Hi All! Another New Member - Big Year, eh?

jmski52 · December 28, 2006 8:03AM

I want to thank you guys for reinforcing my last minute decisions to buy more "modern crap", because this looks like the biggest year yet for low mintage modern rarities.

I will have much more to say about the Mint and how it's tendency toward "instant rarities" continues unabated. I feel that the day is coming when there will be a plethora of limited edition issues each year, all at inflated issue prices. Oh, I forget - that's already here!

Here's wishing you all a bountiful 2007. jmski52

MajorDuty · December 28, 2006 8:06AM

Welcome to the boards.

Russ · December 28, 2006 8:07AM

It's a bumper crop today.

Russ, NCNE

numisma · December 28, 2006 8:07AM

Cool. Welcome.

jmski52 · December 28, 2006 8:14AM

Numisma, did you use a stock icon, or did you import your own, and if you did, how? Thanks jmski

MisterBungle · December 28, 2006 8:18AM

Hello jmski52!!

Welcome to the forum!!

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123cents · December 28, 2006 8:19AM

To the forum jmski52.

19Lyds · December 28, 2006 8:20AM

Bumper Crop??

Never seen so many newb's in one day!

RegistryCoin · December 28, 2006 8:21AM

Welcome to the boards!

holeinone1972 · December 28, 2006 8:21AM

Welcome, soak up the knowledge. Mooch the free advice, hope to win giveaways and learn to ignore Russ. LOL

Just kidding, Russ is a wealth of sarcasim and information.

mrpaseo · December 28, 2006 8:23AM

tendency... unabated... plethora... bountiful...

Looks like wes got us one of them edumacated types using all these fancy pants words...

Welcome to the boards. What is your collecting agenda and how long have you been collecting? Give us a quick backround if you don't mind.

Ray

mrpaseo · December 28, 2006 8:24AM

It would be best if you turned on your PM machine please

blueifalcon · December 28, 2006 8:32AM

mgoodm3 · December 28, 2006 8:40AM

Welcome™

jmski52 · December 28, 2006 8:41AM

Thanks for asking. I am a longtime collector, started in 1962 with 4 Jefferson Nickels and a 1909 VDB bought for $0.25 at a department store coin counter.

I lost alot of my childhood coins to a burglary after moving into a house about 5 years ago, but some of my best coins were in the safe deposit, luckily. I didn't lose my high grade large cents, so I still collect them. The next logical step for me is colonial coins, if I can afford them in the grades I would like.

I started selectively investing in bullion coins and moderns back in 1986, and I stopped buying proof silver eagles when Phillip Diehl decided to up the ante for the 1995W by requiring that you buy the whole gold set in order to acquire the 1995W. I guess I showed him!

Which brings me to the present. I really like the Reverse Proof Issues. I really, really like the Platinum Eagle Series, and I have a new-found passion for the Gold Eagle Uncirculated "W" fractionals.

I'm a "buy and hold" sorta guy, so I hope that the Mint doesn't continue down it's path of having a new issue and 12 variations of that issue, every 5 minutes as it has been doing. Does anyone else here think that the Mint is going to really screw things up in the long run? jmski52

JeremyDie1 · December 28, 2006 8:43AM

Welcome fellow newbie!

DorkGirl · December 28, 2006 8:44AM

mrpaseo · December 28, 2006 8:52AM

<< <i>Does anyone else here think that the Mint is going to really screw things up in the long run? >>

I think the same thing is going to happen with mint products that happened with Baseball cards in the early 90's; The market is going to be flooded with so many different options that many people are just going to throw in the towel because they can not keep up.

I do think the Dollars are going to catch on to the passive collector as the state quarters did, beyond that, your guess is as good as mine.

Ray

cladking · December 28, 2006 8:58AM

Welcome aboard.

jmski52 · December 28, 2006 9:01AM

I think the same thing is going to happen with mint products that happened with Baseball cards in the early 90's; The market is going to be flooded with so many different options that many people are just going to throw in the towel because they can not keep up.

I do think the Dollars are going to catch on to the passive collector as the state quarters did, beyond that, your guess is as good as mine.
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And that's the reason I like the bullion aspect. jmski52