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"Numismatic Lust"

halfcentmanhalfcentman Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭
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Never fall in love with a coin so much that it clouds your judgment. Trust me, you'll see things on there that you want to see that are not there.

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    OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Put the Mushrooms down, and slowly back away...
    Lurker since '02. Got the seven year itch!

    Gary
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    ajaanajaan Posts: 17,204 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What's wrong with mushrooms? image

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's the only kind of coin that's really worth owning - don't you think??
    Early Dollar Set
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Numismatic Lust"
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    You bin staring at your Type One quarter again???????????
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    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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    ANACONDAANACONDA Posts: 4,692 ✭
    Coin lust. I like it.
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    abitofthisabitofthatabitofthisabitofthat Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭


    << <i>That's the only kind of coin that's really worth owning - don't you think?? >>



    I agree. My favorite coins are the ones that I fall in love with again every time I see them.

    merse

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    melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's coins."

    This statement needs to be followed by a big clap of thunder but PCGS doesn't provide sound effects.

    Ron

    Edited for spelling.
    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Trust me, you'll see things on there that you want to see that are not there. >>



    Like what?
    Coin Rarities Online
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,796 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Okay, I will buy coins that I do not like.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Show me an 1802 Half Dime with a hole in it. Preferably, one for sale.
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    morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When you start talking to a coin and you think that it is talking back to you, it is time to go to CCA (Coin Collectors Anonymous), the spin off help association of AA (Alchoholics Anonymous).image
    Instagram: nomad_numismatics
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    DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 448 ✭✭✭✭
    The definition of patina - the gleam in a collector's eye when he spots a coin he really wants

    There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who do not.

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    BjornBjorn Posts: 534 ✭✭✭
    'Numismatic lust,
    for coins with crust'
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    secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    the OP's advice doesn't just apply to coins image
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
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    anablepanablep Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really don't see coins that way, no matter how nice they may look or how they may "speak to me."

    Anything & everything in my collection can be sold at any time for any reason if necessary.

    I don't lust after them.

    They are just coins.
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

    "Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."


    ~Wayne
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,678 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>the OP's advice doesn't just apply to coins image >>



    Agree. Lust doesn't apply to inanimate objects.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

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