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Do you have coin collecting friends that you actually hang out with?

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    No, no real people, just computer people.
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  • AmigoAmigo Posts: 966 ✭

    Yes. Luckily. Best friends for 24 yrs. Just bought a couple days ago together an old time collection of about 100-150 lbs of coins/currency. It includes perhaps 1300-1400 oz of silver. We'll be visiting at each other's house over then next who knows how long until we get it split up between us. A ton of coins to search. Hopefully we'll make a little bit of money off it, besides having a ball splitting it.

    We didn't meet as coin nerds. We were both collectors in youth, met thru other interests as adults. The collector side in each of us got us both back into the spirit over the years. It's not a full time thing for us, strictely a hobby.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I hang out with musicians, contractors and executives. I'm almost embarassed to talk about coins in real life. They mostly use plastic, 30 day billing cycles and pawn shops.
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,186 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Had one but he moved. Since then I've been trying to recruit my other friends.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Just my online buddies!
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  • ebaytraderebaytrader Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭
    Yes, including a partner.
  • MillertimeMillertime Posts: 2,048 ✭✭
    One of my good friends at work has mostly gotten out of the collecting game but he thoroughly enjoys talking coins and looking at my new purchases. If I'm looking for advice on a certain coin he also has a pretty good eye and gives sound advice.

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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    I have a couple of collector friends that met through work. We meet quite often to discuss coins among other things.
  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,289 ✭✭✭

    nope, no one around here. Just ya'll.

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  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    None of my friends collect coins. All I got is you guys and gals.
  • BobGreeneBobGreene Posts: 952 ✭
    Thankfully, yes.

    Bob
  • CarsonCityGoldCarsonCityGold Posts: 1,856 ✭
    Sorry, I don't hang out with geeks. image
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  • MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭
    I have met many collector thru the boards - in person, and of those I have met- I would consider a friend- hell I'd invite them over to have dinner with my wife n I, but unfortunately a few live to far away- so we chat here, or on the phone.

    For the most part- all good people here.
  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭


    << <i>Sorry, I don't hang out with geeks. image >>




    HAHA!!!...Had a mouthful of coffee when I read that....now I have a handful of paper towels.
  • a039a039 Posts: 1,546 ✭
    I have fished with seven people from this forum.
  • lkrarecoinslkrarecoins Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭
    not as many as i would like (with the exception of a few on these boards)....I have a co-worker who is an intermediate collector, but thats about it.

    if i had a best friend who collected, I would probably retire and open a coin shop.
    until then, I am on my own image
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  • richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
    I've got two good friends who "dabble" in the coins as they are mostly bullion people. But they will at least listen to me talk about coins and because they are friends.... act interested... image

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,707 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes. I belong to three coin clubs and several members are good friends.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have some acquaintances that collect... but I do not hang out with them. I work alone. Cheers, RickO
  • PentimentoPentimento Posts: 1,367
    2 at work, but we don't agree on anything.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,510 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have no friends, so I guess the answer is no.
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  • bluelobsterbluelobster Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭
    LOL, no way, have you seen some of these people !!

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  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You are assuming I have friends.
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  • StampAlarmStampAlarm Posts: 1,668 ✭
    I hope the people making comments about no friends are just
    horsing around.



    Jerry
  • BarbercoinBarbercoin Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭
    Nope. Sorry to say.

    I tried joining a local coin club. I attended one meeting and all they did was argue and talk forever about non-issues. I never went back.

    I guess this is my virtual coin club. image

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  • oildvroildvr Posts: 147
    I have one friend who is extremely helpful! We discuss each others collections all the time!
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love the sense of humor here I find here EVERY DAY.
  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    none, and many of them question me plunking down big cash for "a nickel", "a cent", etc.

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  • MowgliMowgli Posts: 1,219 ✭
    The only person who takes an interest in my coins is my wife. She does it for two reasons - one is she sees better than I do so keeps me away from questionable coins. The other is that the more I spend on coins, the more she can spend shopping without me being able to say anything. No one else understands how I can spend more than a quarter on a quarter.
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  • meos1meos1 Posts: 1,135 ✭
    I have but EvilMCT is on hiatus. Evil? Goling to the show on Saturday in Columbia???
    I am just throwing cheese to the rats chewing on the chains of my sanity!

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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I go to the coin shop with one friend of mine, a nuclear physicist. Why he hangs out with me, I have no idea, but he was buyin' up gold all last year-- two ounces a month for all of 2006.
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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    at shows and especially at lunch or dinnerimage
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  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    oh good lord no
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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  • seemyauctionseemyauction Posts: 3,655 ✭
    I don't realy hang out......the closest to hanging out for me, is going trail riding with friends on motorcycles, but they are not coin folk.



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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Friends? We don't got no friends, we don't need no stinkin friends
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    Yep.

    some of 'em on the boards too
  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭✭
    No. I've always found things to do alone...like play the piano. I used to play chess alone as well by putting up a mirror and playing both sides...I win that way!
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  • rbalderman1rbalderman1 Posts: 634


    << <i>Sorry, I don't hang out with geeks. image >>



    If my friends do collect coins, then I have no idea. I don't mention it and either do they. I don't know why but it sounds weird...lol
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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>LOL, no way, have you seen some of these people !!

    image >>

    YES imageimage


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  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not really. I have a few family members with a passing interest in it, though.

    About the closest I come is with a playwright who is involved in an annual stagewriting workshop that I bring students to. He is a pretty avid collector, both US and world, and we somehow got going on the topic the first year we worked together. I don't even remember how, as I stay pretty quiet about collecting, and so does he. In any case, each year since we've each brought something interesting for the other as a trade. It's been fun.
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  • robecrobec Posts: 6,808 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are a couple on these boards that would be great to hang out with, but there are many miles keeping that from happening.

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  • direwolf1972direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
    I have two friends that are coin fanatics also, but one is foreign only so we rarely talk coins. Whenever I get a good score off the bay, I call my friend who is into US coins to celebrate over the phone with. We usually talk about an hour or two a week about coins that we've either bought, sold or seen that we wish we could buy since we last talked.
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  • direwolf1972direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
    Just got thumped on the back of the head.....

    Forgot to mention my wife. Although she isnt a collector she is very supportive of whatever I buy and likes looking at the "pretty things that make me happy" lol
    I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.

    You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.


  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    One of the greatest advantages of being a specialist in a particular coin series is membership in numismatic organizations which cater to that specialty. The camaraderie of like-minded collectors provides a whole new dimension to collecting, allows you to share thoughts and ideas with people who really understand your series, and provides a channel for sale and trade of duplicates. Some of the finest people I have had the privilege to meet have been through this hobby, and many of them have become very good friends. Despite what a couple have said on this thread, there are a few forum members here whom I would consider to be very good friends. Of course, it presents a whole new dynamic when two such good friends walk onto the same bourse floor, each looking for the very same coins. Then the gloves come off and it is every man for himself, until after the show, when you can both sit down and appreciate each other's cherrypicks. So I would say YES, I do have some very good friends in this hobby, friends that I actually do 'hang out' with.
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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I need some cool coin friends.... image
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  • MoishlashenMoishlashen Posts: 5
    Just my alternate personality-"Morgan Man", and you guys.
  • AthenaAthena Posts: 439 ✭✭✭
    I now have one friend who collects coins, but we don't speak about it amongst other mutual friends. image
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Do you have coin collecting friends that you actually hang out with? >>

    definitely

    K S
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes. My YNS.

    Lucky to have 'em.

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  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    I've got my "Barnes & Noble" buddy. It's better than any coin show.imageimage
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image

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