I think I'm a coin hoarder!

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Mistercoinman
Mistercoinman Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭
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It's getting worst. I just buy coins and store them in my safe never to view them again. I keep telling myself when I retire I will enjoy them more. It's not just random buying though, I do make sets, I buy raw and slabbed alike. Please telll me here are more of us out there. Fred
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  • BIGAL2749
    BIGAL2749 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭✭
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    I've been trying to break the habit but if I attend a show I still find a nice coin I've got to have.
  • Timbuk3
    Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    ?? !!!
    Timbuk3
  • NumisOxide
    NumisOxide Posts: 11,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Guilty...
  • jwitten
    jwitten Posts: 5,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have over 100 of a certain date in the $2 1/2 Indians.... soooo... maybe?
  • pennyholic
    pennyholic Posts: 153 ✭✭✭
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    Guilty and if you get started on foreign coins double guilty.
  • Mistercoinman
    Mistercoinman Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭
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    Thanks for all your answers, at least now I know I'm not alone.
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  • ms70
    ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's the beauty of TrueView. You can enjoy owning them AND viewing them.
  • metalmeister
    metalmeister Posts: 4,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    guilty as charged ;-)
    email: ccacollectibles@yahoo.com

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  • crazyhounddog
    crazyhounddog Posts: 14,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm guilty as all hell. If I like i, I buy it and it doesn't matter if I already have one.
    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • thebeav
    thebeav Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I guess I would have to say I'm one too. I have many coins that I haven't looked at in 30 or 40 years.....
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yep..... I do that....and not ashamed of it ....image Coins that I find attractive tend to go home with me....Cheers, RickO
  • Walkerguy21D
    Walkerguy21D Posts: 12,165 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have been a selective hoarder at times.
    I used to have piles of better early and middle date walkers in F+ through AU, including multiples of dates like 16S and 21P, but have since
    dispersed most of them.
    Then it was large cents - anything pre-1845 in F through AU found at a show reasonably priced came home with me.



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  • CoinZip
    CoinZip Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭
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    I like to think of it as storing coins just in case there is a rare variety discovered later......



    That way we have a chance of finding one in our "Collection."



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  • AUandAG
    AUandAG Posts: 25,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not anymore since I went through the AuAgAn program. Similar to AA

    but coin related: GoldSilverAnonymous. Cured me! Took no more than

    5 years of weekly meetings if I recall correctly.



    bobimage





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  • Mistercoinman
    Mistercoinman Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭
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    Bob, I think I need that program. My poor wife if something happens to me she will be lost with what to do with them, I hate to see someone take advantage of her.
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  • OldEastside
    OldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm willing to bet I have the most nickels on the block image

    Steve
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  • amwldcoin
    amwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: OldEastside

    I'm willing to bet I have the most nickels on the block image



    Steve




    Give Larry Briggs a call! He offered to sell me more than 20,000 Rolls of Jefferson Nickels.!

  • Weiss
    Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I was guilty of being a hoarder, too. For years.



    Then I realized I had a few pieces I really looked at and enjoyed, and I had lots of pieces I forgot I even had.



    So I adopted the Box of 20 style of collecting. Rid myself of those pieces I forgot about and concentrated on the ones I really enjoy revisiting.



    When I feel like hoarding, I turn my focus to gold (or rarely silver) to boost my precious metals position.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • OldEastside
    OldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: amwldcoin
    Originally posted by: OldEastside
    I'm willing to bet I have the most nickels on the block image

    Steve


    Give Larry Briggs a call! He offered to sell me more than 20,000 Rolls of Jefferson Nickels.!


    Please. Please. don't tempt me image
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  • DIMEMAN
    DIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Good to see you post again Fred. Haven't seen or heard from you in a while.

    I try not to have dups......but I sure have a lot of coins!!!
  • Mistercoinman
    Mistercoinman Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭
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    Well it's a quiet day so thought I would make a rare appearance. Jon how are you my old friend?
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  • okiedude
    okiedude Posts: 653 ✭✭✭
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    Is having to buy a third safe a symptom?

    Yikes image

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  • Catbert
    Catbert Posts: 8,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If you forget what you own, then you are more a thrill addict via the purchase than a hoarder?
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  • nwcoast
    nwcoast Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Four safe deposit boxes and a safe for the occasional home visitation.
    Yes, I plead guilty and beg for mercy of the court.

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  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Guilty here. image

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  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    guilty as charged.
  • 92cc fan
    92cc fan Posts: 11
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    Guilty.
    Thomas King
  • TwoSides2aCoin
    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Help, please.
  • Mistercoinman
    Mistercoinman Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭
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    I guess I can take off the straight jacket now. Thanks to everyone who talked me off the ledge!
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  • topstuf
    topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm trying to quit that.



    Will any of you be my sponsor?

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