So How do you rate yourself?

DanC · July 10, 2003 10:36AM

There have been some interesting discussions about what constitutes a "dealer", a "coin-whore", etc...
just curious how you rate yourself.

Considering the forum has over 24 multi-millionaires (from the last poll) this should prove to be interesting.

Russ · July 10, 2003 10:43AM

You need an option for "coin scavenger" or "coin scrounge". That's what I do - basically I'm the dumpster diver of the coin world.

Russ, NCNE

jbsteven · July 10, 2003 10:44AM

I am a combination of the top three (I wear a Rolex, adjust prices higher when TBT buys from me

) and I go to all the national shows

LucyBop · July 10, 2003 10:45AM

How come there is no Hepcat or HepKitty option???? This poll is suckie sucky!

DanC · July 10, 2003 10:47AM

Wow... after weeks and weeks of ignoring me - save for the occasional "you toad" comment - Lucy speaks.

edit: option added.

ElectricEye · July 10, 2003 10:50AM

mac daddy of the daddy macs

barberlover · July 10, 2003 10:51AM

Some coins I will only sell if someone offers me 63 Dcam enny profits for. Does that make me a whore ?
Please tell me, I promise I'll still respect you in the morning.

Les

khayse · July 10, 2003 10:51AM

I'm a collector but I aspire to be a coin-whore.

-KHayse

cladking · July 10, 2003 10:55AM

I don't really understand that other thread. Sure there are a lot of things about the
market that would surprise the neophyte. There's the tendency toward everyone in
a deal trying to do so well that all parties are sometimes engaging in legalized steal-
ing. There's the unforeseen amount of heavy lifting. There's the wear and tear on the
eyes and many other things that wouldn't be expected. These I all understand. Been
there, done that. The other I just don't get.

I am the pretender to the throne so I guess that makes me a wanna be. I certainly do
not want to sell anything of myself other than my labor and patience, though.

...and I'll never rent out any coins.

LucyBop · July 10, 2003 10:56AM

ahhh..... Now I can vote, WHAT A GREAT POLL!!!!!!

Tootawl · July 10, 2003 11:00AM

There sure are alot of selections if you sell, not too many if you only buy.

DanC · July 10, 2003 11:02AM

There's a new one.

FatMan · July 10, 2003 11:07AM

I am a collector. I will die with my collection but my kids won't bury it with me. They have no interest in coins but in their minds they already have their inheritance spent.

Oh BTW, I do occasionally list coins on eBay so I guess I'm an occasional coin whore......or is it coin pimp.....I'm unsure

kranky · July 10, 2003 11:08AM

<< <i>You need an option for "coin scavenger" or "coin scrounge". That's what I do - basically I'm the dumpster diver of the coin world.

Russ, NCNE >>

Keep scrounging, Russ. This week's CW talks about a 1995-P cent/dime mule that someone bought for $15 in a Farmers' Market. That's a five-figure coin.

PTVETTER · July 10, 2003 11:08AM

I'm a small dealer have to save money to buy a timex, see what happen when you don't over charge and still pay PCGS thier fees

kranky · July 10, 2003 11:12AM

Pat, it's not the overcharging, it's the overbuying!

theboz11 · July 10, 2003 11:30AM

Thanks Russ for the request of that additional catagory. I needed that to place a vote.

darktone · July 10, 2003 11:49AM

I am just an average collector but I like my Rolex watches also

. mike

Fairlaneman · July 10, 2003 12:01PM

Russ has got it correct for folks in the NorthWest. If you want to find something at all you must Dumpster Dive or Surf the Bay of E. Tough hunting out here.

Canadian is easy though.

Ken

wingedliberty · July 10, 2003 12:13PM

You and I don't define purist the same way. I consider myself a purist but wear a Citizen and sometimes no tie. I would not be seen dead with a Rolex. A Hamilton yes, but not a Rolex. I have over 200 numismatic titles in my library and collect everything from Roman provincial coins to proof gold eagles., that to me is a purist.

Brian.

darktone · July 10, 2003 12:19PM

<< <i>I would not be seen dead with a Rolex >>

A Rolex would not be on a dead guy very long

. mike

wingedliberty · July 10, 2003 12:25PM

Mike:
That was funny. LOL,

Brian.

RGL · July 10, 2003 1:10PM

I take exception to Russ' remarks. Heck, I am least a good dumpster -- perhaps one and a half -- ahead of him. Now, if I could only bring myself to ever sell any of my "scores."

DanC · July 10, 2003 4:14PM

Of course... the poll is not scientific. Simply amusement.

Funny there's only one "dealer" in the crowd.

Russ · July 11, 2003 1:39AM

<< <i>I take exception to Russ' remarks. Heck, I am least a good dumpster -- perhaps one and a half -- ahead of him. >>

Uh, RGL, I was being literal. There's a dumpster in the middle of the parking lot in front of my shop. Each night after all the business are closed and the people gone, I climb in and scrounge around.

Russ, NCNE

ARCO · July 11, 2003 1:45AM

I am a coin whore of babylon. I take sacred pure coins, some I keep and put into captivity to enjoy and oogle without any regards to what the coins want, and some I take and pimp and whore out to the whole earth on the grand wicked bazaar known as Ebay.

With my pimped gains I repeat this process.

Tyler

mdwoods · July 11, 2003 2:31AM

I voted Elitist, but only because I liked the definition.

paigowjohnny · July 11, 2003 2:37AM

<< <i>(I wear a Rolex, adjust prices higher when TBT buys from me >>

I can't afford a Rolex (and jbsteven can !!) because I pay jb's OUTRAGEOUS prices...

Steve27 · July 11, 2003 2:42AM

I tell ya, I just don't know. It must be gravity that keeps me here.

dorkkarl · July 11, 2003 3:17AM

on a scale of 1-10, i rate myself about a "H".

K S

PhillyJoe · July 11, 2003 3:57AM

What Tyler said.

Joe

dragon · July 11, 2003 4:59AM

None of the catagories seem to fit me........and what is a Rolex??

dragon

cosmicdebris · July 11, 2003 7:13AM

Can coins be cremated?

So How do you rate yourself?

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