Your favorite numismatical quote

Do you have a favorite quote? quip? bleat?
Here's mine: "It is better to be a
knowledgeable fish in a small pond
than to dissipate your efforts in the
numismatic ocean in an imprecise
and unknown manner, spreading
your 'investments' all over."
John Kamin

I first read that in 1979. Looking back
now, I kind a wish I'd listened.

 

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Three numismatic axioms to live by:
Buy the book before the coin.
Buy the best coin you can afford.
Buy the coin, not the slab.

 

Ambition sigh'd: she found it vain to trust
The faithless column, and the crumbling bust:
Huge moles, whose shadow stretch'd from shore to shore,
Their ruins perish'd, and their place no more!
Convinced, she now contracts her vast design,
And all her triumphs shrink into a coin.
A narrow orb each crowded conquest keeps,
Beneath her palm, here sad Judaea weeps.
Now scantier limits the proud arch confine,
And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;
A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd,
And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

- excerpt from "Occasioned by his Dialogue on Medals," Alexander Pope

 

exactly.

 

Numismatic: "How much is this worth?"


BULLion: "When (silver/gold) dips to $xx.xx I'll buy X amount."


"If you seek a premium, then seek premium quality."

 

Just heard one today from a coin collector at a street corner as I was going to work "Gimmie a quarter!"

 

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

 

Cheap coins arent always nice. Nice coins arent always cheap.

Something like that.

 

Rare coins aren't common. Common coins
aren't rare.
I think that was Dave Bowers

 

Sounds like Pearlman's parody:
Rare Profits from High Coin Investments.

 

"Don't invest in coins." or "Coins are not a good investment." TC

 

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore!............Yogi Berra

 

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for. (unknown)


I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do
it. ~Pablo Picasso


Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot
on first. ~Frederick B. Wilcox

 

I disagree with this quote.

 

It's a German motto:

Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, des Talers ist nicht wert!

Translation:

Who not honor the penny, is not worthy of of the thaler!

petronius

 

That is absolutely beautiful!

And for those who don't know what moles are, they are piers or other long structures built into water (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(architecture)).

So the poem is saying that anything that society builds gets destroyed eventually, but coinage can last forever, and hold history for the future.

 

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Thank you for the explanation. To me this is a mole



And one who's shadow stretched from shore to shore would have to be pretty big.

 

Don't know if it's a specific quote, by along the lines of: Buy what makes you happy, and not what others tell you to buy.