You know you are a coin collector when...

Trinketts

..... your wife isn't upset you have a bust collection.




Add yours to the list

mgoodm3

You get excited by cracks.

Gemineye

You kick out the cane from the little old lady and pick up her old loose change.............

Cladiator

....when your bank account is empty

BigTom

When you have a dream about inverted mintmarks.

Trinketts

When you can hold a 1/2 cent in your hand worth more than your car....

Longacre

... when you ask your HR department whether your stock option contracts are assignable to Doug Winter Numismatics.

BigBuffaloGuy

When coins are the first thing that come to mind when someone says, "I can't find the keys."

Hey... What happened to my avatar?

ledzep87

<< <i>You kick out the cane from the little old lady and pick up her old loose change............. >>




So......is that where you got yours?

rsdoug81

<< <i>When you can hold a 1/2 cent in your hand worth more than your car.... >>


Not so difficult for some of us.

Numisone

Lady Liberty is your favorite historical person.

messydesk

Someone gives you change and you grade it before counting it.

OKbustchaser

<< <i>When you can hold a 1/2 cent in your hand worth more than your car.... >>



or your house...


(or your house AND your car)

JadeRareCoin

You know you are a coin collector when...

.....you skip lunch and go hungry all day because you just found a VG 1944 wheat cent in your change. Lunch is $3.49 and, after pulling out the 1944 cent, you only have $3.48.

Trinketts

<< <i>You know you are a coin collector when...

.....you skip lunch and go hungry all day because you just found a VG 1944 wheat cent in your change. Lunch is $3.49 and, after pulling out the 1944 cent, you only have $3.48. >>



Winner so far ROFL

stiffy

Someone gives you change and you grade it before counting it.

Beat me to it.

Trinketts

When you tilt all your change in the light to see the cartwheel luster.

Gemineye

<< <i>You kick out the cane from the little old lady and pick up her old loose change............. >>



OOps sorry I thought it said Dealer........!!!!!

PhillyJoe

1. You plan your vacations around coin conventions.

"Hey kids, how would you like to see Denver this summer?"



2. You have a credit card/checking account/shipping address that uses your work, not home, address.


3. Someone challenges you to lay all of your coins side by side and you figure you would end up in the next town.



Joe

cincycoin

when your favorite dealer doesn't play cards or do drugs

100proof1957

you sold your car to buy a half cent !

100proof1957

actually my Proof Cam Jefferson is worth more than my car !

Garneteye

<< <i>when your favorite dealer doesn't play cards or do drugs >>

rec78

When your collection is worth $100,000 and you owe $100,000 on your mortgage.

eyoung429

You need to do $3,000.00 worth of repairs to the wood floor when it collapses under the weight of coins.

When all of your safety deposite box invoices per month are more than your mortgage.

when your shipping fee's from buying coins is more than your monthly car payment.

when your wife asks about the incurred costs of invoices from PCGS,NGC,ANACS that would put a kid through college..........

I could keep going........

Baley

You know you are a coin collector when.... You know your US and world history best as it relates to the history of coinage.

ChuckC

You exclaim, "hey man, I'm a coin collector" after the cashier looks at you funny for counting 12 cents in change.

claychaser

When you talk about meeting some guy to check out his "Fugio", and he wants to check out your "crusty busties".

OffMetal

When you wear your loupe everywhere you go

When you reading through the message boards in computer class while you take the computer class's finals (like me *cough*)

jabba

When you pay $1000 for 5C and some plastic

Shamika

<< <i>You have a credit card/checking account/shipping address that uses your work, not home, address. >>


And I thought I was the only one who did this.

JadeRareCoin

You know you are a coin collector when...

.....you get excited for a fleeting moment....your heart flutters briefly....you sit up in your seat......your eyes widen....you begin to smile..... while you are driving down the road and out of the corner of your eye you see a store sign that says......Coin Laundry. Then you feel deflated once you realize that it is not what you were hoping for. Damn. Happens everytime to me.

Shamika

you take a trip to Vegas and you want to know where the coin shops are.

Boothill40

When your postman brings you more coins than junk mail.

Cladiator

<< <i>You know you are a coin collector when...

.....you get excited for a fleeting moment....your heart flutters briefly....you sit up in your seat......your eyes widen....you begin to smile..... while you are driving down the road and out of the corner of your eye you see a store sign that says......Coin Laundry. Then you feel deflated once you realize that it is not what you were hoping for. Damn. Happens everytime to me. >>

That exact thing has happened to me on more than one occasion!

NumisOxide

......you write a reply to this thread.

eyoung429

....when you receive a phone call from the Post office and they will not deliver anymore as they had 3 cases of workmen's comp over carrying packages and catalogs to your home.

Coxe

<< <i>

<< <i>You have a credit card/checking account/shipping address that uses your work, not home, address. >>


And I thought I was the only one who did this. >>



Me too! Then I graduated to the PO box. And finally....became a "part time dealer" to justify the time and expense of the collecting. That last one is startlingly too close to a drug addict.

MFH

When I tell a few friends that I found another barber and they ask why I stopped going to the last one.

TwoSides2aCoin

You know you are a coin collector when a smart person asks you a question about numismatics.

It's even cooler when you have the answer without a book/grey sheet in hand.

SilverDaddy

You know you are a coin collector when....

your wife suggests a roll in the sack and your roll of Sacs is the first thing to come to mind....

DocMortar

..... you complain...about the US Mint...about Ebay.....about PCGS.......about USPS.....about your bank... about everything!!!

cladking

...when you can smell coin shops, mint sets and silver.

...and yes, those damn "COIN LAUNDRY's" interfere with it. Just go in and buy a couple rolls of quarters. It helps.

Gemineye

<< <i>You know you are a coin collector when....

your wife suggests a roll in the sack and your roll of Sacs is the first thing to come to mind.... >>



....................Yeah..........So......!!!!!!!!....................

LEAP269

..... you remeber exactly when you purchased your last coin and have the itchy trigger finger to get another coin NOW!

longtimecollector

........ You see a rubber chicken and say "Where's Marty?"

JrGMan2004

<< <i>........ You see a rubber chicken and say "Where's Marty?" >>



......... when you have nitemares about walking into your local coin shop and finding Marty there already looking through the latest proof sets!

thezookrew

When the first thing you ask a bank teller is if they have any rolls of half dollars...

When you tell your kids not to palm the change you just gave them (hold it by the rims!!!)...

When you go through your kids' piggy banks looking for anything of value... and then find yourself in a dilemma of what to put in to replace it with (usually new dollar bills!!)

When the kids' college fund adds up to less than $3000 in face value but is worth more than two four year tuitions and room and board to an out-of-state Ivy league school

(and I thought this was going to be a Redneck thread!!!)

Longacre

... when you realize your daughter is about to lose her first tooth, and you desperately check the calendar to see when you can get to the local coin shop to buy a Morgan dollar.

Numisone

When you over hear part of a conversation about diamonds and you declare "that they must be clear for the Indian to grade XF".

Coxe

When you go to explore a haunted house, unoccupied for a century, and you spend far more time looking for change between seat cushions than looking for ghosts.