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My wife really wounded me last night.....

UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭✭✭
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My wife is use to finding me studying coins and having books, spreadsheets and coins stacked wherever I happen to be. She watched with bewilderment last year as I
photographed some 400 Capped Bust Half Dollars. She even decided that many of them were "pretty". Last night she comes in and sees me working on a bunch of Capped Bust Half Dimes. She looks for a second, then asked (seriously), "Are those 'Franklin Mint Miniatures' Half Dollars?...."

aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggg
I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.

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  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
    image
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • JustaRookieJustaRookie Posts: 566 ✭
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    Charter member of CA, Coinaholics Anonymous-6/7/2003
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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that's just wrong...

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  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    Geez feel lucky. My wife is always dropping snide remarks towards me rather then my lovely precious'. Like numisdork or coin nerd.
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 34,327 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I hope once you compose yourself you ca tell her where they really came from, and the list of Co's whoise "names shall not be mentioned."



    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    Now I have that song, Its a Small World, stuck in my mind.

    Its a Small World...
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Geez feel lucky. My wife is always dropping snide remarks towards me rather then my lovely precious'. Like numisdork or coin nerd. >>


    Your wife actually knows the word "numismatist" and modifies it to poke at you....wow.
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Seriously, you need to start having her do the photography and research. Then you can start having intellectual conversations.
  • GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085 ✭
    I showed my wife the Jefferson nickel with the peace pipe reverse and she said "Why did they put a golf club on it?'' image
    A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486 ✭
    ....when she knows that all your Franklin Mint stuff is in the safety deposit box!image
  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭
    I guess the remark wasn't meant to be funny---but it was. image


    Mike
  • yellowjacketyellowjacket Posts: 1,809 ✭
    In the education business, this is what we call a "teachable moment."

    I hope you were able to educate her about Capped Bust Half Dimes.
    Garrow
  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭


    << <i>Geez feel lucky. My wife is always dropping snide remarks towards me rather then my lovely precious'. Like numisdork or coin nerd. >>




    Numisdork....image At least she's creative!image
  • RaginsteveKRaginsteveK Posts: 511
    yeah, man
    a golden opportunity- if she responds to your patient, loving discourse about your "mistress", LIBERTY, you could end up with a partner in coin-stuff - rather than someone who'd rather buy new furniture than CB Halves and Half Dimes !

    (maybe that would be pieces of furniture per CBHD??)
    WILL WORK FOR CENTS, QUARTERS, HALVES, DOLLARS....

    1879-O{Rev}: 1st coin of my "secret set"
    imagemy eBay
  • HTubbsHTubbs Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭
    wow, that's quite hilarious...
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, the easy answer is to collect real coins instead of those mini-me lookalikes.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    You are lucky. She could of used a gun.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,054 ✭✭✭


    << <i>photographed some 400 Capped Bust Half Dollars >>



    EYOUNG429 will be in touch with you shortly.......

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    TC
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  • mikeygmikeyg Posts: 1,002 ✭
    thought it was a golf club ha ha ha funniest quote of the day
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    What she really said was....How come you spent all that

    money for such teensey weensey coins".
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • JZraritiesJZrarities Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭



    MEDIC !!!!!



  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    That was a good one!!

    Mark
    NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
    working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!

    RIP "BEAR"
  • RickMilauskasRickMilauskas Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭


    << <i> "Are those 'Franklin Mint Miniatures' >>



    My wife usually makes that comment as I'm getting out of the shower.
  • NewEnglandNotesNewEnglandNotes Posts: 289 ✭✭✭
    While at the bank, I asked the teller, who must have been pushing 30, if she had any of the new 2009 cents. She looked in her tray and held up a Memorial cent, and told me "all I have are the ones with the Capitol on the back".

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