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Do you consider your style of collecting an art form?

gtstanggtstang Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭✭✭
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From the way way you obtain your coins to the order in which you buy a certain coin. How your taste has evolved over time and how you know when you see a coin that it is a part of you and belongs in your collection.
So, is the way you collect an art form?

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 28, 2019 6:55PM

    Naaa ... don’t got that much class ...

    Seriously I have never thought of my collection as an art form.

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Say what?

  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No.

  • cursivecursive Posts: 15 ✭✭

    Collecting art is curation, not creation. It's about art, but it isn't art. Unless you get too weird and philosophical about it.

  • jgennjgenn Posts: 760 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @gtstang said:
    So, is the way you collect an art form?

    Very much like a Jackson Pollock painting.

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  • JoeCorradoJoeCorrado Posts: 51 ✭✭

    @gtstang said:
    So, is the way you collect an art form?

    Mine is more like.... um... well, scatter brained. lol

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ...... a free form & style :) void of any principle

  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No.

  • AkbeezAkbeez Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PF that’s obtuse! This is a coin forum—whaddya talkin?

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Only if I’m allowed to color outside the lines. :)

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 1, 2019 6:41AM


    Im just part of the puzzle.

  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My coin collection used to be art like this -

    Now, it is much more like this -

  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My canvas is never ending and always changing.

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Yes, I absolutely consider what and how I collect an Art Form. I come from an Art background.

    Something like that had to be intentional.

  • jabbajabba Posts: 3,176 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like to find coin a good coin match that’s my artistic abilities


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    https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,099 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When you collect like a curator it's quite hard to put down one's pipe and beret I rather dare say.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,721 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 1, 2019 8:34AM

    I have some white and some toned coins in my set. Each different and unique. Very eclectic....kinda like abstract art; I guess.

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  • savitalesavitale Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No. Though I have tried to come up with a unique, artistic way to display my coins, I have failed so far.

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 1, 2019 10:27AM

    Many items I collect are art but style of collecting is another story.

    I consider John Jay Pittman’s Statue of Liberty bidding a form of performance art.

    My clicking on Heritage Live buttons not so much!

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Picasso <3

    @Akbeez said:
    PF that’s obtuse! This is a coin forum—whaddya talkin?

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Oil on canvas.

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unfortunate picture but I couldn't resist.

    :'(

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 1, 2019 12:48PM

    Yes, and like some art, it (my collecting habits and art) is often misunderstood.

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  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,878 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those who post photos of their coins seem to have elevated their collecting to an art form.

    Then there are the Picassos among us who seem to have taken artistic license to the level where a dully colored coin becomes pictured as a brilliant toner.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,168 ✭✭✭✭✭

    no, not in the least bit

  • WinLoseWinWinLoseWin Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭✭✭

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    Kind of resembles your Franklin slab(s) that survived the Paradise fire.

    Life imitating art?
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    @Paradisefound said:
    This represents my way of coin collecting style <3

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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Yes, I absolutely consider what and how I collect an Art Form. I come from an Art background.

    This has to be one of the coolest errors EVER!
    Kind of reminds me of this...

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,453 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Uhhhhh.......no.

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  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Do you consider your style of collecting an art form?"

    No, I more compare it to fishing with dynamite.

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2, 2019 10:33AM

    @DIMEMAN said:

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Yes, I absolutely consider what and how I collect an Art Form. I come from an Art background.

    Something like that had to be intentional.

    I custom order them with Two Dates ...

  • ChopmarkedTradesChopmarkedTrades Posts: 534 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I consider it to be more of a mild psychosis myself.

  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A collection might include art, but of itself is not art - it is only a container. However, Glenstone Museum in Potomac Maryland comes close.

  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @RogerB said:
    A collection might include art, but of itself is not art - it is only a container. However, Glenstone Museum in Potomac Maryland comes close.

    The recently opened "Louvre" in Abu Dhabi is a similarly artistic container. Perhaps we'll end up with macro-museums which encapsulate entire museums as exhibits within the macro-museum. That will come only after we have slabs for our rare slabs.

    But, to the original post, a collection does represent creativity and personal taste so I suppose it could be considered art. It's similar to interior design: I wouldn't call MY house "art" but there are some beautifully designed interiors where the collection of pieces is greater than the sum of its parts.

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I consider the way I live an Art Form!! B)

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