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My Fun-Employment

How I've spent it. I am starting a new job next week and was lucky enough to be able to take two weeks off in between leaving the old job and starting the new one. My cousin coined this term as being "Fun-Employed". Sadly, it has not been 100% fun though, as I have injured 4 fingers during this time. 1. A nasty blister while helping my mom in her yard, 2. A leash burn courtesy of my dog as he needed to sniff a tree, 3. A gash on a finger while helping to build a play house for my niece
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The Future of Our Hobby

My niece and soon, my nephew I was reading an article in Coin World about how we need to constantly be thinking of ways to involve young people in the hobby, because they're the future of the hobby. My niece is 4 and my nephew will be coming along in a few weeks or so. I figured since I just started a type set for myself, so why not start one for my niece and one day my nephew. Right now, my niece knows what money is, but not really what it's for. She just takes it and puts it in her pigg
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Type Sets

Disclaimer** Please take this post for the humor with which it was intended. I have come to the conclusion that Type Sets were created for collectors who suffer from PCD (Pretty Coin Disorder). I definitely suffer from it and recently started a Type Set Collection. My internal dialogue with Ebay goes something like this..... Me: Wow, that's a gorgeous coin... Ebay: Buy it. Me: I'm not collecting that series... Ebay: Buy it. Me: I couldn't afford to finish that set. A lot of
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My Weekend With Coins

How are you spending your weekend, numismatically speaking? I was off this weekend, so after doing some errand running with my wife, I sat down to edit some photos of my recent acquisitions. I took the photos last week, but I haven't had a chance to edit until now. My realization is that as much as I love collecting coins, I'm not a big fan of editing those photos. The sad realization is that I have another stack of coins that needs to be photographed. Sigh... I just edited a couple of
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Coin #500

Halfway to my bucket list goal. I recently looked at the overall standing of my collection and realized that I was sitting at 497 coins. I was curious as to what my 500th coin would be. The next day, two coins came in to put me up to 499. The day after, two more coins came in. The package I opened first was my 2014 Kennedy Reverse Proof Half Dollar. It is my first reverse proof and I really like the technique. I decided to create a bucket list after watching the movie. I included 100 i
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Dream Collection

If it was within your means, what would you collect and why? For me, it would be St. Gaudens $20 gold pieces. My high school was named after Theodore Roosevelt and I have enjoyed reading about the relationship between President Roosevelt and Augustus St. Gaudens and how the two of them redeigned our coinage. In addition, how St. Gaudens indirectly affected our coinage through his students; Weinman (Walking Liberty, Mercury), Fraser (Buffalo Nickel) and others. I also love the design and the
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Commemorative Conundrum....

Inflated Prices on Ebay Good morning, everyone. I am down to the last two coins in my Modern Commemorative Half set. They are two of the 1996 Olympics coins. I have been looking at them for quite some time and the prices are very inflated for some reason. They are consistently listed in the $150 ranges, but NGC's price guide only has them listed around $80 - $90. My dilema is whether or not to just suck it up and buy them to complete the set, try to buy them raw and hope for a 69 grade
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Eric P. Newman Collection

Could you bear to see your collection be sold off? I think it's an interesting question. When the collection started being sold off, I was surprised that Mr. Newman was still alive. I have put a lot of time, effort and years into my collection and I honestly don't think I could bear to see it sold off. I think it would be like seeing a child leave you. When I pass, if I don't have kids that want to continue the collection, I have left my wife instructions on how and where to sell it off a
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March of Dimes

Get ready for the craziness. I just read that the March of Dimes set is going to be a mintage of 75,000. I hope that the mint's website can handle the volume. I'm also curious as to why you can't open the box, if you want the special labels. The dimes do not exist outside of this set, so the can't be switched in and out, like the Silver Eagles (Made in SF). I would like to be able to open the box and make sure the mint sent me what I ordered..... Thoughts?   Marcus To see old commen
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Coin Finds

At Work! I work in a credit union, so I am lucky enough to have access to a large supply of coin and currency to look through. This morning, I was auditing one of my tellers and I came across a yellowish colored nickel. Immediately, I flipped it over and saw the large 'D' over Monticello. She is is a 1945 Jefferson beauty. A member came in and asked if we had any silver dollars. I laughed to myself, thinking that if any ever came in, they would not be going home with anyone but me.  
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The Presidential Gravy Train

Has derailed. So, a week or so ago, I logged in and saw that I lost around 16K points. As we all have seen by now, the Presidential Dollars plummeted, points-wise. I figured it would happen sooner or later. I didn't think that a mass produced modern coin should outscore many classic, lower mintage coins. I still like the series though. I like that it is a way to teach about our presidents, I like that it is a set that I can afford to collect in 70 condition and I like that I look up a
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Ebay Wish List

How I would love to be able to search. Hello everyone. I hope you're all doing well. I made my regular coin purchases this morning, but I had a great day at work, so I figured I would treat myself to an extra indulgence. I made an offer on a Morgan Silver Dollar and I purchased a MS 66 Buffalo Nickle for my Type Set. As I was searching, a few thing became very obvious to me. Prices vary ridiculously on EBay. New collectors and veteran collectors alike need to be patient and observant to
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Coin Shopping

Good evening, everyone. It was a long day today, so I'm going to go to bed earlier than normal. I read from The Numismatist for a little bit and I decided to see if I could find any bargains on Ebay using the Ending Soonest search. I find it enjoyable to see coins that will go into my collection and to take a one shot stab at them. My budget is a little tight right now, so I win some, I lose some. I see a lot of other coins that I would love to have, but I have fun.   Happy collecting.
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Registry Awards

Holy Cow! I was awarded one of the journal awards. I'm surprised and humbled. I am so happy with the way my collection is progressing and I love reading and posting on here. This is an unexpected bonus.   Happy Collecting, everyone! Marcus To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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Type Set

Finally Started Good evening, everyone. It has been awhile since I have posted a journal. I hope everyone is well.       I received an email from NGC last week stating that if I didn't add any coins to my 20th Century Type Set, it would be deleted. I registered the set, but I had a hard time starting it, because I wasn't sure exactly how I wanted to go about collecting it. Did I want all the same grade? Same grade range? I created a case of Paralysis By Analysis.       Well,
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Hello Everyone

Long time no chat I hope everyone is doing well. My car decided that it needed some attention, so it figured it would suck some money out of my wallet.       Things are back to normal, so I picked up a few coins on Friday. My 1881 S Morgan Dollar came in yesterday and hopefully I will have a couple of Silver Commemoratives and a 2014 Sacagawea in the mailbox when I get home. I have missed adding acquisitions to my set, but look forward to getting back up to speed. There is so much t
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Eric Newman Collection

My collection when I'm gone I was talking to my wife about the Eric Newman collection that was recently auctioned off. I told her about how a lot of his great coins were purchased for less than $100. I think we got about 6 good miles before she put in her headphones and told me the conversation was over. I also thought about how gut wrenching it must be for Mr. Newman to watch his life's work be broken up. Even though the proceeds are going toward the advancement of numimatics, I don't t
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Random Coin Thoughts

Odds and ends I've had some random coin related thoughts since my last journal that I thought I would share. I helped out at a different branch today. Evidently, to my dismay, someone deposited 40 Morgan Dollars there. The depositor didn't know what he had and the branch didn't realize their value either. Unfortunately, someone got them before I did. A day late and a Morgan Dollar short. I am working on a 20th Century type set folder for my niece. She saw me pUtting coins into it on F
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My beautiful wife

I am a lucky man I went to lunch with my wife this afternoon, a decision I am regretting at the moment, since my stomach isn't feeling so great right now.... As we were talking, I told her that I had planned to start a Buffalo short set, but I am for some reason having trouble finding graded coins from that time frame. She then asked, "is that because the date tends to wear off, since it is one of the higher points on the coin?" How did I get so lucky?   Marcus To see old comments fo
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Unintended Funny

Courtesy of my brother My brother was over one day when a coin came in for me; a proof Jefferson nickel. I showed it to him and he says , "So what is your collection worth? $35?" I stopped for a second and asked him if he was referring to the face value. He laughs and replies, yes. I had never thought about it before, but after 8+ years of collecting, my collection is worth less than $200. . It is always interesting to get a different point of view on something. Happy collecting, everyone!
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Whitman Baltimore Show.

A number of observations. First, again, Whitman delivered a great convention. There were a lot of dealers there with incredible inventory. I saw a lot more paper money and certified coins than I had seen in other shows in the past. There were dealers large and small, as well as the US Mint. The original plan was for me wife to come to Baltimore with me. She was going to do some shopping while I went to the convention. Since it was raining, she decided to come inside with me for a little
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Hobbies

A continuation of W.K.F's journal. W.K.F. Gave us a well written piece about the hobby that we all enjoy and I truly enjoyed reading it. However, he left out the most important aspect of our hobby.... Justifying it to our spouses! (Please take what follows as the satire it is intended to be) We've all been there; a new coin comes in the mail, you rip the package open, admire it, add it to your registry and start to tell your spouse how great it is and how much it improves your set. Inevita
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Whitman Baltimore Show

I hope to go on Saturday I hope to be able to go on Saturday. I don't have a whole lot to spend, but I enjoy looking. Last time, I spoke with a dealer from San Antonio, my birth city, who had an incredible counterfeit coin collection (Personal collection, not for sale) and a creepy guy who kept trying to buy it. I also saw a collection of 25 consecutively numbered 1899 Black Eagles. It was a great time last time and should be this time as well. Happy collecting.   Marcus To see old
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Seeing Stars

Working for a bank paid off again. Being a collector, I feel blessed to work at a bank, particularly on days such as last week. We got a cash shipment in and we received two bricks of FED wrapped $1 bills. I always get excited when we receive FED wrapped money, because the possibility of interesting serial numbers is there. This particular instance, there serial numbers were nothing of note, but I did notice that the blue bands on the strap of one set of bills was broken, indicating star no
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I've Given Up

I am coming to the end of my Commemorative Half Dollar collection and my nemesis is the 1982 George Washington MS. I want as much of my collection as possible to be NGC graded. (Personal preference) Unfortunately, along this entire journey, I have not seen this coin for sale, graded by NGC in MS69. So in an effort to move forward and complete this set, yesterday I gave up and ordered a PCGS specimen. Sigh.... Oh well. There are worse things in life. I wish all of you the best in your collec
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