What type of Coin Collector are you?

And once again, the percentages do NOT add up to 100% - WAY over.

Mm, mm, mm, what GREAT software, eh?

 

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Yup. Another reason to avoid them.

 

I will say D - Specialist in Mint Errors.. Or at least I try!

(I have a lot more than the pictures shown)

 

Generalist turned flipper/ vest pocket dealer

 

No, all a big checkbook gets you are the coins. And there are plenty of top ranked Registry sets with no descriptions or photographs.

My Registry set has professional grade photos and in depth coin descriptions and comments about the coins and my journey to assemble my collection. It has thousands of views by other collectors and I have received unsolicited messages from some collectors congratulating for assembling such a fine collection.

What do you do? Set up an exhibit about some numismatic topic that people either walk right past or spend a few seconds viewing before they move on in order to prevent themselves from falling asleep on their feet? Then you and your ANA nerd buddies get together and decide whose exhibit was the least like an Ambien.

You call exhibiting the KEY PART of coin conventions, but rarely do people ever come back from coin shows and post about the exhibits that they saw. However, they consistently post their NEWPS and notable rarities they saw at the show.

Furthermore, if the ANA vanished from the face of the Earth tomorrow, it would have absolutely no effect on my enjoyment of the hobby. So you can imagine how very little I care about anything they have done for over a century. So you keep up the good work helping people fall asleep and I will continue to assemble coin collections worthy of the attention of other collectors.

 

Yawn yawn, I’m gonna start calling you the sleep doctor!

 

hmmmmm...not what I was expecting....

 

will you have bacon with these waffles?

 

If the ANA stopped tomorrow, I'd STOP BEING PART OF this hobby. Literally.

 

Dude. Nobody is disparaging good old exhibitions at a show. That is great!

However, you have to realize this is 2018. Technology has changed things, whether you like it or not.

In 1958 when you started collecting, electricity was limited to light bulbs.

We have the internet now, and that has revolutionized the way some people collect and share their collections.

There is really very little difference between a hard case at the ANA and a well presented Registry set on the internet. Exhibiting as I do it is a time-tested and time-honored KEY PART of numismatic enjoyment as well - even if it is "different" and "new" and "modern" and "technology."

Your antiquated dogmology is really getting old. Yeah, when you were a kid things were different. But you have to realize that things have changed.

 

The ANA stopped being relevant decades ago.

 

It temporarily did the same for me. Then I woke up and realized my time doing coin transactions over the Internet WAS the nightmare. I WILL be attending LIVE at least 5 major shows this year plus about 15-20 live auctions without Internet bidding.

 

No I do NOT have to do any such thing. I'm allowed, and FULLY CAPABLE OF doing numismatics the EXACT WAY it was done in 1958, and I like it that way. If I prefer it, and CAN DO IT FULLY, who are YOU to suggest my way is wrong?

 

And according to the XenForo software, you ceased being relevant to ME about, ohhhh, 4 minutes ago.

 

Shoebox - All my coins fit in one shoebox.lol But I do wear sz14 shoes so it takes a little longer to fill up.

 

The ONLY way ANYONE could POSSIBLY write a line like that is out of sheer abject ignorance of the subject. The evidence of this is that "Best in Show" and "People's Choice" virtually NEVER match, this past August in Philly standing out as the odd counterexample. It had been decades since the same exhibit had won both. Why? The average COLLECTOR has ZERO idea what is important in exhibiting.

 

LOL! Keep at it. My collection would not fit in a full-sized SUV.

 

I am not suggesting that your way is wrong. I'm suggesting that your way is perfectly valid, and that the new way is equally valid. I'm suggesting that there is room in the world for both. YOU are the one who is emphatically and dogmatically rejecting the entire notion of buying and selling, or displaying, online. I am however, suggesting that VASTLY more people are buying and selling online nowadays than have ever attended a coin show.

I really don't understand how you reconcile this extremely strong prejudice with your active involvement in an online discussion forum like this. For Pete's sake man, make up your mind.

Eh, I had you on ignore for several months. Turnabout is fair play. I guess if you don't reply to any of my posts, I get the last word?

There is always disagreement between the so-called "critics" and the "popular vote." You see it with the media and the elections. You see it with reviews and the movies. You see it with the judges and the people's choice awards. How many times have you agreed that the Best Picture Oscar winner was actually the right choice? I've disagreed with that far more often than I've disagreed with a Best in Show winner.

Thing is, the two groups are judging by a different set of criteria. That doesn't necessarily make one wrong and one right - it means that a certain display is pleasing to one group and not as much to another.

 

Me? About 2/3 to 3/4 of the time. But then again, I have studied film-making academically, so there's that.