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Coin Collecting is the only hobby that....

Let's start a list humorous or creative things coin collecting allows collectors to do.

You can buy all the woman you want, collect herds of buffalo, add to your "bling" collection. For starters.

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  • StellaStella Posts: 720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coin Collecting is the only hobby that...

    allows you to buy Liberty?
    considers the lowest grade example rather desirable (lowball sets)?
    Coin collector since childhood and New York Numismatist at Heritage Auctions.
  • ...allows a strike (and strikeout) without a bat. Respectfully, John curlis
  • Billy Mays hasn't stated hawking on television yet...
    100% DAV, Been There and Done That!
    166 BHDs & 154 Die Varieties & Die States...
    Bust Half Nut Club #180

    Festivus Yes! Bagels No!
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  • ...allows busts to be touched without fear of arrest. Respectfully, John curlis
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139
    ...the product from its biggest dealer (the US Giv't) could be accurately described using the words "barely", "legal" and "tender" but would not be considered pornographic in nature.
    Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
    NSDR - Life Member
    SSDC - Life Member
    ANA - Pay As I Go Member
  • I see where this Thread is headed....Host WMD Test. Respectfully, John Curlis
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can give you a heart attack by getting THIS penny in change



















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    relax....its just an old plate job sitting on top of a slab image
  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478
    A gecko can fall in love with a panda. image
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • ...allows collecting Eagles legally. Respectfully, John Curlis
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    that you can go broke buying money.
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...You can go out in public even if you aren't clad.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • GreeniejrGreeniejr Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭
    You can deal with a BM without toilet paper.
    You can find high relief among your saints.
    Where your cents prices dont make sense.
    Costs you hundreds or thousands to see a nipple.
    Frango is not the best mint.
    You can buy a dime bag for @$14000 legally
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139
    ....where you can roll your own and sell them on eBay.
    Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
    NSDR - Life Member
    SSDC - Life Member
    ANA - Pay As I Go Member
  • ....allows an F grade to be passing. Respectfully, John curlis
  • ...you can bring your buffalo to a restaurant, movie, and home and consider it was a good date with a split tail and was bought cheap. Respectfully(or not), John Curlis
  • WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Where with some proofs, there is no proof that a proof is really a proof.
    <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.mullencoins.com">Mullen Coins Website - Windycity Coin website
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139


    << <i>...you can bring your buffalo to a restaurant, movie, and home and consider it was a good date with a split tail and was bought cheap. Respectfully(or not), John Curlis >>



    ....you can get a really special date from a buffalo as long as you give it a little acid.
    Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
    NSDR - Life Member
    SSDC - Life Member
    ANA - Pay As I Go Member
  • Coxe, you catch on fastimageGood one... Respectfully, John Curlis
  • ...you can pay for a passing grade and not get expelled. Respectfully, John Curlis
  • ...asking people if they have hot lips won't get you a punch in the mouth. Respectfully, John Curlis
  • ....has a double and triple reverse and doesn't require running to make a score. Respectfully, John Curlis
  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478
    Hawaiian shirts and flip flops still seem to be in......
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • ....you can be a doctor without a formal education. Respectfully, John Curlis
  • allows you to own a slab, and not be put on it when you die.

    allows you to buy heavy metal that doesn't hurt your ears.

    allows you to have a good BM (in your pants of course) because of some of the lofty premiums on Heritage Auctioned coins.

    allows you to buy women that don't complain over a little dirt or tarnish.

    allows you to buy a well worn lady and no one calls you a grandmother-Fer.

    allows you to own an animal farm that cost nothing to maintain.

  • ...allows you to buy a queens' bust or an indian princess head in public and nobody will call the police. Respectfully, John Curlis
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ....glorifies 3 legged animals and women with spiked chins.

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress



  • << <i>....glorifies 3 legged animals and women with spiked chins. >>



    Yes, ugly and not-so-right examples cost more and fought over. Just the reverse at the bar.
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ....lauds cereal box prizes and corn stalks that got a little extra rain.

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

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