Ummm, Do You Ever Show Your Coins To People Other Than CCF?

I show them to my wife.
I feel it is important she knows what we have.

LTMets44, thank you! Somebody that finally uderstands where I'm coming from! I have a problem trusting everyone except for my bestfriend and my family. Even some of my family I don't trust. Sad, I know but in a world like this, with the price of my collection, I can't take a chance on letting somebody know that I have something that could be easily sold for a profit.

On another note, as you can probably get from above, I don't like to show off my collection that much. The only people that I absolutly love to show to is my grandfather and grandmother because my grandmother was a bank teller and likes to know what I find and my grandfather loves t see anythiong that is as old, or older than he is. They love to see my collection.

I only show my family. My wife is mildly interested, but my two year old son really likes them. At first he called them tokens, like you get at chuck e cheese or something, but now he calls them coins.

No, not at all. Generally, I find most numismatists to be a closed mouthed lot in the wild, due to the obvious fact coins can be expensive and easily transportable, making theft a realistic possibility. There's a reason why guns and coins have a natural affinity for each other, aside from being both made of metal. Anyone that has any kind of PMs at home, also should have a firearm and know how to use it. Just my thoughts, you asked...

Same here--once I take a good photo, it works as a study photo and to post here--my coins seldom leave the SDB.

I do not show my coins to anyone or broadcast the fact that I collect coins. I think people that do are at a much higher risk of having their collection stolen. I do not subscribe to any coin magazines because I believe this is the same as telling total strangers that you are a collector. I will purchase these over the counter in cash. I will even cancel any and all news letters from anyone that is not discrete with their packaging.

It's the only sad part about this Hobby: being low keyed about what you have. You will notice as time goes on, the more valuable your collection, the less you tell others that you are a Coin Collector. In this day and age, with most people addicted to one of the five vices , a stolen coin collection of value can be a gold mine for 'em!
So, always be covert, like a secret agent spy and never tell, 'cause loose lips sinks ships!

Glenn

Family knows what I have, and where I have it. I have shown parts of it to a couple of close friends from work, but I would take the parts there to show them, and they totally understand.

As seems to be the general rule that most are stating, is that "people talk". Even with my friends, it would just be innocent talk, but it is the people that they don't know that are listening to them, and that I don't know, are the ones that worry me.