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Was there ever a time when you wished you WEREN'T a coin collector?

TheLiberatorTheLiberator Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭
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Maybe it was a bad purchase? Maybe your coins got stolen?

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  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes,
    Becuase dealing them is a lot more enjoyable??

  • WisconsinWisconsin Posts: 645
    Every time I wonder why I don't have any moneyimage
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,830 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Every time I wonder why I don't have any moneyimage >>

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    You hit the nail on the head!!!

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
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  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭
    Right now, because I have to pay $500 for an auction on a coin I won image
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  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    Do you mean like when you acquire a really nice, raw, difficult date coin at full retail plus at a poorly lit coin show and after you get it home and after a little close examination you realize it was over graded by maybe 2 points and has SPOTS?
  • bohica268bohica268 Posts: 478 ✭
    Yes, now. With job termination looming later this year all coin purchases are on indefinite hold. My circulation sets will be ok, only needing the current years coins but my Canadian stuff is stopped dead in it's tracks. Low mintages and gold coins have made the costs of completing my set prohibitive.
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Fortunately, never!
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭
    When my wallets flat.............

    TorinoCobra71

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  • CratonCraton Posts: 2,670
    Yes, twice. Being named in two lawsuits has still affected the way I feel about collecting.
  • BladeBlade Posts: 1,744 ✭
    Yes, after my wife found out what I spent for my icon! That couch was getting mighty comfy after a few nights image
    Tom

    NOTE: No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

    Type collector since 1981
    Current focus 1855 date type set
  • TheLiberatorTheLiberator Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Do you mean like when you acquire a really nice, raw, difficult date coin at full retail plus at a poorly lit coin show and after you get it home and after a little close examination you realize it was over graded by maybe 2 points and has SPOTS? >>



    Ouch...yeah, that'll do it! image
  • BigD5BigD5 Posts: 3,433 ✭
    Yes, when I was 21, and had much better things to think about and persue.....women, cars,.....more women........image
    BigD5
    LSCC#1864

    Ebay Stuff
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    Yea, when my wife bugs me about what I buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • NickelbackNickelback Posts: 381
    What everyone else said... (except the lawsuits image)
  • LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    image Only recently as I read all the "Trash" being posted in our "Coin Foum"!
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I spend about $2,000 a year on coins, and even that's not enough to keep up with the mint's current releases, so I get very frusterated when I hear about the 24k bullion coins, Presidental dollars, satin finishes, blah blah blah. As it is, I buy whatever the current proof sets are, clad and silver, the current mint set, and a half ounce platinum proof. The rest I spend trying to fill backdates.
    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭
    A few times when I've got my grades from PCGS. I sat back and said "what the hell am I doing what a waste of money", but then I'd get that one coin that would make the grade so I'd keep going.
  • BigE2BigE2 Posts: 1,037 ✭
    Yeah, right now as I wait for the mint to send my Westward journey sets.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,830 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image Only recently as I read all the "Trash" being posted in our "Coin Foum"! >>

    image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    When the wife says"why don't get rid of all your coins"
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Almost.

    It was 1982 and I was carrying a bag of brand new quarters across a crowded street
    in a paper bag (to be inconspicuous) when I suddenly remembered a dream I had had
    sometime back. In the dream I was carrying a bag of quarters across a crowded street
    in a paper bag when it split open suddenly and a $1000 in shiny new quarters went ev-
    erywhere.

    I grabbed the bottom of the bag and have no regrets. image
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • BigE2BigE2 Posts: 1,037 ✭
    Yep. When a co-worker asked me about the State Quarter sets on Coin Vault. I gave my opinion(it's crap) but he bought them anyway. Now he needs to sell them and doesn't understand why I won't give him what he paid.
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Everytime I look at my bank statement.

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • Barberman55Barberman55 Posts: 1,605 ✭
    Plenty of times....


    When I have to go to my bank safety deposit box, every couple of weeks, to rotate in, newly activated gel packs.

    When I just get beat out, acquiring that really tough, special coin for my collection, i.e., today, JJ Teaparty was offering a NGC certified, AU-55, 1896-o Barber half.

    When right after I buy an expensive, scarce date coin, another example, that is less expensive, and nicer, is offered by another dealer.

    When I spend alot of money on an average coin, leaving myself broke when that truly, special coin is offered.

    When I have to try to explain to my wife, the justification for a large coin purchase.







    Dan F.

    Connor Numismatics Website
  • billboatbillboat Posts: 2,260
    Every time I see posts of coins I want and can't afford.
    Curmudgeon in waiting!
  • CommemDudeCommemDude Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, at a show when an "I Buy Coins" dealer cherry-picks some really nice coins from those I have for sale and offers 20% back of bid. It makes me wonder where they are buying PQ coins at those prices, because I would like a crack at them myself !
    Dr Mikey
    Commems and Early Type
  • ColorfulcoinsColorfulcoins Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭
    Every time something goes FUBAR....auctions, ebay, grading etc...... but I usually recover and become a happy collector again shortly thereafter.
    Craig
    If I had it my way, stupidity would be painful!
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Age 14 to 31 (1979 to 1996)
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • ibzman350ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭


    << <i>Every time I see posts of coins I want and can't afford. >>








    yea, what billboat said.









    Herb





    Remember it's not how you pick your nose that matters, it's where you put the boogers.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,793 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Was there ever a time when you wished you WEREN'T a coin collector? >>



    In a word, NO. Coin collecting has been one of the most enjoyable parts of my life. image
    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 ... ?
  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    Nope, always enjoyed it. I started in 1957, by the way.

    Ray

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