Are you embarrassed to admit that you collect coins?

I'm happily married and all the " Girls " I talk about coins to seem very interested, or maybe it " Me " there interested in . Either way, all fine here in the coin world ...

 

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Nobody knows about my coin collecting save my wife and bank tellers that save stuff for me.

 

I collect coins and stamps. I never hid it or worried what anyone had to say, It made me happy to be a collector. I was once told coins are for spending, well then do what ever you want was my answer. But I was never looked at as a nerd or any thing else. At least to my face.

 

If I was too embarrassed I would not tell the tellers at the bank that I collect and would probably also not have coins set aside for me there

 

In the past, when my collection was small I would get some strange looks from people that couldn't or wouldn't understand my passion. Now I have one good coin buddy I could talk to all day. My collection is now large "for me anyway" and I keep it to myself. Loose lips sink ships.

 

Nope, never really been embarrassed. I am actually more proud then ever, especially with ancients. If I stuck with U.S. coins 5 years ago I think I may be embarrassed since I had a few cleaned coins as well as all mid-range stuff. I just didnt find much fun in u.s. coins due to the slab world.

 

I've just restarted coin collecting-3 years ago-from childhood (35+ yr gap) and I'm surprised when I show a friend a cool coin like an ancient or a hobo nickel that they are politely interested but nothing more. Even my family is bored with it. I thought on a basic level everyone would be interested in a collection based on money and history. Luckily no one has made me feel as embarrassed as when I wore my Google Glass :0

 

Same here. My dad worked in banks while I was growing up so he'd bring home old and foreign coins from time to time. Then coins lost out to baseball cards and baseball cards lost out to music...

I exist in a world surrounded by music nerds, so I have plenty of people in my life who will go on about a rare vinyl pressing, or the b-sides to some particular import.

I sometimes casually mention that I save old coins I find, perhaps in the hopes that somebody will show me something cool that they're willing to part with for a reasonable price.

But other than that, and a single Facebook post of "look at this cool half dollar I got at the bank" (it was a Franklin), I don't think anybody knows the extent of it.

 

I am damn proud. I love to see the puzzled look on people's faces when I tell them I am a Numismatist. If you enjoy something, spout your enthusiasm. If there is one thing I learned as I got older is to embrace what you enjoy and don't give a damn about what other people think....

 

Not embarrassed by it, but to be honest, the topic of hobbies doesn't seem to come up much. Coin club meetings suffice.

 

You guys need to employ something like the early Christians used to identify each other. Not a fish, but an interesting pocket piece like my well worn ASE. When I pull it from my pocket to make change folks (cashiers, curious bystanders) in the brotherhood know, and act accordingly. It's like the secret handshake..........

 

I talk about it with a few people. I'm on the younger end of collecting (going through college) but whenever I mention it to people they seem pretty interested. The only time they get bored is when I pull out a few coins to show them haha. I always point out that its not a rich man's hobby and you can get coins quite cheap.

 

If you tell them that you're a numismatist, they'll be likely to tell you that they're tolerant of other people's religion and "persuasion". After all this is the 21st century, and some of my best friends are numismatists (of course, I wouldn't want my daughter to marry one).

 

Nothing is dumber than somebody else's hobby

Has always been true

 

Well it depends what you mean by talking about it. When 7 or 8 I found a book of state quarters that my grandma had set aside for me. I brought it in one day to school and everyone thought it was so cool so they brought their own or had there parents buy them one. And we would bring in quarters ad during recess we would trade them. My first trade was for a super shinny Texas (which I would later find out was a proof), I traded New Jersey (which was where I lived at the time so it had "extra value") New York and Maine. However, once Alaska came out and everyone had their books filled, it died off. Then, some years later when Hurricane Sandy rolled around, my family was relocated to Philadelphia so my father could continue working. While I was there we visited the Mint and that sparked the coin collecting bug again. This time however people did not take it the same way. I didn't really tell anyone about it but I simply started posting some of the coins I was collecting on Instagram. I met a lot of new people who liked coins on Instagram. However at the same time I was fun of. Far more serious then anything I have seen you guys say and not exactly by the form rules. After a while people just stopped caring. Am I embarrassed, no. I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people. If they don't like it then I don't really care.

 

I'm not embarrassed about it, but very few people know that I collect. Not because I wouldn't like to tell people or am embarrassed about it but for safety reasons. Sadly in this day in age you just never know. And that's with keeping almost all my collection except newps as they arrive in SDB at my bank.

 

I don't talk about coins with people because everyone I know does not collect, and I learned a long time ago that the majority of people think coin collecting is boring. Another reason for not talking coins is, like many here have written, paranoia of being ripped off.

 

Normally I do not talk about them, but I do have a "double dime" that is quite a conversation piece. Most people have never heart of a half cent, 2 cent, 3 cent, or 20 cent piece. I found that even non collectors find those cool.

 

I have so many interests that I don't have an issue discussing most anything with people. I don't generally bring up my coin collecting hobby, but that's primarily because none of my friends collect them, except one.

I am not embarrassed to admit I collect coins. If someone called me a nerd or disparaged my hobby, I wouldn't really care. It hasn't happened yet.

 

Coins. We all collect them in some way, but few we consider to keep. The rest have to be used to live with. I too have kids who care nothing about my collection, and would spend them for stuff that we consider not worth spending our coins or currency for it. Our values are different form our kids of today. We at our coin club, have very few young collectors. It the same with my genealogy club too. History doesn't mean anything to them.