Does anyone here actually get something coin related for Xmas presents?

I will say, for 39 years in a row now...I get gold coins in my stocking at my parents house. Granted, they have chocolate inside of them.

 

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My girlfriend gets me coins all the time. Her words: "i will only buy you pcgs or ngc slabbed coins, I don't want to get stuck with something cleaned or bogus. And no ebay!". I wish I was as smart as her.

 

MARRY THAT WOMAN!!!!!

Dang, talk about a lucky guy.....

All my wife ever asks me about coins is how much can she sell them for, and name and address to whom to sell them.

 

Listen to Medorman. It is sometimes possible to buy coin related gifts for a beginning collector, rarely for an intermediate collector. For an advanced or specialized collector, forget it. I have received a lot of dreck over the years on which well meaning family has spent way more on than the stuff was worth. Fortunately I've just about convinced my family NOT to exchange gifts. (We all have specialized interests and no one is qualified to select a gift for anyone else. If it is simple stuff not related to our interest, we've already bought it. If we haven't bought it, we can't afford it and neither can you!) Gifts should only be for the young who don't have specialized interests yet, and who don't have the money to buy things they want for themselves.

 

I usually choose my own gifts (coin related or not) -OR- my grandpa gives me some silver from his bank deposit.

 

I got a 2011 Grizzly Sliver Maple as an early gift

 

I always tell people to get me gift cards. When I get them, I exchange them with someone for cash to spend at a coin shop.

 

I don't even mention coins to my three brothers, their wives or nieces and nephews anymore. They just don't get it.
I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to do with the box of used 8 Track tapes that they presented me with last year that they got from a local garage sale. It's like, "Come on family!"

 

Parents bought me my second ASE. Its a 2011, not the proof I wanted but I am perfectly happy with it because its the best gift I've received for christmas in a LONG time. It came in the mail and my parents let me have it early.

 

My family is under strict orders to not buy any coins for my gifts. My mother bought a coin set from an insert in the Sunday paper one year that she completely overpaid for and it took me forever to get the refund the ad guaranteed if I was not 100% completely satisfied.

However, I will accept gift certificates for coin dearlerships, the U.S. Mint, coin books, supplies, etc.

 

I do not get coin related "gifts" per se. But ever since I explained the number of variety and errors out there , my Mom & Sister give me jars & bags of pocket change throughout the year.

My Mom even gives me older coins from my deceased Dad. Most have been improperly stored in old leather coin purses , wooden jewelry boxes or prescription bottles. I love & keep them just the same because they were my Dad's.

The downside to sharing my limited knowledge about coins and precious metals has been a tighter grip on the gold coins & silver coin rolls that I get to search for key dates or high grades.

 

Every year I get something from my list I provide to the family. I always make sure the items are affordable for them. But they also know where my coin dealer is located and he knows exactly what I save and what I'm currently considering. After all, he has sold me half of what I own. I also accept his gift certificates :>)

 

Sorry for the double post.

Some coin related gifts that I wouldn't mind receiving would be ANA membership fee , 1 year Grey Sheet subscription or any of the pre-1959 Red Books & Blue Books in like new condition. Like someone else said earlier in this thread , books & periodicals are pretty safe bets for non-collecting folks to give.

wishlist:
from Krause Publications
[h=1]Standard Catalog of World Coins 1601-Date 5-CD Bundle (New Edition!)
By George S. Cuhaj and Thomas Michael[/h]

 

All right sir, I took your advice.

 

Before I even started buying and collecting coins, I received 1 oz silver medalion of Barber's version of the Double Eagle awarded to St. Gaudens. I asked for an oz of silver and that is what I got. I probably should have been more specific. I just get money for them to buy what I want. I got Birthday money and bought some junk silver but the dealer noticed I was looking for specific coins of specific quality so showed me the coin books. The medallion is here: http://www.stauer.com/item/1906-1-oz-Slvr-Barber-Dbl-Eagle-Pattern-NGC-Gem-PR/222105/55

 

My parents bought me a personal safe.

My older brother bought me a book called "Coin Collecting For Dummies". Turned out to be quite a read!

Edit: Wow old post.
And Congrats to the Rat!

 

I've ask for coins before.....they laugh when I tell them the cost, usually get a shirt....

True story, a few years ago on Christmas morning we were opening presents. I had wrapped up some PCGS Lincolns (modern proofs) and gave one to my sister and her husband as "gag" gifts. The looks on their faces were priceless...I later gave them the real gifts.

 

I ask for gift cards to buy coin books.

 

Congrats! that is, of course, if I am not being taken by a joke.

 

i got a whitman classic jefferson nickel album from my cousin and my uncle got me a bunch of nickels from his change to go in it.
my mom will take me to my lcs and let me pick out what i want and my grandparents will buy me 2x2s from hobby lobby. i did get a sheet of un cut 2 dollar bills one christmas. it truely is the thought that counts. whatever my family gets me will always have a spot in my collection.

cody