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

Lakesammman · February 23, 2015 3:55AM

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.

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

commoncents05 · February 23, 2015 4:06AM

It could have been worse, my dad was barely out of diapers when you started collecting.

-Paul

puffer · February 23, 2015 4:12AM

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".

asheland · February 23, 2015 4:16AM

roadrunner · February 23, 2015 4:38AM

Now that I'm a serious numismatist.......the "diapers" aren't that far away again.

TopographicOceans · February 23, 2015 4:45AM

Yes, old people wear diapers too!

bidask · February 23, 2015 4:48AM

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

BAJJERFAN · February 23, 2015 4:51AM

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

>>

It depends.

johnny9434 · February 23, 2015 5:01AM

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

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winky · February 23, 2015 6:45AM

So long I can't remember.

astrorat · February 23, 2015 6:51AM

<< 

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

>>

It depends. >>

In Depends?

Broadstruck · February 23, 2015 7:13AM

Lakesammman · February 23, 2015 11:24AM

Forgot to mention in the OP - he's been collecting 45 years.

CoinZip · February 23, 2015 11:27AM

<< 

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

>>

It depends. >>

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

ColonelJessup · February 23, 2015 11:43PM

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

BAJJERFAN · February 23, 2015 11:58PM

Or since you were knee high to a grasshopper
or
since Christ was a kid
or
since Moby Dick was a minnow.

Baley · February 24, 2015 12:00AM

<< 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

Sonorandesertrat · February 24, 2015 12:16AM

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

You should have asked which variety.

crypto79 · February 24, 2015 12:17AM

You should have ask if he meant your first goes around with diapers or the impending one?

BAJJERFAN · February 24, 2015 1:26AM

Can you imagine a YN telling an old timer, "I've been collecting coins since before you were in depends".

TwoSides2aCoin · February 24, 2015 1:36AM

I been a wannabe since God knows when.

Or

I've been a wannabe since God knows I can't remember.

ToughCOINS · February 24, 2015 2:17AM

"I've been a numismatist since you were in diapers!" . . . likely means the quoted will soon be in diapers again.

ricko · February 24, 2015 3:41AM

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

cladking · February 24, 2015 4:03AM

<< 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.

Nic · February 24, 2015 8:57AM

<< 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.

PerryHall · February 24, 2015 9:02AM

<< 

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

You should have asked which variety.

>>

Red-Brown

PerryHall · February 24, 2015 9:06AM

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

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

Lakesammman · February 24, 2015 9:15AM

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.

shorecoll · February 24, 2015 9:19AM

I've been collecting since before they invented dirt!

Barberian · February 24, 2015 11:20AM

<< 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.

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

>>

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.

BAJJERFAN · February 24, 2015 11:53AM

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

Lot easier to dig em out of the ground without dirt around aint it?

DHeath · February 24, 2015 12:16PM

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

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

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