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

UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
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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: 10,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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: 38,651 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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."



  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    Now I have that song, Its a Small World, stuck in my mind.

    Its a Small World...
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,613 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <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: 6,852 ✭✭✭
    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: 5,567 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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: 8,072 ✭✭✭


    << <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: 301 ✭✭✭
    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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