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Why I Went Back to Coins

rmossrmoss Posts: 644
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I collected sports cards in the mid to late 80's because I had lost interest in coins. I was in the card shop one day, I think in '88, and the owner tried to get me to buy 1 of the newly released NASCAR sets he had just gotten into stock for $14.00. I looked at them and said they would never amount to anything but did buy 2 of the new PGA sets that had just came out also. The NASCAR cards were the Myrtle Beach variety. I didn't buy the '89 Upper Deck baseball set either when it came out. I later got an '89 UD set but paid dearly for it. Maybe I'm better off with coins. At one time both these sets were "big" but I have been out of cards since '90 and have lost touch with what's what in that area. I'm here just browsing, hope y'all don't mind a visitor from coins. Now working on a 144 coin Registry set of the old Commemoratives.
"Im not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde

Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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  • jrdolanjrdolan Posts: 2,549 ✭✭
    Well, I can't buy a gumball with an old baseball card, so score one for the coin folks. image
  • Lothar52Lothar52 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭


    << <i>hope y'all don't mind a visitor from coins. >>



    you got by noon to get out of town or else!!!!
  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭

    Why collect real money when you can spend real money on old cardboard. image
  • bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭
    rmoss,

    You're welcome to come slumming with us card boys anytime. Nice coin set by the way. I'm putting together the 50 piece commemorative type set (can't imagine doing the 144 coin set). Here's a link to rmoss's coins for those of us who go both ways (so to speak).

    Silver Commemoratives 144 Piece Mintmark & Variety Set, Circulation Strikes (1892-1954)

    Bob
    bobsbbcards PSA Registry Sets
    bobsbbcards SGC Registry Sets
  • jackstrawjackstraw Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭
    Bob
    You collect coins ? What about Beer cans?
    Reading that registry is like reading a Chinese menu writen in Chinese image
    Collector Focus

    ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭


    << <i>Bob
    You collect coins ? What about Beer cans?
    Reading that registry is like reading a Chinese menu writen in Chinese image >>




    image

    You could always collect spoons - you know, those little spoons you get from famous places...
    image
  • bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭
    Actually, I've started collecting Chinese beer spoons. Do you have any? image
    bobsbbcards PSA Registry Sets
    bobsbbcards SGC Registry Sets
  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭

    I have been sitting on the couch so long that now I'm involuntarily collecting dust. image
  • onlychildonlychild Posts: 312 ✭


    << <i>Actually, I've started collecting Chinese beer spoons. Do you have any? >>



    Like your card collection, I don't think anyone here has any but I'm sure you will tell us all about them and then some. image

    Kevin
  • jackstrawjackstraw Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭
    As far as your Chinese spoon collection goes I only have Ming dynasty chop sticks? Do you need any for your collection?They are unopened and en route to GAI for encapsulation so hopefully I will have them back for the Chinese Eating Utensil Nationalimage
    Collector Focus

    ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    image Now this is a coin I would collect.

    Matt

    1994 Pro Line Live

    TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject

  • 1stPSAgrader1stPSAgrader Posts: 13


    << <i>Why collect real money when you can spend real money on old cardboard. >>



    That has to be one of the most brilliant comments I've read on this board in a long time!!!

    Adam
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Without a passion for what you're collecting, you're collecting for the sake of collecting. If you really don't or didn't care about sports and have a passion for what was happening on the field/court/rink then you really don't/didn't have any idea what to buy or why to buy it. By the way, I'm drunk and I hope this makes sense because it does in my liquor soaked mind.

    Lee
  • rmossrmoss Posts: 644


    I did know what I was collecting. Love the Atlanta Braves since 1966 when they moved to Atlanta. It had gotten to the point then that all you got out of packs was commons. I bought 4 boxes of 1990 Bowman and some of the packs had 5 & 6 of the same cards in them. Only the dealers had the good cards, and they were only good as long as the dealers had them. I know all dealers are not like that but the a good many of them locally were. The good dealers are still in business. Once the dealers had sold out of them they were no longer any good. I guess I just became disillusioned with the hobby. I still have all the cards I amassed and will continue to hold onto them. I have baseball from 86 through 90, some hockey, some basketball, some football. Still have my cards from when I was a kid (61 & 63 Topps and Fleer Baseball Greats) I enjoyed it while I was in it but went back to coins.

    I collected comics when I was in my teens but moved on to coins from them. I still have the comics too. Life is constant change.
    "Im not young enough to know everything."
    Oscar Wilde

    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.

    Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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