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Ever stumble into greatness?

ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
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Stumble into greatness (stuhm-buhl in-too greyt-nus) v. 1. To acquire a really good coin sort of by accident, when by all rights the coin probably should have ended up with some specialist or big shot.
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just Once

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
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  • vega1vega1 Posts: 941 ✭
    Nope. I unfortunately have spent most of my collecting life stumbling into mediocrity... medichruty... mediawch.... averageness.image

    All the really nice coins I have I have paid what i would consider full price for. I do like the stories of others who have though. Then I can live vicariously through them.
  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Just Once >>



    I think once in a lifetime still beats the average by, um, one.
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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only when I paid for it.image
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe 2 or 3 times.
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  • NapNap Posts: 1,751 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I often feel like I'm stumbling through life, so if one day I stumble into greatness it shouldn't be too much of a surprise.

    Of course, if I stumble off a cliff I shouldn't be too surpised either... it'd probably occur while I'm checking my pocket change for something great, naturally.
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  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    <Ever stumble into greatness?>

    Sure. The day I was born.image...imageimage
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image
  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Only when I paid for it.image >>

    imageimage
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • numismanumisma Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭✭

    I had too much wine last night and stumbled into bed......
  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
    Baley I just read the whole thread from your discovery coin and WOW! Has any other coins been discovered? Do you still own the coin?

    Again Congratulations!
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  • razzlerazzle Posts: 993 ✭✭✭
    CCU,

    I've been "stumbling through" my hoard of wheat pennies for two days now. No "greatness," not even a solid "mediocrity" ( see Vega 1 note ) The term "common date" has taken on a whole new reality for me.image

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  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    Yes, but I don't want to brag!
  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Depends what you mean by greatness.

    I stumble on coins which I think are great (both for condition and cost) by being patient.
    I've picked up numerous coins where I would have expected none with that date &/or MM to be.

    Example would be a recent 1795 Half I just picked up for almost nothing compared w/ it's respected value.
  • QBertQBert Posts: 311 ✭✭✭
    I had come across what I believe now to have been a 69FB 1939-D dime back in the early eighties, but unfortunatly , I did not know what I had at that time and sold it to buy a used car. I have not seen a better looking mercurcy dime then or since. And that was around 25 years ago. I wish I new where it ended up.
  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    I purchesed a nice looking 1966 Kennedy half dollar at a local coin shop for $4.50. Sent it into PCGS expecting a MS65 maybe MS66. It came back MS67. PCGS price guide says $2700. I dont know about greatness, more like a winning lottery ticket.
  • holeinone1972holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    << <i><Ever stumble into greatness?>

    Sure. The day I was born.image...imageimage >>



    Wouldn't that be you stumbled out of greatness?

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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I purchesed a nice looking 1966 Kennedy half dollar at a local coin shop for $4.50. Sent it into PCGS expecting a MS65 maybe MS66. It came back MS67. PCGS price guide says $2700. I dont know about greatness, more like a winning lottery ticket. >>



    Good answer.

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  • IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
    Ever stumble into greatness?

    Does bumping into Laura count?
  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Ever stumble into greatness?

    Does bumping into Laura count? >>

    I am a minion...she ROCKS!image
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,516 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .......i had to edit this image
    my conscience thought YN

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