Coin collecting is like ....
Gilbert
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Trying to "quit" smoking.
Many times, your intentions are well placed, buth then something occurs and "rocks" your resolve:
Trying to locate a particular item show after show, is sometimes like trying to stay quit day by day.
When you think you've found that specific item only to find it has this problem or the owner failed to mention this characteristic, etc., is like going three months and still having cravings to light up.
Locate a forum, or a club or even smaller gathering where what should be common ground is only fertilized with the commentary and disdain of the less considerate, similar in kind to the "friend" knowing your dilemma, turns to you and says, "Cigarette?"
I could go on, but, my point is, every so often, when there is every reason in the world to enjoy coin collecting, there comes some "spud," some "attitude," some "egolomaniac" who makes you look at your holdings, or your select group, and sometimes your goals and makes you wonder why you bother.
Sure, I get a lot of "indivdual" satisfaction in this hobby, but very much more sharing in this hobby - and, sometimes, it is almost impossible. And so, I hesitate, get a little sidetracked about my "so-called fellow collectors," isolate myself, and before you know it, I'm experiencing "negativity" in being a part of the whole, but that is no fun - I take a break from the adversity, the repeated hype, the competition and even the collecting - and with my head low, feeling alone but distanced from the negativity, I turn and spark that cigarette - oh, enjoying it at first, but before it is finished, I realize that I threw away XX days of not polluting my lungs, just like I let the "spuds," the "attitudes," the "egolomaniac" cause me to NOT enjoy what I should be enjoying very much.
My effort, my study, the hunting, the acquisition, the sharing: the collecting.
What is coin collecting like to YOU?
Many times, your intentions are well placed, buth then something occurs and "rocks" your resolve:
Trying to locate a particular item show after show, is sometimes like trying to stay quit day by day.
When you think you've found that specific item only to find it has this problem or the owner failed to mention this characteristic, etc., is like going three months and still having cravings to light up.
Locate a forum, or a club or even smaller gathering where what should be common ground is only fertilized with the commentary and disdain of the less considerate, similar in kind to the "friend" knowing your dilemma, turns to you and says, "Cigarette?"
I could go on, but, my point is, every so often, when there is every reason in the world to enjoy coin collecting, there comes some "spud," some "attitude," some "egolomaniac" who makes you look at your holdings, or your select group, and sometimes your goals and makes you wonder why you bother.
Sure, I get a lot of "indivdual" satisfaction in this hobby, but very much more sharing in this hobby - and, sometimes, it is almost impossible. And so, I hesitate, get a little sidetracked about my "so-called fellow collectors," isolate myself, and before you know it, I'm experiencing "negativity" in being a part of the whole, but that is no fun - I take a break from the adversity, the repeated hype, the competition and even the collecting - and with my head low, feeling alone but distanced from the negativity, I turn and spark that cigarette - oh, enjoying it at first, but before it is finished, I realize that I threw away XX days of not polluting my lungs, just like I let the "spuds," the "attitudes," the "egolomaniac" cause me to NOT enjoy what I should be enjoying very much.
My effort, my study, the hunting, the acquisition, the sharing: the collecting.
What is coin collecting like to YOU?
Gilbert
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Do I have to do this lying down on a couch?
All kidding aside, I do understand your sentiments. It is tough to share with someone that thinks their way is the best and only way to collect or worse ridicules what you collect.
Most of the threads have to do with MS coins with some apparently sometimes arbitrary number such as 64, 65, 66 attached to it. Well I don't do MS so most of the threads really don't interest me nor do I have coins that I can share those same experiences as some board members face as regards MS coins.
I wonder what the board would think if I posted my restored date 1918-D 8 over 7 buffalo nickel?
There, I said it, I have restored date buffalo nickels in my collection.
But that is my choice and I am happy with it. I have asked questions and received a number of replies, sometimes helpful, sometimes not. But I don't allow anyone else's negativity to change what I collect. I collect for my reasons and my reasons only.
I am thankful for this board because after a long absence from coin collecting, it helped me get up to speed with the new (for me) coin market.
Joe.
You never know which one is the cherry or where you are going to find it.
Cameron Kiefer
The whole thing about collecting is that YOU get to pick what you want to collect. If you like restored date Buffalos, then good for you. I hope you can get a full set of restored dates. It is about your choice and the journey.
How many people have sent links and auctions to Braddick for his collection of PO1 material? I collect No Band Mercs, that are seen as the lesser coins by some. Yet, it is my niche.
In other words, just go for it! Anyone who is negative about your collecting choices is a snob and who cares what snobs think as you cannot reason with them anyway.
anaconda
That post most have emanated from the dark recesses of my mind. I hardly recognized it.
Tom
I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.
Always looking for nice type coins
my local dealer
I am addicted to a certain "look" or eye appeal in coins. Hell I can have 20 coins of the same date and denomination and still am compelled to buy another if it comes along and looks nice. I collect Barber Halves and now have a mini hoard of 1914's in VF. I love them all and despite my therapists, and parole officer's pleading and Cajoling, I refuse to sell them!
Tyler