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seemyauction
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<< <i>I'm sick of the term..............
Same here especially when it's used to disparage other dealers coins.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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<< <i>I'm sick of the term..............
Same here especially when it's used to disparage other dealers coins. >>
<< <i>I'm sick of the term..............
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<< <i>Someone's dreck is another's collection. Only obnoxious elitists and snobs employ such disparaging terms, which, places them on a social scale comparable to the material they are criticizing. Cheers, RickO >>
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<< <i>Someone's dreck is another's collection. Only obnoxious elitists and snobs employ such disparaging terms, which, places them on a social scale comparable to the material they are criticizing. Cheers, RickO >>
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Dreck is in the eye of the beholder. Whatever the hell that means.
One man's dreck is another man's treasure.
<< <i>Someone's dreck is another's collection. Only obnoxious elitists and snobs employ such disparaging terms, which, places them on a social scale comparable to the material they are criticizing. Cheers, RickO >>
I collect coins.
<< <i>I'm sick of the term..............
Creating another new thread on the topic seems inconsistent with that sentiment.
When a coin drops below a certain price and grade level for some of the more astute collectors, many coins tend to fall into the " schlock, dreck, and even junk silver" category. This is not what they are, but they're referred to as that.
It's not a bad thing or a good thing. It's just what it is.
Please do not be lulled into thinking that those who use these terms are elitists or snobs. Think of stuff as being what it is in this old coin world. Every coin is looking for a happy collector.
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<< <i>Someone's dreck is another's collection. Only obnoxious elitists and snobs employ such disparaging terms, which, places them on a social scale comparable to the material they are criticizing. Cheers, RickO >>
NAW!!!...I'm a coin snob!
<< <i>Someone's dreck is another's collection. Only obnoxious elitists and snobs employ such disparaging terms, which, places them on a social scale comparable to the material they are criticizing. Cheers, RickO >>
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<< <i>dreck (drk)
n. Slang
Trash, especially inferior merchandise.
[German, dirt, trash and Yiddish drek, excrement, both from Middle High German drec, from Old High German; see sker-3 in Indo-European roots.]
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Frankly, I didn't realize that it's meaning was so, for a lack of a better term, dirty. Seems like maybe it should go.
To me "dreck" sounds like bottom of the barrel stuff. According to some its supposed to mean any coin that is in an overgraded holder.
In my opinion the term "dreck" doesn't sit right or sound like a description of an overgraded coin. I mean I personally wouldn't refer to an 1804 dollar as "dreck" even if it had been overgraded. It would be a coin I would love to own.
Instead of "dreck" I would use "subpar" or "substandard".