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Do you ever feel like your nose is stuck....
AUandAG
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to the tail of the cow in front of you? You know, you are just a minion following others, just like
yourself, in the endless search for the same coins?
With Morgans, and also with the Carson City dollars, I have felt exactly that. I'm in a crowd of
collectors just like myself. No diversity, no uniqueness, no individuality, just sameness.
Oh, if I just went for white coins I'm still in a crowd. If I went for only toned coins, I'm still in the
crowd. If I went for only f-15 coins, I'm still in the herd.
Tired of smelling the same old heifer in front of me.....
Got to try something else. Need a rest from the crowd. Gotta shake the mud off my hooves and lift
my nose into the air and try another direction. 50 years of the same smelly behinds is enough.
Perhaps I'll cross to Gold, or Canadian or Austrian. Maybe I should look at paper money?
Wow, do you ever feel like a hamster in a cage on a spinning wheel?
Gotta get off!!
Sold my home, will buy a new one and then start a new direction in numismatics. Maybe 3 cent pieces?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, did you ever feel this way and what did you do?
bob
yourself, in the endless search for the same coins?
With Morgans, and also with the Carson City dollars, I have felt exactly that. I'm in a crowd of
collectors just like myself. No diversity, no uniqueness, no individuality, just sameness.
Oh, if I just went for white coins I'm still in a crowd. If I went for only toned coins, I'm still in the
crowd. If I went for only f-15 coins, I'm still in the herd.
Tired of smelling the same old heifer in front of me.....
Got to try something else. Need a rest from the crowd. Gotta shake the mud off my hooves and lift
my nose into the air and try another direction. 50 years of the same smelly behinds is enough.
Perhaps I'll cross to Gold, or Canadian or Austrian. Maybe I should look at paper money?
Wow, do you ever feel like a hamster in a cage on a spinning wheel?
Gotta get off!!
Sold my home, will buy a new one and then start a new direction in numismatics. Maybe 3 cent pieces?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, did you ever feel this way and what did you do?
bob
Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
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Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
<< <i>Nope, if I like it, I collect it, tokens, foreign, whatever. There is simply too many great looking pieces out there for me to bother with the likes of die variations. >>
<< <i>Medals! >>
Sssssshhhhhhh, don't tell. We don't need any competition.
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<< <i>Medals! >>
Sssssshhhhhhh, don't tell. We don't need any competition. >>
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
Just a quick one I threw together for this thread, need to re-do this one for clarity
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC FOR SALE
I gave up coins for National Bank Notes over thirty years ago and never looked back.
Member ANA, SPMC, SCNA, FUN, CONECA
Feuctwagers? No, not for me. Nothing against them, and Ray is a cool guy. But there's nothing about them I find interesting or attractive.
Notes don't do it either. Maybe go for the gold? Early gold. Yum.
Lance
My tastes and collection jumps around enough that I never get in a rut. My last coin purchases since early April were: DMPL MS65 Morgan, MS65 Walker, $1 AU55 gold, 1891CC MS64 Morgan "Spitting Eagle" , 1769 XF Pillar 8 reales. Today, since I couldn't find a $20 Liberty that suited me at the coin store, I picked up nine state capital medals that I thought were attractive and fit in with that small collection of mine.
No interest in foreign stuff, there's enough U. S. coins, medals and currency to keep me interested.
Pete
Louis Armstrong
<< <i>Hmmmmmmmmmmm, did you ever feel this way and what did you do? >>
AUandAG
I felt that way when collecting Morgan and Peace VAM's like I was treading on a path that was entirely beaten down.
Decided to put together a set of Eisenhower's as a distraction. Short series, Easily acquired, inexpensive.
Then during the usual research done on anything new, I learned that they are not so easy as I thought
to find in higher grades. Then I stumbled across the Ike Group and started learning about the varieties
in the series. And recent discoveries and the variety hunter in me took over, It has been one of the
most "pure fun" rides I have been on in all my years of coin collecting.
Plus with the new 499 page Eisenhower Dollar Variety book by our own forum member Rob Ezerman
and others of the Ike Group. It is really getting exciting now.
I think that I now have some idea what an exciting time it was at the very beginning of
the VAM variety discoveries.
The Eisenhower always held a special place with me also, When I was a kid in the 70's
that coin was just so huge in those hands, and it seemed like a whole lot of candy
could be bought with one of those
Terry
Off to go house hunting, first things first.
Thanks for all the imput and now to digest it all!
bob
To me that's more fun than buying single coins. Cheaper, too. That's a good thing as I have an extremely limited budget.
<< <i>Tired of smelling the same old heifer in front of me..... >>
the grass is always greener on the other sides of the numismatic fence.
new house = new fence (so enjoy both sides
ive always strayed from the herd
Bad things happen in crowds. But even worse things happen to those who let others think for them.
The world is smoke and mirrors and you need to get outside to see it.
Just my 12 1/2 Exchequer-