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Has that ever happened to any one with a coin you bought? Or a collection you finished? After all the time of hunting for that right coin or after years of working on a collection is "having" it kind of a let down compared to "wanting" it?

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What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

"Live long and prosper"

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  • sTONERsTONER Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭
    i love that phrase,,image
    toner loner
  • Me too! My icon is from the episode he says that. image

    "Amok Time" image
    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

    My "How I Started" columns
  • sTONERsTONER Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭
    thats a great icon,, ONE of my favorites episodes
    toner loner
  • You are correct.
    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

    My "How I Started" columns
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    I haven't seen much of the original Star Trek for years. Any hints where a guy might catch it from time to time?
  • It is more true after completing a set. The thrill of the hunt is usually more interesting than the satisfaction of completion. The hunt goes on for month, years, decades for some. The satisfaction seems to only last a short time, a day, a week perhaps, rarely longer than that.
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    notlogical: I agree 100% with that phrase but I remember the phrase as being ever so slightly different (no net effect on the meaning);

    I thought Spock said:

    ""Having is, AFTER ALL, not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. "

    My "mantra follows this thought process as I said in my PCGS set registry description about myself:

    This is a set that will probably not be completed in my lifetime. I will always enjoy the wonder of coins I do not yet or may never own while being appreciative of the coins I have been lucky enough to acquire over the past 44 years. Even many of the coins I now have are coins I could only dream about when I was a 7 year old coin collector in 1960, a 17 year old coin collector in 1970, a 27 year old coin collector in 1980, a 37 year old collector in 1990, and a 47 year old coin collector in 2000. So fellow collectors, never let your sense of wonder and dreams die!!

    Of course, I now need to update that bio since it has been three years already since I wrote that!




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  • Our WB shows digitally remastered episodes of the original Star Trek every saturday night from 7-9. I think Sci Fi network shows the remastered episodes too.

    To keep it coin related image


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    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

    My "How I Started" columns


  • << <i>I thought Spock said:

    ""Having is, AFTER ALL, not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. "
    >>




    I just checked a Star Trek "Famous quotes" web site and this is what it said,

    "After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is often true.
    ... Spock, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.."
    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

    My "How I Started" columns
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    LOL.

    Even Spock's grammar is better than mine!

    I wished our modern American culture would appreciate this philosophy. Our parents (grandparents) understood it better because they had the Great depression to teach them.
    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • Personally, I was never much of a fan of The Original Series (except some of the movies) and TNG. DS9 and Voyager are my series of choice image





    For me, much of the fun of what I collect is the thrill of the hunt. Hunting down every half-dime on the floor (Which can be a difficult task) is a lot of fun, and very rewarding when I cherrypick one of those scarce die marriages image
    -George
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  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Has that ever happened to any one with a coin you bought? Or a collection you finished? After all the time of hunting for that right coin or after years of working on a collection is "having" it kind of a let down compared to "wanting" it?

    image >>



    Yes. I recently bought a Washington 32S that I've been waiting a long time to purchase. When I got home with it, I thought to myself I should have waited to find a better grade of the coin. Now I feel dejected.

    By the way, Mr. Spock sounds and looks a bit like Confucius. I wonder if the two are related or if Spock studied the writings of the old sage.
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley


  • << <i>LOL.

    Even Spock's grammar is better than mine!

    I wished our modern American culture would appreciate this philosophy. Our parents (grandparents) understood it better because they had the Great depression to teach them. >>




    My grandma, she's 84, and lives with us and she tells us stories about that and world war two and other stuff from when she was a little girl all the time. image
    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

    My "How I Started" columns
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The thrill of the hunt is usually more interesting than the satisfaction of completion. >>



    Dating can be kind of like that too! image
    Me at the Springfield coin show:
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    60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
  • I Love every coin I have...The one's I don't have I wish I could have, but I feel many would be Imposible and beyond my reach. I am content with the ones I do have and will hold them well into the future...Coin collecting is not just about the collecting, many times it takes a great deal of money to purchase a coin, and then it becomes an investment....which I do not mind...at least I do not have to pay taxes on them come tax day!!!!When and If I decide to sell them one day, then and only then will I worry about tax issues.
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,400 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is often true.
    ... Spock, "Amok Time," stardate 3372.7.." >>

    That's why we can sell coins when we get tired of them. Selling things that are no longer pleasing is very logical IMO. Of course, some other things may be a bit more difficult to get rid of image
  • oreville, I live my life somewhat that way...My parents were from the depression era...They gave us our needs but did not spoil us in material ways...but culture changes some who are weakened by the desire to keep up with the Jone'es....I don't care what the Jone'es have but many do and have to compete...Not for me...I just want to be happy...and I have found those who have it all are very unhappy people...for they have lost the reality of who they are....If a great depression were to happen again...those who have had, could not handle not having ...I could get by just fine...I know there would be hardships but nothing like what they would experience.
  • KentuckyJKentuckyJ Posts: 1,871 ✭✭✭

    > is "having" it kind of a let down compared to "wanting" it?


    notlogical, Sri Yukteswar put it this way:

    "Attachment is blinding. It lends an imaginary halo to the object of desire."

    KJ

  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Personally, I was never much of a fan of The Original Series >>



    Clearly, Samuel is possessed of greater taste and sophistication than George.

    Russ, NCNE
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    By the way, Mr. Spock sounds and looks a bit like Confucius. I wonder if the two are related or if Spock studied the writings of the old sage. >>



    No doubt the scriptwriters fished those waters for the character development.

    I happen to agree with the sentiment of the phrase, Samuel. It probably confirms why possessions do not completely fulfill us - we are a spiritual being by nature. Physical possessions rarely fill the void for very long.

    People usually speak of the spiritual journey, rather than the destination. The want, the need and the desire spur us to move forward, in all sorts of pursuits.
  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,012 ✭✭✭
    I agree with that statement 100%.

    Once I have the coin I want, I usually have a great feeling about it for a week or so but then it fades away.

    When I first got back into this hobby five years ago, $50.00 to $100.00 was a lot of money to me - it took me weeks to figure out how to get that PCGS MS64 Type I Nickel, but in retrospect that was part of the fun.

    Luckily my straights improved, except instead of buying every coin for $50.00 to $100.00 that I could now readily afford, I found myself looking at $250.00 to $500.00 material. Same scenario - each purchase took weeks or sometimes months to coordinate, but then I always got that good feeling afterward.

    Today I could pretty much afford anything I wanted for $500.00 to $1,000.00, but instead of picking up things that would have seemed liked impossible dreams just five years ago, I find myself browsing in the $3,000.00 to $5,000.00 range. For some time now, I have resolved myself to the fact that for me a $3.00 gold coin is one that I need for my set, and at present prices a better date 58 to a common date 62 are right in that range. But if the truth be told, I am really in no hurry to pull the trigger - I have noticed that higher I raise the bar in terms of what I am able to spend on a coin, the harder it is for me to get that good feeling from making a particularly satisfying purchase the next time around.
  • Not logical..... Where do you get that Mr Spock coin?


  • << <i>Not logical..... Where do you get that Mr Spock coin? >>




    My Dad got it for me on eBay. the case says it's from Universal studios.










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    << <i>Personally, I was never much of a fan of The Original Series >>



    Clearly, Samuel is possessed of greater taste and sophistication than George.

    Russ, NCNE >>




    Thank you Russ!
    From a Ferengi, that says a lot. image
    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

    My "How I Started" columns
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Mr. Spock is on to something there.
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From a standpoint of numismatics, I would think the saying is very true, NotLogical.
    There is something about the hunt that is exciting. In sports, it's winning...but for the player, it's PLAYING.
    In marriage, it's in the courting before the marriage because marriage is SERIOUS business. In coin collecting , it's about FINDING, BUILDING, and HAVING... , although some reach that pinnacle and still are not satisfied. Why ? ( maybe they are being driven by desire).

    Once a goal is reached or a coin obtained, man essentially rests, thus giving him a feeling of accomplishment and then there is not much left. So in order to keep the drive alive in numismatics (warp speed , if you prefer)... One must continually SEARCH out new orbs image (those are like planets to trekkies).


    Live long and prosper ! I could go on but it would be another episode.

    Joe
  • Thanks every body, that was fun. image
    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

    My "How I Started" columns
  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
    I'll remind you what Spock said next time we're at a coin show and you just have to "have" something. image
    Collecting coins, medals and currency featuring "The Sower"
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,464 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'll remind you what Spock said next time we're at a coin show and you just have to "have" something. image >>




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    Sure Mitch... sneak in a funny one while the kid's in school.

    Joe
  • notlogicalnotlogical Posts: 2,235
    Hi Mr. Pflug,

    Are you coming to coin club tomorrow night? image
    What Mr. Spock would say about numismatics...
    image... "Fascinating, but not logical"

    "Live long and prosper"

    My "How I Started" columns
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    always liked mr. spock, but my favorite has always been "bones"

    K S
  • As my father often reminded me... and it holds true: "In anything that you desire... anticipation is 90% of the satisfaction to be had from it."

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