Which coin did everyone own and you felt left out?

True. Not every coin that is popular (or new) at the moment is worth buying or one that you should feel the need to buy. In fact, most of the times it's probably best to stay away because it may very well be overpriced due to its high popularity.

With that said, there may be a coin that comes around from time to time that you reeeaallyy want that also happens to be popular and widely owned. For me it was a Morgan as stated in my opening post. Has there ever been just ONE for you? That's the question being asked.

 

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No. There hasn't.

There have been coins that I've wanted to own for various reasons - they are historical, they are rare, they are interesting to me for some reason (such as subject matter), or they are going to be part of my set. But never have I ever said "I want to own this coin because everyone else is going crazy about it, or everyone else owns it - so I must also." That is stupid.

 

Who the hell would buy a coin they didn't like? (Except for investment/flip)

I'm asking about a coin that you do like. A coin you like that also happens to be popular. It would obviously be very stupid to buy a coin you didn't like only because it was simply popular with others. Perhaps others talking about it (or talking about their own) made you buy it sooner than you would have otherwise or it made you want it more than you ALREADY wanted it. Again, we're talking about a coin you liked to begin with.

 

Well, now you've completely changed the question. That's not at all what you asked in the OP, or what you've been asking this entire thread.

 

How?

 

A coin I've never owned a 09 s vdb. And I really have no desire to own one. I thinks there overpriced and overrated. Really so are morgans tho I gotta have 50 of em most are well toned tho. Why I collect trade dollars a lot harder to find in original condition and there so pretty!!

 

I understand your position, but for me, I have a different take. I haven't been in this hobby as long as you and when people post their new acquisitions, in some cases, I get introduced to a coin I've never seen before. If I like the design, I'll get drawn in and want to know more about it and in some cases own one.

 

None that I can think of, however, when that Kennedy sold for $100,000 I said, yep, that figures....

 

That is entirely different, in my opinion. In that case, you are hearing about something new and you see a new coin design that you were unaware of. You decide that you like it - and you buy it because you like it (for whatever reason). You didn't buy it because everybody else had one and you felt like you must therefore also have one. You bought it for your reasons, not because you felt left out of some imaginary club.

 

Twenty dollar liberty head. As a kid I would look in the front window of a small coin store downtown. The twenty really caught my eye. $50 at the time, which might as well had been fifty million because the paper route only generated about $5 a week, half of which my dad made me put in the bank.

 

+1. One on my radar I never paid any attention to was the panama pacific half. Love the design saw a couple posted here on ct now I want one. Of course a fairly high end ms with nice toning

 

+2. I see all these nice trade dollars then I want one. I don't see them in change so my exposure to them is pretty small.

 

+3

Exactly, I see coins here on CT I have not seen before and feel like "WOW I need one if those" ...however it's NOT because I ALSO want to have one, what is childish. The Pan Pacific is an excellent example, as well as the 1952 Superbird quarter or the Classic head gold series. I still don't own any of those but I know I will one day

 

Growing up on a farm with 7 siblings and being the eldest, made me feel left out of a lot of stuff. But not coins. I worked hard and earned enough to do the best with what I had, so no, nothing in coins I could relate to as being left out.

 

I see your point. When re-reading the thread title in a very literal sense, I do understand how it portrays a sense of "envy" and/or "peer pressure": needing to join in because everyone else has one.

 

I tend to be very literal. Its a character flaw.