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Whats a Widget

atarianatarian Posts: 3,116 ✭
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Whats a widget? why arent they go ( or why are they good)? maybe i know what this is but its a new term.
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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    You will find plenty of answers in this thread.

    But I'm sure I'll still need this image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    The type of coins I sell.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • riprip Posts: 191


    << <i>The type of coins I sell.

    Russ, NCNE >>



    image such a kidder
  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This "term" is just like a cancer, it spreads and needs to be wiped off the face of the earth.
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    It's a term meant to denigrate what 99.9% of collectors collect.
  • RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭
    It was a "confuso-method" of marketing.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beats me...image
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  • HobbyistHobbyist Posts: 215
    I think a widget is somewhere between a cool collector coin and a world-class rarity. Of course, all those labels are kind of nerdy so take it for what it is worth.
    Time sure flies when you don't know what you're doing...
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  • TUMUSSTUMUSS Posts: 2,207 ✭


    << <i>It's a term meant to denigrate what 99.9% of collectors collect. >>



    ..."Coined" by an egomaniac.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They are the same thing as a wedgie, just ask Laura image usually only wannabes get them and they hurt if left unattended.image

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  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>It's a term meant to denigrate what 99.9% of collectors collect. >>



    ..."Coined" by an egomaniac. >>




    People who look down on others because they are not rich or
    have a ton of money to spend on coins do not impress me in the least.

    The Donald Trumps (or Trump wannabees) of the world with that
    kind of attitude are just annoying egomaniacs.

  • questor54questor54 Posts: 1,351 ✭
    ditto to Michigan!

    I wonder if SOME of those who denegrate widgets are unable to buy them? This is a hobby, people! It is meant to be fun! There has always been competition among collectors in any field, but let's not let it get out of hand.

    To coin collectors in other parts of the world, we in the US look strange with our hyper-emphasis on hyper-condition, lack of historical perspective and ever-present price guides.

    Let's not get to the point where we know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

    I collect widgets. I also collect classic world and ancient coins. So what?
  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    Wow...Such diverse definitions of the term "Widget."image

    I was deemed a "Widget" collector this morning.



    Tom image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why all the hoopla over a name for a commonly available coin? They are what they are and the commonly accepted business situational term widget is just as good a description as any, woodja believe.image
    if you are a Morgan collector like myself then 98% of your coins will be widgets, cept many of them seem to command more than widget prices.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • busco69busco69 Posts: 815 ✭✭
    NOUN:1.A small mechanical device or control;a gadget . A coin can not be a widget because it is not mechanical.
    ''Coin collecting is the only hobby where you can spend all your money and still have some left''
  • ChuckCChuckC Posts: 1,600
    A purple animated creature

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  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭


    << <i>NOUN:1.A small mechanical device or control;a gadget . A coin can not be a widget because it is not mechanical. >>




    And a person with so little education as to not understand that should not be given license to apply it inappropriately and have it lovingly adopted by her butt-kissing sycophants.
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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  • busco69busco69 Posts: 815 ✭✭
    Thanks Pharmer I forgot to add that.image
    ''Coin collecting is the only hobby where you can spend all your money and still have some left''
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


    >>butt-kissing sycophants<<

    Oxymoronic, but I like it. Since it's a her, I can only guess...image

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  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    Absolutely not. You must not know the definition. Look It Up™
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

    image
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was there a movie "Widget Goes to Rome"? image
    theknowitalltroll;
  • RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭
    ok, right pharmer, widget is a gadget, commenly used in graduate and under-graduate business case studies as an example of a whatchamacallit, an apparatus, a contraption, device, doodad, doohickey, gismo, invention, tool, object, thing, thingamabob, thingamagig, thingy, or even sometimes, a concept or idea...used to create discussion or controversy, commonly sarcastic, toungue-in-cheek, divisive, ungrounded.
  • JSssonJSsson Posts: 891 ✭
    I am still fairly new at attending the larger coin shows, and I have heard the term of widget used often by dealers to describe coins that are common

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