Is QDB is the Elvis of Numismatics?

lsica · March 28, 2007 8:54AM

Do people go up to him at shows, and ask to have their photo taken with him, and do they ask for his autograph? I'm curious....

Zoins · March 28, 2007 8:56AM

<< Is QDB is the Elvis of Numismatics? >>

Does he dress like Elvis? Do teenage girls have posters of him?

<< Do people go up to him at shows, and ask to have their photo taken with him, and do they ask for his autograph? I'm curious.... >>

Or fingerprint their proof coins for them

Coxe · March 28, 2007 9:42AM

I do not recall them announcing that QDB has left the bourse to calm down overly excited teenage girls. And is there a numismatic cult that tracks QDB sightings?

DesertRat · March 28, 2007 9:44AM

Does QDB work at Wendy's?

speety · March 28, 2007 9:47AM

I had him sign my Encyclopedia of Silver Dollars that i picked up at the table right next to his. Other then the occasional book signing -- nope not elvis.

Now from Longacres point of view... well elvis may be an understatement

WTCG · March 28, 2007 10:10AM

<< I do not recall them announcing that QDB has left the bourse to calm down overly excited teenage girls. And is there a numismatic cult that tracks QDB sightings? >>

There are people who do ask for QDB's, Ken Bressett's and Ron Guth's autographs, but their groupies tend to be older men and not screaming teenage girls.

I've heard that in the past there were people tracking Walter Breen sightings...then using that information to decide whether to or not to take their kids to a certain coin show.

123cents · March 28, 2007 10:18AM

QDB is more like the Frank Sinatra of Numismatics.

MrEureka · March 28, 2007 10:28AM

I would really like to see QDB in an Elvis suit, if for no other reason than to feel like coin nerds are, as a class, ultra cool.

IGWT · March 28, 2007 10:31AM

He's the bee's knees.

Longacre · March 28, 2007 10:33AM

At the Baltimore show he tossed me a sweaty towel that he used to mop his brow. I shrieked like a little school girl.

WTCG · March 28, 2007 10:49AM

<< At the Baltimore show he tossed me a sweaty towel that he used to mop his brow. I shreiked like a little school girl. >>

Then you're a wierdo.

GoldenEyeNumismatics · March 28, 2007 12:37PM

no, he's the Beatles

ziggy29 · March 28, 2007 12:40PM

Do people go to Vegas to get married by QDB?

TwoSides2aCoin · March 28, 2007 12:40PM

I think he is more the Mark Twain of Numismatics.

BiddlesBank · March 28, 2007 12:49PM

<< I think he is more the Mark Twain of Numismatics. >>

Well stated TwoSides2aCoin.

Coxe · March 28, 2007 12:59PM

<< no, he's the Beatles

>>

No, he is not......but he is bigger than Jesus.

ziggy29 · March 28, 2007 1:00PM

<< No, he is not......but he is bigger than Jesus. >>

Sure. Jesus was one of the guys on the crew who performed our lawn service when we were in Houston. And as I recall, he wasn't all that big.

Coxe · March 28, 2007 1:02PM

Whew! Now crazy southerners aren't gonna start burning copies of QDB books in bonfires.

BobaFett72 · March 28, 2007 1:03PM

your lawn buddy Jesus sure gets around... I saw him across the street! mulching

and yes, he can walk on mulch

its the most amazing thing.

FullStrike · March 28, 2007 1:34PM

<< At the Baltimore show he tossed me a sweaty towel that he used to mop his brow. I shrieked like a little school girl. >>

<< Then you're a wierdo. >>

Actually I think QDB is more like the Fred Rogers of the Numismatic World.

And from what I've heard, Laura is becoming the Elvis of the Numis World. Or should I say she is becoming the Elvira of the Numismatic World?

Coxe · March 28, 2007 1:35PM

<< Actually I think QDB is more like the Fred Rogers of the Numismatic World. >>

Used to be Walter Breen had that mantle.

FullStrike · March 28, 2007 2:13PM

<< Used to be Walter Breen had that mantle. >>

I see Breen as being the Michael Jackson of the Coin Universe.

Michigan · March 28, 2007 10:07PM

I remember seeing Dave Bowers at a CSNS spring show in the 1980s making a brief statement before the start of an auction. I thought
"Wow, Dave Bowers live and in person". I should have asked him to autograph the auction catalog but it didn't cross my mind at the time.

Regulated · March 29, 2007 2:09AM

If Dave Bowers is the Elvis of numismatics, then Mr. Eureka must be its Ian Dury.

Pistareen · March 29, 2007 2:12AM

<< then Mr. Eureka must be its Ian Dury. >>

When you think of "Sex and drugs and rock and roll" you think of Andy? Sick, man, sick.

There are far greater Blockheads in this business.

Longacre · March 29, 2007 2:19AM

I must be getting old, because I had to Google Ian Dury to see who he was.

I wonder if QDB is getting a chuckle over this thread.

Pistareen · March 29, 2007 2:26AM

If you want old, Longacre, I was born the year "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" was released.

BiddlesBank · March 29, 2007 2:36AM

<< 

I wonder if QDB is getting a chuckle over this thread. >>

The turn this thread took is demeaning in my opinion. Hardly something to chuckle about.

Coxe · March 29, 2007 3:03AM

<< I must be getting old, because I had to Google Ian Dury to see who he was.

I wonder if QDB is getting a chuckle over this thread. >>

If so, I sure hope he understands my reference to Lennon's quote then and doesn't think he really comes off that way.

Pistareen · March 29, 2007 3:22AM

Dave has reported his amusement with this thread. He does not take himself too seriously.

bushmaster8 · March 29, 2007 5:17AM

<< I remember seeing Dave Bowers at a CSNS spring show in the 1980s making a brief statement before the start of an auction. I thought
"Wow, Dave Bowers live and in person". I should have asked him to autograph the auction catalog but it didn't cross my mind at the time.

>>

I remember that show! That is where I accidentaly kicked David Hall in the shin! Martin Paul was there too! And Mark Feld was working for Hall at that time!

Regulated · March 29, 2007 5:35AM

Hmmm... Since Elvis didn't write a lot of his own material, I think the Elvis/QDB comparison doesn't work. Perhaps it would be better to say that QDB is the Harold Arlen of numismatics.

IGWT · March 29, 2007 5:46AM

Hmmm... Since Elvis didn't write a lot of his own material, I think the Elvis/QDB comparison doesn't work. Perhaps it would be better to say that QDB is the Harold Arlen of numismatics.

Would that make Pistareen the Marvin Hamlisch of numismatics?

Regulated · March 29, 2007 6:02AM

I think it might.

cladking · March 29, 2007 6:24AM

<< Dave has reported his amusement with this thread. He does not take himself too seriously. >>

...Then we can say "Elvis is near the building".

Is QDB is the Elvis of Numismatics?

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