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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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One of the reasons I like coin collecting it's that it can be kept hidden quite easily. No-one can see what my collection is.
It's most useful if I've just spend £200 on a coin and the wife is nagging me about baby formula.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
Coins are starting to take up a bit too much room for my liking, but still I don't want to give any away.
Banknotes are quite space saving...
I have a few guitars, and there are bigger things that I would collect but really I discipline myself into only keeping small stuff or I will end up like some of the people on "American Pickers" who can't move from one room to another.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2130 Posts |
I am thankful that a coin collection takes up a fairly small amount of space. I use to know this elderly gentelman that had one of the most impressive antique metal toy collections I had ever seen. His collection basically took up his entire house. They were in every single room. I could easily fit my entire collection in my safe and nobody would ever know I collected coins if I chose to do so.
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Valued Member
United States
127 Posts |
That is one of the main reasons that I decided to allow myself to get back into coin collecting. All my other hobbies took up too much space, cost probably more money, and didn't increase in value the way collecting coins does
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1316 Posts |
The core of my meager collection fits rather well into these antique bank and coin boxes I've found at a local shop :) These are kept out of the way in a chest in the corner of the bedroom, so as to not disturb the household. It's a thrill every time I get to pull these out, maybe once a week or so.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
If you collect slabbed coins I see an obvious disadvantage with regards to efficient use of space. This is one reason I have often viewed slabs with disapprobation.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
757 Posts |
My video games have taken over my garage. I'm looking at building a larger garage in the spring, so I can maybe park one of my trucks inside.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
Earle42 I saw a sight yesterday that would have turned your stomach. It did mine anyway. I was out metal detecting a Civil War site and came across a huge pile of glass and ceramic insulators. Unfortunately all were broken. some were used for target practice as indicated buy the numerous shell casings I was hitting on, and others were just were just purposely smashed against some rocks and each other. I would estimate there to have been a couple of thousand of these things at one time. The site was just off the RR tracks used by the Confederate Army to transport troops and supplies. Most were common Hemingray's and Brookfield's, but I did ID a few purple Whitall Tatum's and several dark amber Tillotson Threadless.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
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Earle42 I saw a sight yesterday that would have turned your stomach. It did mine anyway. I was out metal detecting a Civil War site and came across a huge pile of glass and ceramic insulators. Unfortunately all were broken. some were used for target practice as indicated buy the numerous shell casings I was hitting on, and others were just were just purposely smashed against some rocks and each other. I would estimate there to have been a couple of thousand of these things at one time. The site was just off the RR tracks used by the Confederate Army to transport troops and supplies. Most were common Hemingray's and Brookfield's, but I did ID a few purple Whitall Tatum's and several dark amber Tillotson Threadless.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
I started collecting newspapers a few years ago, but I abandoned it very quickly when I realized that I would have no place to put them. Still active in coins, and the core of my collection easily fits in a 1.5x1.5x1.5 ft safe. Anything outside of that space is basically accumulation.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10038 Posts |
@TIm Stroud Ouch  But... it likely would be well worth your while to go back and try to find the pieces of the amber Tillostson threadless insualtors. Why? The insualtor price guide lists 5 different typses of Tillotson threadless in amber. The price guide values are for very near mint piece - granted - but even repaired and glues threadless can net some good money since these were utlitarian and normally damagd in use anyway. The lowest price for an amber Tillotson is over $1,000. Depending on the style - this goes up to $7,500! Depending on how damaged - you could be looking at some nice money. Its amazing what people will waste without knowing what they are doing. I can imagine those who smashed these finding the value of the thousands they potentially damaged. PM me and I can help. I can tell you anything you need to know about repair (the type of glass glue to use or who to contact for resin repairs), and get you directly in touch with the people needed. When it comes to selling, I can also put you in touch with the proper people - its a specific insulator auction that would bring the right/fair price to you. I would go back and look for every piece I could from from al the amber Tillotsons. The more - the better. You are talking some top quality pieces. Also since you know they were used there - looking into how to dig insulators could prove lucrative (hard work though). Make note of where the Tillotsons lay and do some raking around to see if they missed any also. I hope this works out for you - it could net you some nice returns and make sure history is conserved by getting these back into the hobby. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Edited by just carl
11/16/2015 6:18 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10038 Posts |
I get the point. Cool looking collection  How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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A few years ago - probably in 2012 - I was able to take almost my entire coin collection in my backpack to show it to a bunch of friends I was visiting. Was pretty heavy though (about 15 pounds, IIRC).
I would love be able to do that now, actually; sadly, my collection's current distributed-all-over-the-apartment state kind of makes it somewhat complicated to assemble such a big part of it (or indeed to search for any specific coin, as I found out the hard way several times recently; in particular, when trying to make a photo for my planned 1000th post contest, which is hereby postponed until I can find that darned nickel).
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11/17/2015 03:02 am
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