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Do you bring some of your coins to work to look at them during the day?

bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
I do cause I am an addict.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.




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  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only if I pick it up from the PO at lunch. Then all my fellow computer nerds call me Supernerd.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • Since I have my safe deposit box here on site, I always have the "good ones" with me at work! image
  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nope. I do bring in direct ship rolls of the dollars and people in my office like to use them in the soda machines.
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    I bring in a few inexpensive ones and share them with friends. My best hit is an an NGC MS66 38D toned buffalo that is beautiful in hand but only worth about $50. They keep trying to buy it from me. I've got a couple of them hooked on MS/PR69 modern silver commens. --Jerry
  • I'm surrounded by coins, so generally not... image

    Though I do bring coins into the office on occasion to take pictures of, or if I need to ship something or have something delivered here... image
  • I have before.
  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭
    Sure do!
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
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    Box of 20
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Once or twice, if I had a half day and was transporting them to the SDB.

    I do have lots of Steelers crap in the office (Terrible Towels, photos, banners, etc.)
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    I have an inexpensive D. Pedro IV medal on my desk. I like the picture of the horse on the front. I wrote a thread a few years ago about getting a QE delivered to my office by Doug Winter, and then taking it outside to view it in the natural light. I took a misstep on the stairs, and almost became the first person to break a leg looking at a coin.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No... work is separate from my hobby(ies).... Cheers, RickO
  • dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭
    Actually yeah. I have a PCGS holder in my pocket right now (and I'm not just happy to see you).
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have an inexpensive D. Pedro IV medal on my desk. I like the picture of the horse on the front. I wrote a thread a few years ago about getting a QE delivered to my office by Doug Winter, and then taking it outside to view it in the natural light. I took a misstep on the stairs, and almost became the first person to break a leg looking at a coin. >>



    It's a good thing you did not just stick your head out of the window. You could have been the first person to fall out of a penthouse window while viewing a coin. image
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    I've had many of them here but not on a road trip.

    I have all coins shipped to me and I ship from work. The light here is also very good.

    In fact, there's one coming here today! WHERE'S FEDEX??? imageimage
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  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I do pretty regularly. I have quite a few lookers that are raw and in coin capsules.
    I flip 'em when I walk the hallway or just tilt them around under some light when I get
    a few moments of slow time.
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  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
    Glad to know I'm not alone doing that. I also have a copy of my coin pics on my computer here. Frequently look through that.

    Dan
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    I get 'em shipped to work.

    My office lighting consists of a balance of indirect sky illumination and fluorescent illumination. Two of the worst sorts of lighting for coin viewing.

    And although I try to keep my coins out of view from my coworkers, i'm pretty certain they know I am a freak because I get 'questions' from time to time. It's probably because of those darn presidential dollars.

  • I'm retired but I do keep an album or two out of the safe to have handy
    for a quick peek now and then.
    JT
    It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi.

    I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Only if I pick them up from my PO box on the way to work. usually the box remains sealed until I get home though.


  • I took in the type set the other day to show someone who has a son who just started to collect. She got excited and when home for lunch and brought in his collection.


    Bottom Feeder collector, Happy collector of Moderns
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How many of you take a new favorite coin to bed with them?image

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  • All the time seeing that I work from home.
  • I own a machine shop.
    I've noticed that cutting oil has a somewhat detrimental effect on my Brilliant Uncirculated and Proof coins.
    Therefore, I tend not to look at the coins while I'm working.

    Ray
  • ArizonaJackArizonaJack Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭
    I have brought a few SVDB's in to show the guys, many are just freaked out at the pricetag or have never seen one in person. Even non collectors know that coin.
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  • jdillanejdillane Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭
    Usually if I stop by the PO on my way. I have brought in some on occasion for show and tell.
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,546 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I usually bring them in when I pick them up from the PO on the way to work.
    I've shown the svdb ("what's so cool about that that it is worth more than $2400?"), the 55/55 DDO Lincoln ("that's pretty cool! How much? WHAT?????"), some toned IHC proofs ("cool...I've never seen one of those before"), but the favorite(s) seems to be the early copper (large cents more than half cents even)...pre 1800 is really cool to many here.

    Some of the work folks even surprise me and say "I know what you are...you're a num...numis....numismatist" image

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  • YaHaYaHa Posts: 4,220


    << <i>I usually bring them in when I pick them up from the PO on the way to work.
    I've shown the svdb ("what's so cool about that that it is worth more than $2400?"), the 55/55 DDO Lincoln ("that's pretty cool! How much? WHAT?????"), some toned IHC proofs ("cool...I've never seen one of those before"), but the favorite(s) seems to be the early copper (large cents more than half cents even)...pre 1800 is really cool to many here.

    Some of the work folks even surprise me and say "I know what you are...you're a num...numis....numismatist" image >>




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  • 500Bay500Bay Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭
    never bring coins to work....

    I do, however, sneak a look at the message boards while at work image
    Finem Respice
  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,687 ✭✭✭
    Just a Jefferson Liberty Medal. For $3.50 I don't care if it gets stolen. But it has been in front of my computer since I got it last year.
  • rld14rld14 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭


    << <i>
    I do have lots of Steelers crap in the office (Terrible Towels, photos, banners, etc.) >>



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  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,528 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can actually say that I have.

    I was never going to be the one who admitted it first though..image
  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    Let me think..... NO.

    I will admit once or twice a broght a couple in to show to a fellow collector.
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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    My "show and tell" buddy at work retired today. I'm happy for him, but sad for me. Now there is no one for me to talk coins with....except you guysimage
    Becky
  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,528 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We`re all here for ya to talk to image
  • Oh yea,they sit on my tool box so everybody can say oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh thats a nice shiny coin!image
    achillesaero


  • << <i>How many of you take a new favorite coin to bed with them?image >>



    Er... Kinda.

    When I get a new coin, I'll often leave it on the bedside table overnight so I can see it firs thing when I wake up in the morning.

    Does that make me a geek?
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  • JedPlanchetJedPlanchet Posts: 908 ✭✭✭
    No, but I look at this forum quite a bit ... image
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  • MercuryMercury Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭
    Only if they are shipped there. I do however, have several of those sixties era paperweights with coins inside the plastic.

    That being said I have pictures of every coin I own on my computer at work. image

    Mercury
    Collecting Peace Dollars and Modern Crap.
  • jfoot13jfoot13 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭
    no but on a good day I bring some home image
    If you can't swim you better stay in the boat.......
  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    Jeffery Dahmer brought someones head to work
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  • I had a delightful setup at work. I was looking through 7 rolls of cafeteria quarters during lunch hour. The older cashier was a hyperactive personality who efficiently processed two lines of customers. She had no time to spend humoring me. Her many rolls of change were at her feet. She said just to help myself. I did. That seemed a bit strange, but it worked.

    Unfortunately some low life took note of this and cleaned her out one day. Grabbed her rolls and left and she never noticed that it wasn't me.

    I thought the jig was up on this setup, but the next day we conducted business as usual. I would have thought management would have squashed it, but somehow it didn't happen. This swapping went on till she married and moved away.

    Her replacement, another older woman, expressed astonishment at the first cashier's marriage. Said she was married once and wasn't going to go through that again at her age. This new one swapped quarters with me, but she handled this herself - no more self service.
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,081 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How many of you take a new favorite coin to bed with them?image >>



    You really think I'll admit to that.
    Let me tell you, you're dead wrong!

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,473 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've taken coins to work before.
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I keep a select few in the vault for just that purpose, but more usually just if I'm selling them or sending them out for grading purposes.
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,289 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I usually just have a few things around. Not specifically brought to work just to look at....

    Here's a pic of my office.

    image
  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    Only if I pick up a mail delivery on my way in or at lunch time

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