Do you have Numismatica Nervosa?

MadMonk

And won't be happy until you have a top ranked set....even if the coins are monotonous, or just plain ugly?

jacktheknife

It cost me dearly and the treatment was difficult, but I've been cured. There are many around here with the disease, some in its early stages and others terminal. Having all these little registry junkies is what makes PCGS board meetings so much fun.


Jack

Fairlaneman

No nervosa but a great case of "Ebay/Web Site Junk Set Itus". Number 1 will never happen with the illness I have.

Ken

Musky1011

I have a top ranked set

1905 Proof with Gold

I have 1 coin in the set and the only one that has registered for this set

Jim

tradedollarnut

Fortunately, I have learned to control [somewhat] the impulse to always buy the finer coin. It's very difficult to do in my case - it took the one coin I needed in the trade dollar set to really break me of it. One coin away from perfection, but I just couldn't replace my beautiful MS67 with a somewhat mottled and fugly MS68. I wanted to oh so badly ... but just couldn't! After doing it once, it gets easier and easier!

LincolnScents

I have more downgrades than upgrades. Makes me sick when I bust my butt for a coin and my rating doesn't move... or worst yet goes down! I beg and crawl thorough e-bay, forums and shows. I havn't seen my family in weeks. I feel ill.

fcloud

I'm happy with a nice solid set. I'm glad I don't have the drive to have the best set because my pockets wouldn't allow it anyway.

WaterSport

Thank you, but I will not be #1 so for those who HAVE to be # 1 I guess I will just be an obstacle in the road for them to go around. While it’s nice to have a series completed or near completed, I think I am having more fun collecting duplicates and coins not even sanctioned in the Lincoln series at this time.

WS

19Lyds

Yes I do and it just makes me sick!

compromonedas

Lets see:
Numismatica Nervosa complicated with Obsessive -Compulsive Disorder. No cure for this

rabbitracks

Everyday. It just seem to get worse. Jack the Knife are you sure there isn't a cure out there that your overlooking. Stewart should possibly have one. He's probably had this incurable desease longer than most of the rest of us carriers.
Mike.


Someday REAL American HERO's will be on our COINS.

Swampboy

<< <i>Lets see:
Numismatica Nervosa complicated with Obsessive -Compulsive Disorder. No cure for this >>



Lackafundsia can mitigate the symptoms.


























Yes...., I'm sure of that.

Boom

Nope. Sure don't. I am VERY satisfied with the quality of every last coin in my Registry set.

Now, if I could only get the graders to assign a few the grades I feel they are, I'd REALLY be tickled Pink.

cho10

I think it is fair to say that, according to whomever is writing, there can be all sorts of ways in which people, collectors, groups and so forth can be split, classified or defined.
Collecting for me is a hobby. I have never aspired to participate in a competition between the Rockerducks and the Scrooge McDucks of this world in this or in any other field.
I don't lack in ambition nor do I lack the desire to excel. I just don't feel that competing according to the depth of one's pockets makes any sense other than for the dealers and auction houses that sell MS69 or thereabouts so called "super coins". Possibly a $100K-plus 1893-S PCGS MS dollar might not be too hard to recoup on but I wonder whether an MS68 1881-S will be as easy to sell without experiencing a loss.
I enjoy going to my bank from time to time and taking one of my many PCGS blue boxes home with me to take pictures of the coins experimenting with new lighting angles.
I also enjoy reading about Morgan Dollars about which there are tons of publications (Wayne Miller, QDB, the Foxes, Highfill, Van Allen/Mallis, etc. etc).
I love to get out my 5X lighted magnifying glass and just look closely at my coins. I also wonder sometimes whether I would have assigned the same grade (higher or lower).
Sure the new Registry may make a feather or two bristle for a second when I see the red down arrow next to one of my sets. I am only human.
Then when I look carefully and I see that often there are also professional Registry Set people that join as a means to assign value and a pedigree to their sets so that the next time Heritage or somebody else organizes a $100 million dollar auction they'll make a killing (or so they hope) I realize that I really don't care.
To each his own.
I don't care about the money, the profits or the ego building.
I don't have any MS67's in my sets (I may get some early San Francisco MS67's at some point if the price is right and, above all, the look is right too). I cherrypick. I like nice coins. I think that Tradedollarnut is right to keep his ultra expensive MS67 that he likes rather than get an ugly technically "better" coin that he doesn't like. Money isn't everything once you have it.
Will I start getting MS68's and such to get the total rating one or two points higher?
I'll leave that to the "investors" that look at coin values the same way that they look at stock values through the WSJ or Bloomberg or Reuters. One of these days when the investors will see that they can make more money on paper by buying tiddlywinks they'll just dump their coins on the market and move on.
I feel a sense of joy when I see a really cool coin. Not through envy but simply because I like coins.

yevrah

....even if the coins are monotonous, or just plain ugly?
Text

That is why ia am skipping the Presidential dollars!!!

halfnut

Don't have it yet but I do have a lesser cousin of it - top20itas - it starts when you hit the front page and the never ending fight to stay there with out catching Lackafundsia along the way.






Dan

LeeBone

<< <i>Don't have it yet but I do have a lesser cousin of it - top20itas - it starts when you hit the front page and the never ending fight to stay there with out catching Lackafundsia along the way.

Gobrechts99Grapevine

I think I caught it a couple of days ago (and it sucks!), but NOT if the coins are monotonous, or just plain ugly. I'm compulsive, but like Charlie Tuna (remember him?), I like to think I have good taste. Ugly coins, regardless of the grade on their slab, really just don't "taste good" to me.

garsmith

What's monotonous or ugly to you may be exciting and beautiful to smoeone else; so why don't you collect what you like and quit dis'ing everything else because collecting isn't just about YOU

pocketpiececommems

I'm in a downgrade spiral on my Pocketpiece commemoratives registry set. I have 4 PO-01's so I have a ways to go. I need 8 circulated ones to complete the set. I love every minute hunting for these.