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Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by kirispupis, Apr 27, 2021.

  1. Broucheion

    Broucheion Well-Known Member

    Hi @Ignoramus Maximus,

    You should live long and prosper, and if she inherits your collection I’ll be in line to buy at a great price .

    - Broucheion
     
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  3. svessien

    svessien Senior Member

    What, you buy them just because you like LOOKING at them? :)

    In fairness, we ancient coin collectors represent a very small and rather weird group of people, who spend our hard earned money buying obsolete money that no longer works, and don’t pay off as an investment. If anything is incomprehensible, it’s probably us.
     
  4. Ignoramus Maximus

    Ignoramus Maximus Nomen non est omen.

    Hi @Broucheion,

    I was actually hoping to inherit her collection!:)
     
  5. medoraman

    medoraman Supporter! Supporter

    I get the same. Everyone asks me how I know they are real, then kind of roll their eyes like I am an idiot when I explain. :(
     
  6. William F

    William F Well-Known Member

    Isn't this what coin collecting is all about??? I don't collect to make a living, sure, it's nice when I can make a little extra $$ from this hobby but most of the time... I just like to LOOK at them ;) ;)
     
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  7. svessien

    svessien Senior Member

    Same here! And the same goes for arts and antiques. It’s important to surround oneself with things of beauty.
     
  8. Evan Saltis

    Evan Saltis OWNER - EBS Numis LLC Supporter

    best part of ancients? I can actually hold them and feel them.
    My pfp morgan could never
     
  9. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    You can....
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  10. J.T. Parker

    J.T. Parker Well-Known Member

    Just imagine his 'critique' of any Philatelist!
    J.T.
    WHATEVER² ?
     
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  11. Evan Saltis

    Evan Saltis OWNER - EBS Numis LLC Supporter

    Thats one I just can't get behind
    :nailbiting:
     
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  12. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    I was never required to study Ancient History after 8th grade. My AP European History class started with the Reformation. On the other hand, my son's AP non-American History class was called "World History" and did cover the Greeks and Romans. At least briefly! (Lousy teacher, unfortunately.) So in that sense, things got better between the 1970s and the 2000s. Then again, he's already 30, so he's old compared to the "kids today": he's part of the very last generation to remember a time before cell phones and the Internet.

    In all seriousness, I think it's wrong to generalize about different generations. I doubt very much that the average 22-year old 50 years ago thought that ancient coins were of any greater interest. Crypto wasn't around, but I"m sure there were other things they thought were more worthwhile. I certainly knew enough in high school not to tell people I was interested in old coins. And there are just as many young people now -- and more women -- studying art history, and ancient art in particular, as there were 50 years ago.
     
  13. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    My twenty something nephew just got a new job at Tesla as a robotics software/AI engineer. He started buying Tesla stock a couple of years ago (not very many shares) and now he talks about crypto and bitcoin. He is indifferent to politics or anything else which does not impact him directly, has no knowledge of civics or history, let alone ancient history. One can say it's a frightening time when people can't assess a situation rationally or with any point of reference. Truly, they don't know what they don't know. But to be perfectly honest, I was a weird kid growing up who read the encyclopedia for fun, was fascinated by Greek and Egyptian mythology in the third grade, and started collecting soon after. Not too many other kids had similar interests. I did collect Topps baseball cards and played baseball up through high school, which was a little more normal. My parents encouraged the latter activity rather than the former for the most part.
     
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  14. Randy Abercrombie

    Randy Abercrombie Supporter! Supporter

    Last summer I carried my grandson to the mountains. Went into a roadside stop and much to my surprise, saw something I hadn’t seen in years. A gumball machine that contained little capsules of wheat cents... I was beside myself and felt like a kid and made a beeline to the guy at the register to trade my dollars for quarters to feed the machine...... The kid looked at me with contempt in his eyes and said to me.... Why do you guys pay quarters to get pennies? I smiled and said thank you and proceeded to turn all my quarters into pennies with much glee....... Some folks don’t get it and I understand. I have no clue why a shoe store makes my wife giddy as a teenager either. And that too is OK.... As long as it isn’t my credit card she is using.
     
  15. TheFinn

    TheFinn Well-Known Member

    At least ancient coins don't have the possibility of going to zero.
     
  16. Ocatarinetabellatchitchix

    Ocatarinetabellatchitchix Well-Known Member

    And he thinks you're weird ? If he only knew what I'm doing with my coins at least once a month.........

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  17. medoraman

    medoraman Supporter! Supporter

    To be fair, talking of stocks or crypto is not the same conversation about coins. One is a way to speculate and make money, the other a passionate hobby. Same could be said about any hobby versus investment. If I am only talking investment, I don't want to hear about what fun you have skiing, or at your cabin, or with you MNH stamps, etc. Coins are a HORRIBLE investment, they aren't really even an investment. Too wide a buy/sell spread. Enjoy them for what they give you in pleasure, and invest elsewhere.
     
  18. QuintupleSovereign

    QuintupleSovereign Well-Known Member

    I think it will take a catastrophic, prolonged plunge in the price of Bitcoin to disabuse people like that of certain notions...
     
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  19. Mammothtooth

    Mammothtooth Stand up Philosopher, Vodka Taster

    We will eventually pay for all the people who are misinformed about Civics, History. Unlike Europe and Asia we have never suffered a war on our land. Please, no Civil War.........We are soft and weak, over weight, and generally naive when it comes to what might really happen...Look to the Arctic, Russia.....Look to Europe, Russian Bear, look at the Pacific, China....We are not improving our military nuclear Arsenal for deterrence...
    Coins, Crypto and whatever else means nothing when you have no food, ruin the climate, polute the oceans etc.......We need to look hard at living more in tune with nature, cause if things go South we may be living in Caves again..Sorry for the rant, but I really worry about the world my Grandchildren will be living in....
     
  20. +VGO.DVCKS

    +VGO.DVCKS Well-Known Member

    To lots of people's points here, maybe provisionally starting with @svessien's, I relate to ancient and medieval coins far more primarily as miniature historical documents than as 'money.' The ensuing dialectical shift in how to relatate to them in the first place has an added bonus for some of us, only most prominently if you gravitate toward a certain side of the political spectrum. In terms of their function as money, this stuff is already where, as some people on the first page of this already noted, bitcoin will be after 2300 years.
    ...And, yeah, you have to value history in the first place to get any traction with this, beyond trying to cross a mountain pass in winter without snow tires. ...Makes it hard to convey any of this to people who, metaphorically or not, get their history from comic books. And yes, to Donna ML's point, that's a phenomenon that already spans several generations.
     
  21. +VGO.DVCKS

    +VGO.DVCKS Well-Known Member

    @Mammothtooth, I'll cheerfully see your rant, and raise it.
    Just, --Grandchildren?!!?!?!? Beyond the fact that that the planet is already in ecological, and, to all appearances, political freefall, the accompanying savagery is already acutely apparent, on a daily basis. Over the past year, the US has been seeing what Germany was seeing in the decade that my parents were born. (Famous line from my dad: '...your stupid coins!') Not to mention police who join the force after growing up playing shoot-em video games, thinking, 'That's Cool!' ...Regardless of the immediate context, generationally or not, this many people simply lack the equipment to assess what's being done to their brains, on flagrantly prerational levels.
     
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