Silver Proof Sets vs Proof Sets and question

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Yeah me and a cue ball have a lot in common lol Wife says I am just hard headed and as slick and shiny as the cue ball.

 

you beat me out!

I only have about 3100 barber dimes.

 

Hi @JeffsRealm , welcome to CT!
Like others here have said, collect what you enjoy. One thing I did notice is that in your original post you stated 'I figure the silver itself will always go up', That's an assumption many people make, but the silver market is a commodity market, prices are always rising and falling, silver right now is worth a fraction of what it was five years ago. Id take a look at silver value charts dating back to when silver really boomed back in 1980. You'll find that its value fluctuates greatly over time.

 

not to mention that the premium that you pay for silver proof sets will likely never be equal to the melt value

 

Hi @JeffsRealm

Collect what you can afford and what makes you happy. There are a jillion ways to collect US coins and I suspect a jillion other ways to collect non-US coins.

Welcome to the lodge!

 

I played pool for 55 years, but I think I can recognize the difference between your head and a real cue ball. After all, I seriously doubt that your "bean" would fit in a pocket.

Chris

 

@cpm9ball did you ever branch out from 9-ball (8 ball, straight, snooker)?

 

I didn't start playing League 8-Ball until the 80's because it is such an easy game. I played 8-Ball in BCA and Valley leagues for almost 20 years, and I was a National Referee in BCA until 2007.

I've played Snooker on rare occasions, but most of the poolrooms in the DC metropolitan area didn't have them.

Actually, Straight Pool (14-1 Continuous) was the first game I learned to play when I was 9 years old. By the time I was 13, I could run 100+ balls almost all of the time. I played a series of exhibition matches with Willie Mosconi in 1963, just before I turned 16.

My favorite game has always been One Pocket. It's like a good game of chess. I used to play 9-Ball with a gambler from Frederick, MD, and he got tired of losing. He would ask if I knew how to play One Pocket which was his best game. So, he introduced me to a one pocket champion from West Virginia in 1963 so I could learn the strategies of the game. The next time I saw him, he asked if I was ready to play some One Pocket. I beat the heck out of him, and he said that he was going to find some other game to play me.

Another game that was quite common in the Washington, DC area was 3-Cushion Billiards. If you've never played it, the 5'x10' table has no pockets, and there are two cue balls and one red ball. The balls are 63mm which is quite larger than standard 2-1/4" pool balls.

The best thing about One Pocket and 3-Cushion Billiards is that they can teach you so many strategies that a typical pool player would never dream of.

Chris

 

Cool stuff. When I was in graduate school in the mid-80's, I spent most of my time in the pool halls of Austin Texas. And most of that time was playing 8-ball at the Showdown on Guadalupe (...

...). Rarely had to pay for my beer, running tables before my opponent had even chalked his cue. Played snooker at UT's Student Union to get my touch back whenever I lost it (those pockets are so dang small and require much more accurate shots to sink a ball). We never played 3-cushion, just carom billards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carom_billiards) - also another way to fine tune the game and learn how to leave offensively and defensively.

I can remember at least 6 or 7 dedicated full size billiard halls in Austin (some open 24-7). A popular game back in the 80's. Always was jealous of the really good players which it sounds like you are one of. Looking at that video of the Showdown, more than 20 years since I was there last, not a single thing had changed! Looks like the same quarter tables!

 

I think that is one of the other advantages I had growing up in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. There were dozens of poolrooms in MD, DC & VA and all of them were equipped with 9' Brunswick tables. I didn't see my first quarter-slot bar table until I moved out of the DC area in the mid-70's. Those 7' & 8' Valley tables were a piece of cake.

Chris