If coins didn't exist, what would you be doing right now?

pcgs69 · March 28, 2008 8:28AM

Now I know I'll get some smart comments like, "well if coins didn't exist then we'd all be dead" but I'm speaking hypothetically, as in if you never discovered coins, where you be at right now?

I'd probably have started a business and be more involved with the stock market...

ziggy29 · March 28, 2008 8:30AM

If coins didn't exist, I suspect currency and stamp collecting would be a lot more popular.

PerryHall · March 28, 2008 8:31AM

I'd probably be collecting dust.

Rupert305 · March 28, 2008 8:33AM

My NASCAR die cast collection would be a whole lot bigger.

SilverEagles92 · March 28, 2008 8:35AM

I'd be collecting currency and comics, each of which I have (small) collections of now.

tightbudget · March 28, 2008 8:35AM

Drinking beer

commoncents05 · March 28, 2008 8:37AM

Well, living on the campus of a very large university, who is playing basketball tonight, and who has a recent history of rioting and heavy drinking on major game nights, I think you can imagine

-Paul

blu62vette · March 28, 2008 8:41AM

Something productive.....

mrearlygold · March 28, 2008 8:42AM

I'd go back to being Retired, sipping on an ice cold coconut juice on a white sand beach somewhere overseas.

Doogy · March 28, 2008 8:43AM

I'd probably still be collecting higher end Swiss and German watches. You think coins are a money pit, sheesh! I got to the point where I owned just about every Swiss watch in my price range (without venturing into Dufour and Mille territory) and that soured me a bit, so I turned by energy back to coins. Without coins, who knows what i'd collect.

johnsim03 · March 28, 2008 8:45AM

Posting on another forum, instead of this one?!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

John

fc · March 28, 2008 8:49AM

<< Something productive..... >>

heh, as i pick out the drywall joint compound from my hands after
getting home from work as a 9-5iver in IT.

i agree, if not for coins i would do more work around the house
on a weekly basis.

but if not coins, original art. i am trying to make a deal with david
boswell right now for an original oil painting of my fav comic character
from him. i am hoping he turns around and sells prints of it on his
online website.

i would strive to get an original carl barks work. try to talk bob burden
into an oil painting. etc...

Coxe · March 28, 2008 8:52AM

Finishing up some pure physics and mathematics papers (that no private sector employer would ever support) that I promised myself I would do after I retired. Apply for a patent for an idea I have had for a while. Set up a more profitable business than a part-time coin business. Save money on safe deposit boxes rentals and insurance. If I was to obsessively collect something else it would probably be rare records, perhaps things like tough to find "black" and novelty sides and cylinders.

JZrarities · March 28, 2008 9:26AM

<< If coins didn't exist, what would you be doing right now? >>

Weighing the Gold by hand?

Goldbully · March 28, 2008 9:27AM

Choking Marty's chicken????

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FilthyBroke · March 28, 2008 9:31AM

<< I'd go back to being Retired, sipping on an ice cold coconut juice on a white sand beach somewhere overseas. >>

Uh, how can I get in on that??

Seriously, I would maybe go back to collecting nonsport cards and vintage toys, or maybe memorabilia from world's fairs or something like that. It's a big world out there, LOTS of interesting stuff!!

morgansforever · March 28, 2008 9:31AM

I would still be collecting beer cans.

What a waste of money that venture was.

messydesk · March 28, 2008 9:32AM

Unpacking.

sparky64 · March 28, 2008 9:33AM

I'd delve into inventions.
Start with a machine to punch out metal dics from sheets.
Then on to presses.
Send my kid to art school. Major in Engraving. Minor in die making.
Hire him then begin..............

RunnersDad · March 28, 2008 9:37AM

As coins are not yet my main hobby focus, without them I would be spending more time researching Marbles Records, and Sportscards. And as strange as this sounds...without all 4...I would spend my time working on pieces of LEGO artwork.

Coxe · March 28, 2008 9:40AM

<< I would still be collecting beer cans.

What a waste of money that venture was. >>

But they sure were fun! Either going through neat locations looking for some or drinking some newer ones that were just too cool (bottom punched cans of course). Here is my favorite of the few I still own. It was found in Canada and was never opened.

NHSBaseball · March 28, 2008 9:44AM

I might take up taxidermy (fish only). Seriously. Then again, my wife would probably divorce me...

RYK · March 28, 2008 9:48AM

I probably would have invented a car that runs on solar power, one that has no polluting emissions, a range of 1000 miles on one hour of Seattle winter sunlight, and goes zero to 60 in 4 seconds with a top speed of two hundred mph.

fastrudy · March 28, 2008 9:51AM

Staring at those empty albums, tubes and flips and wondering why I have them.

moonshine · March 28, 2008 9:53AM

Doing what I am doing now anyway, propogating, gardening, collecting music memorabilia and semi-precious rocks and gemstones. Also spending more time with family and doing domestic crapola.

morgansforever · March 28, 2008 9:59AM

Here's on for ya Coxe. One of about 100 I've collected over the years.

All steel, with no pull tab.

cladking · March 28, 2008 10:00AM

Money might be the third most important human invention right
behind language and writing. Indeed there is some speculation
that writing evolved from engraved discs used as tokens.

The importance of money is usually downplayed in its role as a
driver of human development. Most would relegate it to being no
more important than a means to fascilitate commerce. But a flow-
ing commerce has been critical to not only creating the wealth nec-
esary to progress but making a very wide variety of goods availa-
ble to the greatest number of people. It is this wide availability of
goods which has created the breakneck progress of the past two
and a half millinea (with time out for the dark ages). It is the abil-
ity to get things like microscopes, thermometers, and anemoneters
which has led to advancement as much as these instruments them-
selves. Of what value would be the bessemer furnace were there
no products to make and nowhere to ship them?

I suppose if coins didn't exist I'd be trying to figure out smoe way
to invent banking.

cladking · March 28, 2008 10:01AM

<< I'd delve into inventions.
Start with a machine to punch out metal dics from sheets.
Then on to presses.
Send my kid to art school. Major in Engraving. Minor in die making.
Hire him then begin.............. >>

There ya' go.

It sounds like good honest work.

PrivateCoinCollector · March 28, 2008 10:01AM

Inventing the concept of coins.

LindeDad · March 28, 2008 10:07AM

Rocks!!!

BBN · March 28, 2008 10:47AM

More time in my porn acting career.

seriously probably outdoors trying to build the perfect landscaped lawn with the backyard being nothing but one huge backyard botanical garden with only a stone path to meander through it and a huge Koi water garden in the corner.

tmcsr69 · March 28, 2008 10:53AM

Be working on my collection of Debit Cards.

Fairlaneman · March 28, 2008 11:17AM

Looking for more mid 60's Ford parts cars. More money would be available. I think the wife is happy that a few coins arrive and not a few cars.

Ken

bigmansam88 · March 28, 2008 11:24AM

Probably sports cards, which is what phase came before coins for me.

garsmith · March 28, 2008 11:24AM

<< If coins didn't exist, what would you be doing right now? >>

Counting beans, or puka shells or what ever was being used for trade and commerce

coindeuce · March 28, 2008 11:47AM

Collecting fishing lures. And then using them.

LeeBone · March 28, 2008 11:49AM

I don`t know

Bear · March 28, 2008 11:50AM

Probably collect rubber bands.

SkyMan · March 28, 2008 12:10PM

<< Choking Marty's chicken????

>>

Only Marty gets to choke his own chicken...

I'd be collecting more early spaceflight items, US and Soviet Union, although if I could find some of the early Chinese stuff (e.g. stuff launched in the last 5 years) that may very well prove to be the most valuable over time as an investment, and would certainly be fun to have in the interim.

Broadstruck · March 28, 2008 12:15PM

Overdate · March 28, 2008 12:19PM

Collecting silver rounds (PCGS MS69 and higher only)!

Bullish · March 28, 2008 12:26PM

<< Drinking beer >>

Drink more beer!!

blueifalcon · March 29, 2008 2:23AM

Metal detecting and ghostie hunting

Walmann · March 29, 2008 2:43AM

Probably back to collecting early photos (pre-1880). Still have a large collection, but since being back into coins four years ago haven't paid much attention to them. Still love the history about them and the coins for that matter.

dan383 · March 29, 2008 2:51AM

Fishing............

Dan

messydesk · March 29, 2008 3:16AM

Maybe I'd collect empty slabs.

TwoSides2aCoin · March 29, 2008 3:22AM

knitting underwear for beanie babies and selling them on ebay through compucheap.

Julio · March 29, 2008 3:33AM

My grandfather colleted pocket knives. No one knows what happened to them, all I can remember is I got my arse whopped for playing with them. I've been thinking of getting my feet wet in this area for awhile. jws

anablep · March 29, 2008 3:37AM

Not surfing this website for one.

FullStepJeffs · March 29, 2008 3:38AM

Having a life obsessing about something else.

Steve

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