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Do you have money for coins this time of year?

MercMerc Posts: 1,649 ✭✭
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Here is an easy question, do you have money for coins this time of year? I won't be buying any this December. I still need to buy for Christmas. Then I have to pay bills from last month. Then I just bought plane tickets. That leaves nothing for coins.
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    PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    No but that never stopped me before image
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    LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
    I allways have money for the right deal. image
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    greghansengreghansen Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭
    Not after Bajjerfan got through with me this past weekend.

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    rainbowroosierainbowroosie Posts: 4,875 ✭✭✭✭
    Only for roosies......image
    "You keep your 1804 dollar and 1822 half eagle -- give me rainbow roosies in MS68."
    rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
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    OneThinDimeOneThinDime Posts: 33
    Nope.

    (But I did get an early Christmas present - a nice '28 Peace Dollar)
    The Body of Benjamin Franklin Printer (Like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here, food for worms.
    But the work shall not be lost for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition revised and corrected
    by The Author.

    (Ben's epitaph)
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    XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    Well...it just comes down to what is more important- gifts for others, or coins.

    You have to have your priorities in orderimage
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    hamiltonjhhamiltonjh Posts: 1,140
    Money is kinda tight this time of year, but thats what the credit card is for if there's a good deal to be had and it's a "has to be".
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    Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    New home construction is booming right now so I have a pocket full of $$ now days since I am in the new home construction business.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
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    stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>so I have a pocket full of $$ now days >>



    Good to know so I'll know how to price the coins I was thinking of offering you.
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
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    Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Yes, I dumped the whole idea of Christmas more than thirty years ago when I was ten. Saved a lot of headaches and I have money rather than bills.
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    jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My money for coins comes from work expenses. Its gettin to be the slow time for manufactured housing. Lasts from about November thru February. So my expense checks take a beating during this time, so I most likely wouldnt be makin any big purchases, course, I aint going to let a good deal go buy neither, especially for any I am lookin for!

    Since I have never used household money for coin purchases, I dont really get bashed and beatin from the spouse. She handles all that. Hadnt seen my pay-check in years though!!

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    ARCOARCO Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey Condor I bet your loved ones are just thrilled with your "enlightened" view of Christmas. image

    Tyler
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,973 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've always got money, but right now I look at the ads in Coin World and shutter. The prices are SO HIGH for most anything I really want in the U.S. coin category it's discouraging.

    In the old days if one put together from a grand to three or four grand, you could get something neat. Now 5-figure prices are becoming commonplace. And having seen a lot of this stuff at the shows, I know that a fair amount of it is NOT THAT GOOD. The grades are optimistic, or the coins lack eye appeal. Yes, a lot of the coins I have have gone way up, but that doesn't help me expand my collection. I don’t collect duplicates so almost every coin I give up has no back-up piece.

    Things are starting to get out of hand. Is it permanent? Who knows? Things have been nuts before and then the market crashed or at least came back to more reasonable levels. Of course before we did not have as much influence from the Internet...

    I'm hoping to end up with a couple of political tokens from the other Baltimore auction. They are more expensive too, but we are talking increases of 10s or 100s of dollars, not thousands.
    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 ... ?
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    mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207
    Coins.....Christmas gifts hmmm ..........ALWAYS COINS!
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    dan1ecudan1ecu Posts: 1,573
    Yes - since the stock market has been doing well recently.

    Dan
    Dan McInnes

    mcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu">dmcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu
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    dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    <<< Do you have money for coins this time of year? >>>

    Are you kidding??? Whatever's left in my wallet after my girl rifles it while I'm asleep, I spend on cigars.

    dragon
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    FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    Ahhh....I see the conflict, coins or Christmas presents. Just buy your wife and kids coins for Christmas. They will go ooooh and ahhh. When they ask how they should store them simply say "I'll keep them with my collection. They will be safe there". After a couple of months they will forget about them so they become yours. Conflict solved.imageimage
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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,676 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not after eBay got thru with me this past weekend.
    theknowitalltroll;
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    Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    I have to admit I have always had a tough time trying to convince my family that I REALLY do not want them to try and buy me presents. What I would like they are not qualified to select (And that works both ways. They have specialized interests that I am not qualified to select for.), plus anything that I want, and can afford, I buy. If I can't afford it, they most likely can't either. Besides, I see members of my family go into serious credit card debt each year for Christmas. Then they struggle all year to pay off those cards, finally succeeding in Sept or October, and then doing it all over again! PLEASE LEAVE ME OUT OF THAT NIGHTMARE!

    Now Christmas is fine for young children and I may get them a few things, but once they start approaching the teen years I stop or sometimes I will get them Mint State Morgans from the 19th century once I know they aren't going to go out and spend them or just rush out and sell them. (For that reason I stop before they start needing gas money.) But for the adults no way.
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    BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Conder, ditto on Xmas, great for kids, just a little too much for the adults.

    As for do I have money for coins this time of year? If I finally find a coin I've been looking for, I have to spring for it, regardless of the time of year or other financial situations, since the coins I'm seeking to fill the remaining holes and upgrades in my collection are scarce to rare (small eagle silver, early copper) can't pass em up because they are just not offered all that often.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

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    Dennis88Dennis88 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭
    Here in Holland we have "sinterklaas" (don't laugh please), it looks a bit like christmas, but It is on december fifth. We have to make surprises for the family, put it in a funny box, and even make a little story with it. Very hard work....

    Dennis
    VOC Numismatics
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Coins are gifts, what's the problem. They're gifts for me.
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