I told him to switch to the pink stuff unless he's servicing his van.
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Dropped a fresh Mint roll of 2000 P Sacagawea dollars right on the big joint of my big toe a couple years ago...purple dark blue beauty mark for about 3 weeks. Got it x-rayed because I fully thought I broke it.
Also all my shoes hurt for a couple weeks lol.
Was VERY happy it landed on my foot and not the wooden edge of my cabinet.
The best coin in that roll went to our host hoping for a 68, got a 67.
True story.
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
Almost threw out my back in the new apartment where we had just moved into, trying to single handedly lift and move my precious stuff in huge storage bins close to the patio door since the fire alarm went off and many fire trucks were on the scene.
Luckily it turned out to be a false alarm since someone had yanked the emergency switch, but it sure helped me get priorities right and seek alternate storing methods.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
I've triggered ocular migraines squinting at coins with too direct a light source. They are not painful, just a nuisance.
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
Fainted/passed out,hit my head when my wife actually showed an interest in my collection.
Callused eyeballs.
My wallet has taken a beating lately.
My YouTube Channel
" Just minor scrapes from shards from cracking TPG holders, and poking of fingers with staples from trying the carefully liberate coins from 2x2s. Plus any long-term effects of acetone vapors."
Ditto on poked bloody fingers from non clinched staples on carboard 2x2's lookin thru boxes at shows.
Went to using a pen or pencil tip to poke open the 2x2' mylar to extract coins. Never touch the staples any more.
Best tip ever shown to me 25 years ago.
A dealer rejected my very fair offer on one of his coins and it hurt my feelings.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
What about the Martin Paul vs. Jesse Lipka floor fight over a Heritage auction lot?
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
Just a broken heart when I had to sell off my ASE's. Years of collecting. But I'm over it now.
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A few years ago I went to the local coin shop, I was trying to finish my set of large Canadian cents. The store had them in 2 by 2’s since over 40 years ago, the staples were rusted and the prices was low. The owner said the box hasn’t been touched in over 20 years I’ll sell you the coins at the prices marked. So I was all excited until I realized that many were corroded or with environmental damage. While looking at one I stabbed my finger with a rusty staple and started bleeding on a few coins. I ended buying them as I couldn’t leave them covered with blood. While cheap there wasn’t one coin that I needed that I bled on. Ended up dipping them in acetone and giving them away.
My current registry sets:
20th Century Type Set
Virtual DANSCO 7070
Slabbed IHC set - Missing the Anacs Slabbed coins
A hefty thumbnail is quicker, easier, and safer!
Get a box of round toothpicks for poking holes in Mylar.
On a serious injury (Health) I have been in the Coin business for 45 years. In 2008 developed Bladder Cancer. I know of 5 coin dealers in New England alone, that have or were all in the business for 30 years or more that got Bladder Cancer. The result of handling dirty silver, wheat cents ,sterling and scrap. If you don't keep your hands clean the metals go to the low point of your Bladder. A study should be done of this and I would like to hear of others around the country that have also had this happen. Most important! wear gloves or wash constantly if you handle lots of these items.
Sad for your diagnosis and hope you are well now. Not sure if the proof is there as far as causality.
Well, just Love coins, period.
Ask my savings account........
had a minor stroke when my local pawn shop offered me 800 bucks for an ms 64 1921 peace dollar. still going through rehab. lol
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