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What gives you away as a coin collector?

dan1ecudan1ecu Posts: 1,573
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I regularly share pictures of coins with my close friends - either new purchases, or ones that I don't own but think are interesting. All of my relatives and friends know I'm a coin collector. I think it would be very difficult to hide it, even if I wanted to.

How about you? Are there things that you do or say that give away the fact that you are into coins?

Dan
Dan McInnes

mcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu">dmcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu

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  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    YES! I have coins and coin books scattered all around my room. On my desk, my computer desk, my dresser. Plus all I do is read these forums when I am on a computer.
  • DarkmaneDarkmane Posts: 1,021 ✭
    I kind of avoid it actually. I'm not embarrassed or anything.... but with peers no one really appreciates it, and I dont want some random student to find out and ravage me of any coins I might have in the apartment at the time. Family + close friends, etc are the only ones that know
  • TouchdownTouchdown Posts: 233 ✭
    Same here, I have books all over the house laying around. Coin World, Numismatic News etc. Although, if someone is visiting I make sure everything with coins is out of sight.
  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    When I reach in my pocket to get change, one of the coins is a Morgan dollar.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Coin background on my computer at work.
    coinimaging.com/my photography articles Check out the new macro lens testing section
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    How about you? Are there things that you do or say that give away the fact that you are into coins?


    no
  • centmastercentmaster Posts: 504 ✭
    My geeky nature is a giveaway to the non geeks of the world.
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pasty white skin, habit of checking all pocket change...
    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    When the new nickels came out, I bought a bag and gave a bunch away to non-collectors at work. I thought maybe I could get some non-collectors interested.

    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    Spending proof coins
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  • CaseyCasey Posts: 1,502 ✭✭
    I'm a closet collector. No one knows but you guys.
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    Absolutely nothing.
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • coinnut86coinnut86 Posts: 1,592 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Spending proof coins >>


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    << <i>When the new nickels came out, I bought a bag and gave a bunch away to non-collectors at work. I thought maybe I could get some non-collectors interested. >>


    just curious... did you get any hooked?
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  • kyleknapkyleknap Posts: 980
    The 10x loupe around my neck 7 days a week? image

    Kyle
  • Catch22Catch22 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭
    Black socks, loafers and thick, black trifocals.


    When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

    Thomas Paine
  • beepbeep Posts: 968
    I've got coppercoins brenner print promently displayedimage
  • ajiaajia Posts: 5,403 ✭✭✭
    Are there things that you do or say that give away the fact that you are into coins?

    Constantly being broke!image
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  • oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    Because of my striking good looks.

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  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 987
    My pocket protector is a dead giveaway.
  • bgricebgrice Posts: 1,180


    << <i>I'm a closet collector. No one knows but you guys. >>



    Same here. Just a hobby that I enjoy.
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
    I'm always surrounded by hot babes. image
  • jonesyjonesy Posts: 5,031


    << <i>Because of my striking good looks.

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  • MercuryMercury Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭
    The people close to me at work know. I actually have them trained to bring me new nickles and quarters, ok I am the boss and it does have some perks.
    When I actually show them a true classic coin they go (in true Bevius and Butthead fashion) Duh, Cool Dude.



    Collecting Peace Dollars and Modern Crap.
  • RedTigerRedTiger Posts: 5,608 ✭
    What gives me away? The fact that I give away coins. Thoughtfully done, coins can be a really cool inexpensive gift. Access to darkside coins adds to the cool and cheap multiplier.
    Investment blog: gold, stocks and more
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sadly, I don't tend to mention it much anymore. I have found very little interest on the part of non-collectors in recent years. 20-25 years ago, non-collectors would sometimes bring me small hoards of old coins for my opinion. Sometimes they contained some nice material. In recent years these hoards seem to have dried up. The coins that
    have been shown to me by non-collectors have been nothing but junk.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm always surrounded by hot babes. image >>



    paigowjohnny.......your really camerons alt ...aren't you?image
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    I must admit, I keep my collecting very private. Nobody outside of my house would ever know that I'm a coin collector with the exception of maybe the mailman (auction catalogs).

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I try to be discrete just for security, but most of my family and a few coworkers and close friends know that I collect. I actually carry a 16x loupe with me 24/7, but when questioned I always say it's for approving 4/C printing jobs.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,520 ✭✭✭✭✭
    UMMMM..........................

    I guess I gotta stop wearing my giant Buffalo Head in public.....

    Pete
    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    Not to many people know. Not very obvious. It's pretty easy to notice that I'm a Redskins fan though.

    Positive BST Transactions (buyers and sellers): wondercoin, blu62vette, BAJJERFAN, privatecoin, blu62vette, AlanLastufka, privatecoin

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  • sellsatansellsatan Posts: 663
    I'm open about my collecting. People at my work place know that when they run across coins they're not familiar with I'm the guy to bring them to. Every now and again I show off a new purchase. The security issue doesn't worry me. My collection is pretty low value (I'm too young and broke for big dollar coins) and my house screams, "THERE IS NOTHING OF VALUE IN HERE!"
  • lloydmincylloydmincy Posts: 1,861 ✭
    When I get change from a store, I hold up the line by pulling out a loupe and checking each coin meticulously...
    The Accumulator - Dark Lloyd of the Sith

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  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Absolutely nothing. When I'm busy at it, I'm in and out of my safe deposit box a fair bit. Two of the ladies at the bank are my neighbors; another is the mother of several students of mine. I think that they suspect the box is full of cash, maybe the odd handgun or two, and that I'm doing something shady to supplement my teacher pay. I'm comfortable with that...
    mirabela
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pocket pieces, and always having a loupe handy.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207
    My I collect coins T-shirt does the trick.
  • jacktheknifejacktheknife Posts: 1,547 ✭



    I had to chuckle when I saw this thread. From looking at my office at the hospital you'd think I was a coin dealer instead of a surgeon!

    I've got slabs laying on my desk (nothing too valuable), old copies of coin world all over the place and about as many coin catalogs as "Journal of Trauma" issues! The stereomicroscope could be passed off as medically related, but we all know what it is for!!image

    Jack



  • tsacchtsacch Posts: 2,929 ✭✭✭
    The pile of buffalo nickles in my pocket that I give out to kids or on any given day the pocket pieces I show off......uhmmmm or the coins that are "tiled" into my new tile floor of my florida room.....wifes florida room.....
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    Family, kids, coins, sports (playing not watching), jet skiing, wakeboarding, Big Air....no one ever got hurt in the air....its the sudden stop that hurts. I hate Hurricane Sandy. I hate FEMA and i hate the blasted insurance companies.
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,054 ✭✭✭
    On poker night, I show the boys my most recently slabbed Morgan/Peace/Frankie!

    TorinoCobra71

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  • carlcarl Posts: 2,054 ✭
    I've got just to much nerve. I pear into cash registers in stores and have actually asked Hey, can I have that coin in the right hand side of the drawer. I ask everyone I know if they have any old coins laying around. I ask at every garage or yard sale if they have an old jar of coins. I ask at estate sales the same thing. I find myself saying to friends as they pull change out of their pockets or purses if I can see that. I give out half dollars for change as much as possible and lately have added $2 bills to my fun stuff to give for change. I pass out the Red Book, one proof set and one uncirc set to many peope at Christmas. I brag about complete sets to everyone I know just to much. I mention coin shows to everyone sometimes to people I don't even know. Other than that, nut much.
    Carl
  • ProofquarterProofquarter Posts: 275 ✭✭


    Google.
  • FoundingFatherFoundingFather Posts: 721
    "What gives you away as a coin collector?"

    The disgusting look on my face when someone pulls out some mass-produced pocket change.
    24HourForums.com - load images, create albums, place ads, talk coins, enjoy the community.
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    my shameless admission?
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  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    Sorting through my pocket change in the elevator?
  • majorbigtimemajorbigtime Posts: 2,937 ✭
    Plumber's butt.
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭



    Absolutely nothing. I define stealth.




    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭


    My office walls have large images of SLQ's and I have a few well worn examples to show to interested individuals.

    Plus during any down time at work, I'm on line looking at inventories from the PCGS authorized dealers, and any coworkers who come into see me, all know its a passion of mine !

    Mike Hayes
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !

    New Barber Purchases
  • ModernDollarNutModernDollarNut Posts: 886
    Do you suppose my bright blue baseball cap that says "I LIKE IKES!" gives me away??? Maybe my bright blue "I LOVE SUZZIE" T-shirt?????? When people walk up to ask about this childish apparel and notice my Ike pendant, well, some walk away in disgust, their loss. They've just missed out on a fascinating 15 minute monolog on the FULL TALON SBAs!!!image
    Modern dollars are like children - before you know it they'll be all grown up.....

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  • markglickermarkglicker Posts: 1,486 ✭
    Probably my general grungy appearance.
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭


    << <i>Not to many people know. Not very obvious. It's pretty easy to notice that I'm a Redskins fan though. >>



    see I knew I was not the only coin collector/redskins fan out there image


    people know by me constantly asking to look thru their change...I actually found an 82 no P dime in circ via this method
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    Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    For security reasons, family and one close friend(who is also a collector) are the only ones that know.

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