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RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
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I enjoy collecting coins because....

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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They are little pieces of history.
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>They are little pieces of history. >>



    Precisely.
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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...I have OCD and get a lot them in a small space.

    seriously.
  • questor54questor54 Posts: 1,351 ✭


    << <i>They are little pieces of history. >>



    Agree completely.
  • jmcu12jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭
    They are bits of history, pieces of art (well most of them) and they have value. Not value, necessarily, from which to make a profit, but value in what they represent: bits and pieces of who we are where we come from and perhaps where we are going.
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  • ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...they provide me with an opportunity to leave everything else behind and focus on something else. (ie. it is a hobby)
  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭


    << <i>...they provide me with an opportunity to leave everything else behind and focus on something else. (ie. it is a hobby) >>



    I think that pretty much sums it up. Very well said.

    edited to add...there are SO many things in life that we need to leave behind (ie, forget about for awhile...not in the hopes they'll magically disappear, but just to be distracted for awhile), and ModCrewman, you did say it succinctly and perfectly.
    I'll come up with something.
  • rxerrxer Posts: 280 ✭✭
    .... they take up a lot less space than my classic car collection
    and once bought they don't keep costing me money
    palmer
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,857 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "History that you can hold in your hands."image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I enjoy collecting coins because.... >>



    ...i finally can afford to. image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • LoveMyLibertyLoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭


    "I like to shave off the reverse and carve love notes on them, like Lordmarcoven does."

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  • holeinone1972holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭
    , not sure! Why did you have to start this thread.

    Large B/S/T thread about to commence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • MonstarcoinsMonstarcoins Posts: 778
    Because its my own little world. Nobody I personally know collects them, and I enjoy entering my own little realm and learning. Some might say that they saved my life. At age 18, I was destined to follow the foot steps of all the males in my family tree: Behind bars for life. I live in the deadliest city per capita and most folks at age 18 were breaking the law and robbing folks. I never got into that life style, but I certainly was not heading in a positive direction at all. I am now 2 months removed from getting a Bachelors in the Science of Nursing, and I plan on getting out of this crappy city and providing a great foundation for my two sons. I think if it weren't for my constant involvement in coins I would never be where I am today. Heck, I might not even be alive today! Thats why I love coins!
  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    It is a time shared with my children and me.
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  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭


    << <i>.... they take up a lot less space than my classic car collection
    and once bought they don't keep costing me money >>



    Obviously you've never bought raw and submitted to a TPG, cracked out a coin and resubmitted to a TPG, sent in your collection for Secure Plus or True View, sent your coins off to CAC, etc.! imageimage
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  • golfer72golfer72 Posts: 3,588


    << <i>

    << <i>.... they take up a lot less space than my classic car collection
    and once bought they don't keep costing me money >>



    Obviously you've never bought raw and submitted to a TPG, cracked out a coin and resubmitted to a TPG, sent in your collection for Secure Plus or True View, sent your coins off to CAC, etc.! imageimage >>

    Yeah sounds like a smart man!
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .....I'm married and still enjoy the thrill of the hunt. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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