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If you had to pick a trait that the majority of numismatists have, what would you say?

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    CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    Obsessive/Compulsive.
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    CoinResourceCoinResource Posts: 1,113
    Obsession for shiny metal things.
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    CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,353 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Attention to detail. Meticulous.
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,737 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dealers---Greedy
    Collectors---Cheap



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    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are many but the one that seems to stand out the most is intelligence. We also tend to be pretty independent.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
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    BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Most seem to have an interest in coins. Some don't, they just like the money image
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    RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gluttony and questionable personal hygeine.

    What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,512 ✭✭✭✭
    As Cladiator said, an eye for detail..........lots of detail!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
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    mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    We pick through our pocket change in elevators? We can't spell smoebody but we can spell Sacagawea?
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    1921obsession1921obsession Posts: 559 ✭
    Anality.
    Proudly upholding derelict standards for five decades.
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    PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭
    A Y chromosome!
    John Kraljevich, Director of Numismatic Americana, Stack's Bowers Galleries
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    We're all beautiful and well-liked.
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    RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some of us might have 2 y chromosomes.

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    What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
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    kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭
    Creativity.....we are all very creative in how we ago about selecting coins and putting together our collections.
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Big wangers.

    (What? You guys don't?)

    Russ, NCNE
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    PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭

    addicts (the main difference is drugs are regulated and drug dealers are criminals image).

    need my next fix!

    need my next coin!

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    BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,790 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From what I see from certain dealers, collectors, and errorists - EGO

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

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    secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    Members of the Delta Rho Kappa fraternity (DORKS)

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    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,737 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Gluttony and questionable personal hygeine. >>

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    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    OldReadingOldReading Posts: 129
    OK, so far we're obsessive, meticulous, greedy, intelligent, independent, anal egomaniac addicts with big wangers.
    ---Larry---

    More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits." - John Nelson.
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    BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bochiman, thanks much for her return.
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    flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    Shockingly attractive and intelligent.

    EDIT: Oh, and also humble.
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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Big wangers. >>



    And Feucht wangers.

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    morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    Sloth greed and hubris sums it up..although intelligent and big swongs too, on occasion.image
    morgannut2
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    GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭


    << <i>Shockingly attractive and intelligent.

    EDIT: Oh, and also humble. >>

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    .....................................You must have been thinking of ME.....!!!!!!!.......
    ......Larry........image
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    BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was going to say "appreciate beauty, history, and intrinsic value", but I guess the others are true to a certain degree, too.

    esp the part about the big wang.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

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    LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Detailed
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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    bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
    Ever go to a coin show and smell the passers by?

    Body odor!
    "Wars are really ugly! They're dirty
    and they're cold.
    I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole."
    Mary






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    CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭


    << <i>Ever go to a coin show and smell the passers by?

    Body odor! >>



    Yeah, but those aren't REAL numismatists, just dismissable wannabes.
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    09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    detail oriented and cheap
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    michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    GREEDY!!! EGOTISTICAL cheap penny pinching want something for nothing
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    braddickbraddick Posts: 25,174 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The positive traite of not take ourselves too seriously.

    The ability to harnest and make work for us two of nature's strongest motivators:
    Greed and Fear.
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    BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Repugnent/Repulsive image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
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    BOOKBOOK Posts: 223
    We left out "Obessive Packrat"
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    My grandchildren. The heirs to my collection! (Just not to soon I hope)
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    ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't forget to add varying degrees of neurosis and paranoia to the mix.
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
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    RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who said I was paranoid?!? TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
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    IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
    Systematic with a need to classify coins and a desire to categorize other collectors.
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    longnine009longnine009 Posts: 53
    "...What men mistaken for beauty in themselves is usually nothing save a certain hollow gaudiness, a revolting flashiness, the superficial splendor of a prancing animal..."
    H.L Mencken--The lore of beauty

    "It's an experimental division at Ft. Benning, and
    your lucky to be assigned there rather than anywhere
    else, because nobody knows anything about it, which
    means that you should know quickly as much about it
    as anybody."
    1st Cav in Vietnam
    Shelby Stanton

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