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When Hobbies Collide. ... Updated with photos

ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 12, 2023 2:36PM in U.S. Coin Forum

I recently got back into Bonsai and my OCD has taken over so I am in full blown Bonsai mode.

I was looking at a pre Bonsai tree that would cost around $650 with shipping. The most I have ever spent on any plant by far.

The tree price is $400 but the shipping is $250 ( I freaked out) . So $650 total. I was on the fence about it. Asked the advice of my wife. I kept talking about it and looking at the online photos, (which usually means I will end up buying it). What to do.

Then I get an email saying the I sold a coin and after ebay fees, I would get $650. The coin sold to someone in the SAME state as the tree is in. I took it as a sign and bought the tree. I look at it as a trade one for one.

Please give us your stories over competing hobbies for yours resources and time.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ctf_error_coins... It is not un to have another hobby that may compete for disposable income.... In your case, the one hobby paid for the investment in the other hobby... a good thing when that happens. I also have had sales from non-numismatic hobbies fund another hobby... and funds from coins, support the acquisition in my competing hobbies. All depends on what appears on the collecting horizon, and what is selling from stock on hand. Cheers, RickO

  • baseballjeffbaseballjeff Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭

    I too love the world of bonsai. I would love to see a picture of this tree you picked up!

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @baseballjeff said:
    I too love the world of bonsai. I would love to see a picture of this tree you picked up!

    I will post both the coin and tree photos after I get the tree "In Hand"

    I have learned not to post something that hasn't shipped yet ;)

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DCW said:
    You should deliver the coin personally and pick up the tree while you're there. Save shipping in both directions and make a trip out of it.

    Right. The exact opposite side of the country.

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do you talk to your trees?

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,353 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 11, 2023 8:32AM

    @ctf_error_coins said:
    When Hobbies Collide
    I recently got back into Bonsai and my OCD has taken over so I am in full blown Bonsai mode.

    Somehow when thinking about Bonsai and error coins, I thought this would be about a Struck-Thru Bonsai error coin!

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  • silviosisilviosi Posts: 458 ✭✭✭

    I collect coins, Notes, paints, porcelains and artifacts. from the collecting prospective is one hand wash the other. Conclusion: No blind transactions, if not the castle fall apart.

    NEVER ARGUE WITH AN IDIOT.FIRST THEY WILL DRAG YOU DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL.THEN, THEY WILL BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE. MARK TWAIN

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,246 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 10, 2023 2:48AM

    The most expensive coin I have purchased was a 1796 No Stars quarter eagle. It finished my type set. Not too long after that, I went to a political items convention. A dealer was selling a Cox-Roosevelt jugate for $20,000.

    A jugate is a political button that has the presidential and vice presidential candidates side by side. In 1920, the Democratic candidates were James Cox of Ohio for president and Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for vice president. Yes, that is THE FDR, and that fact helps to drive the price for the button. The Democrats didn’t have very much money that year, and all of their buttons are scarce. The jugates, which exist in several varieties, are rare. They are “the holly grail” of the hobby.

    I didn’t have quite enough to buy the button after my big coin purchase. The person who did buy it put it up for auction the next month. It sold for $33,000.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 10, 2023 7:01AM

    i know people who go stock certificate hunting. some have had some good luck with it

  • FrazFraz Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Plants are my life. One grandfather farmed tobacco, the other had a nursery in Palm Beach.

  • ThreeCentSilverFLThreeCentSilverFL Posts: 1,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ctf_error_coins I do bonsai also. I’m pretty limited to tropical’s down here in Florida. What type of new tree did you get?

  • Klif50Klif50 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭✭

    I'm almost 73 years old and I've been a coin collector since I was 5. Along the way I picked up quite a few other hobbies. I collect milsurp rifles and pistols, spend time with my telescope and metal detector and along the ways have decent sized collections of comic books, HO and N gauge model trains (no longer have a set up due to lack of space), and I have a ton of non-sports cards that I've been collecting for about 50 years. You can never have too many hobbies although my wife has other thoughts along that line.

    As I continue to age out I have started giving my grandkids their inheritance so I can see them enjoy things while I'm still up and walking. They each have their own rifles from my collection (son in law and daughter got a goodly part of that also) and I have started each of the kids with their own coin collection. Granddaughter is actively collecting the Women's Quarter series and she has multiple sets of each of the coin rolls along with proof and silver proof sets. Grandson got Dansco Lincoln albums and a big coffee can full of wheat cents that have most of the semi-keys salted in. We have fun each time we are together pulling out a handfull and putting them in the albums.

    Not sure what will happen to the rest of my hobby stuff when I pass on but I'm sure my wife has plans for a big estate sale. Hope she can find buyers for my lead casting outfit (Civil WAr soldiers and cannons) World War I and World War II soldiers plus various animals, Christmas scenes and molds from here and the UK.

    Enjoy what ever you do, that's the important part.

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Namvet69 said:
    Do you talk to your> @ThreeCentSilverFL said:
    @ctf_error_coins I do bonsai also. I’m pretty limited to tropical’s down here in Florida. What type of new tree did you get?

    Bald Cypress

  • ThreeCentSilverFLThreeCentSilverFL Posts: 1,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ctf_error_coins Here’s my best Bald Cypress. I need to spend a few hours with it soon, getting a bit unruly. I have a few others still developing. Did you get yours from Wigerts?

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ThreeCentSilverFL said:
    @ctf_error_coins Here’s my best Bald Cypress. I need to spend a few hours with it soon, getting a bit unruly. I have a few others still developing. Did you get yours from Wigerts?

    Very nice Bald Cypress Bonsai and yes I did.

    I live in the San Diego area and an expert bonsai master lives 4 houses down from me. He specializes in Bald Cypress, Chinese Elm and so many other trees. I will pay for a lesson from him when the tree gets here and acclimates.

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It also used to bother me while doings hobbies like gold mining or offshore fishing when I could not connect to the internet, that I may lose a coin by not being online and it gets sold.

    It bothers me no more :)

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've always wanted to try gold mining. Can't wait to see photos of your tree/coin when it arrives!!!!

  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    an unpacking video would be GREAT ++++ I wonder how an expensive tree gets shipped.

    I love how trees tone

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,455 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 12, 2023 4:42AM

    @Onastone said:
    I've always wanted to try gold mining. Can't wait to see photos of your tree/coin when it arrives!!!!

    There are some recently posted interesting photos of Diamond Mining in Arkansas over on the Friday Photo Thread.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,246 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 12, 2023 5:17AM

    Here is the Cox - Roosevelt button I was unable to purchase. It is 7/8 of an inch in diameter.

    Later I purchased this piece to fill the slot. It is much more spectacular, but since it is a decal and not button, it is many times less expensive. This piece was in the collection of Edmund Sullivan who authored the revised version of the DeWitt book on 19th century political badges and tokens.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,817 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We had some houseguests this weekend - mostly people I had never met before. After visit out to the shop to see the current woodworking project, the new aquarium that they helped me move inside (all 350 lbs of it), the birddogs, and a few other things they commented that I have a lot of hobbies. The fact that I collect coins never even came up!

    These hobbies tend to ebb and flow and my wife has just learned to go along with it. It's a sickness, really.

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    All I can say is Amazing tree for an amazing coin. I hereby name this tree The Nickel Tree!!!

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 13, 2023 3:06PM

    OCD kicked in on both hobbies ...

    I bought 32 certified error coins in the last 2 days and I ordered another $600 tree before the first one arrives because they put out new stock and it is nicer than the one I bought.

    I love my OCD <3

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't forget your other hobby, photography! You could photograph the trees and sell them as prints!!!!!

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Onastone said:
    Don't forget your other hobby, photography! You could photograph the trees and sell them as prints!!!!!

    Photography is brutal work. It really is. I do not enjoy it. It is a necessity.

  • johnny010johnny010 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Herb_T said:
    Guns, cars, slot cars 1/24 scale Carrera, machining (knee mill and 9x40 lathe, photography (Canon). They all compete for funds…

    Very nice
    Where are the guns?

  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,861 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, some great pics!
    I enjoy seeing what others have for hobbies. I have many other smaller collections of things but I devote much of my leisure money to coins. Here is one my latest builds that I zeroed in recently.

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  • ExtremeengineerExtremeengineer Posts: 138 ✭✭✭

    Custom 1911s, knives, Exoto 1/18 models and Legos lol. I did Marklin Z scale for many years, sold it all during the Covid hobby craze for 4 times what I had into it. I do miss it,

  • ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A fun distraction after researching and working with round metal disks all day.

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