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Pillar of the Community
United States
1388 Posts |
I had to cancel an LCS trip on Friday because of the cold.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1391 Posts |
Well, I usually collect when the weather is cold. The coins grow by leaps and bounds during the winter. When the sun comes out and the birds sing I put the coins away (mostly). When I come back to them in the fall it is like find new coins all over again, because I usually don't finish cataloging them all before the go in the boxes.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
I walk to mine every week, even when it's -25 (no idea what this is in Fahrenheit).
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
There are coin shows around me every weekend, all year long. I seldom miss at least 2 of them. HOWEVER, looks like I'll miss a lot of them this January. Snow so bad can't get out of my garage.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
675 Posts |
Historically I collect more in the Winter as my other hobbies are more warm weather related. From April through October I tend to spend more time outside, and thus less time is focused on the coin collecting.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1554 Posts |
No! except once when we had 14 inches of snow the night before and I couldn't get out of my driveway.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
I probably wont get out into town tomorrow to get my usual bank rolls to search, supposed to be -30 wind chill here in lower Mich. Twelve inches of fresh snow on top of eight inches already there doesn't help matters either. Oh well, I still have my health, except for the laryngitis I've had for half a week due to nasty bronchitis from a cold.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3843 Posts |
Yes a month ago. My commute home which is usually 30 minutes turned into 3 hours due to snow/freezing rain and bad drivers. I was planning on attending an auction but wasn't able to make it. I heard stuff went 'cheap' according to some other collectors but their definition of cheap could be different than mine.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pretty sure this is either nalaberong or 1893S, not sure which.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3453 Posts |
That reminds me of growing up in Colorado: open the door, snow drift covered to the top of the door, check radio for snow day!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10038 Posts |
Almost...
Was in college and had planned on going to a local coin show in December. The night before the show it snowed and everyone was told they were restricted to campus for safety reasons (South Carolina) since there was a good inch and a half on the ground and roads. I went to the Dean's office and told him I had been planning on this show since before returning for the semester and actually brought some coins with me to take to the show.
He asked me where I was from.
I told him the Snow Belt of Lake Erie in Erie, PA.
He told me to have a good time at the show.
My friend and I were the only ones allowed off campus that day!
And... I missed a great buy. I saw a flawless Canadian 1934 dime - for 10.00 (worth a lot more back then) and passed it up b/c I had left my price guide on campus. I soon learned that SC collectors paid little attention to Canada coin values in those pre-internet days.
I know I got more, but the things I remember were buying five 1951-S nickels from an original bank roll. Wish I had bought all of them now as I think they were only .25 each.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5208 Posts |
The bitter cold definitely makes it unpleasant for me to haul loads of frozen coin that has been sitting in my truck add day into dump banks.
Carrying boxes of coin out of pickup banks through snow and ice is no fun either.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
5174 Posts |
I tend to notice that if it rains, there aren't many dealers at the open-air coin markets (Taganka, Vernisage). They don't seem to disappear so much if it snows, though (after all, you can always just shove that snow away from your coins, particularly if they're MD finds anyway). And then there was that one time I was returning from the Hobby Center in a snowstorm...  Seriously, when it gets colder than 3-5 degrees below freezing, I usually don't go to any coin stores. Then again, I don't really go to them particularly often either way. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
It seems to me that numismatics is an indoor winter sport, in North America and Europe!
All year round sport in Sydney.
My brother as a university med. student, got himself involved in a tiddlywinks race across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, using coins.
The rule was that you fouled out if either coin dropped through an expansion crack in the footpath, unless you could prove it dropped onto a passing ferry underneath, 170 feet below!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1005 Posts |
With selling I've found terrible winter weather in a region leads to ebay items selling to that region. More people staying home surfing ebay. |
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