How often do you look at your coins

Wisconsin

Is it just me, or do the rest of you dig out all your coins at least once a day to look at them??

kieferscoins

At least four times a week. I don't have to dig mine up/out though.

Cameron Kiefer

mbbiker

I look at mine at least once a day (i keep mine in my room so i don't have to dig them up eather)

Bear

Mine are all in the vault, I get to visit them every 2-3 months. Mainly to check
if any haze has formed on the Proof Coins.

lathmach

Oh no, Wisconsin, not me. It's way too much trouble going around the back yard digging up all those 55 gallon drums every day.

Ray

CarlWohlforth

I feel fortunate that I can look at one or two nice coins every day. However most of my coins are kept in a safe deposit. I wish I could see them all together. I guess I'll just arrange for some bodyguards and have a coin showing party... just kidding

rikker

Every day, I am gonna drive my wife nuts.

BNE

My kids are probably beginning to think that the loupe is attached to my eye, like a "Borg."

Bear

BNE - We all thought you were a cyborg. Bear

gemseeker

BNE- Resistance is futile

66Tbird

I keep a picture record of each on my putter. It's not as good as an in hand coin but does relieve the shake of withdraw and gives a quick reference for a grade comparison if the situation fits.

Nickelchaser

I usually check my coins out once a week for 2-3 hours.

Veep

I visit my "good" stuff every month or so at the bank or when I have something else to put in.

I collect patriotic tokens and can keep them at home to look at without worrying about being robbed.

MICHAELDIXON

I keep my mercury short set at the house where I can see it. And...I look at it every night.

lincolnSence

I only visit my better stuff (at the vault) when I need to put Mo better stuff in. Varieties and cuds stay at home just to torture me. I really need to take pictures and put up a site that I can always go to.

mdwoods

Some I look at every day, others not for a month or more. It depends. If I find that I don't want to look at a coin after I buy it, I resell it to someone who does want to look at it. Coins, ya gotta love em. Mark.

DHeath

I look at some of them everyday. Some, I haven't seen in quite a while.

nucklehead

Maybe once in awhile, I'm too busy on the computer reading three message boards, this one, NGC's and Coin Worlds new board. I'm Pizzanut on the Coin World board.

stujoe

I always have a few nearby to look at. It keeps me from going through withdrawls.

The rest are in a boobytrapped safe in the basement guarded by rabid dogs and hungry gators. I am afraid to go down there <shudder>. Every once in a while I throw some chicken down there, though.

berylcoin

I'll fill in for Shiro:

I never look at my coins. I just have a list of the grades and cert numbers that I look at every day. The coins stay in the safe; they're just a formality.

BC

perfectstrike

Good question. I take something different out of the safe every week. I keep it on my desk so I can admire it. Right now it's a Lincoln Proof 1960 Small/Large (FS-024). It's FS-023 and FS-025 brothers are waiting for it to return.

perfectstrike

mercurynut

I have most of my collection in a display case in my house so I get to see them everyday!

Fairlaneman

All imaged on the computer and used as a screen saver and wall paper. See them hourly.

airplanenut

<< <i>I keep my mercury short set at the house where I can see it. And...I look at it every night. >>



to make sure it didn't get shorter?

Wisconsin

Keeping images on the computer seems to be a good idea. That would be much easier than digging them back up every night. Now that it is getting darker earlier every night, I sometimes have to bury them by flashlight when I am done. I sometimes wonder what the neighbors are thinking???

Bustman

This thread got me a wonderin'..............do blind people collect coins? If so, is it ok for them to touch the surfaces.......ya know........to feel the details?

Wisconsin

I really never thought about blind people collecting, but I am sure they probably do, and yes I think it would be ok for them to touch all of their coins. I bet they don't have any slabs in their collections.

spinaker2000

I look at my US coins on Even number days and my British coins on Odd number days.

Everyday! All of them.

DHeath

Spinaker,

I've seen some of your collection, and I know why you look everyday. There beauties.

Hunt

LOL
I just started to laugh when I read the question. I look at some of my coins daily and sometimes multiple times daily. I probably look at them all together at least a few times per week. Funny question.

-Hunter

oldcameoproofsguy

I go to the bank about once a month. The person thats signs me into the vault must think I'm kind of strange because i am usually doing the "potty dance" to get in to see my coins. I Jones pretty bad to see them sometimes.

My Barbers

jtryka

I have a few crappy ones in my house that I look at once in a while, like today when I completed my Washington set with a cruddy AG 32-S, or my other whitman books. It would be impossible to see everything at once, since half my collection is in safe deposit boxes in Chicago (2000 mile from here) and the other half is mostly in the safe deposit boxes here. The ones within a 1 hour drive I see at least once every 2 months if not more often, but the ones in Chicago I haven't seen since 1999 or 2000, and some in those boxes I haven't seen in the better part of a decade. Hmmm... there might be some surprises in there for me! If only I liked toning!

barrytrot

I am not certain I fully understand all of you who keep your cool coins down at the bank.

I thought that the cool thing about coins as an investment was that they bring you joy even without selling them? Sure they have a much higher chance of getting stolen if they are sitting at your house, but a good security system, locked doors and additionally locked doors and window braces in the room your coins are in seems to clear up most theft chances. A healthy insurance policy clears up most of the rest.

I have around 1,000 coins surrounding my desk. I work at home and its very pleasant to be able to pick one up and look at the perfection and imperfection in it any time.

So, I guess my answer to the question is constantly

jtryka

well barrytrot, you are right in that keeping coins in the bank is an obstacle to viewing them, but I think it's somewhat healthy, since if I was always looking at them I wouldn't get much done, and then I would start buying and selling them more often. As for why I keep them in the bank, its quite practical:

1. I live in an apartment so I cannot do all those nice things like put bars on the windows, install an alarm system, pour additional concrete slabs to bolt in a safe etc. The management starts getting real nervouse when you start unloading power tools and construction supplies by your aparment.

2. Insurance where I live is $1.35 per $100 of coverage (standard policy only covers $200 in coins), so the extra insurance for me would run close to $2,000 per year compared to $60 a year for each of 4 boxes.

So, cost and convenience equals only seeing coins on special occasions!

toners

I always keep a few nearby, especially the toned coins, Its is my way of relaxation, kinda like a watching a fish aquarium, the eye appeal of toned coins just soothes my soul.
Allen