excellent post! and congrats on the 10k mark, have enjoyed reading your posts over the years only have one remark about your post
<< <i>A dealer you can trust is a very valuable resource. Once you and he are on the same wavelength, he will save you time and money and enhance your enjoyment of the hobby. Come to a commission arrangement you can both live with and then never give it a second thought - it's well worth the money >>
<< <i>We tend to overgrade the coin that doesn’t have original bloom on the devices but clean fields. We tend to undergrade the coin that has wonderful bloom but marks here or there. >>
This is something I'm beginning to understand.
TDN....Congrats on 10K !!!
You've been privileged to own some great rarities that few will ever have the chance to experience.
Anyone that knows a young person just starting in Numismatics should cram that phrase down their throats. I was given that piece of advice several times when I was young and refused to listen. Forty years later, imagine what I could have now. I have never sold a coin in my life and have only given away two. I gave an old girlfriend my Botanical Garden MS Dollar, and gave a lifelong friend a roll of Unc. 55-S cents. Other than that I have everything I have ever saved from circulation and bought. The circulated coins to fill slots in 1970 are basically worth now what they were then. Hindsight is a wonderful teacher.
"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.
Bruce Congratulations! - not for 10,000 posts, but for ONE very spectacular post! You have very cogently summed up a lifetime of collecting wisdom and that's worth much more than the other 9,999 posts.
This gem sums it up for me:
<< <i> for the right coin you almost always have to pay ‘too much’. The secret is in knowing which are the right coins and which are the wrong ones. >>
I might add: and learning that secret is hard work!
Collecting eye-appealing Proof and MS Indian Head Cents, 1858 Flying Eagle and IHC patterns and beautiful toned coins.
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain Newmismatist
Some of these lessons can transfer to life in general.
"Sometimes, the passion wanes. Take a break. Look around at what’s available. Buy cheap coins [for you] to keep your mind in the game. Dabble with a type set. Eventually, the right coin will come along which will rekindle your passion for a new set."
TDN, fantastic and spot on post. Somehow I missed this post the first time around. I sure wish someone sat me down 20 years ago and gave me this information. It would have saved me a lot of grief.
TomT-1794
Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
<< <i>Collectors tend to focus too much on marks and not enough on originality of surfaces. We tend to overgrade the coin that doesn?t have original bloom on the devices but clean fields. We tend to undergrade the coin that has wonderful bloom but marks here or there. >>
This is SO true...especially with gold. "Tick counters" are missing out on some great coins with skin, natural toning, frost....a coin can come right off the dies and hit another coin while it's still warm. But it's a GEM no matter!
<< <i>Don’t sweat the crossover or upgrade game. Build the best set you can for yourself and then when you’re pretty much done have the entire set reviewed by the grading service of choice. >>
There were some great insights and thoughts in this post but the above quote made the biggest impression on me.
<< <i>Sometimes, you have to pay too much for a coin. As long as it’s the right coin, that’s ok. In fact, for the right coin you almost always have to pay ‘too much’. The secret is in knowing which are the right coins and which are the wrong ones.
>>
I see a striking resemblance to that and ScarsdaleCoins Numismatist ad!
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Now, which Gobrecht dollar for the giveaway?
I hope I can use some of these words of wisdom in my collecting,I hope it doesn't take me 35 years to figure it all out.:ThumbsUp
<< <i>A dealer you can trust is a very valuable resource. Once you and he are on the same wavelength, he will save you time and money and enhance your enjoyment of the hobby. Come to a commission arrangement you can both live with and then never give it a second thought - it's well worth the money >>
what if your dealer is a she!
myCCset
Congrats on 10K. Excellent post.
Okay, what's the next series...IHC's?
keoj
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
<< <i>We tend to overgrade the coin that doesn’t have original bloom on the devices but clean fields. We tend to undergrade the coin that has wonderful bloom but marks here or there. >>
This is something I'm beginning to understand.
TDN....Congrats on 10K !!!
You've been privileged to own some great rarities that few will ever have the chance to experience.
Congrats on your accomplishments!!!!!
Anyone that knows a young person just starting in Numismatics should cram that phrase down their throats. I was given that piece of advice several times when I was young and refused to listen. Forty years later, imagine what I could have now. I have never sold a coin in my life and have only given away two. I gave an old girlfriend my Botanical Garden MS Dollar, and gave a lifelong friend a roll of Unc. 55-S cents. Other than that I have everything I have ever saved from circulation and bought. The circulated coins to fill slots in 1970 are basically worth now what they were then. Hindsight is a wonderful teacher.
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.
Tradedollarnut is one of the real assets of these boards. We are all better for knowing you.
Congrats on the 10K
This gem sums it up for me:
<< <i> for the right coin you almost always have to pay ‘too much’. The secret is in knowing which are the right coins and which are the wrong ones. >>
I might add: and learning that secret is hard work!
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
Newmismatist
Excellent advice
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Some of these lessons can transfer to life in general.
"Sometimes, the passion wanes. Take a break. Look around at what’s available. Buy cheap coins [for you] to keep your mind in the game. Dabble with a type set. Eventually, the right coin will come along which will rekindle your passion for a new set."
Tbig
Congratulations TDN,
Thank you for all of your contributions.
All I can say is, great post,
congrats on 10,000 and,
Thank You.
Brian
Nice post TDN....keep up the good work.
jom
congrats on 10k, I look forward to another 10k from you
Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
Having compleated 10,000 posts here, is no easy task.
I have noted all your success and know there will be much more success to come.
Best Wishes,
Zerbe
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Self Indulgence | Holey Coins | Flickr Photostream
<< <i>Sadly, I don't own any proof trade dollars.
But that's just because you're sending your last one to me, right?
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tradedollarnut, thanks for taking time to post your thoughts. I've always enjoyed seeing your perspective on the forum
KJ
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
<< <i>Choose your title, already! >>
Hmmmm.... 'been there, done that' ??
Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
<< <i>Collectors tend to focus too much on marks and not enough on originality of surfaces. We tend to overgrade the coin that doesn?t have original bloom on the devices but clean fields. We tend to undergrade the coin that has wonderful bloom but marks here or there. >>
This is SO true...especially with gold. "Tick counters" are missing out on some great coins with skin, natural toning, frost....a coin can come right off the dies and hit another coin while it's still warm. But it's a GEM no matter!
Congrats, TDN.
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
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<< <i>Choose your title, already! >>
Hmmmm.... 'been there, done that' ??
Gobzilla.
<< <i>Don’t sweat the crossover or upgrade game. Build the best set you can for yourself and then when you’re pretty much done have the entire set reviewed by the grading service of choice. >>
There were some great insights and thoughts in this post but the above quote made the biggest impression on me.
Thank you for bringing this around again.
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etexmike
<< <i>Sometimes, you have to pay too much for a coin. As long as it’s the right coin, that’s ok. In fact, for the right coin you almost always have to pay ‘too much’. The secret is in knowing which are the right coins and which are the wrong ones.
>>
I see a striking resemblance to that and ScarsdaleCoins Numismatist ad!
No rule in numismatics is more true
Thanks and congratulations on 10,000.
I'm with ER though, where's the damn giveaway?
Woo-hoo!
They asked for my permission to use that quote in their ad.
<< <i>One of the best posts by a true world class collector and then some.TDN is a class act.
myCCset