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I've been a numismatist since you were in diapers!

LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
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So said a new acquaintance I met at a flea market this weekend.

Said he'd been a numismatist for 45 years.

I didn't have the heart to tell him I started 50 years ago, spending my allowance at the bank on silver coins when clad coins first came out. image

Edited to add the 2nd sentence - forgot to add that part. 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.

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  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,090 ✭✭✭
    It could have been worse, my dad was barely out of diapers when you started collecting. image

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  • pufferpuffer Posts: 535
    I'm not sure that would be a credential I would be proud of unless the numismatic organizations vouched for him. If he is so renowned how many articles and books did he write, how has he given back to the hobby, how do his fellow dealers regard him? EGO = "ease God out".
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that I'm a serious numismatist.......the "diapers" aren't that far away again. image
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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Yes, old people wear diapers too!
  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    But do you still chit in your pants when you see a great coin priced cheap ?image
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    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,095 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>But do you still chit in your pants when you see a great coin priced cheap ?image >>



    It depends.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,469 ✭✭✭✭✭
    many of us were in diapers when we started in this fine hobby and will be in depends when we finish. ( if that makes any sense) (fwiw image )
  • winkywinky Posts: 1,671 ✭
    So long I can't remember. image
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>But do you still chit in your pants when you see a great coin priced cheap ?image >>



    It depends. >>

    In Depends?
    Numismatist Ordinaire
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Forgot to mention in the OP - he's been collecting 45 years. 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.
  • CoinZipCoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>But do you still chit in your pants when you see a great coin priced cheap ?image >>



    It depends. >>




    That's what I love about this place, the pun never stops !!! image

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  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I once mentioned my collecting start to Bill Fivaz, who responded "I've got hemorrhoids older than that!"
    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,095 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Or since you were knee high to a grasshopper
    or
    since Christ was a kid
    or
    since Moby Dick was a minnow.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So said a new acquantance I met at a flea market this weekend. >>



    And he's worked his own advanced self way all the way up to attending flea markets? wow image

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  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I once mentioned my collecting start to Bill Fivaz, who responded "I've got hemorrhoids older than that!" >>



    You should have asked which variety.image
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  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭
    You should have ask if he meant your first goes around with diapers or the impending one? image
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,095 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can you imagine a YN telling an old timer, "I've been collecting coins since before you were in depends".image
    theknowitalltroll;
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I been a wannabe since God knows when.

    Or

    I've been a wannabe since God knows I can't remember.
  • ToughCOINSToughCOINS Posts: 63 ✭✭

    "I've been a numismatist since you were in diapers!" . . . likely means the quoted will soon be in diapers again.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is garbage talk.... I walk away from it.... immediately tells me the individual is pumping hot air instead of knowledge. Cheers, RickO
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,689 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That is garbage talk.... I walk away from it.... immediately tells me the individual is pumping hot air instead of knowledge. Cheers, RickO >>




    I agree wholeheartedly except I'll still try to listen more carefully if anyone claims to be speaking from experience; then I'll dismiss it.
    Tempus fugit.
  • NicNic Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That is garbage talk.... I walk away from it.... immediately tells me the individual is pumping hot air instead of knowledge. Cheers, RickO >>



    Even though the story keeps changing, you should not talk to Lakes that way.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,266 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I once mentioned my collecting start to Bill Fivaz, who responded "I've got hemorrhoids older than that!" >>



    You should have asked which variety.image >>



    Red-Brownimage

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,266 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Said he'd been a numismatist for 45 years. >>



    Was he a numismatist or a coin collector? They aren't necessarily the same thing.

    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

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was he a numismatist or a coin collector? They aren't necessarily the same thing.

    He didn't have a single coin at his table. You can imagine how long the conversation lasted. 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.
  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've been collecting since before they invented dirt!
    ANA-LM, NBS, EAC
  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So said a new acquaintance I met at a flea market this weekend.

    Said he'd been a numismatist for 45 years.

    I didn't have the heart to tell him I started 50 years ago, spending my allowance at the bank on silver coins when clad coins first came out. image

    Edited to add the 2nd sentence - forgot to add that part. image >>



    I might have bumped into you at the bank back then 50 years ago. I didn't realize it had been 50 years since I was searching rolls for silver and Lincoln cents until I read this post (I'm 58). Those were great days, and a great time for roll searching.
    3 rim nicks away from Good
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,095 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've been collecting since before they invented dirt! >>



    Lot easier to dig em out of the ground without dirt around aint it?image
    theknowitalltroll;
  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Reminds me of the mechanic who bragged he'd been working on cars for 40 years. His customer asked him if he'd ever fixed one
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    and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor

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