Wives Can Be So Cruel

Last Saturday I took my six year old to a coin show. So these last few evenings after dinner and homework, he likes getting his little box of coins and bringing them in the den while he peruses the Redbook hunting down his little gems. So last night I ask him if he wants to look up some of my favorite coins. He is all in so I handed him the gorgeous seated dollar below out of my "favorites" box. The boy is suitably impressed. Just then my wife walks by and asks what the fuss is about. The boy hands her the dollar as I poke my chest out and say, "She is near perfect for a 160 year old". Wife shrugs her shoulders and says, "Looks kind of scratched up to me"...... I am currently researching to see if this is grounds for a divorce in my state....

 

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Randy, it sounds like your wife could be a good grader for CAC. She seems very discriminating in her coin appreciation tastes.

Yes, wives can be very cruel: my wife once dusted (!!!) my coins while doing the weekly cleaning, as my coins sat peacefully on open trays on the windowsill....I almost fainted. She said that they looked a 'little dusty' and needed a good cleaning.
I think that dusting cost me a few 1000$...

 

Eduard.... You just sent shivers down my back reading that!!

 

...and after she said "it looks kind of scratched up", I bet you looked at it again and said.......Hmmmmm, she's right.

And the moral of the story.......Wives usually are.!

 

Ouch, my wife has never dusted my coins before, although cleaning my office in the house is strictly my duty, so this wouldn't have been a possibility. Nonetheless, the mere thought gives me chills. I often try to share my enthusiasm for numismatics with my wife, and like a good sport, she goes along with it, but I know she still wonders why I am so fascinated with small pieces of metal. In the earlier stage of our marriage, I would hand her a slabbed coin to look at, and she would say something like, "oh, thats neat". Now I can give her a slabbed coin, and she makes comments about the design, luster, and color. Overall she is tough to impress. In fact, my avatar is the only coin that she is impressed with so far.

 

Guess it would have been impolitic to point out that 'she' might be a little 'scratched up', if she was 160 years old...maybe that's why I an a bachelor......LOL!
Just Joshing Randy, really nice silver dollar,
J.T.

 

LOL!!!! I wish I would have thought of that!!

 

Speaking of wives. I recently posted this on another thread:

I've read here more then once, where guys have misplacing coins. And I'm thinking, how the heck does someone actually lose a coin from their collection?? I'm just shaking my head thinking, no way in hell would I ever lose or misplace one of my coins!

Well, the past stinkin 6 weeks I've been going through that hell! I misplaced or lost one!! It wasn't just a coin, it was a slabbed coin. A 2019 W quarter, MS67. Not a major cost but I went through a major effort to find it and get it graded.

Talk about anxiety?!?! It was the feeling of anxiety and anger on my part at the same time . I was going nuts for 6 weeks, tearing the house apart. I showed it to some friends and had it out of the house a few times. In my mind, I was trying to back track on exactly where I saw it last.

My wife (if course) found it yesterday in one of the pockets of my cargo jeans, hanging in my closet. I'm also glad I didn't throw them in the wash!! I owe her a dinner night out! She's a lifesaver and a saint!

 

Yep, my wife has 0 interest in coins, seldom even looks at them. But when I show her a silver dollar, it takes her about two seconds to point out every flaw on it. Beats me.

 

My wife knows that my collection is sort of a savings account.
Since I'm 4 years older than her and have mistreated myself I figure I'll be the first to go.
And she knows who to give the collection to in order to cash it in.

 

ME ME ME!!!

 

If it was her you said while talking to your son "she is near perfect for a 160 year old" I'm sure that would be grounds for divorce in any State, women have sharp ears as well. I was trying to explain to my wife a "no cents nickel" (she has a cold) and she said all that I see is e pluberum uberums, I said exactly honey that's what it says.

 

If the coins were all slabbed no harm would have been done

 

Dang I miss that dollar! And I can't believe she missed a PL designation!

 

Freakin' mental cruelty.......absolutely grounds for divorce. But you want to maybe rethink things a bit old friend.

Ya wanna stay rich? Stay married......

And for the politically correct 'pukes' out there, I know Randy was kidding.......

 

You want to stay richer, stay single.

 

But it can be oh so lonely, but I get your 'drift' dear fellow........

 

Why does it cost so much to get a divorce?

... because it's worth it!

 

Unless there are children involved. Child support is gonna lay a heavy burden upon the absent Dad, unless he can wrest custody from the Mom. Prepare to eat 'Raman' for the next 10 or twenty years, and sequester in a friends spare room or cellar.......