Do You Seek Numismatic Advice From Your Spouse?
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For many years now, I ask my wife on whether I should buy a coin that I am 50/50 on. 99% of the time she tells me to buy the coin.
Yesterday I asked her if I should crack out a coin from an old ANACS white slab and submit to a different service. She immediately knew what I meant and she said yes.
My wife does not collect coins and her only knowledge is what I have taught her. I guaranty she has more knowledge of error coinage than most dealers or collectors.
What is your relationship with your coins and your spouse?
Here is the coin my wife told my to crack out ....
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I am not married, but usually my girlfriend asks me for advice. She collects gold and silver moderns and a few type coins like Mercs, WLH's and Morgans.
At any rate, that is one of the most interesting Mint errors I have seen!
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My wife can appreciate the beauty and history of coins but otherwise doesn't "get" them. She is happy that I'm happy and have a hobby to enjoy. She doesn't care for shiny coins. Her favorite coin of mine is a large cent that has a giant fingerprint across the obverse because it tells a story to her.
My wife sees coins as investments.
No, and I don't tell her how to play bridge.
Mrs_Spud collects dimes and British coins. I ask her opinion sometimes on potential coin purchases and she usually says for me to go for it. She is as knowledgeable as the average collector
Mr_Spud
My wife as a small collection of things which she has gotten when she went to shows with me. Things she found in dump boxes that she liked the look of, pretty bird or stuff like that. I do not ask her any questions about things I am looking at. I come home excited at the barber quarter I just got to add to my set, looks at it and gives the look another one of those coins.
I thought about it, I laughed about it, then I forgot about it! 😂 🤣
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Never. If I ask her what she thinks about a coin, the first thing she'll ask is "How much does it cost?". I don't like lying to my wife.
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No.
I recently bought this coin and my wife told me she likes my shiny coins much better.
That's funny.
I showed my wife a set of coins the other day and she really like the lowest priced coin the most
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Before her passing, she would ask if all the bills had been paid that month. Then she would ask if the checking balance was equal to or above the price. If those two conditions were met then her advise was to go for it.
My advice is don't ask for any.
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What your wife is saying is that she trusts you. This comes from a track record of success and good decision-making in the past. An enviable position. Don't screw it up.
Do I ask my wife about specific numismatic advice? No. She doesn't have the necessary fund of knowledge and doesn't care enough to get it. Do I include her in the process of deciding where to spend money? Yes, absolutely. Everything got better once we figured out how to do that.
No ... she does like large shinny silver coins vs small / old copper ones
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I believe that my 2 X wife's really liked the fact that I collected coins!
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"Don't ask. Don't tell." That works for me.
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Most of the time I ask her what she thinks when I am making a big purchase. Every single time she has told me, "If you like it, just do it." I do the same thing when she is making a big purchase for herself. We have mutual respect for each other and trust each other's decision.
She knows full well what I spend on my hobby. I am very transparent with her on what I spend. I like for her to know what I have in case something happens to me.
@ctf_error_coins It's great that your wife has so much understanding of your hobby/business. Mine knows just the basics, but she knows how much I enjoy this hobby. That's all I need from her is her understanding of what this hobby means to me and her support of it.
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I share everything with my wife including Numismatic. It makes for a strong marriage.
I like to get a non-collector's opinion as to eye appeal on occasion. So, yes, I do consult my spouse from time to time.
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I wouldn't call it advice but support and trust. My wife goes with me to all the shows and I enjoy her involvement. Prior to a recent show we discussed two coins this dealer had; 1889-CC AU58 and a 1889-CC MS62 both PCGS beaned. She knew which one I wanted after seeing them in hand and she said if that's what you want then go for it.
This is the MS62:
I agree with
@BryceM
The AU58 I didn't choose:
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Since the primary focus of my collection is civilian eye appeal, I frequently seek her opinion. She doesn't know anything about coins, but she knows what pretty looks like.
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What spouse? What coin?
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My wife could care less about coins.
I rarely discuss coin purchases with her.
Of course, I am not a big spender when it comes to coins.
My X would complain about some of my purchases. She sure does like to complain about things. Now she is some other guy's problem and it's much better that way. Some of you guys are very lucky!
Women, in general, are a lot smarter than most men, including their husbands, give them credit for. I remember the time that I ordered a high grade Barber dime based on the image I saw on ebay. The dime looked original, and not "improved" by cleaning to my eyes. i paid for the piece and received it about a week later in the mail. After inspecting it for about a minute, i decided that I would be sending it back to the seller for a refund. I then showed my wife, not a coin collector, the dime which was in a TPG holder and straight graded as Extremely Fine 45. She immediately declared that it appeared to be cleaned to her eyes. I thanked her for her expert opinion and sent the coin back to the seller for refund. It appeared to me that the piece graded by the TPG was not the one in the holder, that it had been replaced by an inferior coin, a coin that had been cleaned.
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Ha ha! Well, come on now... I made that mistake once. After I bought the coin, she went out the next day and bought a $900 purse!! Well, ok then. I don't discuss it anymore. When I get a package however and she askes, I tell her what it is. But that's about it!! We have an understanding...!!
My wife does buy real (old) Japanese glass fishing floats in all sizes shipped from Japan.
She knows she is free to spends hundreds on a single float and that is fine by me as I think she has a cool collection.
Advice might be a strong word, but I definitely seek her input. I like how DarkStar put it above -- triangulating my judgment against her view of "civilian eye appeal" helps me pick good looking coins.
I always talk with her prior to buying anything that costs more than, say, a week's groceries. We know one another to be responsible and prudent with money and we pretty much always say yes to each another's proposals to spend on this or that since neither of us would suggest an expenditure if we weren't reasonably confident it's a sensible thing to do. We've busted our butts and foregone a lot of things to get where we are and neither of us take it lightly. Talking about our spending is a courtesy and a way of respecting and including one another.
I guess theoretically you could say she holds veto power but I can't think of a time I've given her cause to want to exercise it. I think it also helps that over the years she's seen me do quite a bit of selling, and she trusts that taken all in all the things I collect are a reasonably decent place to park some capital.
Coin collecting advice from my wife? Other than "what do you think of this" while showing her a coin...no.
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My wife (first and new) interact over all our collectibles. I show her coin items I like and she supports me. We agreed to a number that we don’t need to consult one another on, which I like.
She knows I collect coins - albeit she is completely clueless of the value… I just bought one today for 1500 and she would frown hard on me if she knew that. So - because I love her so much I spare her the misery of knowing her potential new purse she could show all her friends is now a silver coin locked in a safe ….
What a wonderful life it is!
This is the one I’m trying to buy - what you think?
Would you tell your wife or just take the damn coin and shut up
Forgiveness over permission my good friends
Heck no. Her advice is always the same — SELL. 😫
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My wife knows nothing about coins except that I have some that she can't spend. I miss my 11 cent. I sold it about a year ago.
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Of course. I don't ask her opinion on everything, but we always discuss potential expensive auction purchases prior to the auction. When I am considering more than one thing, she often helps me decide. And I always show her my new arrivals before they go to the safe box. She knows what's in the collection and approximately what it's worth. And how to properly dispense with it, should that become necessary.
I only seek silence, from mine. Shhhhh, it's a solitary hobby.
And on the flip side ,she doesn't seek my advice on goats, horses, chickens or dogs.
Sounds like grounds for divorce her not knowing the old ANACS holders are rising in value!
I do not consult on purchases, and my wife trusts my judgement. She has seen what I have done with various items over the years and knows acquisition cost and sell price. She trusts my judgement and I trust her judgement in other areas. Cheers, RickO
I have hundreds of little white ANACS slabs. I have never cracked one out.
I will crack the one above out because I believe I would get a 2 to 3 point upgrade which would be worth the fee.
We will see.
Mine is a unique situation. My wife suffered a massive stroke and they ended up removing a serious portion of her brain. Since then she has no math function. To her 10 dollars is little different from 10,000. She will just show me what she likes and ask if it is feasible. This goes for groceries to cars, etc.
On the other hand she is very astute about aesthetics. Many a time I have shown her a picture of a coin and she has pointed out a fault or feature that has completely changed my view or escaped my attention.
Nooooooooo………
I would say yes. She's good at finding the toned coins at shows and finding dealers that have old coin albums. What's a bit odd is that she isn't a huge fan of my icon coin!
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HA! She wouldn't even know what a Double Eagle is, but she sure knows how to spend them.
Pete
My girlfriend gets it from a business standpoint but doesn't from a collectible standpoint... and would rather have the cash than the coin. That said, I've given her a couple that she has stated she'll never part with, so who knows... maybe I'll bring her to the darkside at some point.
Question to the married guys out there... Are you worried that one day your spouse will sell your stuff for what you told her you paid for it?
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