Pawn Stars Q&A: What do you call a coin collector? Answer: Numismatist I guess anyone who collects Chumcoins or OldMan coins is a numismatist. Over 150 million numismatists in US only.
I have this 1913 V nickel, what's the best price you can give me? We'll.. I gotta make money so ill give ya 10 bucks for it. What about 15? Well.. I gotta advertise and make a little display for it.. Ok fine. 10 dollars it is. Pawn Stars Logic.
"Look, it's going to sit on the shelf. There's just not a large interest in these types of items. I'll tell you what...best I can do is 12, and that's in CASH." 10 seconds later when they interview Rick after he buys it: "This is a great item and I got it at a nice price. I should have no trouble selling it." Wait...didn't you just say that not a lot of people are interested in these items?
Lol! 150 million numismatists in the US... that would be like half the population. Would be surprised if there were that many in the whole world.
Yet that was the figure the Mint claimed during the production of the state quarters, 150 MILLION collectors. What do you call a coin collector? A coin collector, period. A coin collector MAY be a numismatist, most are not. A numismatist may or may not collect coins. Most do but some do not.
I've been seriously collecting coins for about a year. I've learned a lot by visiting the various message boards and I have read a lot of books on the coins I collect. I would not consider myself a Numismatist at this point.
