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Anyone who pays more then face value for a coin must be crazy

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  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    Count me as crazy. It is weird with coin collecting: The desire for coins does not diminish with age, it only gets stronger. Very few folks have even the slightest interest in coins.

    Tom
    Tom

  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    which is very odd considering how pretty and shiny they are. I think most folks are wierd, not us.
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  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    "Crazy Man Crazy"
    -Bill Haley
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Bear,

    Personally, I'm glad you're crazy.image

    Russ, NCNE
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    All coins are things of beauty. After enjoying my Kennedy Proofs and Washington Proofs,

    I decided to switch and enjoy the classical coins. I am always amazed how a coin could survive in

    gem condition with origonal toning from 1830. Every time I look at such a coin, I am amazed anew.

    The delicate folds of the skirt of a Seated Liberty Coin and the curles in the hair are more like

    a fine sculpture then a coin, especially with a full strike. But whatever a person chooses to collect,

    we must be nuts. The money we are willing to spend scares even the bear at times.image
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    my wife thinks I'm crazy for the money i spend on coins.
    I'm glad I have people like you, who understand and want to show and tell coins!

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    I bought this for face value last Saturday.................Ken
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You may be right
    I may be crazy
    But it just might be a lunatic
    You're lookin' for... >>



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  • CLASSICSCLASSICS Posts: 1,164 ✭✭
    when i was a kid, my dad who is now gone god love him, use to tell me iam crazy for buying old coins....now iam completely insane......only problem is i like it image
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I once paid 6,000,000 times face value for a IHC and the recent record for a small cent was about 21,000,000 times face for a lincoln. image Must be some really crazy people out there.....the down side risk is.......what.......1 cent??
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    I am proud to be Crazy!

    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Well, unlike the stock market, you investment in coins can

    never go below face value, can it???
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  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784 ✭
    "Well I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying ... " image
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The person who purchased the 1933 double eagle was a cheap skate - only 350,000X face......image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>All coins are things of beauty. >>

    .

    You can say that with a straight face after looking at Mbbiker's signature Jeff?
    Roy


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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Sure it can, or can you tell me where I can exchange my Westphalia piece for a billion marks or a half billion euros? Or what about the people who owned trade dollars back in the early 1900's?
  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    Just think of all the old time collectors, who did get a lot of killer coins at face, or a little more than face value.
    I think I'll go hide under a rockimage
    Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
  • paulheeppaulheep Posts: 184
    Coincidentally I just got an ear full this morning about spending money on coins;"something that has no usefulness", "all you do is buy it and put it away". I guess I'm a little crazy too.

    Paul
  • nuckleheadnucklehead Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Some nine years ago when I met my better half, she was'nt into coins at all (except to spend them) many coin shows later and a new computer she just bought plus joining a few message boards has got her very interested in coins.Works for me!image
    Friends are Gods way of apologizing for your relatives.
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Dang, that would make some of us raving lunatics!image
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • MacCoinMacCoin Posts: 2,544 ✭✭
    hello my name is Mac and I'm crazy.
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    I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.

    Always looking for nice type coins

    my local dealer

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