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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have yet to realise my greatest accomplishment,, I'm afraid if I ever truely feel that I have met the mountian and won, that the child like thrill that I get with every new coin ,every new piece of knowledge that I receive and every friend that I make within this Hobby would no longer shine like gold !!
I just dont think I could deal with that !!
Rick
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Pillar Of The Community
Turkey
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Originally posted by Metalman
I have yet to realise my greatest accomplishment,, I'm afraid if I ever truely feel that I have met the mountian and won, that the child like thrill that I get with every new coin ,every new piece of knowledge that I receive and every friend that I make within this Hobby would no longer shine like gold !!
I just dont think I could deal with that !!
Rick
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Valued Member
United States
393 Posts |
I guess my biggest accomplishment in coin collecting is getting started in it seriously this year. Got a jar full of stuff collected during my childhood that's essentially worthless. Getting started back into collecting, learning, buying, getting skinned, and finding CC has opened up a new, wide open world. Rick
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Originally posted by Metalman
I have yet to realise my greatest accomplishment,, I'm afraid if I ever truely feel that I have met the mountian and won, that the child like thrill that I get with every new coin ,every new piece of knowledge that I receive and every friend that I make within this Hobby would no longer shine like gold !!
Rick I agree and understand were you are coming from. I just keep setting goals for myself. Edited by KLD
02/22/2006 6:04 pm
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Valued Member
Australia
281 Posts |
I guess my greatest coin accomplishment has to be getting back into the hobby. I'm slowly making some order out of the chaos that is my collection, I bought a pack of 50 coin holders and used them all within a hour, I hope to some time in the future have my collection details available online.
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Valued Member
United States
123 Posts |
My greatest accomplishment, to date, is not necessarily any particular item I have found or any collection I have completed. True, I was happy to get my 1909S-VDB Lincoln Cent, my finest ancient and medieval coins, and my vast hoards, but those are just things. It is what the coins represent that is more important to me. So my greatest accomplishment is the knowledge I have gained, the realization of the connections with history, and my own emotional and spiritual connections to these interesting inanimate objects and what they represent. This is an accomplishment that I will continue to realize, and yet will never fully realize, so the hobby will never get boring. Heather |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar Of The Community
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While I have owned, at one time or another it seems, just about everything the U.S. has to offer my greatest thrill is sharing with other collectors, both young and old, from around the world. I am still amazed at what the world of the computer has done for this planet. My greatest accomplishment is being able to see through all the smoke and finding the real world we all live in. Its finding the truths, loves and dreams each and everyone of us have every day of our lives and sharing in those dreams. Thinking about an eager collector in some far corner of the earth patiently waiting for a package from a total stranger who has chosen to share his/her love of the hobby is more than rewarding. I know as I have been that eager collector. Having friends all over the world, whom I will probably never meet, is a unique feeling and knowing I can trust them, without a doubt, was way beyond my expectations when I started collecting world coinage. The world is FULL of good, honest, hard working people and a great number of them are coin collectors. My life is much better in many ways due to this hobby and taking every chance to return the kindness I have received is a very high priority to me. My only regret is not starting an active world coin collection until 2002 and even then it was to only seek out 2002 world coins for my little guys birth year collection. Then the euro and then the world! I was hooked! I can only dream of how it could have been had I started earlier in my collecting career but realize the internet HAD to come along to make all of this possible. Now we can find "good trader" and "safe trader" lists all over the world simply by looking and that has propelled my desires to make the Knights of the Coin Table the most distingushed trading, selling, buying and sharing list the world has ever known! To make that list would be an honor for any collector and to continue to build the list and its reputation is before us as we forge ahead right here on the greatest coin forum the world has ever known! My goal is quite simply to MAKE THE BEST BETTER!!!
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02/23/2006 08:56 am
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
Having given the question very little thought, I came up with the following, not necessarily in order. 1. Finding a 1932 D quarter in circulation. 2. Getting BU silver dollars from my bank back during college days in the early 1960s. 3. Completing the following collections: Jeffersons, JFKs, ASEs, Maple Leafs, Franklins, Britannias, Aussie Lunar Coins. 4. Getting our three children started as coin collectors, as well as some of the grandkids. 5. Joining CoinCommunity, and making some wonderful friends on this forum.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
"So I got with the family lawyer and ended up placing about 96% of the collection in escrow to a large land company for the exclusive rights to a stretch of blue ribbon trout stream for "public" fishing for the next 75 years."
-- Old Dan
I just had yto write and salute "Old Dan" for doing this. What a fantastic gesture. In a summer or two (God willing) we will be traveling through Wyoming, on our way to Yellowstone. I'm not much of a fisherman, but I'd be honored to stop and wet my line in this stream!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1203 Posts |
Your more than welcome Sir Gary, and I'll even supply the flies. Right now we have a slight problem with 'whirling' diesase and it is taking a heavy toll of the younger fish. They say the answer is to have it made into a "catch and release" stream so there will always be nice size trout to catch. The game and fish are trying to do something, so it should be resolved before too long. Guess they have this in some parts of Colorado so you probably know there isn't any danger to humans eating the trout from such streams.
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Rest in Peace
United States
2884 Posts |
OldDan, as much as I admire the decision to open that area of a trout stream to the public, I sure wish one of your children could keep the family collection going. It seems to be quite a legacy! Congratulations on your fine contribution to the public community. It is very kind of you to do something of that nature. Mike |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Thank you Sir Dan! When we are certain we'll be in your state, I'll get directions from you.
My father was a super fly fisherman, and won the weekly contest by a Grand Junction sporting goods store more than half the time during the spring and summer months when he was young. The biggest fish caught earned the angler a prize, and he won a bunch.
We have had the whirling disease here in Colorado, and close to home at that -- in the Gunnison River. Seems as though the Game and Fish boys have it under control.
We have a boat and most of my fishing is by trolling. My youngest son, a biology teacher, has lakes on Grand Mesa he really likes. A two mile hike, and he brings back cutthroats.
Again congratulations on your fine gesture.
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Valued Member
United States
382 Posts |
Listening to my 10 year son, as he walked into my office looking down at a Lincoln Cent say, "Ah...Dad...I think this is one of those double 1972 cents." I looked at the coin and sure enough, it was a DDO!! Sent it off to PCGS and it comes back graded as a 1972 DDO, AU55BN. Sold it on ebay for $265. Watching his older brother's expression as I pay him in $20 bills for his sale...PRICELESS!! Now I have two boys looking at everybody's lose change! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2271 Posts |
I've had no major numismatic accomplishments but have had many
minor ones. Perhaps the greatest is to have been able to set
aside some of the current coinage for future collectors. It may
be many years until anyone cares but I have no doubt they will
in the long run. I played some role in getting the designs
changed on the coins but it was a very small role and probably
would have happened without me.
I hope to write a book on modern coins eventually so I can at
least achieve the status of "footnote in history".
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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