Top Tend reasons you know your a coin junkie!

10, You ask Cashiers to sort thru their coins for ones you want.
9, You leave tips with each one of the presidential dollars.
8, You stand in line and clack heavy ike dollars together when the line moves slow.
7, All your pockets are filled with coin tubes for spending and your wallet has no money in it.
6, The Tellers at your bank are all trained to dump any dollar coins, two dollar bills, or half dollars in a bag for you to pick up later,
5, At the same time you purchase a bunch of Nickel and Cent rolls.
4, You take a trip and raid the bank for 200 dollars in Halves, Twos, and Dollar coins to spend along the way
3, On said trip you raid banks on the way for the other Mint marks you can not get easily at home.
2, You pay for a Haircut in 15 Ike dollars and wonder why the female hairstylist is giving you an evil eye.
1, You think Banks are cheap coin stores....

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11. You start going through withdrawal if you go more than a day without being on cointalk.

Phoenix

 

#8 is so true

 

... and you prefer the 15 Ike dollars to the female hair stylist.

 

Here's mine...

#12. At a store, you scan the "Take-A-Penny" tray when you step up to the cash register.

#13 Whenever a restaurant server returns your change, you'd rather leave bills and take the coins.

#14 Like pavlov's dog, you jump to attention when your wife empties her coin purse.

#15 When your folks tell you that one of their friends passed away from old age, you try to act sympathetic but you're actually thinking, "I wonder if they had a coin jar?"

#16 When you go to the bank and ask for box of rolls and the teller asks you why you need so many coins, you tell them they are for a statistics project your daugther is working on for school.

#17 You keep a $20 in the glove compartment of your car so that you always have money to buy rolls from banks in other towns.

#18 Like a kid, you check every Coinstar, vending machine and payphone coin return.

#19 You offer to buy change from a panhandler.

#20 You always scan the sidewalk and gutters when you walk down the street.

 

#21 you look at every date and every mint mark on every coin you touch.

#22 you quickly estimate a grade on every coin you see.

#23 a little part of you dies everytime you see someone touch a coin other than on the edge.

 

23 and 12!! yes! Some neighbors of mine know I collect so tehy gave my mom some australian coins, When she called me upstairs to look at them they were all laying on the table, immediatley I cringed, and she started tapping them with her fingernails explaining what she thought was on each one...
** tick** fingernail on coin***
and this one ** tick ** I think is a platypus **tick**
**tick** and this one ** tick ** i think is an iguana..:desk::desk:
finally I had to tell her to stop..
and the take a penny leave a penny is sooo true!

 

you guys are crazy...but aren't we all?

 

#24 You say, "Thanks for the cool tip! I never thought to buy change from a panhandler, before!"

(edit: changed "21" to "24" -- you guys are too quick.)

 

#25 You actually dream about finding things like 1804 Bust Dollars and have had this dream since childhood.

 

#26 a wishing well makes you want to dive in and rescue all the coins.

 

#27 you follow the brinks truck and you are just trying to find out delevery time of new coin suply. i went through all the nickels at 4 banks
#28 you walk in the bank and the teller sayes we havent gotten any new coins yet.
# the teller sayes i know you want a case of nickels.

 

#29.....you sell your lucrative hotsauce business and make them pay you in pennies !!!

 

#30 You get ****ed when the cashier gives you a dollar instead of .99 cents in change.

 

...but will settle for a 1799

 

#31 When the clerk asks of you have a penny because your total is $25.01 you say no just so you can get the change, even though you have about $2.00 in change in your pocket.
#32 You stand on your tippy toes to see over the counter into the cash drawer just in case there are coins of interest

 

#33 You feel a sudden pain when your kid throws a penny into the wishing well and you did not check it first. Could it have been the 1909 S VDB?

 

Okay... if we are all coming clean...

#34 You step into the men's room and as you do your business you notice someone dropped change in a small puddle on the floor right in front of the urinal... and you have to think twice before you decide NOT to pick it up. :whistle:

 

after you kind of scan it to make sure there isnt anything valuable lol

 

But you would at least look at it and use your shoe to flip it over if need be, wouldn't you?