I don't get it..What's the point of buying

Off the meds Kurt?

 

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No, perhaps just hacked off I need to be at the State Capitol working (mostly waiting for others) on a Sunday.

 

And my avatar is what a "selfie" looks like when taken on 120 size film with a Hasselblad by a former professional photographer. Yes, I took the picture. I own the copyright to my avatar. It's a few years out of date, maybe 5 or 6. I'm 60 now and my tolerance for foolishness is falling faster than a uranium futures contract.

 

Well , I'm glad my simple joke invoked such a complex explination. Collect on.

 

You started out with a halfway reasonable point about collecting what interested you. And that's fine. Others make other choices. And that's their choice.

We need to be more tollerant of other's choices. Meet them halfway... you might learn something! Belittling them helps nobody. And with each repetition it becomes an unfavorable geometric progression.

Still, you are entitled to your opinions, regardless of whether they are merely silly or downright stupid.

But if nobody is interested in what YOU collected, when the time comes, it goes into the Coinstar, the junk silver box or the garage sale and is lost to history for all time. That's when it becomes more than personal.

 

Heavy Locals, I'm out.

 

The way I collect fundamentally dates back to the early 1960's, from which it sprang. Only the dates have been augmented. The prime methods and procedures of my collecting have not changed since then. Some materials have improved, and that's nice. I frankly don't care if NOBODY else likes what and how I collect coins. I have a son who does, and nothing else matters to me, even what Matt Dinger, or any other traditional "main line" dealer, thinks of my collection.

 

De gustibus non est disputandum.........

 

¡Inglés, por favor!

Just kidding. That is a very accurate statement.

 

Not lowball, and not high end MS. How will I be judged by the masses?

http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/publishedset.aspx?s=136091

 

I dunno about anyone else, but I'd judge yours as being pretty awesome.

 

Nice well matched set. I love the look.

 

The condition level I like to collect depends on the series. I don't do Morgans at all. For anything post-1932, I like MS coins. Pre-Depression 20th century, I like VF-XF stuff, matched nicely. Other than that, I want really high end, high as I can afford, one per series, for my virtual 7070 set. Large copper depends on the date but higher for the later ones, with each design change a break point. I do admire Log Potato's Barber set linked above. Nice. Something to emulate.

Speaking of large copper, I collect world coppers over 31mm (size of a U.S. half dollar), particularly Czarist Russian 10 Kopeks. My kid likes anything Soviet era Russian.

 

Everybody ought to collect what makes them happy. Pretty simplified, I know, but that's how I approach it.

 

Of course you, or anybody else, may insult others. Not here though.

 

Seriously? The post sits there for two whole days, with moderator after moderator on the system, and NOW you get editing happy? Wow. No statute of limitations, I guess. Whatever. Point remains - hypercompetitive numismatic people tick me off and I choose not to associate with them. That's why at an ANA show, you'll see me at talks, and in the ANA blue shirt, but largely not the competitive exhibits. How this hobby ever became a competition just blows my mind.

 

News flash: Humans are competitive.

 

A large part of my collection is made up of lower grade coins. I suppose this is because my collecting habit started when I was young and filling album holes was so rewarding. Condition didn't mean much. If I didn't have a secure space to store the bulk of the collection and was confined to using a safety deposit box, then the collection would consist of high grade coins exclusively.

 

Some are. I tend to dislike those who are. Look, I played golf as a younger man, but never established a USGA handicap. I have no interest in fantasy sports. I don't participate in NCAA tournament pools. I wish FanDuel and DraftKings would shut the heck up and stop ruining my games. I don't gamble on anything, unless you count sending raw coins to NGC. I avoid like the plague all hypercompetitive people. They annoy the crap out of me. Maybe this is because I work for politicians as a policy analyst and I get way too much a sense of what competitive people are like. It's not a pretty picture. What trips my trigger is studying and knowing stuff, not beating the other guy.

Oh, oh, I also never threw quarters into arcade games to get my initials on the top scores screen.

 

It's actually quite simple. Option 1: Some moderator sees something (comment, image, etc.) that in some way is against the rules. Option 2: Some member reports a post that in his or her opinion is not OK, and a moderator checks it out. In both cases it may take just a few minutes or much longer until the post gets edited or moved. There is no such thing as permanent instant monitoring here.

Christian