What are your numismatic dreams?
In another thread, Anaconda said:
"I'd like us to see us discuss more often our numismatic dreams.....mine is to own every rare coin older than 100 years old and to live in a castle high in the craggy, misty moutains just outside of some small Hungarian Village where it is always night outside and the wind never stops. I would have a museum there but I would be open be only once a year for an hour and you would have to make an appointment as a little boy or girl to ever have any hope seeing all the rare coins because the wait was that long. "
Which got me thinking about my numismatic dreams. I have three. One, I'd like to write a book on the Coinage of the Central American Republic. (My guess is that someone will beat me to to it.) Two, I'd like to design the a first-rate system for storing and displaying raw and certified coins. And three, I'd like to open a small coin shop once I'm too old to travel as much as I do now.
Your turn.
"I'd like us to see us discuss more often our numismatic dreams.....mine is to own every rare coin older than 100 years old and to live in a castle high in the craggy, misty moutains just outside of some small Hungarian Village where it is always night outside and the wind never stops. I would have a museum there but I would be open be only once a year for an hour and you would have to make an appointment as a little boy or girl to ever have any hope seeing all the rare coins because the wait was that long. "
Which got me thinking about my numismatic dreams. I have three. One, I'd like to write a book on the Coinage of the Central American Republic. (My guess is that someone will beat me to to it.) Two, I'd like to design the a first-rate system for storing and displaying raw and certified coins. And three, I'd like to open a small coin shop once I'm too old to travel as much as I do now.
Your turn.
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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1) To own at least 1 Mint State example of every circulating coin series prior to 1950.
2) To own a B&M shop when I am older and am comfortable enough with my grading skill and numismatic education to be able to teach YN's what numismatics is all about.
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<< <i>To find a hoard of double eagles while digging in my garden.
I'm right there with ya on that one, wouldn't that be sweet!
But if I had this much money I'd buy a kidney for my girlfriend who has kidney failure and has to do dialysis everyday
Beyond that my dream job is be the numismatic curator of a museum when I would have access a large collection for display purposes and unlimited illustrations for display purposes. But that’s not going to happen because (1) I don’t have a PHD in history and (2) I’m not going to re-locate at this time in my life. It is truly amazing how much stock some people put in academic degrees qualifications where that is really only the beginning of a person’s professional life, not the core. I do have an MBA, but that really does not count.
Internet Junky: I hope your girlfriend is able to get a donor soon! Dialysis is not easy.
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<< <i>Finish a complete US type set. It will happen eventually.
Internet Junky: I hope your girlfriend is able to get a donor soon! Dialysis is not easy. >>
Thanks. Yeah I hope so too, shes very strong though - started dialysis in December and is already good enough to do it at home by herself now. I never knew how serious something like this is until I watched it in person. I feel for anyone who does this themselves or has a loved one that goes through it. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
My dream is to complete my dime series's with all varieties.
Part 2 of my dream would be to then submit my set to a TPG for grading and have every one of the 105 coins (plus additional coins for the major varieties) come back graded PF65 DCAM or higher and MS65 DCAM or higher.
To own a _Complete Set of Pan-Pacs in their original copper frame...
I know, keep dreaming <sigh>
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I dream about finding the next coin I need for the set I am building and then
going on to find another one and so on and so on.
For coin collectors (and dealers) being at a coin show, or being a collector in general, is almost like prison rules. Because women are so scarce at coin shows any woman who has a remote chance of looking good after four drinks receives a lot of graitiuous attention from coin guys. I won't name names but some industry females get way too much more attention than they ever deserve.
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<< <i>Just to have enough money to buy any coin I want when ever I want, that's all, not asking to much, is it?
This.
jom
Having both events take place in adjoining convention halls could result in some interesting stories.
<< <i>Just to have enough money to buy any coin I want when ever I want, that's all, not asking to much, is it?
A couple of people around here already have that, or so it seems. I wouldn't mind jumping in on that!
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I know several of these folks. They don't seem happier than others collecting from circulation or obtaining pre-1965 silver coin sets....
<< <i>To help WTCG realize his dream, I suggest that the sponsors of the various national coin shows consider corrdinating the planning of future shows to take place at the same date, place and time as the next "Hooters" and/or "Hawaiian Tropic" beauty pagent.
Having both events take place in adjoining convention halls could result in some interesting stories. >>
For many years the FUN show shared the convention center with a large surfing/ watersports convention. Though not quite Hawaiian Tropics, that worked out okay especially when the two conventions allowed badges from both shows to be valid at either show. The flights back to California at the end of the shows when half the plane were people from the surf convention mixed with an occasional sprinkling of the Disney celebrity (Hillary Duff was seated next to me on that flight a few years ago) made the five hour flights interesting.
There have been a few times when we've shared convention centers and/or hotels with Mary Kay conventions. A lot of coin guys love that and a few of the gals are cute but considering how annoying and loud those women can be especially after hours in the hotel lobby and hallways I don't miss them at all.
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<< <i>To help WTCG realize his dream, I suggest that the sponsors of the various national coin shows consider corrdinating the planning of future shows to take place at the same date, place and time as the next "Hooters" and/or "Hawaiian Tropic" beauty pagent.
Having both events take place in adjoining convention halls could result in some interesting stories. >>
We need to talk to the show promoters .. the big car shows bring in bikini babes ... why not coin shows !!!
and buy any coin I liked without thinking about it. I think that one kind of died on the vine...
I'd like to own a nice proof $10 Indian someday. Arguably my favorite US coin design.
Edit: I wouldn't mind owning my avatar coin, either. Arguably my favorite British coin design.
A very sweet dreamy place that involves me, numismatics and several hundred million dollars.....I go there every tuesday afternoon, and usually abruptly leave at 11:02 that nignt.
But...........SOMEDAY!!!
OH!!! the dream
You see those wonderful stacks auction catalogs......US coins, americana, TOKENS wow...imagine just sitting there on the floor with your arm up throughout every session, and buy every lot! Can you see that? What a collection youd have, and wow would it be fun. I would also imagine you would get some stellar bargains as who WHO would bid against you.
I dream of having the confidence and finances to be my own boss in this business.
I dream of owning the most rare of all Morgan Dollars. It hasn't been seen for decades. Even Jack Lee didn't know who had it.
"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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Everything else is a pipe dream for me.
I live in Utah.
I dream I am metal detecting in the Ophir-Mercur area (you people in the East--look it up on Google). I am doing it on a bright, sunny day in the spring. No one is around. I am near several foundations of old stone set up by the miners in the area back in the 1900s-1920s. I get a hit on the detector near the corner post of one of the foundations. I start to dig and find an old, semi-rusted tin box with a metal clasp.
I open the clasp and find a few random coins . . Lincolns from the early S-Mint years in Au condition . .several 1909-S, 1910-S, 1911-S. But, my attention goes to the bulk of the box . . . .2 deteriorating bank-wrapped rolls . .
One is a Lincoln roll . . and I look at the originally toned end of the roll . . . 1909-S. The other end shows a "VDB" and the roll is obviously original and the paper is rotting right around the roll. Superb gems. A few have some organic damage from the near-century buried 6" down at an old mining site by a miner who buried his paycheck, but most are original, toned, and superb 66-67s.
The other roll is a Morgan dollar roll. I look at the tight crimp, the crusty paper that has been aging carefully in this tin box until I happened to luck into it by digging it up by the corner of a foundation. The old miner had put away a roll of BU Morgans for his stash. He didn't care about dates, but he grabbed a San Fran roll that was available at the bank.
I look at one PL end of the tightly crimped original roll . . and it has the common date of 1884.
I look at the other coin on the end of the roll. It also has a dusty and subdued luster, but is obviously a high -grade specimen . . . . . . . . . . . and it has an "S" mintmark.
That is my dream. If I ever have trouble going to sleep . .it just takes me 5 minutes of this thought . . and I am out.
Drunner
(Let's forget the Doily Hunt for tonight and think of the DREAM !!!!!)
To have the first 100% complete set of Mercury Dime Variety Set. Check
To have that same set become #1. Check
To discover a variety. Check
Not planned, but maybe I just didn't step back quick enough, but I was nominated and elected to be the Vice President of the Racine Numismatic Society.
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<< <i>To have a couple of more decades of collecting just as I am now. The journey is the thing. >>
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<< <i>To help WTCG realize his dream, I suggest that the sponsors of the various national coin shows consider corrdinating the planning of future shows to take place at the same date, place and time as the next "Hooters" and/or "Hawaiian Tropic" beauty pagent.
Having both events take place in adjoining convention halls could result in some interesting stories. >>
For many years the FUN show shared the convention center with a large surfing/ watersports convention. Though not quite Hawaiian Tropics, that worked out okay especially when the two conventions allowed badges from both shows to be valid at either show. The flights back to California at the end of the shows when half the plane were people from the surf convention mixed with an occasional sprinkling of the Disney celebrity (Hillary Duff was seated next to me on that flight a few years ago) made the five hour flights interesting.
There have been a few times when we've shared convention centers and/or hotels with Mary Kay conventions. A lot of coin guys love that and a few of the gals are cute but considering how annoying and loud those women can be especially after hours in the hotel lobby and hallways I don't miss them at all. >>
Geez, you are difficult to please. Is your dream to have a coin show adjacent to a convention of mute Victoria Secret models?
<< <i>My numismatic dream is to jello wrestle with members of this forum in their Speedo's while trying to find a dateless buffalo nickel. Oh, this boy sure can dream...
You know you really want that pool of jello to contain a bunch of partial date Buffalos to make it even more interesting to find that dateless one
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<< <i>To help WTCG realize his dream, I suggest that the sponsors of the various national coin shows consider corrdinating the planning of future shows to take place at the same date, place and time as the next "Hooters" and/or "Hawaiian Tropic" beauty pagent.
Having both events take place in adjoining convention halls could result in some interesting stories. >>
For many years the FUN show shared the convention center with a large surfing/ watersports convention. Though not quite Hawaiian Tropics, that worked out okay especially when the two conventions allowed badges from both shows to be valid at either show. The flights back to California at the end of the shows when half the plane were people from the surf convention mixed with an occasional sprinkling of the Disney celebrity (Hillary Duff was seated next to me on that flight a few years ago) made the five hour flights interesting.
There have been a few times when we've shared convention centers and/or hotels with Mary Kay conventions. A lot of coin guys love that and a few of the gals are cute but considering how annoying and loud those women can be especially after hours in the hotel lobby and hallways I don't miss them at all. >>
Geez, you are difficult to please. Is your dream to have a coin show adjacent to a convention of mute Victoria Secret models?
That would work. I'm especially fond of that South African Victoria's Secret Angel although her name escapes me at this moment.
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<< <i>My numismatic dream is to jello wrestle with members of this forum in their Speedo's while trying to find a dateless buffalo nickel. Oh, this boy sure can dream...
I can lend you a Speedo
<< <i>What are your numismatic dreams? >>
... to be 18 years old again and just starting to collect coins, knowing what I know now!
- Jim
<< <i>my dream is to break even with my collection >>