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AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I'll start: Wife Linda says: "I'm going to clean your closet"..... OH MY, NOT ON MY LIFE YOU WILL!

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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A collector saying "I got this beautiful details graded coin."
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  • CoinspongeCoinsponge Posts: 3,927 ✭✭✭
    When I am putting a coin in a flip for grading and it slips out of my hand.
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  • LogPotatoLogPotato Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭
    Dealers/collectors talking back and forth holding a raw coin in their hand. Carbon spot city!
  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,290 ✭✭✭
    When a coin and a brillo pad have had a fight. image
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  • PokermandudePokermandude Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭
    When you pick up your album in a hurry and see a 2x2 holder fly out of one of the top pockets.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,183 ✭✭✭✭✭
    when the dealer/collector says " nice coin overall " and its been cleaned. image
  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The sound of a coin dropping on the floor.
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  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭
    I don't know if it's cringed i was but something was running through my whole senses kinda thing ..buzzin for want of a word but wondering too if it would be noticed before i was given it ..sort of cringing. It was when i was getting my change at the store i couldnt help but notice when she was counting it in her hand before giving me it that one of those quarters was silver , when it's that circulated and silver it stands out like a sore thumb.I thought for sure she'll notice something different about it , i could and i'm 2 feet away. I got it though..1940
    I do cringe when i think of all the circulated pre 65 dimes i sold at a buck a pop right before Silver took off.I offloaded at least a dozen rolls of the more circulated...ouch.
  • RodebaughRodebaugh Posts: 304 ✭✭✭
    televison ads for coins clad in pure .999 gold pushed as investments.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When someone holds a coin wrong...

    Especially when I seen some of the EAC dealers that palm a copper coin saying the oils are good for it.
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  • WingedLiberty1957WingedLiberty1957 Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
    - putting in a crazy high snipe bid on a coin you really want with 5 seconds left, and losing it by $5 with 1 second left (there is always someone out there crazier than you)
    - someone putting packing tape or anything sticky on the face a PCGS slab (then spending hours trying to clean it off)
    - having a raw coin mailed to you and finding it lose in the envelope or with little protection (MS66 turns into MS64 in 3 days)
    - seeing a truly rare coin that's been cleaned, doctored, or artificially toned
    - watching a package with tracking that you are dying to get sit in the same post office for 5 days
    - being home all day but still getting a USPS "we missed you" pink slip in your mailbox


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  • NickcapNickcap Posts: 977 ✭
    Reading stories of how people are stealing collections.

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  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Seeing a Dealer smacking the edge of a slab with a hammer on the Convention Floor.
  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fake coins, fake slabs, genuine coins in fake slabs, fake coins in genuine slabs, fake coins in fake slabs with genuine inserts, pirated pics, sellers who claim it's their pic, drastically altered pics, key dates with blurry pics and the seller that stole my pic and claimed it was his, this really fired me up!
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,817 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The thought of Obama being on a U.S. coin some day.

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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The thought of Obama being on a U.S. coin some day. >>



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  • dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    1) The term "market acceptable"

    2) When people refer from everything to seriously unappealing dark, ugly, crusty color to a large carbon spot as "beautiful rainbow toning" and think it's worth a big premium.
  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭

    Staple scratches. image
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,680 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1) Someone asking $8,500 for a coin that might be worth $4,500 max
    2) "Market acceptable"
    3) Someone who accepts an offer to buy my coin for $X on a given day and five minutes later, reneges on his promise
    4) Someone who gives me attitude when I politely ask whether I could get a 10% discount on a coin (I have not asked for a best price beforehand, I never counter a best price)
    5) Getting ignored at a dealer's table at a show (this rarely happens, but it does happen occasionally)
    6) Someone thinking his / her coins are worth more than they are just because he / she owns them
    7) A dealer who would sooner die of old age rather than sell a coin to a retail customer for less than a 50% markup
    8) Someone who thinks a coin with what appears to be toilet bowl, urine, or vomit streaked toning is attractive
    9) Coins with hideous fingerprints that are not net graded
    10) The grading of pre 1815 coinage in general, especially copper
    11) People who buy copper in RB holders when the coin is 5% RD
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  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,943 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They slow motion effect of a holder falling to the floor makes me cringe.

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  • renomedphysrenomedphys Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Death.

    Estate Tax.

    Unscrupulous estate "auctions".

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  • fastfreddiefastfreddie Posts: 2,902 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • coinnutcoinnut Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Reading an article in Coin World where they now refer to a nickel as a "five cent coin".
  • Matrix1980Matrix1980 Posts: 553 ✭
    Bad toning just can't stand it!!! What a waste of a coin. Oh yes and customs fees they suck big time!!!
  • Matrix1980Matrix1980 Posts: 553 ✭
    fastfreddie:

    Hahahahaha!!!
  • renomedphysrenomedphys Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh, and Hotel Buyers

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  • littlebearlittlebear Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭✭
    Being at a coin show in Baltimore and hearing a stack of slabs hit the floor and spread out. It is as noticeble as hearing the chambering of a shotgun.


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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    Staples in 2x2s... dropped coins... artificially toned and harshly cleaned coins.
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cellophane tape holding coins in Whitman folders.

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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    5 minutes of any home shopping coin show.
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  • valente151valente151 Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭
    "I'd like to sell my gold dollars. This one has washington on it and is very rare"
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  • CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looking at a dealer's showcase in which every coin has a "PQ" sticker on it, even though they clearly are not, and then feeling sorry for the unsuspecting newbies that don't know any better.

    Seeing page after (full) page ads in the newspaper by outfits that will buy your coins, gold, and jewelry for CASH! It's easy to pay for such ads when you pay 8 to 10 times face for 90% silver coins.

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  • nesvtnesvt Posts: 2,214
    I asked the owner of a gun shop if he had any old coins. He replied "what timing! yes! I just put them through my walnut polisher". I was thinking, who the heck polishes nuts? Then he showed me some kind of jewelry rock tumbler device that he loads up with shelled walnuts, and the large box of very shiny silver dollars.
  • rmpsrpmsrmpsrpms Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Can I see that BU Roll of Wheat Cents?"

    "Sure! Let's see here". Dealer picks the roll from the case, opens it, and dumps the coins into his hand, picks up a few (and not by the edges), and then says "I need to go through this first. Don't want to give you any MS67 coins!".

    Perhaps 25% of dealers I've bought rolls from dumped the coins out in their hands, and maybe 10% decided they don't want to sell the roll that's in the display case til they go through it for gems.
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  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>The thought of Obama being on a U.S. coin some day. >>



    And we have a winner! >>



    I thought this forum was supposed to be free of this kind of crap.

    Sinking to your level: think "Mr. Wonder Bread" will make it onto a coin now that he's the master debater?image
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  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    Holding a bust half with gorgeous album toning ... turning the coin in the light to take in the luster and the colors ... and seeing hairline scratches. Like fingernails on a chalkboard.

    By the way, Obama won't look any worse on one of those gold dollars than robot Lincoln does.
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,532 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. When I have plans to go to a great coin show and then end up not being able to go.
    2. Finding a coin that I need and it looks perfect...and then I notice a terrible flaw in it such as a bad spot or scratch when I flip it over...or if it WAS great until some idiot harshly cleaned it. Darn near makes me cry. image
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  • foundinrollsfoundinrolls Posts: 507


    << <i>Reading an article in Coin World where they now refer to a nickel as a "five cent coin". >>



    Calling them nickels"-) They are 75% copper and 25% nickel. Even called a "nickel" it would be referencing the metal used as a part of the composition. It should be called a "copper":-) It would be like calling a 1953 Franklin half dollar a "silver" and letting it go at that. The denomination of the coin indicated on the coin itself is five cents:-) I think it is OK to use the term to describe a five cent piece.

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,619 ✭✭✭✭✭
    opening a high dollar mint product and seeing the coin has escaped it's capsule.

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  • thecoinlookthecoinlook Posts: 356 ✭
    Not necessarily cringe, but two of my annoyances are

    Finding a good Cherrypick on eBay, just to click it and it just sold.

    Or waiting the course of an auction for a rare coin, just to have the auction stopped because it's no longer available (which chances are someone contacted them to sell it outside of eBay)
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>When you think you're an artist and do this:

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    Hey it made me nearly splorf my tea though!
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  • JcarneyJcarney Posts: 3,154 ✭
    Hearing the "ding" sound of a large silver coin being dropped on a concrete floor at a coin show.
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  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭


    << <i>Staple scratches. image >>



    This!

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