What do you do with your coin collection?

Do you ever show them to Friends and Family?
Or do you

Have them sitting around the house in different display cases like China and other things people would put in a Curio cabinet??

Hide them away in a big safe in your house?

Keep them in a Safe Deposit Box?

Have them Stashed under a bed in a shoe Box?

I know in todays world a lot of people are Super Paronoid and don't even like to talk to people in person about their coins....

This sometimes seems kinda sad and lonely... I mean you (we) spend all this time, effert and money gathering treasures then hide them away except for posting on here once in awhile...

I talk to people and share when the topics comes up with other adults that I know and think are on the level, but I don't just go broadcasting that I collect coins or PMs....

 

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Also, Are you a Closet Collecter??? Do many people kno you collect coins? Not that you care but hat do they think???

A few people that I really know, know I collect coins and they aren't really into it, but don't care one way or another....

 

Most of my friends/family think its another one of my weird, expensive, obsessive compulsive hobbies and avoid talking about it with me at all costs. If my wife only knew the truth about it I'd be divorced now.

Just kidding.

Most people I talk to about it are completely disinterested in it. My dad got me into collecting Morgans since childhood, so I'm hooked.

 

I like to show my coins as well as the methods I have developed to display them. However I do not advertise the fact that I collect coins to the public or just anyone who comes into my home. I have a safe in my house but it hardly holds the bulk of my high end collection.
My coin dealer, along with a hand full of other fine gentlemen started a coin club about a year ago. We have about fifty members today and the majority of members are very fearful of having just anyone know that they are coin collectors. The reason is obvious, no one wants to be the victim of robbers or just plain low lifes who pray on the old and unsuspecting. Being part of a coin club gives me and other members the opportunity to discuss the hobby we love so much, without the fear of being robbed. The club is also a great place to educate and get to see many fine coins outside of a coin dealers shop.
My family fines my hobby fasinating and they are always impressed with the knowledge I have about the coins that I collect. Of course any serious collector should know that knowledge of numismatics is paramount to spending your money wisely and collecting truely valueable coins.

 

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Some people know, some people don't. I just show them on request, as many years ago I noticed that it can be very boring for people to look at a collection just to be polite...

Cucumbor

 

I usually hide them in my safe, but I love shoing some of my coins off to friends and family and at my local coin club.

 

Ha ha ha! How true! My wife always teases me about being obsessive compulsive and says that my coin collecting goes right along with it. I say "So be it! :thumb: "

A couple of my friends at work know, along with most of my family. I rarely get them out to show people. As of this moment, though I haven't been at this too long, nobody has ever asked me to get them out to show them. Oh well...their loss.

 

My wife made made me a pretty awesome box to hold and display my coins, but that only fueled my passion for the hobby, which I think she regrets now, hehe...but if she can spend $150 on a haircut and $250 on jeans, I think that entitles me to buy a $30 or $50 coin here and there.

Co-workers and friends def. know I collect, but my wife is the only person that's seen what I've gathered so far.

 

I keep the gold ones in a safe deposit box in the bank and on occasion take one of the boys with me to look at the coins as we do the other safe deposit and banking stuff.
The bank visits seems to fuel their desire to sit with me with the coin books and leaf thru page by page of the different nations to look at and discuss the various gold coinage, the designs, what they could buy with them, and where they came from as well as the historic stories behind them.

Outside of my nuclear family the only people who know that I collect coins are those who read my posts but then again even if this is my coin club, no one really knows me now...do they.
So I guess that would make me an isolated collector among adults.

 

Way, way back when I was a kid it was always fun to show off my collection to everyone. Then a freind of mine that did the same thing had his house robbed and the only thing they took was the coins. I used to go to Wisconsin to visit not long ago and noticed in the farm land area where I was going houses were left unlocked with doors open, guns, coins, jewerly left all over the place. Of course if you took even a pencil from someone, everyone in that town would know where it came from. Where I live I wouldn't leave a pencil out over night. My collection of coins is all in a safe deposit box and I tell no one including relatives. One neighbor of mine HAD really nice coin collection up until his nephew borrowed it for drugs. He had it in a safe in his house but told his relatives the combination. I live in an area where there are about 50,000 cars stolen each year so keeping a coin collection locked up is the only thing to do. I visited a freind, used to be a coin dealer, in the hospital not long ago. He got there because he was attacked on the way to a coin show.
Many stores have bars on doors and windows here so not showing off a coin collection is kind of the smart thing to do. Of course with the price of gasoline lately, it's a better bet they'll steal you car for the gas than a coin collection.

 

I live in NY. I don’t display them, talk about them (except with other collectors I have known for years) and keep a loaded shotgun on hand. In fact my house is guarded by a loaded shotgun 4 nights a week, you guess which three. I guess you can say I am a closet collector.

 

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I'm a sociopath, so I can do whatever I want to with my coins and nobody will ever know.

 

I talk and show it to people....only people I know well....
Most are people I've grown up with or such....the ones I show the coins too are mostly cops.
I think coins are meant to be collected and enjoyed....and you can't enjoy them much always locked up.

Speedy

 

That is how I feel too, its sad that so many of us have to hide our passion for this great hobby or our collection or both...

 

Most of my coins/currency are in a safe-deposit box. I do bring some home, if I am upgrading the collection and need to compare or add new items, and I keep some of the less valuable ones at home. I sometimes show a few coins and currency items to friends and relatives, but not a large number, and not all at once. Most of them don't share my interest.

 

almost everything is kept offsite unfortunately. It just isn't safe to keep it in my house. One exception is my holed type set, it isn't worth enough to worry about keeping it at a bank.

 

Very few people know what I have. I did buy a pistol because my wife let her best friends husband get a gander. He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer and subsequently told all of his derelict friends about my collection...

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I only show my family what I have. Of course there is the Internet but very few have my address (although it wouldn't be very hard to figure out).

My coins are in the apartment, locked inside a 300lb safe. It took three full grown men to get the safe in the apartment, we had to remove two doors to do so. Let's just say it isn't getting out of there any time soon. And if someone tries to......well.....there's always my little friend who I call "Mr. Boomstick" to stop them.

 

I personally burden anyone I can with talking about or showing of coins. I rarely find anyone with any interest in coins at all. Once in a while though, I find someone that has an old collection that they don't want anymore and I get a shot at buying the whole thing. Oh happy days!