Coin pet peeves?

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When you go to sell a coin at a show and they say, "Do you mind if I take it out of the case?" I understand why they want to, but if you're going to take a thousand dollar coin out of the case, PLEASE do not throw it on the table immediately questioning its authenticity.(yes, it's happened)

Also, when dealers at shows direct me to their junk boxes assuming I know nothing about coins. They assume I have no money to spend with them, so they dont want to waste their time on me because I was a YN. I do/have done my research before buying coins just like everyone else.

 

When you go through rolls, you will encounter them from time to time. That's why I use gloves during roll searching.

 

I use gloves whenever I handle coins. I'll be doing some more roll searching next week. Hoping I don't have to deal with that.

 

Are you saying that you went through some roll searching in past and haven't encounter on what I experienced?

 

yeah

 

Lucky you! Maybe there are more people in California aren't pleased with US governments and promote them to infest it.

 

I guess my big coin peeve would be not seeing a coin available for a long time and then see it and you have no money saved up to buy it. "CAC" stickers suck. pretty soon there will be a sticker to approve the CAC sticker then another to approve that sticker. when will that sticker thing end ??? CAC is a waste of money.

 

Coin pet peeves:

Coin legislation and the US Mint for permitting any group with the money to lobby or coerce legislators with these profit making sales objects (coins) signed into law to be minted for promoting just about any group, organization or anniversary as a "commemorative". That's what private mints (Franklin, New York, PobJoy, et al.) were (are) for.

And the same, for introducing marketing gimmicks that have turned the mint into a factory churning out several NIFC collectible "products" (not coins) every year, which are "consumed" by greed, and increasingly less so by "coin collectors."

An anniversary coin for the 50th year of the Kennedy coin design isn't special it's a gimmick struck in as many varieties as possible to convince enough people to buy them. The 75th anniversary of the SF Mint (in it's current building) issued as a special Silver Eagle coin set which amounted to an anniversary for a mint at a given address, and not recognizing the actual full historical anniversary of the Mint branch in SF going back to the 1850s. Marketing gimmicks like limited new coin releases to those able to attend major coin shows, while others have to wait months to take delivery of new coins. Marketing teams trying to create "firsts" and one-time only offerrings, then over-turning them a few years later: Reverse Proofs are growing in numbers, now it's domed-coins... Also the skimping on quality by flaunting new technology, laser etched dies, as better than traditionally struck proof coins-- the comparison of newer coins to older proofs is huge. The current techniques look crude and blanket the coins' already weak designs as the applied proof-effect, they are. New technology such as this has one goal in mind, maintaining profits, ahead of and not for, quality.

 

Wasn't the British penny originally 1/240 of a £? Trust me, calling it a penny suits the US perfectly.

 

Coin photos that are sideways and small photos most times I just bypass them

 

As far as I know it has never been done, but I have seen the suggestion many times. And I could see it coming if the fake slabs keep getting better to authenticate the slab. Or for the vintage black ngc slabs because the prices from them have gotten so high that condition of the slab might start to be important.

 

They should be shipped in a velour bag which can be had for pennies each in bulk.

 

How do you know where it came from ???

 

If you have kids, then you will know what it looks like.

 

Amen!!!

 

I'll take a stab (or a pick). Someone's nose?

 

I thought it was a booger but it's SNOT!!

 

Pet peeves all modern coinage presidential coinage. Coins that were cleaned especially with sandpaper or a Brillo pad. Fingerprints especially on an otherwise beautifully toned coin. As a rule blast white coins I like em toned. And last but not least when some stupid nitwit decided years ago to carve their initials in an otherwise beautiful coin!!