You know you're a coin junkie when...

... the lady at the bank is counting out change by putting her index finger on the facing side and you think to yourself "QUIT PUTTING FINGERPRINTS ON THE COINS!! YOU'RE LOWERING THEIR VALUE!!"

 

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When you use a $50 at the gas station on a $2 purchase and ask if you can have rolls of coins in exchange instead of bills.

You don't mind leaving a $10 or $20 bill for a tip but can't stand leaving any change.

 

Easter morning you are sitting around getting coins ready to submit to NGC

 

every time you see a holed coin you cry

 

...you consider being able to check the coins in the cash register a good enough reason to stay at an undesirable job.

 

+1 rofl ive found 7 silver coins so far this year. 2010 is a good year for silver.

 

You know you're a coin junkie when you're at work and you're scanning people's money for key date coins.

 

...the first thing you do when you leave a store is check over your change.

 

When you approach random strangers at the coinstar machine and offer to save them the fee.
+ all of the above:thumb:

 

I even had people staring at me for doing that yesterday in the Walmart parking lot.

 

thats totally me! someone found silver the other day so i brought in a TON of dimes trying to get more....


... when you can no longer eat at your table because its got coins all over it!

 

1. You check eBay for deals on old coins even when you don't have any money to buy them.
2. You look at your palm every time you get change looking for a wheat or a silver coin.
3. You ask random people at a register if they have any old coins in it.
4. You sell a bunch of coins to buy one good one,or you sell one good coin to buy several common ones.
5. You hound the pawn shops and antique stores looking for old coins.
6. You double check your change before you have it converted to bills at the bank.
7. You get a funny look from the bank teller when you ask for two boxes of cents. (5,000)
8. You kick yourself when you did not pay more for a coin at an auction, and kick yourself when you overpaid.
9. You want to get a coin slabbed even when it's not worth slabbing it.
10. You take all your coins out of your safe every week just to admire them.

 

I dream of coins with women on them. Coins with women are a lot more affordable and less aggravating than real women.

 

......you post on a coin collecting forum

 

When your getting change back from a purchase and the cashier asks 'do you have xx cents so I can give you a dollar' and you reply no thanks I want the change or if they try and just give you xx cents from the take a penny leave a penny thing to make it a dollar you request they please just give you the exact change instead.

 

I run into that all the time. In the USA the cashiers are accommodating and just give you the pile of change. In ex-USSR they will argue with you and even call you names. It is hard hoarding coins in the ex-USSR, sort of frowned upon even now.

 

You're in the local Walmart bathroom doing your business. You spot an '83 Lincoln in the urinal. Now you know the doubled die reverse for that date is worth some money.......what to do,what to do........ maybe if I flush about five times in a row it'll be clean, right?....... I know, I'll get something and flip it over so I won't have to touch it! yeah thats the ticket! but..... what if someone walks in and I've got my head in the urinal........ what to do, what to do

 

When you spend every minute of every day reading up on this forum or books about coins and secretly learning even though school has been let out.

 

You wish you'd kept every coin you ever sold.

 

I'll help to revive this old thread.

You may be a coin junkie if
You ever used a proof coin as a mirror to shave in the morning.

You may be a coin junkie if
You ever named a child after a coin.

You may be a coin junkie if
The NGC telephone receptionist recognizes your voice.

You may be a coin junkie if
One of your kids was born on a coin show bourse floor.

You may be a coin junkie if
You think the three primary colors are Red, Red Brown, and Brown.

You may be a coin junkie if
Learning about coins was the best sixty years of your life.

You may be a coin junkie if
You take your change to the bank & bring back more than you took.

You may be a coin junkie if
Your wife has ever said, "Come move these old crusty coins so I can take a bath."




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Collect89