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What are You LEAST Thankful For in Numismatics?

CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
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T-Day minus one here in Chicago.

I am least thankful for dealer spam email which advertises coins of no interest at an astonishingly high rate.
Newman Numismatic Portal, www.NewmanPortal.org

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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boiler room-style calls from Universal Coin and Bullion
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never ending whining about ebay on this forum. Spare me - please. Cheers, RickO
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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Never ending whining about ebay on this forum. Spare me - please. Cheers, RickO >>



    Seriously I don't know why people even punish themselves by even looking at fleaBay.
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Never ending whining about ebay on this forum. Spare me - please. Cheers, RickO >>



    I thought you were going to ay "toned coins". Ha!

    Happy Thanksgiving! image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Chinese counterfeit coins and TPG holders.
    When in doubt, don't.
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    AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,375 ✭✭✭✭
    Dealers overgrading and mis-representing coins.
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
    PCGS Registries
    Box of 20
    SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
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    djdilliodondjdilliodon Posts: 1,938 ✭✭
    The ripoff artists who try and take advantage of collectores.
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,594 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Chinese counterfeiters.

    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

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    Bankerbob56Bankerbob56 Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭
    Why do so many people whine about e-bay in this forum?! I've collected coins for 40 years and I have not had any trouble with sellers on e-bay. No one twists your arm to pay any price you don't want to pay!!! I think e-bay offers collectors access to coins previously unattainable! As brick and mortar stores disappear, electronic access to inventories will be all that's left! If you get "taken" on e-bay chances are you would get "taken" by a dealer in person!!! Just MHO....
    What we've got here is failure to communicate.....

    Successful BST xactions w/PCcoins, Drunner, Manofcoins, Rampage, docg, Poppee, RobKool, and MichealDixon.
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    DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,041 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why do so many people whine about e-bay in this forum?! I've collected coins for 40 years and I have not had any trouble with sellers on e-bay. No one twists your arm to pay any price you don't want to pay!!! I think e-bay offers collectors access to coins previously unattainable! As brick and mortar stores disappear, electronic access to inventories will be all that's left! If you get "taken" on e-bay chances are you would get "taken" by a dealer in person!!! Just MHO.... >>

    eBay is rampant with fraud, scams, fakes, overgrading, distortion, doctored photos, meaningless descriptions and return policies, misrepresentation and outright lies. No matter how cautious and informed a buyer may be, it is nearly impossible to avoid being ripped off eventually. Best wishes for continued good luck and success.
    When in doubt, don't.
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    LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Well-managed promotions, which are the assumed birth-right of dealers.
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am really least thankful for Longacre's unannounced and prolonged absences from the forum. image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    scottgardenerscottgardener Posts: 1,205 ✭


    << <i>The ripoff artists who try and take advantage of collectores. >>



    That's bad, but worse are those who rip off non-collectors--the charlatons who use the reputation of coins as collectibles to scam people out there who are most vulnerable. We as collectors can arm ourselves with knowledge. The frail, elderly looking to leave their grandchildren a legacy might not have the same access to information.
    Improperly Cleaned, Our passion for numismatics is Genuine! Now featuring correct spelling.
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    CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,656 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I am really least thankful for Longacre's unannounced and prolonged absences from the forum. image >>



    Yes, he has been a little bit scarce lately. The Man must be in beatdown mode, or something.
    Newman Numismatic Portal, www.NewmanPortal.org
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    09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    Boiler room dealers
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    WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    A--holes...whether they be dealers, collectors, companies, ideas, etc.
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    Authorized dealer for PCGS, PCGS Currency, NGC, NCS, PMG, CAC. Member of the PNG, ANA. Member dealer of CoinPlex and CCE/FACTS as "CH5"
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,869 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Chinese counterfeits in certification holders.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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    WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    When I find out my self graded raw MS-65 turns out to be just a 64 image
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    Raybob15239Raybob15239 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭
    Daniel Carr's 1964D Peace Dollar Copy without the word Copy.
    Successful B/S/T transactions: As Seller: PascoWA (June 2008); MsMorrisine (April 2009); ECHOES (July 2009) As Buyer: bfjohnson (July 2008); robkool (Dec 2010); itsnotjustme (Dec 2010) TwoSides2aCoin (Dec 2018) PrivateCoin Jan 2019
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ryk,
    Tarnished coins are a reality, whether AT or NT.... and some people like them (no accounting for taste image ). But the constant whining and griping about ebay is enough to make a pig puke.

    Happy Thanksgiving .... Cheers, RickO
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    ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very poor way to meet cute girls.
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    barbershopperbarbershopper Posts: 1,201
    That I didn't have enough money when I started collecting to buy coins I knew would be sky-high in 30 or 40 years. That's when I was 7.
    Had to settle for talking parents into buying them. After they found out I knew what I was talking about, they did and sold them for huge profits a few years later.

    JT
    It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi.

    I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
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    rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Puttied Saints. I don't even collect the non-puttied ones.
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    MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,614 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Too many cool coins...not enough money.
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    PCcoinsPCcoins Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭
    BNB
    "It is what it is."
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is a trick question.

    https://acoinshop.com/ —-> https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

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    ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Presidential Dollars
    *For Sale on Ebay*
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    LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I am really least thankful for Longacre's unannounced and prolonged absences from the forum. image >>



    Yes, he has been a little bit scarce lately. The Man must be in beatdown mode, or something. >>




    Vacation for the past 2 weeks, and The Man will start beating me down again tomorrow. image
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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    jabbajabba Posts: 3,177 ✭✭✭✭✭
    mint sets and make an offer

    https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923

    https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923

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    blueifalconblueifalcon Posts: 963 ✭
    numismatist with the "SCROOGE" mentality....I say Ba...Hum-bug to them! he-he-heimage
    Ilikacoinsawholebuncha
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 33,180 ✭✭✭✭✭
    flea bay and pay puke image
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    BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Other coin collectors.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,682 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Other coin collectors.

    Bear! image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
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    machoponchomachoponcho Posts: 355 ✭✭✭
    counterfeits
    I have existed since the creation of this world and will exist until its end. Only my form will change. For these 80 human life years, I have the benefit of having a functioning body and consciousness. I will not waste this opportunity.
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,594 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Other coin collectors.

    Bear! image >>



    I guess he doesn't need the competition.image

    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

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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The enemies of numismatics. They know who they are. Read between their lines.

    https://acoinshop.com/ —-> https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

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    ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭
    The high quality of modern fake coins and slabs. They have the potential of completely ruining the hobby.
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    pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    Companies that make money by purporting to validate grading by other companies.
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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    renomedphysrenomedphys Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The fact that all the high quality material was put away long ago. That's a sword that cuts both ways though, as it does make the hunt a lot more interesting.

    Empty Nest Collection

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    coindudeonebaycoindudeonebay Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭
    CHINA

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