When You receive a New Coin how long to you Play with it?

coirn · April 22, 2011 7:54AM

Whenever a new coin arrives I can't help but admire and kind of play around with it for a couple of days before finally squirreling it away at the bank vault or safe. I can't tell you how many times I'll pick it up and just gaze at it. Flip the slab over and admire the reverse, lingering sometimes for a disturbingly long time before placing the coin down again on my desk. A few minutes will past and I'll perform the same ritual all over again.

Now, of course, if it is a coin I'm disappointed in then it quickly gets discarded by shoving or tossing (depending on my level of disgust) it off to the side. But man oh man, if it is a beauty, I can honestly spend an embarrassing amount of time just studying it. (None of this even involves the time spend googling or doing a little research to find out more about either the type or the specific coin itself.)

Please, anyone, tell me I'm not alone (?)

DennisH · April 22, 2011 7:56AM

You are most assuredly not alone. I've often put new purchases on my nightstand the first day.

MidLifeCrisis · April 22, 2011 7:56AM

You are not alone.

Rampage · April 22, 2011 8:00AM

I play with it often. In fact, I got one several days ago and am still fiddling around with it.

HKstrongside · April 22, 2011 8:02AM

I will do that several times over a week or more. But for me, thats half the fun of collecting.

LanLord · April 22, 2011 8:04AM

100 flips, count the # of heads vs. tails.

Anything less than 40% tails goes back as not as described!

RYK · April 22, 2011 8:06AM

It's variable. Sometimes I throw it right into the safe. Usually, I have in my desk for a short time. I have also occasionally carried a new coin to work with me, especially if I stopped by the post office on the way to work.

relicsncoins · April 22, 2011 8:13AM

Most of my purchases are ANACS photo cert coins, and many are in the original PVC flip that ANACS sent the coin back in. The first thing they get is a good soaking in acetone just to insure there is no PVC residue on the coin. I then photograph them and put them in 2X2's. I look at my primary collection about once a week.

coirn · April 22, 2011 8:14AM

<< It's variable. Sometimes I throw it right into the safe. Usually, I have in my desk for a short time. I have also occasionally carried a new coin to work with me, especially if I stopped by the post office on the way to work.

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I would be too frightened I'd somehow loose it.

You're a braver man than me.

EVillageProwler · April 22, 2011 8:17AM

There is a prominent member who is well-regarded as having truly awesome coins. I've "handled" some of his coins. What do I mean? Ever see the movie "Indecent Proposal"?

fivecents · April 22, 2011 8:18AM

<< When You receive a New Coin how long to you Play with it? >>

Careful...too much of that can cause blindness.

EVillageProwler · April 22, 2011 8:22AM

<< It's variable. Sometimes I throw it right into the safe. Usually, I have in my desk for a short time. I have also occasionally carried a new coin to work with me, especially if I stopped by the post office on the way to work.

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RYK - a long time ago, when the stress of my job was getting to me, I used to carry around a raw 1852 dollar in my pocket while at work. It made me feel good. The coin is long-since in a problem-free TPG holder in a secure location. My stress? It's returned. Ugh.

EVP

Tiny · April 22, 2011 8:27AM

I'll get it home and look it over for a little while and check the pictures I saved from
the add or auction and maybe take a few more. Then it's to the SDB and anytime I
want to look at it I check the file where I saved it. I spend tons of time looking at
my coins that way.

llafoe · April 22, 2011 9:08AM

I take mine out of the slab, strategically place thumb prints on the obverse and reverse, sneeze on it a couple times, spritz it with MS70 and then place it back in the slab... I think you've seen some of my coins posted in this forum!

slinc · April 22, 2011 9:17AM

Mine go in a desk drawer til I go to the bank which is generally every week or 2. If it's one I really like I may take it out and look it over quite a few times before it goes to the box. I usually take gold straight to the bank I don't think my wife would buy my "Oh it didn't cost that much" line with gold coins.

LindeDad · April 22, 2011 9:20AM

I usually try to get it imaged and put away withen ten days or so.
One of the last batch.

messydesk · April 22, 2011 9:49AM

I feel kind of sorry for collectors that don't play with their newps for a little while.

ambro51 · April 22, 2011 9:58AM

I dunno. I get the new coins, sure, they are shiny and its neat to see "2011" on them, or even "2010"...but after only a very short glance, they go into the change can.

bronzemat · April 22, 2011 10:04AM

My "playing with a new coin" usually lasts about four days then its put away someplace safe.

keyman64 · April 22, 2011 10:08AM

If I am not going to photograph it right away then I will look at it with a glass for maybe 30 seconds or so then it goes for a car ride...straight to the SDB. If I am going to photograph it right away then I will look at it for about 30 seconds, then it might hang out with me for a couple of hours, I'll photograph it...then it goes for a car ride straight to the SDB. I go visit the prisoners every few weeks typically...in a cold locked room.

ChrisRx · April 22, 2011 10:17AM

I take it on a nice walk through the local park, then out for a nice dinner with fine wine, and then sleeps with me (yes, on a first date.)

SkyMan · April 22, 2011 10:44AM

<< I take it on a nice walk through the local park, then out for a nice dinner with fine wine, and then sleeps with me (yes, on a first date.) >>

Ever picked up any "social" diseases that way???

JBN · April 22, 2011 2:00PM

Having it in hand is the culmination of a long process.

I have my Stacks/Bowers dollars here on my desk.

I also have looked at them just prior to retiring and left them on the nightstand.

What would be the point of NOT oogling over them? To me, the beauty of the coin is the principal reason for the 'collecting passion'.

You are most certainly not alone.

Took one to work once - the response was genuinely underwhelming. I realize that those who don't collect don't understand the 'passion'.

ANACONDA · April 22, 2011 2:05PM

Nice coin. (You can get that verdigris out with some baking soda, a soft wire brush on a drill and a gentle power washing, by the way.)

<< I usually try to get it imaged and put away withen ten days or so.
One of the last batch.

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RYK · April 23, 2011 2:26AM

Has this thread been edited...or have I lost my mind...or both?

scottgardener · April 23, 2011 4:13AM

Yes, I have to stare at a new coin a lot. I feel better, knowing it's not just me.

TorinoCobra71 · April 23, 2011 4:17AM

....at least a WEEK before I have to put it on lockdown.

LindeDad · April 23, 2011 5:25AM

<< Nice coin. (You can get that verdigris out with some baking soda, a soft wire brush on a drill and a gentle power washing, by the way.)

<< I usually try to get it imaged and put away withen ten days or so.
One of the last batch.

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Wouldn't that scratch the plastic our hosts put it into?

BillJones · April 23, 2011 5:53AM

It all depends upon the coin. Some pieces can stay with me for others; others go in the box fairly quickly.

With me almost all coins have on again off again love affairs with me. I'll go for a year or so and hardly look a piece, then my interest in come back for some reason. When I'm preparing a speach or an article, my interest will peak in a coin again. I've owned some things for decades, and my interest in them goes up and down.

When You receive a New Coin how long to you Play with it?

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