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It is painful how we are all living parallel lives......I go through the same situation about once a month

I think we are all becoming masters at making sure we can get our coins when we need them, I just wish my husband would stop asking me why I think it makes sense to spend so much money on money. lol

I am puzzled, You found a 1955 Doubled-Die Lincoln and say its no big deal? Unless I am misinterpreting the 1955/55.

The answer to this is simple. I found out a while back, 41 years, all I had to do was make sure my wife had enough money and she made sure I received everything I wanted. Coins, hunting & fishing trips, just whatever.

So we all have that argument with the misses. She uses my coin purchases as a rationalization for her clothing purchases. I've tried to explain to her how my purchases are such a better use of our money. I explain that the longer I hold my purchases, the more they're worth, the longer she holds her purchases, the less they're worth. Some women just don't respond to rational arguments!!

When she comes in the door from shopping, she asks me to tell her how her clothing looks, all I can see is the $20 that could have (should have!) been used to buy coins.

Yes, the 1955 is a poor mans double die, if it was an actual double die I think the set would have been a little more expensive.

I did get a chance to get a quick look at the sets and noticed that the few I opened at first were the worse ones in the group. Most of these are very high grade and I was shocked to see how many were actually proofs. Looking through them I could tell the original owner was a nickel collector because those have all been replaced with lower grades (G-EF) where the rest are high grade MS63+. The other part that was nice is the early sets and the 40% silver half pieces.

Now to the wife...we have been married for 10 years and after a lot of trial and error the first few years we finally figured out how to break the spending money down. We each get so much per month ($20-50 depending on how good a month it is) to spend on things we want. So as of the last 2 years my money has mostly gone to coin collecting and I have a strict 'allowance' of $20 for that so I spent that at the end of last month and then spent another $50 yesterday. She actually is really understanding and knows it makes me happy so as long as we can still pay the bills she does not complain.

This is hilarious because I have also been placed on a monthly allowance for my coin collecting and my wife thinks I am goofy for things like dropping $4 on a nickel, even though it's a Liberty V in F condition. Those sorts of things just go over her head. To her it's still paying $4 for a nickel and it sounds like a bad business transaction. I am glad to see that many of you are in the same boat with me!

coinmap I am glad someone else had a view I had not thought about as well and that is where we spend our money on everything else. If I cut out buying a snack in the morning and lunch each day I could have a ton more money to spend on other things.