Is it possible to collect coins without being a coin geek?
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yes.
<< <i>you're not a geek, you're a dweeb >>
That's actually not me... I thought it was Saintguru...
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<< <i>I am not a geek, I am a NERD thank you very much.
We're just as normal as everyone else, right?
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Uhhhhhhhh, right?? NOT!!
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<< <i>I thought geeks were supposed to be RICH and SMART? I'd like to be called a geek if I could own a Saint like the last one you bought!
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They can be rich and smart, but most men would trade in all that in order to have the opportunity to reproduce with a female.
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at this stage of the game ...i'd like to only go thru the motions withOUT the actual reproduction....and i get to pick with whom the practicing will occur with.....especially if i'm gonna be dumb and poor afterwards.
You could then probably find and get into a "relationship" with a "trophy" girlfriend, boyfriend, wife or husband if you need that sort of thing to make you feel alive and good about yourself.
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<< <i>Karl Malone (Basketball great) collects coins... I dare you to call him a geek. ;-) >>
Karl Malone has never been a coin collector. Him showing up at a past ANA was at the persistence of his agent, Dwight Manley. Mr. Manley wanted to show Karl what his other profession was.
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no
YES
I'm not a geek...
I'm not a geek...
I'm not a geek...
Oh god, I'm a geek!!
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"America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
generally, the more one knows about coins, the more they're a coin geek in thee eyes of non-collectors.
someone can collect some coins and not be any geekier than the average joe
but if they've got books about coins, and talk online about coins, sorry guys, yer a geek
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I wouldn't call him a coin geek
So, who graded those girls 69's??
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"America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
I'll have to check my pocket protector crib notes on that one
Yes=geek.
No=probably you just don't have a list.
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<< <i>For God's sake, Jay. Are you going to keep making me upload pics to prove we're NOT COIN GEEKS???
You're standing around enough plastic to reholder all PCGS graded coins for the next 27 years!
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1. Magnifying glass attached to your glasses.
2. Magnifying glass on lanyard around your neck.
3. Checklist of either coins you need or coins you already have.
4. You are able to recite the exact mintage of any coin.
5. Carrying a Red Book or the Greysheet.
6. You know which coins are listed in which version of the Greysheet.
7. You can consistently determine NT vs. AT, and you know what these acronyms mean.
8. You know what years the Philadelphia mint used the P mintmark.
9. You know what coins were contained in each shipwreck.
10. You know that new pennies aren't made of copper, nickels are mostly copper, and Ike "silver dollars" usually contain no silver.
11. You meet Lloyd and his entourage and focus on Lloyd rather than the entourage.
Anybody want to add more?
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<< <i>You're standing around enough plastic to reholder all PCGS graded coins for the next 27 years! >>
simply hilarious.... im pretty sure one of those "ladies" is a man lol, and another looks like Katherine Harris!
He was just so cool! yet a modest and refined gentleman!
But, then, he didn't really collect COINS did he?
(Man, this thread just reeks of OFism.)
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So, who graded those girls 69's??
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did someone say 69? yes please.
In theory, yes. Based upon what I see on this forum (myself included)? No way!
<< <i>For God's sake, Jay. Are you going to keep making me upload pics to prove we're NOT COIN GEEKS???
Coin geeks surround themselves with prostitutes.
Jay, I don't think those women are geeks OR that Lloyd is a prostitute.
Checkmark me for your numbers 2,3,4,8 and 10. Sometimes 11 if I was at a coin auction!!
Jay, only you pay for that sort a thing... OF blowup, here we come...
<<You're standing around enough plastic to...>> That, is funny!!!
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<< <i>They can be rich and smart, but most men would trade in all that in order to have the opportunity to reproduce with a female. >>
Smart may not help you, but if you can get that rich part down well enough you probably won't have any problem getting that opportunity
If you can't collect without being a geek then the Mint believes that almost 50% of the entire population of the US are coin geeks. Anyone else believe that?
Actually In my opinion MOST of the people who collect coins are NOT coin geeks, knowing little more than what coins they still need for the collection they are putting together and MAYBE the current price of the keys they still need. Mintages, compositions, designers, varieties, grading, these are all alien to them. Even for their chosen collection. Most collectors are little more than well organized accumulators.
Am I a geek? I would say I am a closet geek.
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I love to watch Ben "The Coin Geek" on YouTube, and wanted to see how many others here enjoy him also. If you haven't seen him I recommend his channel as entertaining and informational.
So... I just had to use the search function here and this is what I found. Quite a few posters from the old days on here.
To answer the question, I suppose it's possible (yet highly unlikely) to be a coin collector (or as @Conder101 would say "well organized accumulators") without being thought of by non-collectors as a bit of a geek.
I don’t mind being called a coin geek or coin nerd. This is because when used in this context, it is complementary rather than derogatory. It implies knowledge and specialization. Also, most are successful financially, as well, unlike casual collectors.
Finally, in an effort to answer the nearly 20-year-old question: Yes, I do believe it’s possible.
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It may be possible for others but not for me. I nerded out on coins big-time just before a football game between two 2-0 teams in front of 105,000 people.
Division 1 football teams stay in hotels the night before games to enable them to focus on the upcoming game. Unfortunately, the motel Northwestern stayed at in Ann Arbor was across the street from a coin shop.
I could not resist paying a visit after breakfast and creating a stir in the shop when I pointed out that all of the dealer's 1911-S Lincolns were altered 1941-Ss with a VDB on the shoulder. I left after 10 minutes without buying anything, and of course, I caught some stink-eye and harsh words from the coaches at the hotel doorway.
Michigan played flawlessly that day and won 69-0. The game had to be stopped twice because Northwestern fans were pelting the team with apples they received in their sack lunches, and they ended up all over the field. I was partially blamed for the loss for not having my head in the right place" for the game, even though I played pretty well that day.
I blame them for picking a hotel across the street from a coin shop.
If we accept the premise that "coin geek" equals "numismatist", then yes, it certainly is possible to be a "coin collector" without being a "numismatist".
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