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pointed to my mother's collection of mechanical singing mice (dozens of them) and that was that Buddy I am curious do you have pictures? |
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Rest in Peace
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 Sheesh! I have to be completely retrained every time I try to put up a photo! Okay, here's a singing mouse that she gave me. You press its foot -- you can probably see the arrow that says 'try me'. Then it sings "Up on the House Top". It turns slightly from right to left. Its arms go up and down a bit and the lights put on a little show of their own. My cat HATES it. I think there is at least one singing mouse for every holiday and then birthdays and anniversaries....it never seems to end. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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My dad's wife spends whatever she can get her lousy paws on (my dad's old coins) and spends them on lottery tickets. So they're not always favorable to have around even though they end up in circulation because sometimes they end up there by ignorance.
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Canada
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 Over the years I've met, through my profession as a police officer, many people with Vices: ie; drugs addicts, alcoholics, problem gamblers, just to name a few of the dozens that exist etc. I think of all the money they have waisted. This way when I shell out $500.00 or $1,000.00+ for a nickel, dime quarter, silver dollar, cent or half dollar, I don't feel one bit guilty! Glenn  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Showed my oldest son my latest acquistion, a $20.00 double Eagle. Asked him what he thought it was worth, he looked at the back of the coin and said $20.00....... My youngest son(24) knows the value and spit his coke through his nose when my oldest said $20.00. When I explained what it was, he just shrugged his shoulders and said who cares. Now his wife on the other hand knows what Gold is..... Edited by Freedom
02/24/2012 12:53 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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For older people that just do not know (or understand) the increase in value of coins nowadays......... I would tell them..... "If only you had known what they would have been worth in the future, you would have saved them and TODAY you would be richer than rich". Then I would say "But now that I am able to buy them, I should live long enough to see their prices keep rising and then I may be richer than rich down the road".
That should shut them up fast and make them think twice before making a comment like that again. I just don't like people that put other people down.
People accumulate all kinds of things and years later they are still as worthless as the day they put them there. Coins are a hobby. If you have money to spend and enjoy it, then that is all that matters.
I bet your grandfather is secretly kicking himself in the butt for not saving them when he was younger, and is just ribbing you because he is jealous.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Again aa I said, attempting to explain that coins are valuable to a non coin collector is a waste of time. Even if you tried to prove that they are valuable, if not interested, just not interested. You could try showing them the Red Book, pages 414 to 418 for the top 250 coin prices, make a print out of Numismedia price list, show them a copy of Coin World, but if no interest in coins, just a waste of time. Any person not interested in a hobby will just usually stay not intested. Some may change but as an average, once grown up, minds are fairly set in their ways. |
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I have learned that I should neither want nor need to justify myself to anyone who does not get it. I usually keep my hobby to myself, unless I think the other person would actually understand (it does happen). With non-collectors, I have no problem discussing numismatic history and opinion (most of you know that I have no problem bringing up the Dollar Coin v. Dollar Note argument), but I seldom mention the specifics of what and why I collect (or that I collect at all).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A year ago, my wife said "I can't believe you'd spend $100 on a penny". Heck, that's nothing now that I'm bumping up against the keys. Over the past couple of months I have found several errors that together would equate to a couple of hundred. Now she's like "Ohhhh, let's keep them in the safe" She's started collecting dimes in a Whitman Album Looking pretty respectable too  Not sure how the spark happens. I'm sure it's different for each person. But without it... brick wall  Edited by timsumrall
02/27/2012 2:08 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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I Guess the answer is "Keep Shrugging"  |
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Rest in Peace
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United States
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I face this problem more times than I would like to count. The college kids around here all think that I waste my time and money by buying coins. Even my own mother used to think that "dirty old money" was not a wise investment. Then I came across my Reunion Island 1948 1 franc mule error (pictured in my avatar) for 10 cents. Suddenly I wasn't wasting my time and money foolishly anymore.
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Valued Member
United States
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My dad, who's 83 years old, sometimes talks about going to the movies for a nickle when he was a kid, buying a couple of gallons of gas for a quarter, and so on.
So a couple of months ago I showed my dad an MS64 Walker, mintage 1943 I think it was, and asked him if he remembered them. He recognized the Walker, sure enough, and talked about using them as a teenager, in the 1940's. I asked him if fifty cents was a respectable hourly wage for a teenager or young adult back then. He thought about it for a moment and said yes, that would be pretty good pay. I told him the fifty-cent piece he was holding in his hand was now worth about $13.00, which today would be a decent hourly wage for a teenager or young adult. So 70 years later, the same labor would yield roughly the same pay, in silver; it's the paper dollar that's declined in value.
I think he gets it now.
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Valued Member
United States
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A footnote: The MS64 Walker I referred to above would obviously fetch more than $13; I was referring solely to its melt value.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A little education (facts) to the (half-to-fully) open-minded never hurts. The Ike's silver is worth $11 today. And I dont know what year, "back in his day" was; but my grandfather started collecting in the late 1800's....then my dad started around 1930, then I started collecting in the early 60's. We amassed a collection that included every classic US key and semi-key dates, varieties and errors....even duplicates....including - four 1909 S VDBs (which I like to pretend are worth $1000-$1200 each). - three 1955 D/Ds (which I like to pretend are worth $1500 each) Silly me.  That might be bragging (rights) or not. Point is, collecting coins NOW is the point....just like collecting THEN was the point. The longer we wait, the scarcer THEY become. (We never did have a 1943 copper Lincoln Cent) The silver content of all my rolls of US and Canada dollars was worth about $10,000 last year when silver was at $48.50/oz.....the face value? I'd say the face value was about $300. Keep collecting. People who absolutely refuse to listen to practical financial equations arent refusing to listen because they dont believe you....they're on about something else. My experience, my observations, my opinion. In that order. Jim Edited by j_h_s
02/29/2012 07:05 am
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