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What's a "Monster"?

RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
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In all seriousness, I was out of collecting for many years before I came back a couple years ago. The word "monster", I have since learned, is apparently used as a superlative to describe coins with exceptional eye appeal. Anyone know when and where this originated (and how to stop it)?
My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I wish I knew how to stop it...... image But I'm doing my small part by usually breezing by any auctions that scream that word in the title.....
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I wish I knew how to stop it...... image But I'm doing my small part by usually breezing by any auctions that scream that word in the title..... >>

    Yep. Between that and "L@@K", I think...
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What's a "Monster"? >>



    image

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Russ, that is scary. Because of posts like that, I am only allowed to play here when the kids are asleep.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    What's a "Monster"?


    The precise reason why my wife married me. It had nothing to do with love.image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    "monster": A word often used to describe a coin which has flaws, but the seller hopes to try to unload it on some ignorant buyer for a "gem" price.image
    I'm the Proud recipient of a genuine "you suck" award dated 1/24/05. I was accepted into the "Circle of Trust" on 3/9/09.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    On a more serious note, I'll offer a comparison of two cameo proofs, both of which are very nice coins.

    image

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    In the world of cameo coinage, the second can legitimately be called a monster.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I don't think kennedies can be entered into the "monster" realm of cameo coinage...... image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    Well Russ, If I have to use the word "Monster", I'll call that second JFK a "super-duper-monster.image
    I'm the Proud recipient of a genuine "you suck" award dated 1/24/05. I was accepted into the "Circle of Trust" on 3/9/09.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't think kennedies can be entered into the "monster" realm of cameo coinage...... >>



    Tell that to people who've paid over $10,000 for single examples.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • puffpuff Posts: 1,475


    << <i>What's a "Monster"?


    The precise reason why my wife married me. It had nothing to do with love.image >>



    image
  • oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    Bro- speak of skiing:
    Dude, I just went bomber on a 50 airing the shrond onto firmington and totally sticking it.

    Bro- speak of surfing:
    Brah, I just went tubular shredding a backside; it was totally geek. Good thing I had fresh sex.

    Bro- speak of coins:
    I just purchased a PCGS solid 5 plus, plus plus, monster- rainbow toner, totally original SLC.

    **Coin bro- speak neads some serious work.**

    Every sport or hobby will develope language that sets it apart. I feel the language develops because of people who are passionate about the things that they are involved in. Sometimes the lingo is pretty stupid. I usually try not to use it myself. I definitely will not use the term "monster" to describe a coin.

    I'll bet there is even bro- speak involved with Teddy Bear collecting.
  • NewmismatistNewmismatist Posts: 1,802 ✭✭
    Perhaps you will have to reference Justice Potter Stewert in his concurring opinion in a case dealing with pornorgraphy:


    << <i>First and Fourteenth Amendments criminal laws in this area are constitutionally limited to hard-core pornography. I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, >>



    From my prospective, it is very difficult to define a "Monster" coin, but "you'll know it when you see it" image

    By way of example see Russ' post above - coin #2 seems to have that look -
    Collecting eye-appealing Proof and MS Indian Head Cents, 1858 Flying Eagle and IHC patterns and beautiful toned coins.

    “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
    Newmismatist

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