Is "dark side" a nickname for foreign collectors?

Yes, the expression originates from the sig line of a PCGS forum member (Askari) and originally it was "The Dark Side".
...and i'm almost certain its not a Star Wars reference and that expression came from Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage/The Dark Side of the moon".

Jose

 

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Christian is right, its an American thing.

Its really us US collectors who dare collect anything other than US coins embracing and turning around the stereotype and prejudice. The US has SUCH a strong US only mentality that for a long time non-US collectors were thought of as somewhat "off" here. I was that way for over a decade, it just never really occurred to me to collect anything other than US coins. Then I found the joys of ancients, and that same US only mentality now seems really strange to me.

So, its really us Non-US collecting American collectors who use the phrase as a joke.

Chris

 

White meat, dark meat, it all tastes good to me.

 

I would of thought Canadian coin collectors would have been called "Backsiders" :scratch: and UK collectors "Drunkciders". :cheers:

 

the dark side for me is anything to do with manchester united football club, they must be destroyed at all costs...........

 

now now joe, we all drink real beer in the northern counties of the uk not cider, that's for souther softies

 

For a while, whenever anybody came up with this oh-so-funny Dark Side thing, I would say that, coin wise, there is the Dark Side and the Dull Side. But fortunately many (most?) US collectors do not use it any more ...

Christian

 

Shouldn't Lords be capitalized, as a title?

And ALL of us are in danger from Light Sabres!

I would gladly sacrifice the last joint on me left pinkie to one of 'em...just to witness the technology.

With any luck my wee wound'll be seared smokey inna process.

May th' Force be with y'All!

 

Is there ANYthing this fellow doesn't have a handle on?

C'mon: Let's hear from those of you who have stumped him, or otherwise found his deep counsel lacking. Anyone?

 

Heres some of th dark side

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Ah. Duzzat mean he's younger? Jest a WhipperSnapper? It seems to suggest, though, that he was born sometime inna Thirties. Perhaps that's privileged information, accessible only to administrators an' such high mucky mucks...just askin', is all. Doesn't matter to me if he's real old...to a point.

 

I don't collect dark side rubbish unless its from the days when you were all colonial