Home› U.S. Coin Forum

I was looking at my coins last night.................

lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
in U.S. Coin Forum
When my daughter and current boyfriend came to my house.
He kept looking at me kinda funny and acted like he hadn't ever seen someone looking at coins through a microscope, before.
Man, non-coincollectors sure are strange.

Ray

Comments

  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    You have a current boyfriend?
    Give Blood (Red Bags) & Platelets (Yellow Bags)!
  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You were using a microscope?

    Were you looking for paramecia or volvox on your coins?

    image
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

    "Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."


    ~Wayne
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    he is an idiot tell your daughter to get rid of that loser and find someone more open to new ideas

    instead of the usual video game smart mouthed generation x something young brainless man
  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, that's a little harsh michael.

    Not everyone understands coins the way you and I do. Doesn't make him a loser.
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

    "Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."


    ~Wayne
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,256 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Her new non-collector boyfriend and his non-collector friends will be selling your coins at the local pawn shop.
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    it aint harsh just reality for someone who does not understand something not to look at it oddly

    and a young person who is more open to new ideas lol i think not
  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    Shoulda grabbed him and sat him down to look at some amazing coins!!!!

    Could have been a life changing event for him

    Hey, the kid could be an Eagle Scout- don't be to quick too judge

    Jim
    Pilgrim Clock and Gift Shop.. Expert clock repair since 1844

    Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA

    http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    Agreed. Be careful what you do with your coins in front of strangers.
  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    You let your daughters mess with strangers but not your coins??????

    What's more important???
    What's more valuable???


    Priority, Daughter-Coins That is the question!!!!

    Pilgrim Clock and Gift Shop.. Expert clock repair since 1844

    Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA

    http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
  • Newcomp103Newcomp103 Posts: 2,223 ✭


    << <i>he is an idiot tell your daughter to get rid of that loser and find someone more open to new ideas

    instead of the usual video game smart mouthed generation x something young brainless man >>




    This coming from a person that has Pikachu as an icon! image
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    image

    Next time he comes over and ogles your hobby habits, tell her boyfriend to look in the tube and as he turns it for a better view, a black ring will be around his eye! (for ages 12 & up)
    Chat Board Lingo

    "Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
  • ROBERTBROBERTB Posts: 1,016


    << <i>Her new non-collector boyfriend and his non-collector friends will be selling your coins at the local pawn shop. >>



    That's about what I was thinking.
    Everything I write is my opinion.

    Looking for alot of crap.
  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭


    << <i>he is an idiot tell your daughter to get rid of that loser and find someone more open to new ideas

    instead of the usual video game smart mouthed generation x something young brainless man >>



    Ummmm.....
    He's 38, and owns 15 rental housing units. I don't believe he plays video games.
    Oh, he owns a Heating and Air Conditioning business as well.

    Ray
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    owning property and money does not make him smart or good

  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    numismatists are on odd breed.

    We spend $20,000 on a small disc of metal, other people spend it on a car image
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sure tells ya sumpin about the "future" of the hobby, though.
    15 rentals and no interest whatsoever.
    New day dawning.

    Hafta realize that NEVER IN HIS LIFETIME has he had a current coin with any intrinsic value ...OR... inspiring design.

  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not everyone understands coins the way you and I do. Doesn't make him a loser. >>



    Might be real close though.
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    <<<When my daughter and current boyfriend came to my house.>>>

    I agree with itsnotjustme. That did sound strange.
    "My" is a nominative singular pronoun referring to yourself so you are saying your current boyfriend came to your house. The use of the conjunction "and" verifies that the daughter and the boyfriend are both yours since you failed to use the possessive case of she, which is "her," before boyfriend.
    We're looking at you funny too.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey Dog, did you just say all that? What did you say anyway? Heh heh
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    <<<Hey Dog, did you just say all that? What did you say anyway? Heh heh >>>
    I said that itsnotjustme said that lathmach said that his strange boyfriend came over last night.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i><<<When my daughter and current boyfriend came to my house.>>>

    I agree with itsnotjustme. That did sound strange.
    "My" is a nominative singular pronoun referring to yourself so you are saying your current boyfriend came to your house. The use of the conjunction "and" verifies that the daughter and the boyfriend are both yours since you failed to use the possessive case of she, which is "her," before boyfriend.
    We're looking at you funny too. >>



    image
    Chat Board Lingo

    "Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭


    << <i>he is an idiot tell your daughter to get rid of that loser and find someone more open to new ideas

    instead of the usual video game smart mouthed generation x something young brainless man >>



    A lack of interest in numismatics should not automatically make somebody a "loser", nor should it exclude them from finding a suitable partner whose parent(s) are coin collectors.

    If you think video games and "smart mouthed" Gen X'ers and Y'ers are the exclusive losers and brainless, then you haven't many coin collectors. Think about it...looking at coins under a microscope...sounds rather "unusual" from a non-numismatists' point of view.

    Face it...numismatic collectors are a strange bunch. They're the group of folks who will complain about having to pay admission to enter a coin show or pay for parking then not flinch when they spend $20,000 on one coin.
    Follow me on Twitter @wtcgroup
    Authorized dealer for PCGS, PCGS Currency, NGC, NCS, PMG, CAC. Member of the PNG, ANA. Member dealer of CoinPlex and CCE/FACTS as "CH5"
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Think about it...looking at coins under a microscope...sounds rather "unusual" from a non-numismatists' point of view.

    Looking at coins under a microscope sounds unusual from this numismatist's point of view. image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • BurksBurks Posts: 1,103 ✭


    << <i>If you think video games and "smart mouthed" Gen X'ers and Y'ers are the exclusive losers and brainless, then you haven't many coin collectors. Think about it...looking at coins under a microscope...sounds rather "unusual" from a non-numismatists' point of view.
    >>



    I'm all three:

    1. Love video games
    2. Named "class ass" in high school (I strive to maintain my title!)
    3. Numismatist!

    If he does it again just ask if you'd like to get him a chair to sit down and learn something. Heck, he might actually enjoy it!
    WTB: Eric Plunk cards, jersey (signed or unsigned), and autographs. Basically anything related to him

    Positive BST: WhiteThunder (x2), Ajaan, onefasttalon, mirabela, Wizard1, cucamongacoin, mccardguy1


    Negative BST: NONE!
  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i><<<Hey Dog, did you just say all that? What did you say anyway? Heh heh >>>
    I said that itsnotjustme said that lathmach said that his strange boyfriend came over last night. >>



    Thanks, you ever watch Sanford and Son with the two cops, and one needs to translate to Fred what the other cop says? haha
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    <<< << <<<Hey Dog, did you just say all that? What did you say anyway? Heh heh >>>
    I said that itsnotjustme said that lathmach said that his strange boyfriend came over last night. >>



    Thanks, you ever watch Sanford and Son with the two cops, and one needs to translate to Fred what the other cop says? haha >>>

    Yeah they were strange too.

    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    I am sure looking at coins through a microscope is weird to someone not into coins at that level.

    Sometimes when I get coins in the mail at the post office, I lock the car doors when I get in with them and look at them with a loupe in the ambient sunlight. At times I feel like some junkie with his works getting a fix there and people passing by sort of give the same look as I'd expect for that. They must assume I am some criminal looking over a heist or something.
    Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
    NSDR - Life Member
    SSDC - Life Member
    ANA - Pay As I Go Member
  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Sometimes when I get coins in the mail at the post office, I lock the car doors when I get in with them and look at them with a loupe in the ambient sunlight >>



    I do it, and after I think what the heck am I doing. But, it's a good idea to look at a coin in the sun. I won't walk out in my front yard and do it. So the PO works for me too!image Yup, I lock the door of my truck in case someone can figure out what I'm doing.
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    <<numismatists are on odd breed.

    We spend $20,000 on a small disc of metal, other people spend it on a carimage>>


    Yes but after 5 years the car is worth $8,000 and the small disc of metal is worth $28,000!
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Looking at coins under a microscope sounds unusual from this numismatist's point of view

    Totally agree..... image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • UnknownUnknown
    This content has been removed.

Leave a Comment

BoldItalicStrikethroughOrdered listUnordered list
Format
SpoilerCodeQuote
Heading 2Heading 1
Emoji
:):D:(;):/:o:s:p:'(:|B):#:*<3o:)>:)
Url
Image
Align leftAlign centerAlign rightToggle HTML viewToggle full pageToggle lights
Drop image/file
Home • U.S. Coin ForumComment As ...