<< <i>From a woman's viewpoint, maybe she thinks you spend more time with coins, than her - or even like them more than her. Maybe you can try only working on coins when she is doing something else, and try to make some special time for her each week - like take her out to eat. Surprise her and bring her home a nice plant or flowers - that should last for at least a week. Workplay with your coins when she is gone, or busy. Try to make more family time for awhile. And if worse comes to work - collect on the sly. >>
Good ideas for those guys whose wives don't like coins.
Whether or not a spouse is interested in coins, I think it's important to let them know something about the relative magnitude of the collection.
What would be sadder than having a desirable and valuable collection, and if the spouse has to handle disposition they accept a pennies on the dollar offer from someone due to their ignorance of what it's really worth?
At a minimum, at least make sure the spouse has the names of some trusted people to contact if it becomes necessary to liquidate.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
At a minimum, at least make sure the spouse has the names of some trusted people to contact if it becomes necessary to liquidate.
Hmmh, spouse and liquidate...Two interesting variables as to why my collection, which took much effort, money and ignorance to build, was sold a year and a half or so ago. Boy, when the thousands were rollin' into the paypal account for said sales, the aura of bliss was about my humble abode; however, not on my behalf. Bottom line is...She's losin' her beans and I'm the boiling pot she's throwing them in.
Tom
What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
Many wives can't understand what a great investment coins can be if their husbands buy with some intellegence. I had a customer who was working a set of Mint State Indian cents. He was also working a type set. He was buying some nice coins and today he could sell his collection for nice profit. A one point his wife even had me locate a coin that he needed for his Indian set as a Christmas present. Yet she was not comfortable with the amount of money that he was spending on coins.
Finally he reserved a piece from me that made her go balistic. It was a 1799 silver dollar in PCGS EF-45. The coin was well struck, totally original and a really great edition to most any collection. He called me and said that he had to pass on the coin and had to stop buying coins from me because she was really upset. BTW the price of the coin in question was $1,600.00. A couple of months later I sold the coin to a dealer for the same price. Today, about 5 years later, my former customer could have sold that coin for $4,500 or more. That's not a bad ROI by anyone's standard!
My wife once quesioned my coin purchases, but when she saw what I made on several sales and the overall CONSERVATIVE value of my collection, comparted to what I have paid for it, she supports my coin hobby completely.
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 ... ?
My wife actually enjoys it so far. She sees it as an investment for the future. She has the idea that we will someday retire richly off my collection. What she doesn't really know is that I will be buried with it, leaving clues for all board members to find the treasure
Prost!
Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
Hmmh, spouse and liquidate...Two interesting variables as to why my collection, which took much effort, money and ignorance to build, was sold a year and a half or so ago. Boy, when the thousands were rollin' into the paypal account for said sales, the aura of bliss was about my humble abode; however, not on my behalf. Bottom line is...She's losin' her beans and I'm the boiling pot she's throwing them in.
<< <i>Men collect things...... Women buy things and never throw those things away... Therein lies the difference. Don't tell your wife or girlfriend you're 'collecting coins'.... Tell them you're buying them. They may be able to relate better to it.... >>
Maybe even better is Wayne Herndon's motto on his site, paraphrasing: "I'm not spending money, I'm buying it." I haven't had the guts to try it, so let me know how it goes
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
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<< <i>From a woman's viewpoint, maybe she thinks you spend more time with coins, than her - or even like them more than her. Maybe you can try only working on coins when she is doing something else, and try to make some special time for her each week - like take her out to eat. Surprise her and bring her home a nice plant or flowers - that should last for at least a week. Workplay with your coins when she is gone, or busy. Try to make more family time for awhile. And if worse comes to work - collect on the sly. >>
Good ideas for those guys whose wives don't like coins.
Cameron Kiefer
What would be sadder than having a desirable and valuable collection, and if the spouse has to handle disposition they accept a pennies on the dollar offer from someone due to their ignorance of what it's really worth?
At a minimum, at least make sure the spouse has the names of some trusted people to contact if it becomes necessary to liquidate.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
Krank, I didn't mean to imply all of that. Thanks for pointing it out so no one else would misread what I wrote.
Hmmh, spouse and liquidate...Two interesting variables as to why my collection, which took much effort, money and ignorance to build, was sold a year and a half or so ago. Boy, when the thousands were rollin' into the paypal account for said sales, the aura of bliss was about my humble abode; however, not on my behalf. Bottom line is...She's losin' her beans and I'm the boiling pot she's throwing them in.
Tom
Finally he reserved a piece from me that made her go balistic. It was a 1799 silver dollar in PCGS EF-45. The coin was well struck, totally original and a really great edition to most any collection. He called me and said that he had to pass on the coin and had to stop buying coins from me because she was really upset. BTW the price of the coin in question was $1,600.00. A couple of months later I sold the coin to a dealer for the same price. Today, about 5 years later, my former customer could have sold that coin for $4,500 or more. That's not a bad ROI by anyone's standard!
My wife once quesioned my coin purchases, but when she saw what I made on several sales and the overall CONSERVATIVE value of my collection, comparted to what I have paid for it, she supports my coin hobby completely.
Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
Hmmh, spouse and liquidate...Two interesting variables as to why my collection, which took much effort, money and ignorance to build, was sold a year and a half or so ago. Boy, when the thousands were rollin' into the paypal account for said sales, the aura of bliss was about my humble abode; however, not on my behalf. Bottom line is...She's losin' her beans and I'm the boiling pot she's throwing them in.
This is worthy of a quote.
<< <i>Men collect things......
Women buy things and never throw those things away...
Therein lies the difference. Don't tell your wife or girlfriend you're 'collecting coins'....
Tell them you're buying them. They may be able to relate better to it.... >>
Maybe even better is Wayne Herndon's motto on his site, paraphrasing: "I'm not spending money, I'm buying it." I haven't had the guts to try it, so let me know how it goes
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
The Lincoln cent store:
http://www.lincolncent.com
My numismatic art work:
http://www.cdaughtrey.com
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<< <i>My wife tends to lower & lower my enthusiasm to collect coins...Does yours? >>
No.
But my ex-wife did.