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Are there any REAL numismatists on these boards?

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
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At some point, a collector (or dealer) becomes serious enough about coins to be called a "numismatist". Do you think that you qualify? Why?

Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Not me. Not even a collector yet. Still an apprentice. Having a blast, though.image

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  • EVillageProwlerEVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Andy,

    Please define what you mean by "numismatist"...

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  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,420 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As one who loves and appreciates coins as art I qualify. As someone who knows every little nuance about every series, I still need another thirty years.
  • barberloverbarberlover Posts: 2,228 ✭✭
    What is a numismatist???

    A dealer or collector who specializes in a series and not only can grade the series but knows all the varieties, knows the typical strike for each date in the series and the typical look for each date "how they come"

    just a guess- Les
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  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,549 ✭✭✭
    I'm still an apprentice too. I talk about coins to whomever I can. I don't care what series they collect. I want to know about it.
    Collecting is fun for me because of the people as much as the coins. mdwoodsimage
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Please define what you mean by "numismatist"...

    That's what I'm trying to do!
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
    Yes there are such people on this board. I would consider myself one with wheat Lincoln cents and to a lesser degree Jefferson's.
  • ANACONDAANACONDA Posts: 4,692 ✭
    While some might consider me a numismatist because i study coins, the label seemingly carries with it a certain implied level of knowledge.

    So, to refer to ones self as a numismatist seems a bit egotistical even if one were so possessed.

    I or course, have avoided things like that.

    adrian

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  • dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    I am a numismatist.


    dragon
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am a numismatist.

    Dragon -

    Glad to hear it, but WHY do you think so?
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • JohnscoinJohnscoin Posts: 250
    According to Webster, most of us are numismatists...
    It defines it as someone who collects and studies money (coins in particular)...
  • dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    An incredibly deep an varied knowledge of both U.S. and Swiss coins, along with over 24 yrs. experience.

    dragon
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An incredibly deep an varied knowledge of both U.S. and Swiss coins, along with over 24 yrs. experience.

    Dragon, I believe that makes you an EXPERT numismatist!

    Do less expert collectors count?
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • BulldogBulldog Posts: 779
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  • dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    There are quite a few very intelligent and experienced people here in this forums. If i was a newbie wanting to learn about coins, I would practically live here!

    dragon
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Let's see, last night I went to bed and read about a series of coins I collect. Hmmmmmm... tough question.

    I know a lot of you probably have guitars and pianos around the house and maybe play a little. Are you musicians? I would say yes.
    Are you professional musicians? Probably no.

    I collect and read and study about coins. I even trade them. Am I a numismatist? Probably yes. Am I a professional numismatist? No. Am I a skilled numismatist? Again, no.

    Clankeye
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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Hopefully someday I will become a recognized slabmatist in the field.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Mainly were just a bunch of animals. Dragons, a couple of bears, an eagle, a wolf, several dogs,

    A rather large Reticulated Python and other assorted creatures including a certain Lucy Bop.

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  • SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭✭
    Here goes......

    1) I own a vast coin collection that I have formed in 26 years(I'm 31 now, yes I started at 5 with the Whitman folders)

    2) I have a microscope to STUDY coins.

    3) I ask a gazillion questions to people that smarter than me.

    4) I worked in a coin store from ages 12 to 18......thereby greatly enhancing my brain as a numismatist.

    5) I read about and try to meet great numismatists.

    6) Last but not least........I'm a member of these boards!

    Seth
    Collecting since 1976.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Perhaps not. But at least I'm clad.




    << <i>Mainly were just a bunch of animals. Dragons, a couple of bears, an eagle, a wolf, several dogs,

    A rather large Reticulated Python and other assorted creatures including a certain Lucy Bop. >>

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  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am, according to the numismatic dictionary.

    A numismatist is one who "examines and studies coins, banknotes, medals, tokens and primitive forms of money. One need not be a collector or own a coin to be a numismatist". It goes on to say that a investor is not a numismatist. I've met plenty of dealers who aren't.

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  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hmmm, I enjoy reading all I can about as many series of coins from the Lovejoy collection of dimes to Snow and the flying eagle cents to MrEureka/Cassell/Pollack and the patterns, etc.,etc. I think that might make too much of a generalist and not enough of a specialist. But does one need to be a specialist to be a numismatist? I dare say........... NO!
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  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    I am a packrat, I just packem away and never look at em again.image


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  • GilbertGilbert Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭
    I have invested quite a bit of time and effort into collecting, studying and improving my knowledge of "US Coins" so I believe I fit the "REAL" definition of a numismatist.

    Completely surprised at some of the perceptions of what a numismatist is. Never would have expected such, well, confusion, over what constitutes a numismatist.

    I guess, if you don't know what it is, you probably aren't one. Hard to imagine a numismatist, who wouldn't know they qualify as a numismatist, particularly since, a certain amount of actual study is what distinguishes one as a numismatist.
    Gilbert
  • TrimeTrime Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭
    Andy,
    You are into head and word games:-) Never the less a great contributor to this forum.
    I consider myself a numismatist.
    I am a student of coins.
    I am committed to enhancing my knowledge on the discipline through individual discovery, discusions with other of similar interest, and perusal of texts, monographs, catalogues and online information.
    My level of expertice does not define my numismatic identity nor your exceptional knowledge your numismatic identity. You were a numismatist before becoming so expert in your field.
    Trime
  • ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888
    I am very much a novice.

    I have a few series I've studied, collected, and understood. In general if a numismatist is also someone who encourages others to understand coins, then I qualify there - I'm interacting with my family and folks I know getting them interested in their understanding of coins and money in general.

    I'm a babe in the woods compared to most on this forum, so I don't know if I get to share that often, but I try.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,344 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, I'm a numismatist. I have written and published articles on a variety of subjects, and the last time I spoke to a club, the numismatist who introduced me, whom I view as a numismatist in turn, give me that title in his introduction.
    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 ... ?
  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    I don't know..I'm a specialist collector. find a coin I love, then build a set. I don't have an extremely broad knowledge of a lot of series, so I would hesitate to call myself a numismatist.
    I can say that I do know more than the most avg. Bears, except for one forum resident Bear, who is also humble and lovable!image
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  • keojkeoj Posts: 980 ✭✭✭
    I think that I am. I try to contribute to numismatic publications (not as often as I wish, but somewhat consistently). Anyone willing to do research and write an article about 73-CC Trade Dollar die combinations is a little nuts and probably a numismatist.

    keoj
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Nope, I don't qualify. I'd rather be a collector.
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  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭
    Like many others on this forum, I'm a NIT-picker (Numismatist In Training-Probing Into Coin Kinds for Every Reason).image
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  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Hopefully someday I will become a recognized slabmatist in the field. >>

    hey kieferscoins, i already coined a term for you. your a numisplastist. your into numisplastics!

    interesting that somebody mentioned that a numismatist need not own a single coin. i totally agree

    K S
  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    I consider myself a numismatist because I spend time every day studying coins.

    As a student I have lots to learn. That is one of the things I enjoy about working with coins, there is something new I can learn every day.
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  • jeffnpcbjeffnpcb Posts: 1,943 ✭
    That leaves everyone out in this arena! Crap, all anybody talks about are coins and what people think about their coins and grading!
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  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    I think that most of the participants here would qualify as numismatists.

    Professional numismatists earn their primary income from numismatics.
    PNG member, numismatic dealer since 1965. Operates a retail store, also has exhibited at over 1000 shows.
    I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.

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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    I was actually refered to as "an advanced collector" by someone in the field I respect recently. I was quite flattered. Maybe they just meant I was getting old....

    Clankeye
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  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭

    I am, because my wife says it's so. Not only am I a numismatist, but she has added some additional scholarly appellations to the title:

    You *$#!*@#! *@#$!?* Numismatist!!!

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