I just realized that coin collecting isn't really about the coins...
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...it's about expressing our inner selves through the formation of our collection. I think that's why in the past when I've let someone talk me into a coin I've eventually lost interest in that collection and moved on.
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Although since I know what I like now no one has to talk me into anything.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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What does your collection express about your inner self? Edited to add: I care, and I'm listening.
Have to agree I don't see most of these guys collecting Precious Moments figurines.
<< <i>...it's about expressing our inner selves through the formation of our collection. >>
I think you're on to something there. Building a coin collection is an act of creation, not one of consumption. It's like the difference between writing a short story and watching a TV show.
"Freud's own involvement with the remote past went back to the family Bible,which was lavishly illustrated with images of bizarre Egyptian gods and ancient temples. These illustrations evidently made a lasting impression, for archaeology was to become a lifelong obsession. It was an obsession that Freud's patients would be forced to share: surrounded by cases crammed with ancient detritus, the analysands reclined on the famous couch and opened their souls (in Vienna,at least) beneath a photogravure of the temple of RamessesII at Abu Simbel. . . . A number of them, purchased from Viennese dealers such as Robert Lustig, are highlighted in this exhibition."
I'm not sure we really want to go here. If dealers learn the psychology of collecting (better than they already do), we collectors are doomed.
Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
K
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
Why did I choose western art? It represented my Texas upbringing.
Why rare coins instead of currency or medals? And why the various series I have put together?
It will take some thought, but the answer is in there somewhere.
I think I will sleep on it
It would be interesting to view somebody else's collection and tell that person what we think it says about them.
I'm just saying ...
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
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All I've ever heard is how generous and competitive you are. Thus i think you should one-up SaintGuru and give away a nice duplicate seated dollar. I will be the first one to enter myself into the give away. Thanks!
In all seriousness, i think i'm more interested in the history behind the coins then in the coins themselves. I'm fascinated by civil war dates and those issues from the lesser known (to the general public) mints like Carson City. Also, nothing beats a good pedigree where you can literally hold an auction catalog from everytime it's sold back to the early 1900's!
<< <i>".it's about expressing our inner selves through the formation of our collection."
Have to agree I don't see most of these guys collecting Precious Moments figurines. >>
If this is so I am all tore up inside.
Hoard the keys.
I think it is when you get what you want, you are satisfied for a little while, then that wears off. Then you want more, always more, always better, better than anyone else. The ego is never satisfied. We as humans are all that way, it could be coins, cars, autographs, wifes, businesses, buildings, real estate etc. All things, all forms are temporary. Acceptance of this is quite freeing.
"Question your assumptions."
"Intelligence is an evolutionary adaptation."
Of course one can choose to express himself by hiding himself in his creation as well
or distort the facet he's showing either intentionally or otherwise.
To a very real extent even our perceptions eventually become an expression of self.
Freud created a world of irresistable urges and the concept of no responsibility through
his guilt. Of course this wasn't intentional but a Freudian sort of thing. At least he had
good taste in history.
"Our belongings or lack of belongings, whether gathered carefully or unconsciously, whether chosen or inherited--or even just dreamed of --are in large measure what define us both as individuals and as members of a group.
The possessions we surround ourselves with -- including our houses themselves -- are a vast unspoken symbolic system by which we attempt to understand ourselves and one another.
These possessions constitute a public and private language by which we convey concepts of memory and meaning, declare social status, formulate family histories, encourage patterns of exchange, and define values. Through them we both preserve the past and prepare for the future."
What he said.
I'm not sure what mine says about me, I buy whatever looks good to me and is relativly cheap. The whole scatterbrained, spendthrift, new idea every 10 seconds or less mentality, I suppose.
<< <i>Well it about the coins for me, the look or the beauty, the history or the story, the overall aspect of what was originally hand made on an old steam press machine in the late 1700's and the early 1800's. To me they are tiny original individual paintings happily made out of a silver that is capable of being preserved forever and if they are still in their original stater of preservation the better. >>
Realone: Tell us how you really feel.
Plus, I like them !
Whatever you are, be a good one. ---- Abraham Lincoln
<< <i>...it's about expressing our inner selves through the formation of our collection.
What does your collection express about your inner self? Edited to add: I care, and I'm listening. >>
Simple: He's a colorful guy! But all original.
The name is LEE!
No, you're correct.
But once you find what makes you happy, for whatever reason, collecting becomes more enjoyable.