It needs to stop right now!!!. I don't know who is putting subliminal messages in their posts, but they better knock it off!! I am resisting your messages. Every time I open the safe to get the coins out, I start chanting " I do not and do not want to collect coins". Every time I work on posting a list of coins to sell, I chant "I can not keep these coins"and usually end up putting the coins back in the safe. Some times, I just get them out and spread them out on the table and admire them. Then I chant "I am not becoming addicted".

I find that I am developing a fondness for cents, nickles and dimes. I am starting to script future conversations with my siblings justifying that if I can sell all the Peace and Morgan dollars, I could keep the AU+ dime collection (1916 through 1988, 80%); the AU+ nickle collection (1938 thru 1988, 100%) and the AU+ cent collection (1934 thru 1988, 100%). Sort of trick them into the theory that silver dollars are high value coins and I am only thinking about nickles, dimes and pennies. I think about breaking up the sets and about all the work that went into putting them together in the first place and start feeling queasy.

Did someone warn me this would happen?

Welcome to coin collecting Linda

And another one bites the dust...

Welcome to wackyworld...the land where one can spend his (her) entire income and STILL have money left!

Jim

Kinda hits you like a blow to the gut, huh? I think it's wonderful. I'm a believer of passing these things down. I hope your siblings are cool with it.


Welcome to the wonderful world of coin collecting!

Me too Linda I originally started looking up some old coins I had just for the heck of it. That was one bag of assorted world coins, plus a few old ones from family. Now... a year later... I have a binder full of carded Canadian coins, a binder of carded American coins (busting at the seams, need another binder) and a LARGE variety of other world coins and approx. 100 carded variety/error coins. As soon as I get home from work I log in to see what the wonderful world of Coin peeps has to say or show and end up spending what I call "spare time" at this... my second home. I only wanted to see what kind of coins I had and their worth... and so it goes... on and on and on. Just say no! Ya right!

I think it's cool!

Here is where I started:

...simple enough for a child but very addictive even for adults.

Just wait 'til you discover world coins ...

That's sorta what happened to me. I'd always been interested in coins, though US only. I found this place when after I received a pile of world coins from my father's "estate". I couldn't identify some so I came on here. I've never left and now I run the place. Now I collect more world than US.

I log on at 5:30 every morning and most times don't log off until about midnight. CP is always running in the background, so I check in often to see what everyone is talking about. One of the advantages of being retired.

Yep, every time I see you selling some, I wonder why you don't just get the albums, and put them away. It is addictive, and you could always justify it with the reasoning, that every year the price/coin seems to go up. By the time your teenagers get to be adults you may have a small fortune

Have fun, and let me know if you want any of the coins I have bought back. Not sure that I would sell them back, but let me know anyway

It starts that way for a lot of people. Next thing you know they are buying albums and traveling many miles to shows

OT: Money went out early yesterday

It is an addiction.

I'm not addicted, I'm dedicated!!!

A likely story.

I will still have stuff to entice you with. Keep on checking that "Want to Sell" section.

Sure you are. Kind of like being dedicated to chemical substances! It's just as addictive. Thank God it's not harmful. Welcome to the world of collecting.

I wonder when you start posting in the "Want to buy" thread....

Probably right after American Idol is over.

Sir, I think this is the one that did me in. I took it to the coin shop and he told me it was trash!! I think it is truly a beautiful coin. Fingerprint and all.

I'm working on my Jefferson album with proofs currently.

I started at my grandmothers house one summer when I was 10 years old. She lived on the Oregon coast, remote at that time and had a big box of pennies. She bought a penny album and I filled a good number of holes (lots of d and s on the west coast--no 1909s, but 1910 on). That got me hooked.

My dad had a service station and the CPA next door was a coin collector. He took me to the local coin club and helped focus my interests on developing collecting strategies. He sponsored my application to the ANA in 1968. I was 18.

I've written articles for the Numismatist, World Coins, and TAMS. I received the ANA Young Numismatist award after publishing my first article in the Numismatist. I co-authored a catalog that TAMS published and won the Mishler Exonumia cataloging gold medal (Hitler medals). I received a Heath award for another article with the same co-author (Stone Mountain halves). My co-author and I met via the mail because of shared interests after I published my first Numismatist article. We didn't meet face-to-face until after working together for 15 years. The common interest in numismatics forged a strong friendship despite many years difference in age and living on opposite coasts.

Economics, young kids, stressed by budget, and a divorce kept me out of collecting from 1988 to 2000, but a lot of material lingered in the closets and I always looked at neat stuff. I was contacted one day by someone who tracked me down and wanted to buy something I owned from the catalog I wrote for their personal collection. He wanted a medal previously owned by the catalog authors. The medal he wanted, I didn't want to sell, then I realized he would enjoy it and I had it just sitting in a closet.

I sold it and thought, why not buy another coin more in line with my current interests. Big mistake or lucky break? I realized how much pleasure I derived from collecting coins and I'm back in. It never truly leaves the blood. You're hooked. Enjoy it.

You take some darn nice pictures there.

"I will still have stuff to entice you with. Keep on checking that "Want to Sell" section".

Doesn't take much...I seem to be easily enticed

Hey, is that you in the "want to buy forum". LOL that didn't take long.