Maybe The Greatest Hobby On Earth..coin Collecting?

I think the most important hobby is FISHING

I like fishing too, but THAT's an expensive hobby, especially in the desert

that's a good one..is fishing a hobby or a sport or maybe a leisure activity

I just got started collecting. Only cull and such right now. But I get a charge holding a will worn Morgan in my hand and daydreaming about where it might have been. Wages for a cowboy to be blown in a saloon? Rolled on the fingers of a nervous Eastern bootlegger while waiting for his shipment? Squirreled away in a kerchief during the dust bowl migration by one of my ancestor Oakies coming out west to find a better life?

I even made up my own saying: The smoothest coin has the best stories.

Coin Collecting, The Best Hobby Ever!

As a parent I feel that coin collecting is a hobby with many lessons to teach. Not only is the collecting, sorting, and cataloging of the coins creating family time, but it also helps me teach my children certain things.

History, art, economics, attention to detail, and financial responsibility are just a few things that can be taught through coin collecting. I have watched my eight year old describe in detail to my six year old who Victor Brenner was and details of Lincoln Cent key dates and varieties. Other coins such as State Quarters can help children to learn more about their country. National Parks quarters can inspire adventure and a longing for outdoor exploration.

Collecting key dates or type sets can help teach history by looking into what historical value those dates hold for our nation or the world. While sorting and looking for these coins you can teach basic economics by looking into the value of the coins during their time vs. ours. Not to mention the valuable lesson that is taught in organization and catagorization that can only be taught through experiences such as collecting items like coins, cards, or stamps.

Coins provide more of an interesting subject for younger kids. They are shiny, tangebal, artistically interesting for the most part, and after all it is money. Not all children will find coins interesting, but the ones that do can learn many valuable lessons with them and not even realize that they are learning. The sense of accomplishment in finding certain coins or finishing collections is also something that will stay with a child for life.

In closing, coin collecting is a very rewarding hobby that is full of many important life lessons to be learned. No matter if your collection consists of "found pocket change" or substantial investments, any class of citizens can benifit from this rewarding hobby.

I love coin collecting. I spend a lot of time on it. It's great to pull out my 2x2's and folders and albums and go through that I have and what I need.

There's this guy I know that can't understand why on earth would anyone want to collect coins. When I was trying to explain to him about the fun of collecting Lincoln cents, he says they all look alike except for the dates. He can't understand why someone would pay 50¢ or a dollar for a penny that's only worth 1¢, let alone tens or hundreds of dollars for a Lincoln Cent. He vie .s as nothing more than a tool to purchase things, period.

Guess you can't win them all!

But I sure enjoy it!

coin collecting is amazing and definitely the most hobby I have had the most fun in so far , but don't knock and judge those other hobbies, lol. There are extremists out there in almost every hobby just the same as in coins. It's mind boggling sometimes.

There are thousands of valuable hot wheels that bring in a whole lot more than $5. Even loose out of the package. There are holy grail rare cars and redlines from the early days that command outrageous premiums that people pay. Some treasure hunt sets from the 90's can bring 4 figures. Get your hands on some 1960's prototypes from the hot wheels factory and can be talking yearly salary type of numbers. Seriously. It's unbelievable.

The bicycle community is just as crazy. You get people who spend hundreds to thousands every month on everything from $80 branded cycling jerseys and $100 shorts with padding to $1000 cranksets or $200 pedals (dont forget the $120 shoes to go with the pedals. plus maintenance.) And those are people who merely ride there bike. Retro mountain bike collectors are even more extreme. Try buying a used 90's GT Xizang or Fat Yo Eddy! FRAME for less than $1000. Not gonna happen! A lot enthusiasts have collections of 20+ vintage mountain bicycles, all costing an upwards of over $2000 each. Most of them you couldn't buy no matter how hard you begged or how much you offered.

Sports Cards are the same way, excluding most stuff that was produced from 1988-2000-ish. It is amazing what people will pay for a peice of cardboard serial numbered to 10 with 6 nba players signatures on it. Add names like Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Michael Jordan, and Magic Johnson into the mix and and it's a whole 'nother level.



Either way, I'm glad I finally found the coin hobby because honestly it has shown me a crowd that is full of the most respectful people in any hobby I have ever seen. Plus, now I won't waste any more of my silver money on hot wheels and basketball cards . Still love my bike, albeit I only have one!

Card collecting officially ended when the rarest baseball card sold for under $40 on ebay.

it's definitely not the same hobby it was 20 years ago, but there are several cards still selling for over $5000. granted cards have to be graded and slabbed by Beckett or PSA to reach premiums like that, and they also usually have to have either Michael Jordan's or Kobe Bryants name on it somewhere, but they are still selling. '52 and '53 Mickey Mantles for over $12000 each. Pujols rookie for over $8000. Jordan jersey auto for over $7000. Less than two weeks ago a Blake Griffin card sold for over $38000. Someone out there with money still collects cards. Either that or there is some serious shill bidding going on in the sports card category on ebay, making ebay a lot of money in final value fees, lol.

Either way, I'm happy I'm not involved in that game anymore. Sports Card dealers are the shisteiest of the shisetiest!