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HedgerHedger Posts: 1,238
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Thanks to everyone here for the knowledge and advice. I burried what remained of my collection after selling most of it off. Who knows, maybe some kid wil find it and start his/her own collection someday.
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    dthigpendthigpen Posts: 3,932 ✭✭
    Okay, bye.
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    ddbirdddbird Posts: 3,168 ✭✭✭
    Buried as in the ground?

    Any specific coordinates would suffice...

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    AlixTCatAlixTCat Posts: 1,276
    Have you lost your marbles or just lost a love for collecting coins? I'll go with the marbles, because burying your remaining collection is not the act of the most sane person. LOL!

    I wish you well. May you find joy in something else now.

    Jonathan
    I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
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    Nocerino18Nocerino18 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭
    Please specify exact address, I will bring in the bulldozer.
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    2bucks2bucks Posts: 636 ✭✭✭
    Why?
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    BladeBlade Posts: 1,744 ✭
    Switch to Beenie Babies? I hear with the expected inflation, they are a good place to store wealth...
    Tom

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    netrubiconnetrubicon Posts: 677 ✭
    You just got your grades back huh..........??
    Collecting cleaned, scratched, scraped, AT and ugly POS coins for over 2 years now!
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    DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Sorry to hear this . image It would not be true if it was said that collecting coins was all a bed of roses or just some tip toe trip through the tullip patch. Hope you find another interesting hobby, or
    better yet get bit by the coin bug AGAIN !! image
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



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    TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,111 ✭✭✭


    << <i>You just got your grades back huh..........?? >>



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    relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    You should post this on the Metal Detecting Forum image
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That was my thought. You can sell treasure maps, now. image

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,360 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We really miss people when they leave our nice little asylum but we'll be here if you ever change your mind. image

    Good luck.
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    ManMan Posts: 1,002
    Well this is kinda sad are you OK Hedger?
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    ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    <<Quit the hobby>> again?

    I thought you quit already back in July. See you when you come back.
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    CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,353 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The word unstable comes to mind. image
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    p8ntp8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I thought you quit already back in July. See you when you come back. >>



    There is a link of him previously quitting within the link of him quitting previously! Wow! image

    Seriously though, I hope you can find something you enjoy.
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    ManMan Posts: 1,002
    I'm concerned and he's been quitting since May.
    Well I take back my concern.
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    What is this, four or five times now?

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    FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    I am sorry to hear you are having to quit again. Maybe you will be more successful this time.
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    TomBTomB Posts: 23,323 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess we'll see another of your threads in a month telling us how you quit the hobby again. Good luck until then.
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    CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭


    << <i>
    Seriously though, I hope you can find something you enjoy. >>





    Maybe he enjoys quitting? image
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    DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>
    Seriously though, I hope you can find something you enjoy. >>





    Maybe he enjoys quitting? image >>



    This could be collectible!
    Doug
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    FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    Please reconsider. I have many Coins to sell you at a bargain price.image
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,850 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't worry. He'll be back. Once bitten by the coin collecting bug, there is no cure.

    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

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    2bucks2bucks Posts: 636 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Please reconsider. I have many Coins to sell you at a bargain price.image >>



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    XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
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    skerkeskerke Posts: 404
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    skerkeskerke Posts: 404
    So long...fair well Auf Wiedersehen ..goodbye


    Best of luck in your new adventures and hobby - perhaps metal detecting, you can look for the hoardes of coins buried by others like yourself - find them and comiserate.


    cheers!
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    ldhairldhair Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I quit for a while back in the 60s.
    I was smoking my money if you know what I mean.image
    Larry

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    Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭✭
    rehab is for Quitters
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    BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One goes, one comes... The circle of lifeimage

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    xbobxbob Posts: 1,979 ✭
    It's not an addiction. You can quit anytime you want. image

    Or can you? image

    Try tropical fish for a relaxing enjoyable hobby. Tasty too! image
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    dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭

    image Why???image
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image
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    BustmanBustman Posts: 1,911 ✭
    This guy is the Michael Jordan of coin collecting. How many times can you retire and come back?
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    May you rest in peace........now somebody pass me the taters image
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    waynemewayneme Posts: 852 ✭
    I'm thinking he's looking for a book Deal
    about the lost millions
    lol
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    ILikeDimesILikeDimes Posts: 367
    ......do you PROMISE this time?
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    oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    That took some real guts man!

    I wish I could quit!

    I just can't though.

    Whenever I have a couple thousand I don't know what to do with... BAM!!! I spend the lot of it on some Barber quarter or some double eagle. You're the smart one fella!

    I should just follow your lead and sell the good stuff in my collection and bury the junk.
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    ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888 ✭
    It's not a question of quitting...

    It's a question of un-continuing.image
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    michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    good luck and God bless!!
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    777777 Posts: 1,056
    I tryed quitting several times now, because the wife's jealousy, Ebay scams, unprofessional dealers/clients.. Ill never quit though...Love buying/selling those coins.. Never give up something you loveimage
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    TouchdownTouchdown Posts: 233 ✭
    That's a good one. If I couldn't sell my coins I would probably do the same thing. Then dealer will think they will get a bargain but they won't. How come I didn't think of that.
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    gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
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    gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
    "Come back, Shane....don't go, please....come back....Shane.....Shane."
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    rjsrivrjsriv Posts: 256
    No matter how many scummy people I run accross in this ,,,And Belive me there are MANY SCUMBAGS.. I Will Never quit.. There are ways to get COOL Stuff and see COOL Stuffimage Just wde through the crap and keep going

    << <i>Evil prospers when good people sit around and do nothing >>

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    northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey guys, it looks like Hedger has found a new hobby that he enjoys. Quitting.image
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    OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ho-hum...another drama queen.
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    notlogicalnotlogical Posts: 2,235 ✭


    << <i> I burried what remained of my collection after selling most of it off. Who knows, maybe some kid wil find it and start his/her own collection someday. >>




    I'm sorry you are quitting the hobby. image Sometimes I feel like quitting soccer. One game last year I scored 3 goals then my coach made me play goalie and the other team scored 3 goals. image I wanted to quit then. But I'm glad i didn't now. Some times when i have to practice piano every day i want to quit. But then when people hear me play and they really like it I'm glad I didn't.


    But if you already buried your collection, My dad has a GPS and I got a metal detector last year for christmas. Maybe you could PM the coordinates (i learned that word watching Star TRek image) and I could try and find it? image
    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

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    pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    Good plan, Samuel. And his idea could be a new model for collectors who quit. Burying their collections in their yards would make for endless enjoyment for future MDers. Like the Ancient Romans who buried their ancient coins in ancient holes, which now allows for American yuppies to dig them up and sell them for $9.99 per handful on ebay. Thousands of years from now collectors will only have to travel to Ancient Suburbia to find treasure. Those SAE's should have toned nicely by then.image

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    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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    XXXXXX Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭
    Don't be surprise when my backhoe shows up on your lawn.........LOL

    Sorry to here about your leaving the hobby...............I leave it every month when my Visa payment arrives. Then I zero it and am back on the web buying. A visous circle (but I love it)...........
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