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If you had to pick a trait that the majority of numismatists have, what would you say?

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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    Obsessive/Compulsive.
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  • CoinResourceCoinResource Posts: 1,113
    Obsession for shiny metal things.
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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,059 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Attention to detail. Meticulous.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dealers---Greedy
    Collectors---Cheap



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    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are many but the one that seems to stand out the most is intelligence. We also tend to be pretty independent.
    Tempus fugit.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,502 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Most seem to have an interest in coins. Some don't, they just like the money image
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  • RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gluttony and questionable personal hygeine.

    What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭
    As Cladiator said, an eye for detail..........lots of detail!
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  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    We pick through our pocket change in elevators? We can't spell smoebody but we can spell Sacagawea?
  • 1921obsession1921obsession Posts: 559 ✭
    Anality.
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  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    A Y chromosome!
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    We're all beautiful and well-liked.
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  • RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some of us might have 2 y chromosomes.

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  • kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭
    Creativity.....we are all very creative in how we ago about selecting coins and putting together our collections.
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Big wangers.

    (What? You guys don't?)

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  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭

    addicts (the main difference is drugs are regulated and drug dealers are criminals image).

    need my next fix!

    need my next coin!

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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From what I see from certain dealers, collectors, and errorists - EGO

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    Members of the Delta Rho Kappa fraternity (DORKS)

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,333 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Gluttony and questionable personal hygeine. >>

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    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

  • OldReadingOldReading Posts: 129
    OK, so far we're obsessive, meticulous, greedy, intelligent, independent, anal egomaniac addicts with big wangers.
    ---Larry---

    More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits." - John Nelson.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,502 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bochiman, thanks much for her return.
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  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    Shockingly attractive and intelligent.

    EDIT: Oh, and also humble.
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Big wangers. >>



    And Feucht wangers.

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  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    Sloth greed and hubris sums it up..although intelligent and big swongs too, on occasion.image
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  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭


    << <i>Shockingly attractive and intelligent.

    EDIT: Oh, and also humble. >>

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    .....................................You must have been thinking of ME.....!!!!!!!.......
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was going to say "appreciate beauty, history, and intrinsic value", but I guess the others are true to a certain degree, too.

    esp the part about the big wang.

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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Detailed
    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
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  • bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
    Ever go to a coin show and smell the passers by?

    Body odor!
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭


    << <i>Ever go to a coin show and smell the passers by?

    Body odor! >>



    Yeah, but those aren't REAL numismatists, just dismissable wannabes.
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  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    detail oriented and cheap
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    GREEDY!!! EGOTISTICAL cheap penny pinching want something for nothing
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The positive traite of not take ourselves too seriously.

    The ability to harnest and make work for us two of nature's strongest motivators:
    Greed and Fear.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Repugnent/Repulsive image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • BOOKBOOK Posts: 223
    We left out "Obessive Packrat"
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    My grandchildren. The heirs to my collection! (Just not to soon I hope)
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't forget to add varying degrees of neurosis and paranoia to the mix.
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who said I was paranoid?!? TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
  • IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
    Systematic with a need to classify coins and a desire to categorize other collectors.
  • longnine009longnine009 Posts: 53
    "...What men mistaken for beauty in themselves is usually nothing save a certain hollow gaudiness, a revolting flashiness, the superficial splendor of a prancing animal..."
    H.L Mencken--The lore of beauty

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