have you ever?

MacCoin · January 25, 2003 4:00AM

seen a coin that don't go with anything you collect but it impressed you so much you just had to have it.

mbbiker · January 25, 2003 4:01AM

Yep, happend to me last week

boiler78 · January 25, 2003 4:09AM

It has happened at almost every coin show that I have ever been to.

a2labmom · January 25, 2003 4:11AM

Honestly, no. Since I collect anything and everything, there is usually something in my collection that everything else goes with.

ARCO · January 25, 2003 4:58AM

absolutely. I have made four or five pure impulse purchases just on seeing an amazing looking original coin. Usually they are so nice that I have bought them without even knowing what the listed retail or wholesale prices were.

Usually the coins value doesn't exceed $100 or so. but did buy an original chocolate colored 1828 Half cent in XF and stared at it for two weeks straight amazed at how cool it looked.

Tyler

goose3 · January 25, 2003 4:59AM

Yep.
Just sent payment for it a week or so ago.

Merc · January 25, 2003 5:02AM

Yes, I don't collect the commemoratives, but I bought a brilliant 1936 Oregon trail in MS65. It is a beautiful design and an interesting message on the coin.

nwcs · January 25, 2003 5:03AM

Yep, all the time. But do I buy it? Only once or twice. I'm not a big lincoln collector (except for a full 1909-1975 series in circulated -- some in fair/ag) but I saw a 09 VDB in 65RD that I had to have. It is nice enough to be 66, I think. It's got just a bit of green over his mouth, too, which is amusing. But the coin is really nice and grabbed me. But I try to keep impulse purchases down now.

Dog97 · January 25, 2003 5:07AM

Yep. Then a year later I'm saying why did I buy this junk I don't collect this and sell it. Usually @ a loss.

Twowood · January 25, 2003 5:08AM

Sure has. Just came thru a "Britannia" phase where I bought a '99,' 00, '01,'02 as fast as I could. I still think it's the most beautiful coin I own. Twowood

ccrdragon · January 25, 2003 5:08AM

Yep - got a number of 'solo' coins that I just like the look of.

flaminio · January 25, 2003 5:13AM

Happens to me all the time. Sometimes it takes all the willpower I have to stop pulling the trigger.

Outhaul · January 25, 2003 5:28AM

I walk into the show repeating to myself..."I'm only looking for classic commems...I'm only looking for classic commems...I'm only looking for classic commems..." Then...WALLOP! I start drooling over a 1917 Type I SLQ MS-65FH. Then it's on to something else...then something else. If I'm lucky, I might just find a commem I'm looking for, if I can tear myself away from everything else.

Cheers,

Bob

BigD5 · January 25, 2003 5:35AM

<< <i>Yep. Then a year later I'm saying why did I buy this junk I don't collect this and sell it. Usually @ a loss.

>>

BINGO!!!!!!!!

dan1ecu · January 25, 2003 5:35AM

Yes, but I’m trying to get out of the habit of buying coins on impulse. That way, when I see a coin that does fit into my collection, I’ll have enough money to buy it! The Heritage Exclusively Internet Auctions are my enemy in this regard.

Dan

SageRad · January 25, 2003 6:12AM

Never thought I would ever buy a $3.00 gold!

And I agree, the Heritage Auctions are a weakness. I have sworn off them for a while to curb those impule purchases. (I do not seem to have the same problem with ebay auctions&gt

paigowjohnny · January 25, 2003 6:21AM

That's exactly how I got started collecting silver Chinese pandas and Mexican Libertads...

barberlover · January 25, 2003 6:53AM

I said i would never buy a better date barber half then i saw the 66, 92 S barber on the heritage site in may of 01 [had to put myself in hock, but i had to have it] also last fall saw a pretty 2 cent piece even thugh i've never had one and said nice for type so baught that on total impulse [best 65 r & b you'll ever see [i still think that one is a shot 66]

MrSunshine · January 25, 2003 7:05AM

Yes,yes,yes,ect.

VicPortland · January 25, 2003 11:57AM

Yes and almost did it again today. Here is what appears to be a monster Barber Quarter in something like Proof 65. Coin looks wonderful but:

1) It is not slabbed
2) I swore off buying beautiful coins just because they were beautiful. I don't have enough money for that!

The coin eventually sold for around $815 on ebay.

How many of you think I could have sent it in to PCGS or NGC, gotten it graded as a Proof 64 or 65 and made out like a bandit?

airplanenut · January 25, 2003 12:11PM

It's how i fell in love with Carribean proofs

Tade · January 25, 2003 12:16PM

"Sure has. Just came thru a "Britannia" phase where I bought a '99,' 00, '01,'02 as fast as I could. I still think it's the most beautiful coin I own. Twowood"

It has to be a virus as I got caught also.

Tade

Bulldog · January 25, 2003 12:20PM

Mac,

I have so much single stuff laying arond that it is starting to look like a slightly unfinished collection.

I can not resist a good deal on any coin, that I do not have.

No wonder, I will never finish my collections in this lifetime....LOL

Bulldog

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