Anyone else a ....CLOSET.....darksider?

topstuf

I frikkin LUV furrin coins. Ornate crowns, engraving to die for, truly INTERESTING devices, really everything one looks for in a coin.

BUT

I .....buy..... (and collect) US. MAINLY for liquidity. I.....like...... US coins. Don't get me wrong. The history and , well, even beauty in some issues is great.

But, European coins, South and Central America........WOW!

PURDY!

I buy foreign coins. But only if I can .....steal..... em. I sneak off and after looking through my US collection fairly rapidly and totting up what they're ....."worth" .... oboyoboyoboy..... I find myself GAZING at the furrin stuff. Gettin out the magnifier to see the design instead of some "clear" or "filled" mintmark.

And I hold NAPOLEON in my hand. Yeah, I know I can hold Kennedy.........or Eunice Shriver..... but......

Just ain't the same.

Maybe we need an "I have a dream" speech from someone.

"When coins are judged not by their mintmark, but for the beauty of their design."

Ever think it'll happen? A cosmopolitan attitude toward numismatics? Design over financial appreciation?

Naaaaaah. Me neither.

1jester

I have a dream!!!

Topstuf will one day (finally) come completely out of the closet as a true Darkie....

LouisCamp

I think I'm a closet darksider! I've taking a liking to Euros.

Lou

cosmicdebris

<< <i>Ever think it'll happen? A cosmopolitan attitude toward numismatics? Design over financial appreciation? >>




As long as Capitalism gets in the way, NO!

boz

Ever since the feeding frenzy of 2002.

That made me take notice. To me it's the "fun" side of collecting.

newsman

Shhhh! Keep it quiet. Don't spoil the fun for the rest of us.

Coincracker

<< <i>"When coins are judged not by their mintmark, but for the beauty of their design." >>



And that's how it is around here.

sumnom

Come out of the closet and embrace the darkness!

1957joe

I am openly GREYSIDE. half darkside, half lightside

Askari

There's no such thing as a "closet Darksider" -- what you're describing is just plain denial!

Sylvestius

<< <i>There's no such thing as a "closet Darksider" -- what you're describing is just plain denial! >>




Well if i'm British, but collecting US coins, surely US coins are the darkside to me, no?

And British coins the lightside, so i'm a lightsider!

No from you'r perspective i'm a duller shade of grey collector. Although now i'm heading off into the crazy world of hammered coins, perhaps i've gone so dark i'm a blackhole collector?

MacCrimmon

<< <i>perhaps i've gone so dark i'm a blackhole collector? >>



Into the Hammered Abyss Slid Sylvestius.

I'll leave that for Laurent to develop into some prose.....

cladking

Well, this isn't specifically about world coins but certainly it would seem to be implied.

Askari

Sorry to have to break this to you, Sylvestius (in case you're the hypochondriac sort), but "Liteside" is an affliction unique to US coin collectors. Most every other coin collector in the world is immune to this dread disease. You can see the symptoms in US Coins forum posts with references to "general numismatics" by which they meant only US coins, as if the rest of numismatics didn't exist. They get kinda tenderfoot when they start stepping along the edge of that great dark terra incognita the rest of the world is quite comfortable with. The Litesiders actually fear us because we've been known to steal a few souls occasionally from among their midst. They tremble at the thought of a culture which treats its members with respect, that answers newbie questions without randomly crucifying them, and which delights in the *GASP!* coin, rather than the plastic in which they entomb them. Also, they know our beer tastes better.

cacheman

...and our women are more buxom and intelligent.

wybrit

I am an American, but I do not consider my British interest darkside, which is why I tend to avoid the term.

Collecting outside of the region of comfort, now that is "darkside!"

Askari

Eschew and obfuscate as much as you like Wybrit, you're one of us all the same.

Sylvestius

Well i'm an open Darksider, and i'm not ashamed to admit so. I remember a small forum called coinpeople (formerly thestujoecollection) [now a bigger forum], when i arrived it was pretty American coin biased, i've managed to convert quite a few to the darkside, and now US coinposts make up only a third of the total postings, if that! (rather than the 98% they used to be)

Of course once i started posting darkside posts, other darksiders gravitated to them, and the snowball effect has practically swallowed the site up! It'll be completly darkside by the end of the year!

chiefbob

This all sounds like a Dave Chappelle episode.

I've got some ancients and non-U.S. coins, so I've crossed over.


Bob

wybrit

My only shame lies in admitting that I collect (well, I used to collect) state quarters. I'm sick of them now. I just took rolls of D's I had bought at the bank at face value back to the bank so I could buy more Brit coins.

I was at the recent MN show and was asked to cast my vote on the new design for the state quarter destined for 2005. All the design candidates stunk!!

The only ones I still like are the NJ, RI and ME quarters.