You know you're a numismatist when...

shylock · October 23, 2007 9:37AM

1) You don't collect coins anymore but you still spend too much time on the PCGS U.S. Coin Forum

2) You pay $435 a year to a website company just to share images of other peoples coins

3) You spend hours looking at coin auctions you will not bid in, and even more time in their archives

4) You've run out of things to call yourself, except a numismatist. You may just be a coin enthusiast.

goose3 · October 23, 2007 9:40AM

Can we come up with a list of things to call you?

kryptonitecomics · October 23, 2007 9:40AM

You have to build a shelf in your bathroom to hold all of your numismatic reading material?

Manorcourtman · October 23, 2007 9:40AM

You know you're a numismatist when...you look at every loose coin in your pocket change.

Gemineye · October 23, 2007 9:44AM

<< You have to build a shelf in your bathroom to hold all of your numismatic reading material?

>>

Gee I hadn't thought of that ...but it might be interesting....

curly · October 23, 2007 9:47AM

Brothers, when Mrs. curly asked me if there was enough money left in the checkbook to buy some groceries, I knew I was a numismatist ( or a nut ).

ricko · October 23, 2007 9:48AM

..... When you examine all coins in change... including cents.
..... When relatives save wheat cents for you.
..... When you visit the forum even on vacation.
..... When you check cities you visit for coin shops.

Cheers, RickO

mepot · October 23, 2007 10:46AM

..When you look out your 3rd floor hotel room window,see a penny in the parking lot,and hope you are fast enough

to get it before someone pulls into the parking space.

Yup,I got it,my wife knows I'm crazy now.

Coinosaurus · October 23, 2007 10:53AM

....when you look at the changing leaves on the trees and just think of toned coins

LeeBone · October 23, 2007 11:09AM

When you see a liscence plate that has DDR for the first three characters on it and Doubled Die Reverse is the first thing that comes to mind.

seemyauction · October 23, 2007 11:34AM

You know you're a numismatist when...

you spend dollars for a for a cent holder ???

Alan

Resplandor · October 23, 2007 2:40PM

<< ....when you look at the changing leaves on the trees and just think of toned coins

>>

Whaaahahahahaha!!!! That just happened to me today on my way to work

BN · October 23, 2007 2:51PM

when the clerk in the store thinks you are checking your change to see if they shorted you as you walk away... NOT

or

when you take the time to explain to the clerk that the new dollar coins are not god-less dollars.. they are just flaws and are worth more...

or

when you find a 'nothing special' modern in your pocket with nice luster and think... "damn that's pretty... wonder how it held up so well..?"

Lakesammman · October 23, 2007 2:55PM

After viewing the 1877 post, you could be the Del Bland of IHC's - former collector of coins, now collector if information and publisher of the IHC condition census.

AJ2525 · October 23, 2007 3:13PM

You try to get the cashier at Wendy's to fish the wheat cent out of its slot in her drawer because you were scanning the coins in the slots to see if there was anything good.

[No she couldn't find the wheatback and there was a line so I accepted the 1999-D I got in change and sat down to eat.

I wasn't about to reach across the counter as that would be rude.]

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Coin Finder · October 23, 2007 3:17PM

.....when you calculate how many lunches you can skip to buy a coin.....

Konahead · October 23, 2007 5:18PM

<< .....when you calculate how many lunches you can skip to buy a coin..... >>

Some of the stuff I want will take one hell of alot of lunches, dinners and snacks!

pontiacinf · October 23, 2007 9:58PM

<< .....when you calculate how many lunches you can skip to buy a coin..... >>

you would not believe just how many times I have done that

mckaleta · October 24, 2007 12:18AM

you tell your co workers to bring coins to you that "dont work" in the pop machine.

(i give them coins that work for their "broken" pre-1964 silver coins)

Silverstate · October 24, 2007 12:28AM

When...

The bank tellers know you want rolls of coin.

And the minute you walk in they let you know they arrived.

...Then they always ask.

what do you do with all of those coins?

cmerlo1 · October 24, 2007 12:58AM

You have a dream in which you're the guy who collects the change from the CoinStar machine...

roadrunner · October 24, 2007 1:44AM

You know you're a numismatist when.....

Dealers welcome you with smiling faces and moon money deals.

roadrunner

tahoe98 · October 24, 2007 2:45AM

<< You know you're a numismatist when...you look at every loose coin in your pocket change. >>

how true!

LonerAnger · October 24, 2007 2:52AM

<< You know you're a numismatist when.....

Dealers welcome you with smiling faces and moon money deals.

roadrunner >>

Deep in some lake today, there is a forum asking how to tell if you're a fish.

lathmach · October 24, 2007 2:57AM

You know you're a numismatist (or a series specialist) when you're walking the bourse floor and dealers call out to you wanting to know something about a coin they have.

Ray

SanctionII · October 24, 2007 3:11AM

When you are at a restaurant cash register paying for your meal, you look in the register drawer, you see a wheat back cent, you receive your change from the person working the register and then you brashly reach into the register drawer to replace a memorial cent you were given with the wheat cent.

Also, change from a restaurant to a bank and you do the same thing at the teller window to get a wheatie.

It is embarrassing to admit, but I have done both of the above. The clerk and the teller did not have a problem with me doing so; however I suspect if I did it a third time my luck would run out and I would get into trouble. The restaurant wheatie was dated in the 50's and the bank wheatie was dated in the 20's.

IrishMike · October 24, 2007 3:16AM

.....you pack up ten lbs worth of stuff to attend a local coin show with maybe 15 dealers and they ask you the difference between a 64 and 64L IHC when the coin is to worn to see an L. Then they don't believe you so you hike out to your car to get the book.

You try to make a wager with one of those dealers on whether on not a certain morgan is or isn't the vam number they have on the flip and they refuse to wager and you notice the next time you attend the show they vam # is still on the 2X2.

homerunhall · October 24, 2007 3:23AM

You pass up a date with a hot lady because you need to go to a late night auction session!

MadMarty · October 24, 2007 3:33AM

when you have one of these!

IrishMike · October 24, 2007 3:33AM

<< You pass up a date with a hot lady because you need to go to a late night auction session! >>

That would be way beyond the realm of being a numismatist and borders on severe personality disorder disease.

Mercfan · October 24, 2007 4:10AM

You know you're a numismatist (or at least a coin-collecting nut):

when a friend describes some member of the opposite sex as looking "very fine," and you think to yourself, "aw, no better than 35 on a scale of 70,"

and

when you make a point of glancing into the coin return tray of the Coinstar machine everytime you enter or leave the grocery store,

and

when just the thought of owning certain small, round pieces of metal makes you want to smile and dance.

ChuckC · October 24, 2007 4:26AM

You open a new bar of soap and grade the soap based on strike.

MS69

lkrarecoins · October 24, 2007 4:29AM

when your sitting at your desk, and a co-worker comes over and shows you his indian cent cufflinks (actually happened yesterday)

Broadstruck · October 24, 2007 4:46AM

"when a friend describes some member of the opposite sex as looking "very fine," and you think to yourself, "aw, no better than 35 on a scale of 70,"

Better yet when your grading the opposite sex on a MS scale, but wonder how Unciruclated the may really be?

PerryHall · October 24, 2007 5:13AM

<< "when a friend describes some member of the opposite sex as looking "very fine," and you think to yourself, "aw, no better than 35 on a scale of 70,"

Better yet when your grading the opposite sex on a MS scale, but wonder how Unciruclated the may really be? >>

.......................and whether they are AT and have been tooled.

PerryHall · October 24, 2007 5:15AM

When you see a man hole cover and notice the really cool die crack.

cladking · October 24, 2007 5:18AM

You check to be sure the hospital room has an internet connection.

jimmymac · October 24, 2007 5:19AM

instead of handling coins, any coin, by the front and back, you gently take the coin by its edges

PerryHall · October 24, 2007 6:39AM

<< instead of handling coins, any coin, by the front and back, you gently take the coin by its edges

>>

So true. I catch myself handling pocket change by the edges out of habit.

JJM · October 24, 2007 6:42AM

<< ....when you look at the changing leaves on the trees and just think of toned coins

>>

second that ! its toner season.......!!!!!!!!!!!

SanctionII · October 24, 2007 7:06AM

If you find a lady to be very fine, you better also consider investigating how much "rub" she has on her surfaces

.

Of course, to make this reply politically correct, the same standards apply to a lady who thinks a guy is very fine. His surfaces should also be investigated for "rub".

walkerman · October 24, 2007 7:14AM

When you named your kids Stella, Princess and Isabella. (and they resent it because they are boys). Dave W

David J Weygant Rare Coins website: www.djwcoin.com

clackamas · October 24, 2007 7:15AM

You test yourself with grocery store change trying to identify the date and mint by only looking at the reverse of the coin.

shylock · October 25, 2007 9:15AM

Mercfan - when a friend describes some member of the opposite sex as looking "very fine," and you think to yourself, "aw, no better than 35 on a scale of 70,"

Best reply

I remember once responding to the same remark with the chauvinistic phrase "nice obverse, but the reverse die is crumbling"

BECOKA · October 25, 2007 9:20AM

<< You pass up a date with a hot lady because you need to go to a late night auction session! >>

In this case it would be my wife.

direwolf1972 · October 25, 2007 9:36AM

<< You know you're a numismatist when...you look at every loose coin in your pocket change. >>

I hear you there... I flip every coins between my index finger and thumb checking for rotated dies before rolling them to be sent to the bank.

kiyote · October 25, 2007 9:37AM

You take personal offense when a cashier wrinkles their nose at a Kennedy half dollar.

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