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... your thoughts.
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  • PatchesPatches Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭
    What a Debbie Downer topic...I'll +1 the packing and shipping part to keep it non-coin related lol
  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,832 ✭✭✭✭
    ... counting the denticles on a Morgan dollar to make sure it's genuine.


  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭
    V-Nickels and Roosevelt Dimes
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,736 ✭✭✭✭✭
    19th Century - Nickel Three Cent Piece, Second place 1873-4 with arrows dime. It is both expensive and boring.

    20th Century - Most Mint Sets from 1968 until they got the satin finish, which has since been discontinued.

    21th Century - Capital Visitor Center Commemorative Half Dollar, Five Ounce Silver American the Beautiful Quarters
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭
    I am disgusted by copy cat collectors who don't really understand what they are doing/talking about but mimic your every move and pester you and your friends. That is the most boring thing to me -listening to them.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Reading about ebay issues.... Cheers, RickO
  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,832 ✭✭✭✭
    . . . . sorting 1982 Lincoln cents.


  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ... this thread.
    John
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  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,192 ✭✭✭✭
    V-Nickels and 3CNs image
    Lurking and learning since 2010. Full-time professional numismatist based in SoCal.
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 25,083 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Reading about ebay issues.... Cheers, RickO >>



    There's a fix for that.




    Don't.
  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. fair-good barber coins. Way too many of them.

    2. Dealers with stagnant inventories of overpriced coins. I just get tired of seeing the same coins some dealers carry to show, after show, after show, etc.

    3. Susie dollars

    4. Ike dollars

    5. Me-I am totally boring.image
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  • CoinflipCoinflip Posts: 849 ✭✭✭
    Newsletters about crap I dont care about
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  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    " The most boring thing i[n] US numismatics is .... your thoughts."

    My sentiments exactly. image

    Was that intentional, or a Freudian slip?
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps more tedious than boring, but I have never been remotely interested in varieties, especially those that require magnification to determine.

    However, the 1970's era US coinage, especially the proof and mint sets, could be the most boring era of US numismatics.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>There's a fix for that.




    Don't. >>



    Obviously, and I did just that... long ago..... does not change the fact that they are BOOOOORRRRRIIIINNNGGG!!!!!!

    Cheers, RickO
  • lostincoinslostincoins Posts: 4,278 ✭
    Boring old coin collectors that don't remember that not everyone is born with knowledge but need to learn just like they did back when they started collecting while Rome was being built lol Seriously though having to verify every coin as authentic because so many fakes are out there is completly boring and makes collecting and dealing very boring. I think I am just going to collect fakes now lol there are more of them than real coins.image
  • MowgliMowgli Posts: 1,219 ✭


    << <i>V-Nickels and 3CNs image >>



    Hey, this hurts my feelings. image
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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Photographing coins
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>V-Nickels and 3CNs image >>



    Hey, this hurts my feelings. image >>



    If you collect these series you don't have feelings................MJ
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  • EagleguyEagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Perhaps more tedious than boring, but I have never been remotely interested in varieties, especially those that require magnification to determine. >>



    image

    JH
    JH

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    Proof Walking Liberty Halves Registry Set
  • 2ndCharter2ndCharter Posts: 1,734 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Reading about ebay issues.... Cheers, RickO

    image

    And, yes, I do ignore them.

    Member ANA, SPMC, SCNA, FUN, CONECA

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 25,083 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>There's a fix for that.




    Don't. >>



    Obviously, and I did just that... long ago..... does not change the fact that they are BOOOOORRRRRIIIINNNGGG!!!!!!

    Cheers, RickO >>



    Interesting.
    Begs the question... how would you now know?
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  • reddwingreddwing Posts: 137 ✭✭
    Clad coinage in any form!
  • JeffersonFrogJeffersonFrog Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 15, 2018 11:47AM
    ...

    If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.

    Tommy

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Clad coinage in any form! >>



    Really?

    Here is an extremely boring clad coin .......

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,141 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My own thoughts:

    Minor varieties that require a magnifying glass to be seen.

    NCLT issues.

    Three cent pieces are not boring, just small and unappreciated.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭✭
    People who complain about numismatics, and seem to take pleasure in getting others to commiserate with them.
    John Agre

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  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>People who complain about numismatics, and seem to take pleasure in getting others to commiserate with them. >>



    A perversion of the schadenfreude perversion itself?image

    More on victimology laterimage
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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kennedy Halves and Eisenhower dollars come to mind.

    bobimage

    PS: could also add SBA's and Presidential dollars....
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Zincon's
    or waiting on that Grant that's caught in the Postal Service limbo of "Change of address".
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
  • copperhuntercopperhunter Posts: 925 ✭✭✭
    Searching on various sites for coins, and continuing to see the same overpriced dreck listings over and over and over and....not finding anything cool and new.
    Chris' Non-Red Lincoln Set 1909-1958
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  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>... your thoughts. >>



    I`ve been told that beforeimage
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The relentless flood of U.S. Mint commemorative products and their various permutations.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Perhaps more tedious than boring, but I have never been remotely interested in varieties, especially those that require magnification to determine.

    However, the 1970's era US coinage, especially the proof and mint sets, could be the most boring era of US numismatics. >>



    Isn't that interesting, that early die varieties are the MOST interesting thing in numismatics for me
    (hand made dies have different arrangement and spacing of devices, lettering, stars, etc, and the die states produced as those early dies eroded and coins continued to be produced) My dream goal is to have complete variety sets of early coins, ideally duplicate what Harry Bass did with early gold image

    couldn't agree more about the 1970's coinage, but generally, for me, the more recent, the more boring, with this year's issues boring me to tears. I wouldn't me interested in a reverse proof gold buffalo even at melt, except for selling to buy something else... I like the old stuff.

    (DOGs from the mid 1800's fall somewhere between for me; I have a few and appreciate them, but am not really interested in collecting them in quantity, beyond a type set)

    As far as topics, I find the endless discussion of slabs, labels, and stickers fascinating academically, but extremely boring personally (i.e. I don't do it)

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    People squabbling over the imperceptible differences between 69 and 70.
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  • IcollecteverythingIcollecteverything Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭
    It's boring when everyone agrees on something............................... like 3 cent nickels, I love them! If everyone liked them I couldn't afford them.

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  • KoveKove Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭✭
    The most boring thing is US numismatics is ... Waiting for my grades from PCGS.
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Reading about ebay issues.... Cheers, RickO >>



    ...spot on! image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,486 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>People squabbling over the imperceptible differences between 69 and 70. >>



    But....But.....what about registry points?

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,736 ✭✭✭✭✭
    People who go ballistic every time someone mentions the names Walter Breen and Christopher Columbus. A large majority of us know that they had major flaws, but they were also important figures within their places in history.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 10,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pompous Packaging.
    Moonlight Mint
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,993 ✭✭✭✭✭
    2x2 flips for Presidential Dollars...
    or maybe staplers... one of them , for sure.

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  • BullsitterBullsitter Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Buy the coin, not the plastic".............................................aaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,785 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sacagawea Dollars,,,,, P & D Position A & B ,,, Date on the edge image

    Heck,,,, you can't even tell what is what after they are slabbed.

    Who is the ROCKET SCIENTIST who decided to use edge lettering?????

    GrandAm image
    GrandAm :)
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 29,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The most boring thing is US numismatics is ...



    << <i>... your thoughts. >>



    I resent that. image

    Mintage numbers in the absence of prices and an understanding of demand are boring in the extreme.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Any source trying to convince me a particular coin -- which I can grade as well as anybody in the business -- is worth far more than it actually is.
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  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    The new coin designs from the past half century.

    At one time they looked like little sculptures, now they look like computer lasered renderings.
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Waiting for your new purchase to arrive in the mail image
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  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What a Debbie Downer topic...I'll +1 the packing and shipping part to keep it non-coin related lol >>



    It wouldn't be the OP if it weren't depressing. A bathtub full of Prozac wouldn't do jack to his threads.

    The bookkeeping stuff isn't much fun either.
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