Forget the $10 Million Coin

Just so everyone knows:

The necktie dates back to the thirty years war in Europe. The Croatian mercenaries wore bright silk cloths around their neck, and fought so fiercely that everyone else including the King of France began wearing them.

Personally wearing a tie is part of my workday dress code. I am sure that I actually get more respect when I wear a dress shirt and tie.

Whenever I dress down I have to prove that I know what I am talking about in my interactions.

Perhaps this guy, whom is under debate here, enjoys being underestimated.

I don't know him, but might it be the case?

 

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Tonight I sold a 96 ford explorer, the Buyer said that he would look at it at 5 pm. Him hawed till 8:15 PM. I didn't know who I was gonna meet, (cheap sale, 264, mi ). The fact of the story here, You don't know who your gonna meet, but if you pre judge the individual because of the way, he chooses to live his life, Attire, Language etc.
You are missing the individual that you may have wanted him to be.

My customers call me the artist, even with the holy jeans, and felt Hat. They choose to accept me for who I am.
There for a suit and Tie? I have literally walked away from 20,000+ dollar jobs, because We didn't get along.
By, the way Kurt I would never plan, that my left hand ever comes in contact with your Tie, I Think it would be a pleasure to meet you one day.

@Endeavor This went way off track My bad,
Would be a pleasure to even see that coin in hand!

 

If I could hold that coin in hand, while posing for the photo, I'd at least try to smile for the shot. As for the clothing...not a problem.

 

About 40 years back I was working in construction in Sacramento, Ca. I was a framer on a small crew building new homes. One day my supervisor said to me...look at that old guy over there with the holey jeans and cowboy hat...do you know who that is? He's the guy who owns all of this region of land and is worth over $50 M. Never judge the book by the cover.

 

Well, to argue against my own position:

The cover is the first thing you see, and first impressions are a thing.

That being said, if the book's cover is crisp, clean, and just like all the OTHER new books...

 

I do think we'd have a lot in common. I treat coins like art, not a way to survive an apocalypse. The best shot we'd have to meet someday is at a major U.S. coin show, particularly an ANA show. Thing is - ANA shows, for me, have their own unique dress code - the blue ANA-logoed golf shirt. I'd just as soon be in at least a sportcoat and tie, but I'm there to do and look like what the ANA wants me to do and look like. If you get to Denver this August and make the banquet, I'll probably be in the classic light blue seersucker suit, with suspenders. I tend to fill each evening with official and semi-official ANA show events, like the banquet or the Numismatic Literary Guild Bash. I go mostly because the coin hobby has been very good to me, I have a medical condition that will likely keep me from achieving great age (a ticking time bomb with an indeterminate fuse), and I want to give back to the hobby.

 

Personally, I'm not a suit wearer. I have one. It's my funeral suit. If I were appraising and cosigning coins (or other collectibles) of huge value, I would put on suit.

In my region there was a person who purchased a very old, well-established auction house. He never wore a suit. He's since been legally barred from any sort of participation in the auction industry.... Can anyone guess the name?

 

What if you were videotaping a commentary for a seven-figure coin? That's the context here.

 

Suit. Presentation is everything. If I were buying a seven figure coin, I might do it in a bathrobe just for giggles.

And the chatter around town was the person in I mentioned would give appraisals for some of the wealthiest people in town wearing cargo shorts and savanna shirts...

 

For me, the ultimate expression of my iconoclastic nature would be to wear a suit at all.

It'd be something severe and Italian, in an environment where grey Brooks Brothers was the accepted uniform.

 

I always thought of you as a Hickey Freeman man.

 

Last time my husband wore a suit and tie. The judge saw right thru him and threw the book at him. Superficial

 

He is, is he?

 

I know that I will make it to the show, being Denver is my home town.
More to purchase than catch the festivity's though.

 

By and large, I find ANA bourse prices a little daunting. I think I might do better selling than buying, based on asking prices. I too live in Denver ... Pennsylvania. I buy tres cheap at auctions.

 

Dang, you are close to Green Dragon!

If I lived where you are, I'd be hitting those auctions like crazy, and yes, I'm sorry to say, reselling some of it elsewhere at a profit. I'd also probably weigh 30 pounds more, courtesy of Green Dragon.

 

Sure there is, because I LIKEwearing a tie, and I think I look better wearing one.

 

As did I until my stroke, courtesy of "change your lifestyle or die" instructions from my neurologist. I didn't grow up here, but my mom's people did. I grew up in downtown Reading, as nasty an urban area as you'll find under 100,000 population.

 

Can't you tell he's a real big brain, with all those books in the background? How could anybody read so many books?

 

Funny, I sold my '95 Explorer Sport last year. We each had ours, 22 years. Like you, I guess, I don't like to quit on something just because it's old.