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commacomma Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭
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This is probably something that comes up frequently, but I am just curious how your husbands/wives, girlfriends/boyfriends feel about you and coins...
My girlfriend pretty much hates it...she knows the collector's universe logo and yells at me if I'm on here, ebay, the pcgs price guide, etc...so I have to be sneaky image

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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    not all of them
  • NewEnglandRaritiesNewEnglandRarities Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭✭
    My fiancé is very supportive. Of course I do coins for a living so she pretty much is stuck having to be. She even likes most of the collectors and other dealers!
    New England Rarities...Dealer In Colonial Coinage and Americana
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a bit of a nerdy hobby to outsiders and with the exception of my ex spouse I've never mentioned it in grand detail to anyone I've ever dated... Or at least to the extent that I'm involved in it! image

    It could always be worse as I have a friend that lives in a Longacre type ritzy neighborhood and his backyard is scattered with well over a 1 1/2 dozen trapped 1940's Ford and John Deere tractors.

    Edited to add: I did find out via FB from some mutual friends that an ex GF I dated over a decade ago attended the ANA Show in Chicago this past Aug... Although I have no interest in knowing anything about her personal life, I'm a bit intrigued to what she collects image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,794 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My wife is very supportive. She goes with me on buys. We discuss coins that I buy on Ebay
    before I hit the button. NOT

    bobimage
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • TinyTiny Posts: 2,598

    My wife doesn't mind I guess cause I am spending our kids inheritance for something
    that will be there for them latter and I get to enjoy it now. O Yea, I don't tell her everything
    either but then do they really need to know everything?
  • renomedphysrenomedphys Posts: 3,650 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whatever

    Empty Nest Collection
    Matt’s Mattes

  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    Coin hobby, yes. Some of the others not so much. We generally have a don't ask don't tell policy. She doesn't ask what I spend on coins, I don't ask what she spends on quilting.
    JCM-Houston
    World Collection
    British Collection
    German States Collection
  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    image
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, my wife told me that she would rather I spend spare time snorting cocaine and visiting strip clubs. image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    My Wife is my partner 100%. Over 5,000 pages of text makes up USRCI and it's my Wife who is in charge of it all. End of next year it'll be even bigger and will have ( shhh it's a secret! )image

    Coin's for sale/trade.


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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Not until the time comes to SELL! Then she's all gangbusters over the hobby. Good job, pat on the back, excellent husband.


    Hind sight: Now if I can only figure out how to make her collected shoe wear valuable...I'd be rich beyond my belief.
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  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭


    << <i>No, my wife told me that she would rather I spend spare time snorting cocaine and visiting strip clubs. image >>


    some of us have the best of both worlds.
  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭
    My Lady is totally supportive to the point if im short a few bucks on a coin i want at any given time she'll sort it out for me. She's not in the least interested in the coins other than a glance when i put it under her nose but we've kept track of what ive spent against what ive earned trading/selling and it speaks for itself.
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,687 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would say that in general mine "tolerates" it; less so when I'm in the middle of something and leave a box or two of coins around the dining room, more so when I tell her how much my latest cherrypick sold for on eBay.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image >>



    LotsoLuck, Is that all you care to add to this thread imageimage
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,291 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>No, my wife told me that she would rather I spend spare time snorting cocaine and visiting strip clubs. image >>


    Did you explain that you can do both?image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
    We're past approval in our household...we're all in baby!!! image
    Collecting coins, medals and currency featuring "The Sower"
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>No, my wife told me that she would rather I spend spare time snorting cocaine and visiting strip clubs. image >>


    Did you explain that you can do both?image >>



    Hmm... I already thought some of RYK's thread posts occurred while snorting cocaine in a strip club imageimage
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭✭
    My wife cowers in fear of the King.

    She dares not raise an issue with any decision I make or suffer dearly the consequences.

    I spend at will for anything that suits my fancy.

















    Hurry and read this...I will be hitting the edit button before she gets home image

    Loves me some shiny!
  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>image >>



    LotsoLuck, Is that all you care to add to this thread imageimage >>




    Yes image
  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,266 ✭✭✭

    All my wife wants is for me to find is "THE" coin where we can pay the house off and she can stop working. Other than that, all she knows is what a Morgan 50c piece looks like. image

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  • RaufusRaufus Posts: 6,817 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes. In fact, she is the one who rekindled my numismatic interests which had been dormant since my early teens.

    Land of the Free because of the Brave!
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it should be more like
    does my hobby approve of
    my significant other !!!
    Timbuk3
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I think it should be more like
    does my hobby approve of
    my significant other !!! >>



    image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,819 ✭✭✭✭✭
    yup. I told her if she didnt let me collect coins Id starting collecting murals of Charo and pasting them all over the house.
  • scottgardenerscottgardener Posts: 1,205 ✭
    My wife firmly backs and endorses my coin habits. She thinks its a great idea as a long-term savings plan and a reserve storage of wealth for reasons ranging from inflation hedge to survivalist paranoia.

    But, she does get on to me if I want to spend too much at once. But, we worked out an arrangement in which I take out and set aside money weekly, and about once every two or three months or so when a coin show rolls around, I have enough to get something good.
    Improperly Cleaned, Our passion for numismatics is Genuine! Now featuring correct spelling.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
    She likes that I do what brings me happiness and that makes me happier.
  • DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 452 ✭✭✭✭
    I think in general she's bemused.

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

  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    My husband likes that it helped us retire early.image
    Becky
  • SereneDudeSereneDude Posts: 374


    << <i>This is probably something that comes up frequently, but I am just curious how your husbands/wives, girlfriends/boyfriends feel about you and coins...
    My girlfriend pretty much hates it...she knows the collector's universe logo and yells at me if I'm on here, ebay, the pcgs price guide, etc...so I have to be sneaky image >>


    My ex thought me daft for paying so much for "some old coins".
    Got rid of the wifey and kept the coins.
    All-in-all, I'm a much happier man.
    image
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    she understands the need to grade properly / collect wisely
    she doesnt care what I do in general

    but she knows there is value there.....and she knows where they are at

    actually, a few weeks ago she said she had a extra grand, what should i do with it ???.....
    i recommended a $10 pcgs indian, she agreed..............its is the box image
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  • JapanJohnJapanJohn Posts: 2,030 ✭
    Your gf hates that you're on a coin web site??? Remind her of the various other alternatives the web offers up to single guys.

    My gf doesn't care although she has "little girl syndrome". I have a safe in the house and she told me it kills her when she's alone here and she knows she can't get in it. Said when she was a kid her mother had a lock box and she always had to steal the key and look inside for what goodies lurked just beyond the lock.

    She's seen in the safe a couple times and knows what's in there, probably more interested in whether the contents change or not or whether or not I'm hiding something!

    John
    Coin Photos

    Never view my other linked pages. They aren't coin related.
  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    She likes it about 50% of the time, when I sell.
    Jim

    When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln

    Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
  • ClosedLoopClosedLoop Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭
    my coin habbit works out to be less than

    her cigarette habit per year. so when she

    lights up I yell out "silver Eagle". so she

    approves by way of submission.
    figglehorn
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some of the sister wives are, but the mother-wife - not so much.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The hobby is significant the wife no longer is.
    image
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    yes

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/fd7W7w5kcdor4hdr5

  • rabbitracksrabbitracks Posts: 538 ✭✭
    My wife also Peaked my coin collecting interest back in 1999 by
    buying me a Proof set for a present and it took off after that.
    Collected when I was a teen but stopped when I joined the
    US Air Force after high school. Is still supportive to this day
    after realizing that it takes effort and studying to know your
    coins. She liked it when I purchase a coin for $127 and turn
    the coin to PCGS and resell it for $5000, my PCGS 1922Weak
    D MS64 Red Lincoln Cent.
    Mike.
    Enjoying time at home with the family now is my full time passion.

    rabbitracks toned showcase set
    myurl
  • commacomma Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for all the responses image
    She also doesn't mind when I'm selling...and I guess she doesn't care so much that it's coins, just that it's not time with her :X
  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My wife cowers in fear of the King.

    She dares not raise an issue with any decision I make or suffer dearly the consequences.

    I spend at will for anything that suits my fancy.






    Hurry and read this...I will be hitting the edit button before she gets home image >>



    image
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
    PCGS Registries
    Box of 20
    SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,012 ✭✭✭
    I think the best thing my wife ever said to me in the history of our marriage was with regards to her feelings about my interest in numismatics...

    One Saturday night, all I wanted to do was sit down with a glass of Scotch, and look at coins online...

    When my wife comes into my office and asks me what I am doing... so I tell her.

    "You are so unbelievably lame" was her response, to which I said...

    "Hey! At least I am not in here looking at porn!"

    Without missing a beat, my wife quipped back... "Porn would be cheaper."
    image
    >>>My Collection
  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My wife participates in the hobby with me. image
    Instagram: nomad_numismatics
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,423 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>No, my wife told me that she would rather I spend spare time snorting cocaine and visiting strip clubs. image >>



    image I read it too quickly and thought you said that SHE would rather spend spare time at the strip clubs image

    I was like... "GO MRS RYK!!!!"

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • TwinturboTwinturbo Posts: 493


    << <i>My wife also Peaked my coin collecting interest back in 1999 by
    buying me a Proof set for a present and it took off after that.
    Collected when I was a teen but stopped when I joined the
    US Air Force after high school. Is still supportive to this day
    after realizing that it takes effort and studying to know your
    coins. She liked it when I purchase a coin for $127 and turn
    the coin to PCGS and resell it for $5000, my PCGS 1922Weak
    D MS64 Red Lincoln Cent.
    Mike. >>



    Wowsers thats a true cherrypick, when did this occur?
  • commacomma Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I think the best thing my wife ever said to me in the history of our marriage was with regards to her feelings about my interest in numismatics...

    One Saturday night, all I wanted to do was sit down with a glass of Scotch, and look at coins online...

    When my wife comes into my office and asks me what I am doing... so I tell her.

    "You are so unbelievably lame" was her response, to which I said...

    "Hey! At least I am not in here looking at porn!"

    Without missing a beat, my wife quipped back... "Porn would be cheaper." >>



    Very true! haha
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My daughter told my ex wife that i now collected coins. She thinks I'm even a bigger idiot than what she remembered. MJ
    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    She doesnt mind this hobby, but she would rather have me in the garage working on a hot rod or doing some hard work around the house.
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    As long as I'm immediately available whenever and wherever summoned, there's no problem.
    Me at the Springfield coin show:
    image
    60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    My ex wife was casually supportive of my collecting when we were married- it was definately better than me being drunk in bars or gambling... when we got divorced, i offered her half of my coins, and she declined, saying that i used my own money to buy the coins, and she didn't want to take any because of that.... i couldn't imagine being with a woman who didn't support my coin habit- that type of animosity would just be DESTRUCTIVE!! image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭


    << <i>My wife cowers in fear of the King.

    She dares not raise an issue with any decision I make or suffer dearly the consequences.

    I spend at will for anything that suits my fancy.


    Hurry and read this...I will be hitting the edit button before she gets home image >>



    Sounds like you've been hanging out with Ralph Kramden! image

    Eric

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