Stop By and Say Hello at Denver, Y'all!

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by V. Kurt Bellman, Jul 7, 2017.

  1. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Well, married life can be like that. My numismatic "career" has three more active phases - 1) before I got married the first time, 2) after the first divorce and before the second marriage, and 3) after the second divorce. Coincidence? In my case, I think not!
     
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  3. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Well coins cost money, wives cost lots of money. And there only so much money available.
     
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  4. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    He is exactly the same person in meatspace as he is online (I characterize this as a warm endorsement), but somehow manages to project gravitas while viciously rending the subject of his ire.

    Too much time spent around politicians, methinks. :)

    Kurt, if you ran I'd vote for you. You wouldn't last six months in office without being assassinated, though. Not in today's world. :)
     
  5. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    Kurt has done plenty for the hobby. Among his many accomplishments, the one that will make most collectors jealous is that he has passed along his love of numismatics to his son. As a forth generation collector, this is my goal, but so far, no luck.
     
  6. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Meaning I refuse to address any subject with the vocal upturn of pitch at the end of every sentence like too many millennials do, that makes every sentence sound vocally like a question. Yuck! During my first divorce, the mother of my child said she was "afraid" of me. The court-appointed psychologist reported that all ANYONE had to fear from me was a thorough verbal dressing down, and he was right. Too many years as a competitive high school debater in the early 1970's, and then debating issues with invited visiting scholars in college, I guess.
     
  7. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Yep, but the next generation will NOT be led around by the schnozz. My son's specialty is (everything I can pass down to him, and...) Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc coinage. He gets off on the iconography of the "workers' paradise" stuff.

    Plus, we're working together on completing a nicely matched set of VF/XF-y BuffNicks and CN 3's. Nickel coinage has local significance because the initial mines and processes that made nickel in coinage practical were done by Joseph Wharton of Wharton School of Business at Penn fame, and the mine was in eastern Lancaster County, PA near a hamlet called Nickel Mines (site of the infamous Amish school shooting), which is near the modern-day town called Gap.

    Next , we'll more seriously take up Liberty/V nickels, or as the locals pronounce it, "Wee Nickels."
     
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  8. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    On the way in, and on the way out.
     
  9. Bman33

    Bman33 Well-Known Member

    I won't be able to go on Tuesday August 1 but will be there Saturday only. Bummer but I am going on vacation later in August to Southern California and I didn't want to burn a day of PTO. I live close to the convention center where it will be held. I'll stop by and say hi Kurt, I will have my girlfriend and niece and nephew with me. Coors Field is nice you will like it.
     
  10. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    When you get there on Saturday, if the lobby is crowded, I'll be helping out with queue management. If the lobby is pretty empty, I'll be at Treasure Trivia at the Kids' Zone, right side of the hall as you enter.

    I have scads of vacay banked. Good thing. I'm using 8 days for this trip, and then 2 more later in August for the solar eclipse.
     
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