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Why do we partake in this charade??

saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
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I feel more and more everyday like my coins own ME, not the other way around. They will outlive me by hundreds if not thousands of years.

I am considering renaming my set "Saints That JB Is Babysitting" .image

We do NOT "own" these coins...we lease them.image
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  • CUEBALLCUEBALL Posts: 117
    That's why coins are sooo neat! you buy them and they last forever, I go to Wall-mart and spend a hundred bucks and there is nothing there the next week, I spend that much on a coin and enjoy it for life. What a bargain!
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    JB,

    Up the Prozac and send some my way, too. image

    I have heard others similarly state that they are custodians for the coins in their collections. It is a significant responsibilty to keep them safe and secure and out of the hands of those who might diminish their originality for short term gain.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭


    << <i>We do NOT "own" these coins...we lease them.image >>

    You're absolutely right, and that it why it is incumbent on collectors to take the best care of their coins as possible. We are only their temporary caretakers; the coins themselves belong to the world.
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    Rob..Zoloft not Prozac...How many do you need?image
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  • ProofquarterProofquarter Posts: 275 ✭✭


    I comsider myself a CARETAKER for everything I own.image
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    my coins only grade ME AU55...image
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  • 1907Quarter1907Quarter Posts: 2,770
    a cerebral thread! just like those in the open forum!image
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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    I believe you meant "lobotomized" for the Open Forum.image
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Oooo. Deep. Coins. Durable. Lasting. Not Me.
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  • ProofquarterProofquarter Posts: 275 ✭✭

    my coins only grade ME AU55...

    Much better than body bag.image
  • KurtHornKurtHorn Posts: 1,382 ✭
    That's why I like coins from the 19th Cetury the most!!!
    "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner
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  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭
    Not true - once a coin is yours, it's yours forever


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  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭


    << <i>Not true - once a coin is yours, it's yours forever


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    Now where will you be buried?image
  • GoYankeesGoYankees Posts: 1,025


    << <i>I feel more and more everyday like my coins own ME, not the other way around. They will outlive me by hundreds if not thousands of years.

    I am considering renaming my set "Saints That JB Is Babysitting" .image

    We do NOT "own" these coins...we lease them.image >>



    Reminds me of Ecclesiastes. image
    Ex-modern Collector.

    Photos of the 2006 Boston Massacre
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    Didn't he play for the Yankees in the 40's??
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Time flies. Nothing remains. Every year 1% of everything is destroyed and eventually
    fate catches up with each of us and all the things we treasure. Part of collecting is try-
    ing to defy these odds; to deliver something to the future to remind people of the past.
    One of the reasons collectors seek the finest is to present our age and the past in the
    best possible light. It is the belief that not only are our old coins so fine but that they
    were properly cared for such a very long time by a succession of those who cared.
    Tempus fugit.
  • GoYankeesGoYankees Posts: 1,025


    << <i>Didn't he play for the Yankees in the 40's?? >>



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    I think it was earlier. image
    Ex-modern Collector.

    Photos of the 2006 Boston Massacre
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,964 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Advanced collectors have realized this for years. We are only custodians and preservationists. These coins with proper care will be around long after we are dust. The interesting part is that eyes and hands that are now dust once looked upon and handled these coins. And these coins existed and could have even influenced the events that we study from history.
    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 ... ?
  • GoYankeesGoYankees Posts: 1,025
    That's why I'm in the process of organizing my collection of certified coins so that when I die or in case of emergency, I my collection would have liquidity.

    BTW there must be a loan on that coffin.

    When I go to be with the Lord, I'd want the cheapest funeral possible. I'm talking Hefty or Glad. Spend the 2-3 grand+ on the living. image
    Ex-modern Collector.

    Photos of the 2006 Boston Massacre
  • NickelbackNickelback Posts: 381
    Where did that coffin come from? image
  • KentuckyJKentuckyJ Posts: 1,871 ✭✭✭

    When we sleep at night the coins laugh and talk to each other about all the collectors they've known and how some of us thought we owned them. As they say in Kentucky, "what a hoot!" image

    KJ

  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess I should post because of my tag line ...

    I hope my coins grade me at least a Choice AU as well!image

    “We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”

    Todd - BHNC #242
  • FullStepJeffsFullStepJeffs Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    I think you have a choice with coins... you can either babysit them and they can last forever... or melt them and they wont.

    I keep telling mine that sooner or later, when they pi$$ me off, they'll be a lump of nickel at the bottom of the lake. They tend to not bother me anymore.image

    Steve
    U.S. Air Force Security Forces Retired

    In memory of the USAF Security Forces lost: A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson, 9/28/05; SSgt Brian McElroy, 1/22/06; TSgt Jason Norton, 1/22/06; A1C Lee Chavis, 10/14/06; SSgt John Self, 5/14/07; A1C Jason Nathan, 6/23/07; SSgt Travis Griffin, 4/3/08; 1Lt Joseph Helton, 9/8/09; SrA Nicholas J. Alden, 3/3/2011. God Bless them and all those who have lost loved ones in this war. I will never forget their loss.
  • dimplesdimples Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭
    Nickelback,

    Relayer is getting up there in age, so he had that casket custom made for him.image

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