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Has anyone influenced your decision as to what series to collect?
MrEureka
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Has anyone influenced your decision as to what series to collect? If so, who was it and how did they do it?
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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brian wagner with matte proof lincolns
how did they you ask...humble attraction as promotion drives away...i became attracted to sms and matte proofs
that is a key in life...attraction outweighs promotion
i still think russ and brian gave me focus beyond my wildest dreams
Also, viewing and reading about the collections of Garrett, Ford and Roper influenced my decision as well. Does this count?
Tate Chesbrough, who was thoughtful enough to offer me a wonderful 1837-E Costa Rica 4 Escudos, which I bought. That was the coin that got me started.
Carlos Jara, Louis Hudson and Mauricio Soto. The information they freely shared with me enabled me to determine how viable it would be to attempt to build the finest collection of coins of the Central American Republic. (I still have a long, long way to go, but - most importantly - I know what I have to do!)
Bill Noyes, Hector Carlos Janson, Jorge Emilio Restrepo, and the Subjack-Davis-Lovejoy-McCloskey-Logan team, for the inspiration to write a state-of-the-art reference book. Without the goal of one day cataloging the collection I'm building, I don't know that I'd bother. (BTW, I don't mind if somebody else writes the book before I'm ready to do it. Working with the goal in mind is enough for me.)
Tony Terranova and Jim McGuigan get honorable mention, for showing me "the right way" for a dealer to passionately build a great coin collection.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
I tend to collect what no one else does.
He wrote the Ike book and always always bought all my high grade Ikes for pretty big bucks back when I barely had 2 nickels to rub together. He would also buy all the blue packs I could find for $3-4 bucks PER coin over bid. I'd ship him hundreds. So he got me into dealing and collecting high end Ikes.
Say what you want about the man, but he has made me a lot of money and never once screwed me.
If you really think about he is the grandfather of PCGS, as he invented the slab and i think sold PCGS the rights way back when. So he should be considered my almot everyone on this board as having inlfuenced theri collecting patterns.
Ike Specialist
Finest Toned Ike I've Ever Seen, been looking since 1986
<< <i>You could say that everybody has affected what I collect.
I tend to collect what no one else does. >>
I collect whatever cladking collects.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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<< <i>Say what you want about the man, but he has made me a lot of money and never once screwed me. >>
High praise indeed.
<< <i>Has anyone influenced your decision as to what series to collect? >>
Absolutely.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and I have imitated many over the years.
I'd like to say I "improved upon" some people's ideas but in many cases, I just followed them down a certain road.
There are too many examples to list, but here are a few:
The Atha brothers, Johnny and Jim, of Raleigh, NC, particularly the former of the two. Johnny Atha used to wear a Western shirt that had holed coins sewed randomly all over it. I took his idea and ran with it, adding some tweaks and improvements and artistic flourishes of my own. Those who do not know me need look no further than my avatar picture to see what I am referring to.
Michael Swoveland (aka "Aethelred" here) has long been an influence over me, though he's younger than I am. We were best friends in North Carolina and my contact with him continued via this site and the Internet when I moved away. When I met him in a grocery warehouse where we both worked in the early 1990s, we were both rather surprised to discover that both of us collected medieval English coins. What are the odds of that, in a small blue-collar community? He knew more about them, though. Years later, and much more recently, I followed his footsteps into Roman coins.
Andy (aka "Engraved") and Greg (aka "savoyspecial") are two people whose opinions count a lot to me in my current pursuit of love tokens, though Greg is more into counterstamps. Both were met via the forums. I have since had the pleasure of meeting Greg (savoy) once in person. Coincidentally, he happens to live in the same North Carolina county where I met Michael ("Aethelred"). There must be something in that mountain water.
Lane
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Regulated - Territorials.
High praise indeed.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
I began collecting the half dimes, by date and mint, as a logical extension of my having completed sets of the five cent nickels. Many years ago I reached a crossroad familiar to most collectors when I completed date/mint sets of the Jefferson, Buffalo, Liberty and Shield nickels, and wondered what to collect next. I decided, somewhat in a vacuum, to continue with the five cent series, and collect the five cent silvers. I began collecting the Capped Bust half dimes by date, an easy series of just nine coins, and all readily available. I truly enjoyed the series, but it was anticlimatic; I found myself wishing that it was a longer series, or at least offered another excuse for continuing to pursue them. It wasn't until perhaps 1986 that I discovered Jules Reiver's marvelous little 'Variety Identification Manual' (VIM) for the series, and first learned of die marriage attribution and collecting. I was hooked. From that day on, I have devoted 100% of my collecting time and resources to the pursuit of the half dimes, of all series, by die marriage.
Friends and fellow half dime aficionados like Jules Reiver, John W. McCloskey, Russel J. Logan, Mark D. Smith, Stan Kubacki, William A. Harmon, Lynn Ourso, Kevin Zeitler, Mark Sheldon, and Craig Eberhart have certainly all contributed to my further enjoyment of the series, and confirmed my decision to collect the half dimes exclusively, and I owe a great debt of gratitude to these numismatists.
<< <i>Has anyone influenced your decision as to what series to collect? If so, who was it and how did they do it? >>
Yes, my grandfather and family who worked themselves to death in the coal mines.
He was certainly inspiration once I read about him around 1974.
Perhaps the Chicago Tribune editor who thought the story that the
mint and FED were going to start rotating coin supplies was news-
worthy back in 1972 should get some of the credit as well. No doubt
most newspapers didn't bother to publish this little blurb.
<< <i>Has anyone influenced your decision as to what series to collect? If so, who was it and how did they do it? >>
I wouldn't say anyone in particular, but I was directed towards early copper by the vast array of books available on it at my local coin store when I was a child.
If it ain't about the money lord knows i've gone insane
By 7 years I was old enough to climb up and find them.. and I'll never forget the contents: 4 silver dollars (1921 morgan, 1922, 23, and 25 peace, in like Fine) one each WLH and SLQ, slick and dateless, one worn 1901 indian cent (grannie's birth year) 32 mixed date silver roosies, one 1951S franklin, 3 or 4 Canadian cents, one 1959 british half penny with young queen E and the boat.
I eventually got other coins from my dad's parents, and Dad would take me to the coin shop just about every other Saturday from ages 10-13, so I ended up a type set collector because I liked to try to get one of each of the interesting kinds of US coins.
Much later, I'd get an interesting draped bust half that Nysoto would help me attribute, and that study influenced my decision to collect the series by variety.
coincident higher prices for the coins, two kids in 3 years, and the economic downturn have conspired to thwart my acquisitons lately but I still love the draped bust halves and quarters too
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Are they really this stupid, or are they destroying the dollar on purpose?