Do you know of any other hobbies that rival ours?

collecting modern cat figurines. star wars/ star trek action figures.<---- will dump the whole action figure collection after episode 7 star wars comes out. star wars/star trek trading cards...I wanna sell all of it soon. i used to collect comics "Cry for dawn" "Dawn" mainly for the artwork....the stroy lines were/are bizaar. I have a collection of polymer cane discs. I play racquetball, tennis, and ping pong..

 

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I have a wide variety of hobbies other than coin collecting I collect native american artifacts, video games, guns, hot wheel cars and seasonal hobbies I have include going fishing and metal detecting.

 

My other passion is lifting weights - my wife calls it a hobby but I wouldn't. If you get solid equipment it's a great "investment" in that they usually retain lots of value should you sell and it quality equipment will outlast you. I neglected to mention the various physical and psychological improvements that come from the activity of strength training.

 

Whaddaya know! The oldest at the final table of the 2014 WSOP was 31 (I think!)and not a single American in the final three.

Chris

 

Someone said it earlier, but firearms collecting. I enjoy the history in the coins and learning about what our country was like when that coin was made, and for the same reason, I like collecting 1890-1950's milsurp rifles from different places, both for the history of the rifle and learning about that time in history, but also for the engineering aspect, seeing how different country's arms stacked up against each other and seeing how the power would shift with a new general infantry rifle. There are some fantastic ways to solve the same problem that each country faced and no 2 are the same. Plus it's fun to go punch a 1inch group at 100yrds with a 1917 Mauser Gewehr 98 using the irons while the guy next to me is failing at it with his decked out AR15.

 

I collect firearms as well as WWII German military collectibles... Mainly helmets and daggers. That hobby is very similar as there are a LOT of fakes and some real pieces can bring millions of dollars.

 

Fishing (Muskies and Bass), golf, reading, music.

 

I am an ancient collector, so a related hobby is antiquities. Like Mat, LOTS of fakes. Antiquities are harder to authenticate than coins, though. I do find it an excellent addition to my coins, showing cultural influences, etc.

 

Magic the gathering - it's like a mixture of poker, chess, and coin collecting. Sometimes there is a sports card show next door - we feel bad for them. You mean, you have these cards but can't actually compete with them?

 

hunting and fishing, year round outdoor pleasure with trophy pursuit

 

Rivaling coins....probably video games and for sure comic books, especially now due to the movie and tv boom comic book properties are enjoying. And its popular with my generation *gen x here* and younger.

Im waiting for the comic/tv boom to go poof though, even I am getting burned out with all the tv shows and movies.

 

Hoping to play in a big tourney this weekend myself!

 

Of course I do enjoy collecting coins and bullion, but the one thing that keeps them from being the king of all hobbies for me is that they just sit there and look pretty.

For fun hobbies, it's all about activity. Hiking, camping, biking, swimming, kayaking, rafting, shooting, skiing, snow boarding, etc.. Music is important to us too. The boys are just getting into band and my daughter has been in concert, symphony, and marching band all four years of high school.

 

It's a truly great game. I've played since 1997 and take some breaks every few years or so.

 

My 2nd biggest hobby is trying to figure out how to pay for my biggest hobby, coin collecting...

 

for the big boys with deep pockets, car collecting is big.

on the weekends I like watching the Mecum auto auctions.

but I can only dream

 

Boxing... just coming from the gym. It's much cheaper than collecting coins or cars ;-)

 

Well, there's amateur radio. Whenever I see people talking about PMs from the survivalist, anti-government or economic-collapse perspectives, I wonder if they've taken steps to ensure that they can communicate without relying on corporate or government infrastructure. But that hobby has been dealt a serious blow by the Internet and modern communications -- "I talked to people all over the world last night" gets yawns now, as does "I can call people from my car".

I'm a long-time astronomy buff, too, but as an earlier poster said, it's getting harder to find dark spots.

Photography's fun as well, and can be nearly as much of a money-sink as numismatics.

Chemistry used to be fun, but now there's a presupposition that you're making meth. Bleah.

Electronics, too, but modern stuff is getting less and less accessible. I can fix things from the 1970s, and some from the 1980s, but modern stuff is mostly toss-and-replace. Of course, it's also cheaper, and immensely more capable.