What is it for you that keeps your interest going?

jbsteven

I have started on a new project of pedigreed coins from the Eliasberg collection. I like the history of these coins and WHO owned them in the past. This is one of the things that gets my juices flowing when I think of my personal collection.

What does it for you?

kieferscoins

Finding newley discovered samples from years ago and researching them the best I can, and adding them to my website which is a never ending process.

Cameron Kiefer

stman

<< <i>This is one of the things that gets my juices flowing >>



Heh, I've seen you use this description many times. Perhaps you should discuss this with your wife.

jbsteven

for you stman

tsacch

That little columbian hottie worked for me...........................................uhmmmm and Lucy's very hot cars.

islemangu

Screaming color and luster slabbed morgans...dont go soft on us now with silly pedigreed untoned coins

Clankeye

Nice examples of the Washington Carver commemoratives. I didn't choose them, they chose me.

It's been almost twenty years I've collected them off and on. I'll build a set, sell a set, think I've got it out of my system... and then start all over again.

Clankeye

jbsteven

islemangu

here is another one that gets me going

meos1

I enjoy the designs in different coins. I am particuliarly fond of commemrative for this reason.

Dan Watson

Jamericon

The sheer love of this hobby!!

mommam17

Classic commems do it for me. 43 down, 7 to go. White ones, toned ones, prooflikes, and both NGC and PCGS. I seldom buy anything else! Have a Spanish Trail coming in the mail. Looking for money for a Hudson and Vancouver, and then figure out the last 5. Hawaiian, Missour, Pan Pac, Alabama, and the Isabella.

BillJones

Looking at the coins I already have, and dreaming about the coins I'd like own.

Beyond that my interest gets perked when I read history and get to tie that in with the coins, tokens and medals in my collection. And for the business it's great to find something that will please my customer, and make a few bucks for me.

Sorry guys. Pedigrees don't do much for me. I don’t have much in common with the mega wealthy guys who formed the great collections. In conversations with Eliasberg’s contemporaries, they told me that he was like a vacuum cleaner who bought up everything in sight. I have run into that mentality, and it’s not a lot of fun when one guy MUST own ten examples of one thing when all you would like to have is ONE example

airplanenut

Jason,

The hope that each day you'll have more cheap toners for sale

Actually, what keeps me here is the history behind the coins, the awesome designs, and the color--there will always be something else to buy.

Jeremy

KollectorKing

The warm and fuzzy feeling I get reading these posts.

Numismanic

The thought of the inevitable withdrawal symptoms should I stop collecting.


Don

LAWMAN

The #@ I get from my wife and kids.

It assures that I have some time for peace and quiet in my day.

mgoodm3

The next cool coin around the corner is what keeps me going.

Colorfulcoins

Becoming knowledgeable about a coin or series (expertise)......being able to spot a PQ coin (and why its PQ) vs a dog.........expanding my knowledge of a coin or series. If I'm not learning, I'm not having fun.

nankraut

I can't help myself...it's in my blood.

coppercoins

The coins themselves aren't as important to me as having knowledge and being able to spread that knowledge around. The coins are an integral part of it, but to me not the most important part of coin collecting. The most important part is the community, people, sharing, and giving of one's self that goes on in this hobby that I have not seen in any other hobby.

GoldCoinLover

The sheer fun of it all. I go to a coin store and find all types of cool coins, gold, silver, rainbow toned, plain weird ones, error coins. I go to the coin stores and get a rush just out of that! I was thinking about becoming a professional Nuministic, (Like working with ANACS or PCGS), but I don't know. I also like to fly, would like to fly jets at the speed of sound. Then again my eyesight sucks.. so I'd probably be in coin business or fly a commerial airplane to different countries

Tade

My two coin clubs

ClausUrch

That Magic feeling I get when I hold a coin that I need for my album. Its the same feeling I remember as a child decades ago and "grounds" me through the years.

Bear

In truth I have to say that three things keep me going.

Looking at pretty women( and Mrs Bear), A good beer

and a fine steak.

RegistryCoin

Good comments. I especially like what Colorfulcoins, and Coppercoins mentioned.

Lakesammman

Going to shows and being able to associate with guys like you and Rick Kay, the showercap guy....

cladking

Everything everyone has said so far except my coin club is a virtual coin club.

I also love to learn something new about coins or anything new which can apply
to coins. It's the thrill from looking at a box of tokens or medals or a roll of coins
from the bank and finding something I've never seen before. There's the thrill of
opening up a mint set package and finding something different or gem. It's the
excitement of opening up a box full of coins that no one has seen in years or the
fun of researching some odd-ball coin.

It seems there's always something and these forums have helped to fill in some of
the gaps.

BigMoose

JB, for me it's the thought that the next great coin I will get a shot at is right around the corner! This is why I like going to big shows so much as you never know just what you will turn up.

nwcs

I wish I knew. But I really don't. I guess if I figure out the magic, the magic will be lost.

jbsteven

<< <i>Going to shows and being able to associate with guys like you and Rick Kay, the showercap guy.... >>



ummm thanks I think......

MrEureka

What is it for you that keeps your interest going?

I'm a dealer, but the thing that keeps my interest is collecting. I'd have tired of the business a long time ago if I didn't buy myself a coin every now and then.

Nic

That next killer coin which I might be able to own. K

Unimental

I just spent two hours with Jack Daniels and my Walkers.

Best two hours of my week so far.


Oh, and in case you're wondering... I only handle slabbed coins when I'm drinking.

BigE

The people are number one, having coins that are pq for the dollar are number two, and is number three-----------------------------------------------------------BigE ( Bill Jones, which is rarer on the slab, Eliasberg or Pitman?-just wondering)---------------------------------BigE

LanLord

The connection with the history of these great United States that I feel when I look at or hold a relic of our financial history, the coins that we have produced over the years.

I love to look at them, to study them, to learn about them, to think about them. It just doesn't stop.

BillJones

My guess would be that Pittman slabs are harder to find because his collection had to have been smaller, at least among the coins that could be slabbed.

BTW I would NOT include Pittman in my comments about mega wealthy collectors. My contacts with John Pittman were VERY pleasant, and no, he was NOT a customer. His approach to the hobby were as a collector who enjoyed trading notes and compliments with other collectors.

Ditto for another truly great collector, Jules Reiver, who recently passed away. He went to the University of Delaware at the same time that my mom was there. In addition to his excellent books on die varieties, Jules was the only collector I knew who was trying to collect EVERY die variety that was covered in the books about the early U.S. coins from the Cohen half cents to Bolender's Bust dollars. Jules wrote an excellent book on the early dollar die varieties that was "coin show friendly" (light enough so that you could carry it to a show). He will be sorely missed.