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11-04-2009, 01:36 PM
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My wife is brilliant at esoteric stuff but arithmetic challenged which puts me in charge of all the finances and when you have been working a checkbook for thirty years you know "the ways" if you know what I mean.
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11-04-2009, 02:28 PM
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| | Wanna be coin collector
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Texas
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Mine is glad to me enjoy something like this. She has been pretty supportive and trys to show interest. I push the limits with her sometimes, but all in all she is good. What's kind of bad is I have my daughter, her husband and new gran baby living with us for a while. He was a pilot got laid off and has decided to go back to school while living with us. Well they don't have much money right now and when I am talking about some purchase of a few pennies for hundreds of dollars, I wonder if they are thinking what they could do with that money, but they are very supportive.
Like others have said we have sacraficed a lot over the years raising the kids, putting them through college, getting them married and now we have some disposable income. I use to just go to Best Buy and get some "boy toys", but at least with the coins there will be appreciating value.
I saw somehwere that one of the ZZ Top guys collect coins. I could just see him bringing home a few hundred thousand dollars worth of coins and telling his wife, look at these 1909 S VDB coins I just picked up.
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11-04-2009, 03:05 PM
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| | Numismatist
Join Date: Nov 2005
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No one in my entire family on either side have any interest in coins nor do they care the least what happens to them after I'm gone. Now if those were guns, at least half of my relatives would be a lot more interested including my wife. She has her guns and I have mine. My Son and his wife, not so much for the hand guns but shot guns are really great. Coins are basically for shooting at as far as they are all concerned. I've been collecting coins for well over 60 years and with a substancial collection that will probably end up in a banks counting machine. My wife can work on cars, shoot guns, throw a knife as good as me but COINS? Nothing doing.
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11-04-2009, 05:27 PM
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| | Coin Collector
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 1,497
| My wife loves coins.
My wife loves coins because coins are the reason I go to coin shows. She stays home. When I go to a show, she has the gift of a free day. My wife loves coins. 
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11-04-2009, 05:17 PM
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| | 50 Years and Still At It
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Maryland
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My wife has no real interest in coin collecting except to take a quick look out of curiosity at anything older (pre-20th century) I buy.
We both have a pool of money outside of our living expenses that we use as we wish.
She likes to travel; I like coins (and stamps).
What she DOES appreciate about my collections is that I can get money back by selling them. That's something she can't do with her travel.
And we let each other know if we are about to spend a larger sum for something.
In my case that would be an expensive coin.
In her case a trip OR the new sewing machine she bought.
But passing this info back and forth is just a courtesy thing we do.
BTW, we've been married 40 years.
I guess we're doing something right.
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11-04-2009, 05:43 PM
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| | Defender of Old Coinage
Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Northern California
Posts: 808
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Originally Posted by sweet wheatz  Just wondering, how many of you have spouses that doesn't understand why you collect coins. Mine could care less and often complains about my collecting habits. | Yes, I hear you mine is the same way and once in awhile when I see a high priced coin I really want. All of a sudden she sees a piece of jewelry that she can't live without.  It's like a payback plan or something!! Spoils my shopping spree for sure.  | |
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11-10-2009, 11:16 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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I'm single and I think this exchang I had this weekend at the Indiana State show explains why.
I had just purchased some very nice Conder tokens when I ran into my father at another table
Conder: Gosh these coins are getting expensive.
Herbert : So are women.
Conder : True, and I think the coins are cheaper.
Conder: And they don't talk back to you.
Conder : And best of all, forty years years from now when you decide your tired of them and don't want them anymore, there will be someone there willing and eager to take them off your hands.
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11-10-2009, 11:46 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: United States of America
Posts: 3,386
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Originally Posted by Conder101 I'm single and I think this exchang I had this weekend at the Indiana State show explains why.
I had just purchased some very nice Conder tokens when I ran into my father at another table
Conder: Gosh these coins are getting expensive.
Herbert : So are women.
Conder : True, and I think the coins are cheaper.
Conder: And they don't talk back to you.
Conder : And best of all, forty years years from now when you decide your tired of them and don't want them anymore, there will be someone there willing and eager to take them off your hands. | LOL!  Nice!
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11-10-2009, 11:54 PM
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| | Ones and Twos
Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Jackson MI
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Having been married to an accountant for 37 years she still doesn't understand that the 452 cents in my collection are worth more than $4.52. It just doesn't compute.
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11-11-2009, 12:00 AM
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| | For A Few Dollars More..
Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Once Upon A Time in the West
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Originally Posted by sweet wheatz Just wondering, how many of you have spouses that doesn't understand why you collect coins. Mine could care less and often complains about my collecting habits. | I'm glad my spouse could care less. Her father left her a nice collection in which she had no interest whatsoever...so I raised my hand and she said "Here ya go!"
I am now official curator and caretaker for this collection and it will never be pried away!
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11-11-2009, 02:17 AM
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| | Toning Freak
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: The Poker Room
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I am almost certain that my coin collecting led to my divorce. I purchased a $900 SLQ and my wife found out, then flipped out. Despite my best efforts to assure her that I could easily sell the coin for a $100 loss at anytime, she continued to berate me.
Her tirade finally prompted me to speak my mind. I basically said what is the difference. I spent $900 on a piece of metal worth a quarter but I spend thousands of dollars on you and you aren't worth a damn. As I recall, the divorce proceedings followed shortly after that conversation.
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11-11-2009, 02:36 AM
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| | Pesimistic Optimist
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Originally Posted by Lehigh96 I am almost certain that my coin collecting led to my divorce. I purchased a $900 SLQ and my wife found out, then flipped out. Despite my best efforts to assure her that I could easily sell the coin for a $100 loss at anytime, she continued to berate me.
Her tirade finally prompted me to speak my mind. I basically said what is the difference. I spent $900 on a piece of metal worth a quarter but I spend thousands of dollars on you and you aren't worth a damn. As I recall, the divorce proceedings followed shortly after that conversation. | Wow...crazy story. Hard to believe you're divorced.
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11-11-2009, 04:54 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Pittsfield, MA
Posts: 496
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Originally Posted by Lehigh96 I am almost certain that my coin collecting led to my divorce. I purchased a $900 SLQ and my wife found out, then flipped out. Despite my best efforts to assure her that I could easily sell the coin for a $100 loss at anytime, she continued to berate me.
Her tirade finally prompted me to speak my mind. I basically said what is the difference. I spent $900 on a piece of metal worth a quarter but I spend thousands of dollars on you and you aren't worth a damn. As I recall, the divorce proceedings followed shortly after that conversation. | That was HARSH!!!  and I am sympathetic for your loss of the marriage, but that is sure one hellova story you have for being a coin collector to be able to share, basically priceless. But than to further assess the situation, if she wasn't worth a damn, than you just saved your self many future thousands of dollars and headaches | |
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11-11-2009, 11:26 AM
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| | Numismatist
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by Lehigh96 Her tirade finally prompted me to speak my mind. I basically said what is the difference. I spent $900 on a piece of metal worth a quarter but I spend thousands of dollars on you and you aren't worth a damn. As I recall, the divorce proceedings followed shortly after that conversation. | Consider yourself lucky. My wife and her entire wife's family is into guns.
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11-11-2009, 04:50 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Pittsfield, MA
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My wife loves it when I get a new coin in the mail and show her it and explain it's significance to my collection  | |
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