How much time do you spend on numismatics per week?

How much time do you spend per week on anything related to numismatics? This would include, but is not restricted to, anything on this list:

• Reading this forum.
• Reading numismatic publications.
• Buying and selling items.
• Looking at auctions.
• Going to coin shows.
• Cataloging your coins and other items.
• Staring at the beauty of your coins and banknotes.
• Anything else your imagination comes up with.

If it varies a lot just give an estimated average.

 

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Way too much time......just ask my wife........

 

Im definitely in over 20 hours a week. Im not a dealer, just a collector. But im always on ebay or here and reading and researching. And also VAM attributions can take time too.

 

Much like Evan, I'm 20 hours + too.......

 

Well I picked "Full time job" because...ya...I spend too much on this hobby.

 

Easily 20+. Trying to spend less time just isn't an effective use of my obsessive-compulsive drive.

 

I put 10-20 but now that I think about it I'm over 20 too. I'm on this site all the time at work and before I go to bed. I Coin Roll Hunt 4-5 Boxes of Halves a week which takes 5 hours when it's all said and done. Go to 2 coin shows a month. Always check spot silver and gold on my phone during the day. Go to LCS 3 times a month. Go to coin club once a month. It adds up! The great thing is my girlfriend is into the hobby too which is awesome.

 

Oh, this, so much.

There are days when work schedule only permits two or three hours total, but others (like tonight) when I'll go 6-8 hours straight even after working. And my days off are usually at least 10 hours on numismatics alone. So, figure 25 hours/week at least, 35 when I don't take one of my days off for myself.

Like most weeks.

 

It is hard for me to answer this question. Most of my reading is done from my bedside table. If I were not reading coin magazines I would be wasting it reading other stuff. Does that count? I am on CT quite a bit but I am always multitasking, doing several other stuff including work related stuff. So does the time count full value? I do spent quite a bit of time trawling for bargains on online auction sites and than cataloging what I win. That is probably my biggest time expenditure.

In the end I decided to click 10-20 hours, but that may be a little excessive.

 

^i have one of my browsers on at work, so I am getting work done but checking posts here too. I think it still counts. I forgot all the bulllion sites i''m on daily too.

 

As a YN, it is sort of a part time job, as I can't really have a full time job in 8th grade, I just had my best day ever, with over $800 in sales in one day. I sell coins on eBay, and I send quite a few coins for grading to ANACS, and I attend a coin club.

 

20 plus. And I'm probably underestimating.

 

You are an ambitious young man. Way to go!

 

I'm closer to the 10 hours mark, often under, but I would happily turn it into a full-time job if I had the resources to do so. I don't

 

Moderating itself, if you do it right (and you're doing it right), is north of 30 hours a week just on its' own.

 

I am in the 10-20 range likely. Just a relaxing hobby for me so consider it leisure time. TC

 

Wow, what a great question.....sure makes a person think, I originally put down 10-20 hrs. Then I decided to be honest with myself.....over 20 for sure, if I count time I should be working, and instead I'm searching or reading or on this site. I can't go a day at work without checking eBay, VamWorld, Cointalk....dreaming of those bright shiny round discs that give me pleasure.....I better stop talking like this and get back to work......

 

Its an interesting and very important question. But you WILL NOT get the answer in this forum on its accuracy. 20-30 years ago when Bowers had Bowers & Merena he did surveys and asked collectors via his Rare Coin Review and such how much time per week. I never forgot the answer. Think of your average show its really that guy with a piece of paper in his hand with say a date run of 1913-1938 for his Buffalo Nickels accumulation. Most ANS books sell in and around 125-150 copies, ANA attendance is 5,000 or so per event ... so the answer: 20 minutes/week. Its important to know ... if you are selling and collecting - particularly selling. Yes - we see 20+ hours but most of us on this channel are obsessed or semi-obsessed. TWENTY MINUTES and rarely out of the 19/20th Century U.S. sector (i.e., U.S. Morgan Dollars) for U.S. citizen collectors - IMO.

John Lorenzo
Numismatist
United States

 

Well let me see.....Every time My grown daughter comes over I am doing something involving coins and she does the voice of the creature from Scooby Doo that goes around saying "Coin...COin...COIN!!!!"