if coins could talk

I got into coin collecting , I really enjoy history, but what if coins could talk, how would you like to have a coin that was at the signing of the constitution, or the declaration of indipendence. Or even little big horn.

 

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sometimes they do talk to me, when they say buy me.

 

I am very into history, and always have been. I think thats a big part of the appeal in coin collecting, for me at least. Holding a 150-year-old coin in your hand, and thinking there is a good chance that a soldier in the civil war held this, is good feeling to a history guy, such as myself.

 

I hear them all the time saying all sorts of things like buy me buy me buy me buy me or I have traveled alot take me home I guess you cant know where I have been they simply never stop:headbang:

 

It would say: "Now your screwed."

Look at a well circulated coin: It's singing:

"...I am the passenger
And I ride and I ride,
I ride through the city's
backside..."
Passenger--Iggy Pop

 

coin talk

why you collect me?. you only used me. right?.

 

There was a UK documentary 'The Life of a Tenner' or something it was called.

and a film crew followed a £10 note all around the country and it went from one person to another.

Pretty cool.


I remember on a large UK coin site....in their advertisement for Morgans it read 'Could have been used to buy Wyatt Earp a whiskey, or may have been stolen by Billy the Kid.



I do often wonder about the history though....

Were my roman coins used to pay gladiators their winnings?
My Nazi Germany ones to pay off the barber who did Hitlers tash?

 

Unfortunately,for most of their lives,the majority of Morgan dollars were minted,stuck in mint bags,shipped to a bank or reserve vault and then 100+ years later,went straight into someone's collection.That's why I bought these three babies to complete my collection...well THAT and the fact that if they were AU or UNC,I'd have had to mortgage my home to buy them.

 

A very nice three coin set.

When coins talk, it's the ones that got around the most that have the best story to tell. That's why I like circulated silver dollars.

 

I often wonder about my coins LOL who handled my Celtic/Roman/Greek, what befell those who used my Indian and East India Company coins. It is facinating to wonder about them

De Orc :thumb:

 

Coins open doors to history which might otherwise remain closed. Just like GD says some speak louder than others but all of them speak of history.

B

 

I agree, Bonedigger. At age 4 & 6, my kids are already into coins and it's the history behind them that they like. Right now, it's Indian cents - how they may have been used at the Mercantile in Little House on the Prairie!

Teaching some history and letting kids use their imaginations is a great way to get them into the hobby.

A-

 

If coins could talk, they would beg for people to stop AT'ing them, cleaning them etc. It's sad that sometimes I'm amazed to see an original unmessed with coin.

 

Oh I don't know about that.. if I was a coin, I'd want to be clean..

 

Even if it left several hundred scratches all over you? : )

 

hmm.. sure.. wasn't that the way your mother gave you a bath also?

 

Notice how most people think of all the great or good possible places a coin may have been. Makes me wonder if coin collectors are dreamers or just optimistic.
I always think of the poor begging for a cent to feed their family, the homeless bigging for a few coins to buy food, the jobless looking for coins on the street.
However, then there is the drunks and wineos looking for coins to buy another drink.
Makes me wonder where the hands were that held that coin I just bought.

 

Only thing coins ever say to me is:

"Buy me, you cannot live without me!" :hug: I think they should say more than that.