One of the Reasons I Love My Wife

[DC Dawg]

My wife complained to me today... she said that she is running out of ideas for gifts. First, she gives me a 1909-S VDB graded VF30BN by NGC. Then she finds a 1928 Peace Dollar in AU condition (not graded because it is in the album). My last birthday she found the classic 1955 DDO, which is at NGC being graded as I type this. Now today for Chanukah/Christmas, I was given a stuffed buffalo with the following coin in a Capital Plastics holder attached by ribbon to the buffalo's neck:

 

 

Sorry for the bad image, I used a scanner since my camera is broken. But the coin is in about Fine (F-12) condition. It is wonderful! I am very impressed and have been looking at it all day.

 

Now... do I get it slabbed or just put it into the Buffalo Nickel album?

 

Scott

[copperman]

cool congrats on the nice gift Happy Holidays!

[ziggy29]

Wow. Does your wife actually pick your coins? My wife "gets" me coins but wants me to pick them since she doesn't know what I want.Anyway, here's what I picked for part of it this year, as part of my new collecting endeavor:

[MikeKing]

You're a lucky man! Great gift.

[MAULEMALL]

My wife complained to me today... she said that she is running out of ideas for gifts. First, she gives me a 1909-S VDB graded VF30BN by NGC. Then she finds a 1928 Peace Dollar in AU condition (not graded because it is in the album). My last birthday she found the classic 1955 DDO, which is at NGC being graded as I type this. Now today for Chanukah/Christmas, I was given a stuffed buffalo with the following coin in a Capital Plastics holder attached by ribbon to the buffalo's neck:

 

 

Sorry for the bad image, I used a scanner since my camera is broken. But the coin is in about Fine (F-12) condition. It is wonderful! I am very impressed and have been looking at it all day.

 

Now... do I get it slabbed or just put it into the Buffalo Nickel album?

 

Scott

That is just SO freakin awesome

[DirtyGoldMan]

One of the many, many reasons that I love my wife is that she lets me do whatever I want, where coins are concerned.

[robec1347]

One of the many, many reasons that I love my wife is that she lets me do whatever I want, where coins are concerned.

 

We must be married to sisters. MIne is the same way. What's not to love?

[ziggy29]

One of the many, many reasons that I love my wife is that she lets me do whatever I want, where coins are concerned.

Yeah, I can't complain there. As long as I'm only playing with discretionary income -- after the bills are paid and all our planned retirement savings are put away -- I have a pretty loose leash. It helps that she knows what I paid for most of my coins relative to what they're worth.

[Bruceswar]

Sweet coin! Congrats!

[DC Dawg]

Wow. Does your wife actually pick your coins? My wife "gets" me coins but wants me to pick them since she doesn't know what I want.

She knows where my want list is and how to read my coding. She takes the list and talks with a local coin dealer who is very honest and helps her with the purchase.

 

As for other hobby endeavors, she encourages me to be more involved. She was happy when I was elected to the board of my local coin club! We support each other's interests and our collective interests, which makes this a fun marriage!

 

Scott

[TomB]

Nice!!!

[LuvToCollect]

You obliviously have a winner ! The coins aren't bad either.

[James_OldeTowne]

It looks like a solid F++ to me - probably VF-20 on some days!

 

There was a time when this coin might have needed to be certified, but the spread on these has narrowed so much in recent years that certification means little, unless there's a question of authenticity. The good news is, it's one coin that is generally easy to distinguish fakes from real ones (yours looks real).

 

I would vote against certification in this case.

[123cents]

Great coin. Congratulations.

[dinwiddie-migration]

Hi Scott!

I hope you had a merry holiday ( By the pic. I can tell you did!) I am very happy about your find! I am going to be doing some searching over the holidays for some too. BTW I tried to buy your Smithsonian book if you still have it I'll be in touch soon. How is Boomer? You know what? - Your the only person on this board I've ever met....For all of you that don't know it this is a great guy and his wife is very nice too. Anyway congratulations!!!!!!

[Hoot]

Superb gift! Great wife.

 

For the issue, that coin will grade VF any day of the week with the grading services.

 

Hoot

[MrSpud-migration]

Cool!

[MeadP-migration]

Could you rent your wife out to give other wives lessons?

[DC Dawg]

Hi Scott!

I hope you had a merry holiday ( By the pic. I can tell you did!) I am very happy about your find! I am going to be doing some searching over the holidays for some too. BTW I tried to buy your Smithsonian book if you still have it I'll be in touch soon. How is Boomer? You know what? - Your the only person on this board I've ever met....For all of you that don't know it this is a great guy and his wife is very nice too. Anyway congratulations!!!!!!

For those who do not know, Boomer is a puggle puppy we adopted from Fred and his wife earlier this month. I wrote about Boomer here. Boomer is just fine, happy, and is showing that he is as stubborn as a pug and beagle with his potty training habbits. Since I am working from home this month to help train him, we had our daily siesta where I lay on the couch and he snuggles his face into my beard--which is close enough to my nose for him to lick when I snore!

 

Obviously, it's been a good few weeks for us. Boomer is at my feet as I type this and the 3-Legged Buffalo is next to the computer. All I need is for my wife to come home from work to make it complete!!

 

Thank you everyone for the kind words. I hope everyone had a great holiday!

 

Scott

[CarolinaCollector]

Sweet wife and gifts!

[AzLarry]

Very nice coin, your wife is a "keeper".

[Amanda]

That is a lovely buffalo and a very thoughtful gift from your wife.

 

-Amanda