Lame Claim To Numismatic Fame, Post Yours!

From a numismatic perspective (or maybe just in general) I'm not even lame enough to have a lame claim.

Uh... how about... I once seriously underestimated jbuck's post total? Like, by a factor of 10.

Or, I bought 3 25th Anniversary ASE sets in the initial frenzy, sold one for enough to pay for itself and one of the others, then had the two remaining stolen in a home burglary, then had to buy one from a CCF member for fair market value to replace( because I wanted one for my collection), which at the time FMV was 2x original retail price. So net ended up spending the amount for 3 retail sets to have 1. LAME.

I guess those are just stories, not claims to fame. And really not even lame. Sorry. Go fish.

And yes, Weird Al is indeed great.

OK now I get it. As a newbie coin person I went to a coin show last spring and was in the same room with about 50 really experienced collectors and dealers.

Fifteen years ago, I submitted the first 1844-O Seated Half to be graded MS-64 at PCGS(with none higher). Didn't take long for others to come out of hiding.

A actually do have a lame claim to fame. David Lisot, president of CoinWeek and "interviewer extraordinaire" is my ex-brother-in-law.

http://www.coinweek.com/category/vi...coins-video/

At a local flea market there is a seller that sells almost any coin you can imagine. Just saw him selling several 1943 Copper Lincoln Cents for $5 each.

I own the only 1 kopek type set attempt I'm aware of (and managed to assemble twenty-odd different types - I'm still not sure what to count as types, or as kopeks for that matter, for some of the silvers, so can't say the exact number).

I've talked to, and walked with, an American psychologist who claimed he had an 1856 FE cent, and an American geologist who showed me photos of his 1800 dollar. (One of these two also happens to be a CCF member, but, to the best of my knowledge, not the other.)

My sociology teacher (well, something awfully complicated with "sociology" in it, I just called it sociology) once said that in the early 2000s he suggested to someone that a coin commemorating Leonhard Euler should be made - and that it did in fact get made, and he later got a few for his family.

I have a ridiculously off-center wire kopek from the Copper Revolt era, and a double-struck "Russia" wire kopek from 1696 - both of them relatively uncommon and cool types, and IMHO only enhanced by the respective errors, though I have lots of reasons to suspect that almost anyone else would think differently.

I assembled a full three-emperor set of the early 5th century three-emperor bronzes... from a single $7 bargain bin, in a single visit there (that particular bin got me loads of cool coins, both that time and later).

Back in early December 2009, one of my non-collecting friends gave me an unusual coin he found in circulation - and what it could be but the very lowest mintage non-variety business strike Lincoln Cent since the wheat series ended (in case you're wondering, that would be the 2009Q4-P, at 129.6 million coins minted... and I probably got it before the last of them left the press).

I once randomly found a Sacagawea dollar lying on a couch in the middle of Moscow City.

The NAMCO guy that services the arcade @ the theater I manage claims to have over 10lbs of silver coins... collected from Crane-game machines.