Poll: Numismatic Fantasies

RYK

The Coin Genie™ arrives at your door and offers you one of the following numismatic fantasies (Open Forumites, please keep your clothes on, we are talking about coins ). Which do you choose?

ColonialCoinUnion

Number 6. I've always felt it useful to have attainable fantasies.

RYK

CCU, I do not know. All of these are possible. Isn't there a non-profit Make-A-(Coin)Wish™ organization?

Edit, okay, #5 is outlandish, and poker with HRH and GM is slightly less impossible.

RobJ

I misread # 4...I am dyslexic

dbldie55

#1 is close, but the fantasy is to be able to keep it.

razorface1027

Lunch, with a walking wealth of information (Q.D.B.), would be cool.

Question is...How much info. could I possibly absorb during a mere 2 hour lunch?


Tom

coinguy89

I choose #8. David has always been a nice helpful guy to the hobby. In fact I emailed him a few times and he was more than willing to respond with help to my questions. The guy was so nice that he even included me in his Coin World column a few months back. To sit and talk with him some more, but even in person, would be way cool.

BTW, excellent thread idea and defiently poll of the year IMO. I can't wait to read the other responses.

dthigpen

#5

wildjag

Had to go with number 4, since then I could find out where Marty gets all his coins from and then cherrypick them first

FatMan

All my sense tells me to do lunch with QDB. But I couldn't help myself, I voted Cammie.

construct

#5 is certainly intriguing--the fascination of the abomination and all that. On the other hand, watching Otis try to referee between Gereg and HRH might be entertaining also. What to do, what to do! I just can't decide!

mgoodm3

#5. Cause chicks dig guys who talk coins.

Shamika

Poker night could get very interesting if you follow me.

Russ

<< <i>4. A weekend romp to virgin midwestern coin shops with Mad Marty. >>



Why does he have to come along?

Russ, NCNE

TommyType

Oh! So close. But none of them alone quite does it for me, so allow me to pick and choose......

I would require:

1) The owner of a 1913 nickel
2) A Trading-Card
3) Martha Stewart
4) a Virgin Marty (PCGS koolaid mixed with tomato juice)
5) Cameron’s evil twin
6) a camera
7) a deck of PCGS playing cards, (1 king, and 51 jokers)
8) a BBQ lunch
9) and a spear

I won’t go any further than that, but the pictures would be worth the trouble.

CoinAddict

Had to go #6 because I would love to have excellent pics of my coins.

elwood

I have to go with #1 (1913 Nickel or any other Ultra Rarity)

It would be fun to walk up to a dealer or collector friend and say, guess what I have in my pocket or say you won't believe the new coin I picked up. He'd say, what is it?? I say, oh it's just a 1913 Nickel and he'd say, ya right!!! Then I'd pull it out and show it to him and his jaw would hit the ground. Then continue on to your other friends before the buzz got out about the 1913 Nickel on the floor and who the person was that had it.
Years later the dealers would tell the story to young numismtists about the time this guy walked up to the table with a 1913 Nickel. The young numismatists would never believe the story thinking the dealer was full of it and just giving them a line of @#$%.

RYK

I think you can divide the choices into three broad categories:

I. Ego

Carrying the 1913 Lib nickel for a week and besting LMS

II. An experience that would enrich you as a collector

Lunch with QDB, silver dollar study with Cardinal and TDN, cherrypicking lessons from Marty, photography tips

III. Sheer absurdity

Poker night, Cameron and the Twins, SB in pocket change

I chose lunch with QDB because in addition to the "enrichment experience", it would be pretty cool and something to talk to collecting friends about for years to come.

cladking

<< <i>4. A weekend romp to virgin midwestern coin shops with Mad Marty. >>



ROFL.

But I'd have to watch the CamMan try to put the numismatic moves on the Olsen twins.

ms70

Without a doubt, lunch with QDB.

tradedollarnut

HRH kicks my butt in poker, but I'm a masochist so I chose it anyway.

My numismatic fantasy would be to visit and view either the Stellar Collection or the Pogue Collection.

DSH1963

Q DAVID FOR ME

RYK

I must say I am surprised that the Cameron selection is currently #2. I almost did not include it (since the Olsen sisters, so far as we know, do not lurk on this forum).

morgannut2

I've had dinner twice with QD Bowers at auctions. Close call since I played poker for a living in AC for 3 years and I want my money back from a certain dealer. But basically I figure the grading session on dollars with Cardinal makes me the most $ long term so that's the choice--- as long as TDN buys lunch!

TommyType

My serious answer was a toss-up between "TDN-Cardinal show and tell", and lunch with Bowers.

TDN-Cardinal "won" because they would have coins for me to look at and talk about.

Me alone with Dave Bowers would likely bore him into a coma. Put us in the ANA museum instead, and I'm all his.

ccr

GMarguli and HomeRunHall playing poker!!!!! It would be more like a boxing match. #2 would be fascinating. But, #4 or 5 would be entertaining needless to say!

coinbuf

The lunch thing would be cool but I have no "coin" buddies to share such an experience with so as a Lincoln guy at heart I voted for #3.

Chris

dizzyfoxx

I must go with #1... and then the fantasy would end with me walking out the door and driving home only to realize it's still in my pocket.

ER

TDN and Cardinal, of course.

Steve27

"Numismatic Fantasies"

I don't have numismatic fantasies, how about fantasies that include females not on coins?

Dennis88

#2

shirohniichan

<< <i>"Numismatic Fantasies"

I don't have numismatic fantasies, how about fantasies that include females not on coins? >>



Sorry, Steve-- that would be too normal.

I'll take door #2.

weresteve

<< <i>

<< <i>4. A weekend romp to virgin midwestern coin shops with Mad Marty. >>



Why does he have to come along?

Russ, NCNE >>



Apparently I am just outside his normal travel radius ... which could be a good thing except that there seems to be some overlap in the St Louis area ... oh well ...

RYK

I voted Lunch with QDB, but in retrospect, I should have probably voted for Silver Dollars with the Experts or Photography Session and Tips . Without an agenda, lunch with a luminary like QDB might be a waste of his time and my time. Not having the "gift of the gab", I fear that we might spend most of the time staring at our salad plates. The Silver Dollar day would at least allow me to see a lot of cool coins and learn from the experts. I could really use the help with my photography, and it would be terrific to have one or more of the experts photograph my collection.

RYK

Stay tuned for Numismatic Fantasies: Part Deux. If anyone thinks these are too silly, please say so.

AlaBill

I want #2 AND #6. Both of these are too good to pass up. Number 8 is right behind.

mrearlygold

Lunch with you and QDB. Two hours, not much food, and nothing to do but talk coins.




Defnitely have a major buffet.

Can't talk coins on an empty stomach!

And don't forget dessert!


Tom

ccr

I went for #2.

solid

RYK - sorry to trample on your trademark. I just now saw this thread after posting
my "3 numismatic wishes" thread.

In any case, I voted #6 - my photos are getting better, but would love to learn the tricks
of a few others here.

If, in #5 I could have been in the same room with Cameron and the Olsen twins, I may
have gone that route!

Ken

JrGMan2004

#4

Edit to add: Oh yeah, would also have to take LegendLaura's Credit Card/Checkbook with me

LanLord

How about seeing a nekkid Shania Twain holding a 1804 silver dollar?

That's my numismatic fantasy.

Awww, WTF, I could care a less about the 1804 dollar at that point.

kieferscoins

A rendition of #5: Being with the Olsen Twins at a coin show and show all you guys that they would like me if they met me.

Cameron Kiefer

RYK

Cam, we are discussing fantasies, not delusions.

kieferscoins

Gotcha!

Then.... Ashley bringing me box after box of coins to grade at work

Cameron Kiefer

FistFullOfDollars

I voted for #4 only cause I did not see the option with Megan Fox wearing only a 1/10 oz AGE belly ring

MisterBungle

Dig 'um up, brush 'um off, and bring 'um back to
the first page for another run!!

~

gecko109

So who are the 3 losers who wanna take a stroll with me in the windy city anyway?



Edited to ask: And how did I even get on that poll when RYK's last edit was in 2005?

Walmann

I consider myself a collector more than a numismatist, hence the lunch was the clincher, QDB.

droopyd

I want to find a bunch of forgotten 1933 Saints hiding in Grandpa's stuff in the attic.

PerryHall

<< <i>Without a doubt, lunch with QDB. >>



Agree but only if it includes drinks and QDB is picking up the tab.

mrearlygold

I'm retired again, this time for good.

Sooooon.