Here are the two most obvious questions, but what other questions do your non coin collector friends

mrpaseo

1. What is your oldest coin?

2. What is your most expansive coin?


I can add:

3. What is your favorite coin?

What are other questions they might ask?

Ray

windwhispersintrees

What's it worth?

saintguru

"WHAT, Are you NUTS??

fcloud

Where do you live and where do you keep them?

IrishMike

I have some old coins can you tell me what they are worth?

vega1

"Let me get this straight... You paid how much for a nickel?"

marcmoish

"my mom always used a silver polish for those ugly dirt patches"

Shamika

Which is your rarest coin?

I have an old coin. How much do you think it's worth?

Why isn't your oldest coin worth more than all the others?

Why isn't that coin (the one worn flat) worth more.

How much is my steel cent worth.

I have a copper 1943 cent (always plated). It's worth $100,000 isn't it?

BASEagle

Friend: What's it worth?

Me: Oh, about $500

Friend: Wow, I've got some old coins. Ya wanna buy them?



Mike

FC57Coins

You paid how much for that???

mrearlygold

"Hahahaha, coin collectors"

Not really a question but what the look on their faces say when shown something cool.



Tom

dimples

You show someone a 66 graded morgan and they say oh I have some of those at home just as nice. when you
finally see them months later they're good to very fine.

dthigpen

The people I work with don't know I collect coins

PhillyJoe

"Don't you already have one of those?"
"Don't you already have ten of those?"
"Don't you already have fifty of those?"



Joe

JrGMan2004

<< <i>"Don't you already have one of those?"
"Don't you already have ten of those?"
"Don't you already have fifty of those?" >>

-Joe's Wife

cladking

"Do you have any old coins? Why aren't old coins worth more? I've got a great
looking Ike at home is it really worth $2,000? What's this? Will you look at my
coins for me?"

I always like that last question the most.

Smittys

You buy Money????

mgoodm3

What's your rarest coin/most expensive?
I got some coins from my Grandfather, wanna look at them?

Sphinx357

paper but the same questions really

"Why would you pay that much, if it's only a $5 bill?"
"I have some silver certificates, are they worth alot?"

mhammerman

Here's one to add...

From my step-daughter regarding my indian dollar tribe: "You better take care, we wern't born rich you know." Referring to the fact that they aren't going to be able to take care of us in our old age...hee hee. If only she knew that they will all be comfortable when we go.

Jdurg

"I had to borrow a few dimes to use the vending machine at work. Here's your money back." (You look in your collection to see some old 1946 Roosies and some high grade proofs missing, and in replacement you get a bunch of circulated 'modern crap').

At this point, I put all my coins in a safe that nobody knows about.

BigE2

lol

MyWorldCoinTypeSet

"Why don't you clean that tarnish off them"

jdsinva

<< <i>Friend: What's it worth?

Me: Oh, about $500

Friend: Wow, I've got some old coins. Ya wanna buy them?



Mike >>



Sounds familar. . .I've been in that nearly unescapable trap a few times. The most memorable one was when my boss asked me that and I wanted to impress him. I have some coins, could you tell me what they're worth? I had to do a lot of fancy side-stepping to get out of that one!

Jeff

09sVDB

other than my boss(who is a collector) none of my friends know.

morgannut2

What's the most valuable one?, followed by Are you married?

Conder101

<< <i> If only she knew that they will all be comfortable when we go. >>


Only if you manage to get them out of your name at least three years before they stick you in a nursing home. Forty to fifty grand or more a year for nursing homes realy eats into the inheritance. Especially when you stick around for 8 to 10 more years.

Betta285

" You paid $200 for something that's only worth a penny!!!!"

jim

gemtone65

"Holy, moly, how does a silver dollar acquire color like that?"

Jdurg

"Is that real gold or fake gold?"

Coinhusker1

<< <i>"I had to borrow a few dimes to use the vending machine at work. Here's your money back." (You look in your collection to see some old 1946 Roosies and some high grade proofs missing, and in replacement you get a bunch of circulated 'modern crap').

At this point, I put all my coins in a safe that nobody knows about. >>

TommyType

I tried to explain the grading system to a bunch of fellow engineers. Let's just say engineers are too logical:

"Why 1 to 70 and not 1 to 100?"
(After getting the historical Sheldon 'equates to value' answer: "So what is one point worth?"
"VG-10....That's pretty low. It looks pretty nice to me. What's wrong with it?" (Asked about a Bust Dollar)
"This AU-50.....How mich nicer does it have to be to get to be AU-51?"
(Followed by), "What do you mean you don't use all the numbers? Now you don't even need the 70 numbers!"

At this point I gave up....They were having too much fun harassing me, (and they do enjoy harassing me). I'll show them coins, but I don't discuss grades anymore.

LincolnCentMan

That's worth what???? Sell it!

...they just dont understand.

David

OnlyBuffalos

"Did you get them from the guys on TV?"

Nickelback

"Is this some kind of Freudian thing from your childhood?"

"I never knew you were one of those kind of "people. Don't you have a life?"

BAJJERFAN

Can I have one?

Coinhusker1

Then there is the classic spouse "show me the money" question:

"You say the coins are worth all this money, but how come you never sell any?!!"

Numismanic

1. How much did you pay for it?, followed by their expression of disbelief.

2. Is that a foreign coin?

3. What are you buying now?

4. Where do you live?

5. How much are my coins worth? (usually common circulated stuff).

mirabela

Very few know I'm into this, but -- favorite so far wasn't a question. "That's funny, you don't *look* like a coin collector."