Is "dark side" a nickname for foreign collectors?

I've heard it referenced in a few threads here.

Are you guys Sith lords or something? Are US collectors in any danger of being sliced in half with a light sabre??

 

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US is darkside to some of us furryner types.

 

It all modern to me

 

The "Darkside" (all one word) came into use on the PCGS forum a decade or so ago as a descriptive term for non-US coins, which were referred to as the "liteside". Canadian coins quickly became the "greyside".

Over the years those terms have come into fairly widespread use, and as scottishmoney pointed out, nowadays "darkside" often refers to "anything outside my own country" when used by non-US collectors.

 

Furryner? You sportin' a beard Scottish? :devil:

BTW, such a piercing gaze your pooch has. Almost as if he demands the truth right now.

 

She, not he. Her name is Lyoda.

 

I usually hear the word darkside used to describe ancients , more so than foreign .

 

Good looking pooch .

 

Oops, sorry. She's beautiful.

 

With China going as it is, US coins will soon be part of the foreigners.

 

Darkside= Foreign Coins in politically incorrect slang by US coin collectors.

 

Dark or not, the force needs to be strong with those.

 

She is a very sweet and loving dog to my immediate family and our other dog and cats. But she is fiercely protective of my family - and I don't really have a problem with that. She has shredder teeth and literally rips up all her dog toys, even those Kong things get shredded by the Siberian.

 

C'mon my friend you're losing it . can't tell the difference between a male and female .

 

Resistance is futile, you will soon join us on the dark side.

 

I think you're mixing up your movies, but it works for me!

 

As Mel Brooks would say, 'who knew'?

I don't go 'round lifting up skirts.........:devil:

 

Does it? I've never heard or read it except when used by American collectors who refer to non-US pieces.

Christian

 

That's where I first saw the term being used.

 

My lightside is Russia, Poland, Romania, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Japan, and of course Scottyland. I didn't even collect USA coins until a couple of years into collecting. All the first coins in my collection were from Asia.