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Why do we call ourselves, coin "collectors?"
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The only thing being ...collected... is dividends, paychecks, pensions, profits from business, and inheritance.
Shouldn't we be called coin "possessors?"
Maybe stretch to "numismatist" for those who buy for study.
But I think most just buy coins for plain "owning" them. Poring over them, wondering if they're worth bragging about, looking at occasionally, etc....but not actually searching and ....."collecting."
The folks who glean from change are the "collectors."
We who just ....buy.... coins aren't really collectors, are we?
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Hoarder might be inline!
I have an accumulation.....a big one.
Round-uppers might be a better term since we take stuff from all over and kinda put it in one place. Like Drunner goes out and rounds up all of the doilies.
We accumulate and possess
what we collect; ergo - we're
collectors.
We're only possessors due to
our collecting.
...because coin gatherers sounds kind of peculiar.
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I think that the title "penny pinchers" would be kind of funny.
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Definitely collectors
Alliterative affinities aside, a definition of "collecting" describes exactly what we do.
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Because OCD is too generic a term.
I disagree.....I consider myself a coin collector.
Collectors is OK
But like coin custodians better.
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You have to "collect" something before you "possess" it.
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There are 2 meanings for the word:
For some reason you fixated on number 2. Gotta go!
I like to sometimes consider myself as a Coin caretaker! lol
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I think the word we're looking for is curator.
Anything is better than "coin nerds".
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I am a collector.... I do not sell coins.... My coin collection is comprised of my possessions, for as long as I possess them. I do not care what terms others may use to define the hobby - or me, for that matter. It is a pursuit I enjoy - therefore I continue to collect. Cheers, RickO
Because the word "collectors" contains all the letters in the word "coin."
Okay, so it's only 2 out of 4, but that ain't bad.
"Collection" has all of them, though.
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How about, "enthusisasts?"
"Why do we call ourselves, coin 'collectors?' "
Well, maybe it's because some of the other names are not printable in a family publication?
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And stop calling me Shirley ... uh ... May B.
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Fish?
Steward might be appropriate.
Wardens?
"The folks who glean from change are the "collectors."
This is the way I started...I pulled my coins from change from wherever I could find them.
I was an active collector from about age 12 and it wasn't about money...at the time it was about the "hunt", finding the coins to complete my set, I had no idea that people sold coins for X amount of dollars.
Now look what happened!
'Collectors' sounds much nicer than 'addicts'. I used to tell B&M owners that I came in to get a fix.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
Because we collecting coin ?
I tell people I'm the piano player in a house of ill-repute, I no longer see the look of disgust I saw when I told them I was coin collector.
My wife would say I'm a collector since I can never bring myself to sell the stock I buy. =P
Tbh though, this whole ebay venture was meant to be biological samples and coins.. the way things are going now is I'm turning stuff I find off the forest floor into gold silver and collectibles.. when my nephew is my age this 1900-64 stuff will be ancient.
I eat the special mushrooms and do my voodoo alchemy and walk around the woods picking up coins, dodging Venus fly traps that spit balls of fire. It's not bad when you think a qtip with moss spores is equally as valuable as a 1932-64 MS quarter.
The wife doesn't get it, and complains, but I get my coins and she doesn't have a problem spending ebay money lol.