You might be waiting a long time. CO real estate has not really crashed in the last 35 years, just a few small dips. I would like to visit more coin museums in other countries. Getting a TPG (probably ANACS) to correctly attribute some Barber varieties is my current bucket list item. I'll take another stab at it this year and then give up. Possibly join the local coin club (finally), but I'm not a "club" kind of person at heart.
I achieved my primary “bucket list” goal in the fall of 2013, with the help and contributions of many friends. Since then, any remaining numismatic “bucket list” goals have been less ambitious and more subject to my changing whims. As to other “bucket list” items in family life, I hope to live long enough to meet a grandchild one day. My kids are in their 20s and 30s, respectively, and neither seems inclined to start a family of their own at present.
My wife and I (and two friends) had the good fortune to take the tour of the Mint Museum in Hall, Austria, this past fall. Birthplace of the Thaler/Taler - parent to the Dollar. Wonderful tour, and Hall is an awesome town and area to visit!
1, 6 and 7 also. My wife and I want to go to FUN, although I loathe going to Orlando and the rat palace.
That sounds great. We've been to the coin museum in Thailand, one in Iceland (very hard to find), and the Crypte Archéologique de l'İle de la Cité which is under the plaza at Notre Dame in Paris. Not really a coin museum, but displays of coins (mostly gold) from all the various eras represented by the archaeological site under there. I love that stuff. I'm not far from the ANA museum in Colorado Springs so that should really be on my bucket list too.
Not true. Only the loud, obnoxious Americans (which happens to be a lot of them, so it's totally justified) - which I distanced myself from when I lived there. Soooo embarrassing! I did not want to be associated with Americans when I saw that! If you even try to learn a few French words and use them, they really appreciate it.
My wife thought that she might be French but NOT according to 23andMe. She's mostly Jewish as it turns out. She still says.. when I ask a question..... Je ne sais pas?
I should say that I'm not sure if the coins are there permanently or if they were part of a temporary exhibit that changes, and we were just lucky. I looked it up and online images show other stuff displayed behind the ruins. As I recall, the coins were (mostly?) not found on that site, but only represented what was coined during various eras. But it was all in French and I had to piece together what the displays said. It's worth a visit regardless, if you enjoy archaeology. I found it amusing - there are stairs leading down into it under the plaza in front of Notre Dame tucked away in a corner of the plaza and we only noticed it by accident. Hundreds of people were lined up to go into Notre Dame or milling around, and we were almost the only ones in the archaeological site. It's obviously not on the bucket lists. No one in France was rude to us. That's such a widespread notion that I have to assume it originated with Americans who deserved it. I said bonjour and merci and pointed a lot, and it was fine.
Well, I can check off Item #4. I attended a Coin Club Meeting last week, and a different club's meeting, yesterday. I joined the club from yesterday. I think I might join the first one, too. I do have a third Club Meeting that I'm going to on Thursday. Maybe I'll join that one, also! LOL! Maybe I'll be a member of three clubs! I'll likely go to more than one meeting to decide if I want to continue being a member, long term.
I have hiked the Weminuche wilderness. We took a couple of trips on the Durango and Silverton. Got dropped off on the way up and picked up the next day. Lots of good times in that area of the country.
