Good; Bad, or Indifferent: What sets Coin Collectors apart from Baseball Card Collectors?

braddick

Are coin collectors, in general terms more forgiving? Compassionate toward other collectors? Are we more or less willing to help a budding collector? Are we more sarcastic (and/or toxic)?

What separates us- again in very broad, general terms from other collectors in other fields of interest?

clarkbar04

Hard to tell, until we leak a story about George Washington using HGH while a general and in office and see exactly what it does to the value of his quarters.

TheRaven

I use to collect baseball cards from the late 80's till about 2000. Started in coins after that.

Both can be as cheap or expensive as you want.

Old means something totally different in coins then it does in cards.

I would say you get good apples and bad apples in both hobbies.

Coins have a bigger learning curve I do believe.

djm

I think a more interesting question would be compare and contrast the level of market manipulation in coin and card collecting.

mustangmanbob

At least with coins, you can always spend them, as opposed to just using them for fuel.

I collected BB cards from about 1960 to 1965.

While I was in the Army, my parents rented out their house while on an assignment. The cards were never seen again.

Sadly, they were stored in a really nice copper lined Cuban Humidor that my father had brought back from Cuba. It, and the cards, vanished.

originalisbest

Bummer, mustangmanbob. I don't know -- I collect both, as well as comics. Tastes vary widely in all these fields, as well as personalities. With coins, I like both old and moderns -- with baseball and non-sports cards, generally nothing much after 1976 or so -- and roughly the same with regard to comics. Stuff from the '30s through the '60s generally really interests me, and with regard to baseball, I love the arcane stuff prior to the '20s, and often can't afford to get the stars of that era.

So I am a real mixed bag.

originalisbest

In answer to the OP, I think the only thing that could be more sarcastic than an "old coins" collector/numismatist is to a modern collector, would be a couple of comic nerds defending their turf over why what they collect is more significant, interesting and better than what you collect.

All things considered, I have found most baseball, sports and non-sports card collectors to be welcoming of collecting viewpoints different than what they may collect.

And I always have found the aspect of coins (if you collect even "widgets" that just happen to be made of precious metal) a very compelling reason to stick with them, though interest in any collectible field can wax and wane.

Regulated

Moobs.

TopographicOceans

Paper has no intrinsic value, though cupronickel is not far behind.

originalisbest

<< <i>Moobs. >>



Nah, there's plenty of those to be found in both camps.

braddick

<< <i>Moobs. >>



Huh, oh. I don't know what that term means.

SeattleSlammer

What separates us...

In my case,nothing.
Some from my lowball (all PSA 1.5-2) vintage key set.

Icollecteverything

What about people that collect football. basketball or any old card? Or those weirdos that collect everything?

I do have some baseball thingies that I think they called coins, I believe they came one to a pack of the regular cards sometime back in the 80's? They are a thin, round piece of metal with a photo of the player printed on it

Musky1011

Just opened an older wax pack yesterday.. 1990 donruss... Hard to believe that it was 25 years old and not worth a damn.. Oh yes 25 year old coins are not worth a damn either

Justacommeman

I collected sport cards all my life. High end/low pop condition rarity RC's mostly vintage. I sold a chunk of my collection a few years ago and did mediocre. I'm selling the balance in July. I expect to do very very well this time as the market for the material I collect is at an all time high. A lot have doubled in the past few years. Timing in cards and coins can be the single most important element when it comes to P & L.

I find that in coins I could pick all of mine out in a police line up. Not sure about my sports cards

Sports card shows have a lot younger crowds.

Mark

FullStrike

Coin Collectors are nerds. Card Collectors are just dweebs.

The cool kids these days are just into themselves. They snap pics of themselves and post them on facebook
and whatever other sites the cool kids use.

Oh god how I wish I had been one of the cool kids. Cause the cool kids always seemed to fit in.

MadMarty

If coin collectors were like card collectors, for every year you would have a couple if keys and every collector would have boxes of worthless dreck... Hmmm, I guess there really isn't much difference!!

ricko

Metal vs. cardboard?..... Just hobbies.... like Beanie Babies and belly button lint.... it is all in the collectors mind... Cheers, RickO

steveben

<< <i>Metal vs. cardboard?..... Just hobbies.... like Beanie Babies and belly button lint.... it is all in the collectors mind... Cheers, RickO >>



except coins do have intrinsic value.

LindeDad

Both are a little like that guy with that barn full of junk.

Junk to some, antiques to others.

BTW we used do stamps to. And what ever happened to that Apple 1 or Commodore 64 we used to have.

Oh and to answer the question bought as different in broad terms as some collect cents and some collect Morgan's. (not horses though that's completing in left field)