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Like say a license plate number in traffic, a price on a bill, an order number, or even an actual date on a sign... does it immediately remind you of a coin in your collection? 
This is a @Coinstartled type thread 
Or am I a serious coin nerd?
Every time I see that sign I think of this one:
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I live on Gold Mountain Drive.........................................nothing but nightmares!
Yes, I heavily collect major error coins for the birth dates of my family.
My wife's date has had a major dump in the market in the last year. I keep buying super eye appeal from that year that I never knew existed until recently.
I have a similar, related, disease. Whenever I see 1 or 2 digit numbers, I immediately relate them to Anaheim Ducks player jersey numbers, both past and present.
It's good to know I am not alone!
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Hope he is ok.
I do that all the time. I guess that makes me a coin nerd
Tell me where this market is so I can make sure I stay away from there.
I do notice license plates with my partial or full initials.
I never thought too much about dates (although I might now) but when I see an old building for example, I do think of what was going on back in the era when it was built, and I guess that could extend to the money in use at the time.
I'll post a follow up to this in a little while (here) There's a building nearby that has it's date on it. and it matches one of my coins.
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I went to two nephews weddings in California a few years ago a month apart. One straight and one gay.
The really weird thing is, the wedding that most shocked me was the ultra conservative super way religious ceremony, it was sooo odd.
Rainbow California leads the nation. You all will follow, eventually
No numbers but for some reason this sign reminded me to "beware and not become a nerd" on coin collecting
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I do it with mailboxes. There's a road I workout on that has house #s from 1700-1900. As a copper collector, as I run by I'm always thing 1793 -- chain cent; 1856 - flying eagle, etc....
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What in the world does this have to do with this thread? I must be missing something.
That reminds me of this Blowhole Error I just bought. Sorry about the sellers' photo ....
Here we go:
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Ahhh the roaring 20s. Flappers. Prohibition and speakeasies. Those great enormous touring cars. Silver dollars and classic silver coins in everyone's pockets, and lots of Buffalo nickels. The public was getting used to the new small-sized currency. And although gold was still in production I suspect that the average person rarely or never saw it. I imagine that spending gold then was almost as unusual as spending a $2 bill is today.
I am glad that the current business left the old name and date on the building. It is part of the building’s history.
No... I do not relate numbers I see to coins... I do often relate certain numbers encountered to my personal history - i.e. Ship hull number, boot camp company number, birth year, significant career dates etc.. Coins are part of my life, but there has been so much more.
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I do it all the time. When I put gas in my vehicle, when I see addresses, when I open accounts for people at my office. It's a sickness!
I like to relate coins to road signs stating the founding of cities or county’s.
Questions arise in my mind as to what types of money circulated there in that time frame and whether a newly minted US coin even made it there in that year.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
I relate numbers to many things in my life but hardly ever my coins. I turn gallons of gasoline into jersey numbers. Numbers on receipts into birthdays or anniversaries. Ect ect. I have a receipt hanging on my fridge right now that was order number 1313 and the price was $6.66. My wife thinks I'm nuts. I recently made a stop for a lottery ticket because I saw a birthday on a telephone pole while we were driving around running errands.
Wow. Y’all are a bunch of head cases.
Numbers are just numbers to me, although I did work pretty hard to get a 2-digit license plate. Easier to remember.
Gee Thanks for diagnosing my problem. I bet there are some 1908's in that bank...
Interesting that you should say that. We have account numbers that get issued consecutively. When the newest
numbers were issued the last 4 digits started with 1900, 1901, 1902, etc...!
Happens all the time. Everywhere I go , I see numismatics inferences. Dates, initials and such, on license plates, billboards, laundromats.
I have friends named Morgan, Reed, etc....
I hate this. It's haunting. I can't even get my haircut without seeing a Barber. All this makes no sense ( no cents 1883 v nickel) .. See what I mean ? It's a sickness.
I even dated a Penny, once.
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@Hallco ..Well if I didn't have it before I certainly do now.
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Yes to a certain set of numbers "707" . See it in an odometer, or twice a day on the clock, street address.
I'm a night owl so I only see 7:07 on a clock once a day.
Not sure it would be good to be numbered with some of this group. Numbers seem to make one or two of them a little ten-se. I think it would be good four them if they eight a snack and tried to relax.
1892 makes me think Barbers but I don’t typically see 1892 in the random wild.
You what gets me tho, 318. I seem to freak out when I look at a digital clock and it’s 3:18.
I won’t go into a hotel room 318.
It was the engine size in my Mom’s ‘70 Dodge Challenger, but that should be a good, not ominous thing, right?
Brain trigger, that number.
I have a good memory for dates, which comes in handy in this hobby. When I would draw the raffle tickets at our coin club, I would read off the last four numbers of the ticket, but if they happened to be a significant date, I would say something that happened that year instead. The reactions were always fun, with the experts in particular historical eras knowing some right away, while others would react based on a ball park idea of when the event happened compared to the "years" on their tickets. The raffle would become a mini educational segment.
Of course, I'm a fan of ancient Roman coins, so I have a lot of years to draw on. lol
Love it!
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I almost married a young woman whose maiden name was Schilling.
Lucky miss or Lucky Miss, you can be the judge.
Is there an explanation for the wedding quote, especially the last sentence?
I think about motor size when I see certain numbers
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Yes. Birth years of all family members, business established dates on signs, buildings, and I even had seen notching on a sloppy job the local road crew had done on a left turn lane. The fresh paint on the new left arrow did not match up with the old arrow and it was shifted up, to the left showing nice notching. It's perplexing. Beautiful, yet, annoying. You understand...