How kewl is it to live in this day and age …
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How kewl is it to live in this day and age …
So … I check my email on a quiet Saturday morning and I find an interesting email from a gentleman I have never met before, never emailed or spoken to … but who is also a Registry participant in one of the series I collect.
He’s been on the upgrade trail, and he asks if I would be interested in any of the extra coins he has, which he is thinking about listing on eBay. He lists the dates and grades, several of which I don’t have, all which are within my normal scope of interest.
Of course I’d like first look I think to myself … I ask for pictures. He sends … we email back in forth a few times … I even chat with him on the phone a few minutes … he prices the four I am interested in, I half counter, offering to split the difference … I have coins on the way.
When I think about all of this I am grateful to live and be a collector in today’s day and age. When I started collecting as a young adult in 1987 I had time, but rarely much for money, and certainly was limited to the pre-internet routines for finding coins.
Today the opposite is more the truth. My career is consuming for the 200 hours a month I put into it … and I rarely break away from being a father long enough to shop the shops and hunt the shows anymore. I cruise eBay and the dealer inventories, try to find the best people to work with I can, but the finds are sometimes few and far between.
And then, when I least expect it …
The coins arrived today and I am quite pleased. One of them probably won’t be listed in my set for too long, but it was nice enough to purcahse and the only PCGS example I have of the date … it’s a nice Choice AU that I’ll probably keep as a second … the other three will probably be there for a while.
Anyway, he said he hasn’t posted here yet, but he occasionally lurks about … so Frank, just in case you are reading this … thank you again!
So … I check my email on a quiet Saturday morning and I find an interesting email from a gentleman I have never met before, never emailed or spoken to … but who is also a Registry participant in one of the series I collect.
He’s been on the upgrade trail, and he asks if I would be interested in any of the extra coins he has, which he is thinking about listing on eBay. He lists the dates and grades, several of which I don’t have, all which are within my normal scope of interest.
Of course I’d like first look I think to myself … I ask for pictures. He sends … we email back in forth a few times … I even chat with him on the phone a few minutes … he prices the four I am interested in, I half counter, offering to split the difference … I have coins on the way.
When I think about all of this I am grateful to live and be a collector in today’s day and age. When I started collecting as a young adult in 1987 I had time, but rarely much for money, and certainly was limited to the pre-internet routines for finding coins.
Today the opposite is more the truth. My career is consuming for the 200 hours a month I put into it … and I rarely break away from being a father long enough to shop the shops and hunt the shows anymore. I cruise eBay and the dealer inventories, try to find the best people to work with I can, but the finds are sometimes few and far between.
And then, when I least expect it …
The coins arrived today and I am quite pleased. One of them probably won’t be listed in my set for too long, but it was nice enough to purcahse and the only PCGS example I have of the date … it’s a nice Choice AU that I’ll probably keep as a second … the other three will probably be there for a while.
Anyway, he said he hasn’t posted here yet, but he occasionally lurks about … so Frank, just in case you are reading this … thank you again!
“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
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One with which a lot of us can identify!
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
us more free time but allows us to do more instead.