Do You Like Mechanical Double And Why?

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Look...I'm not here to police what people are collecting...but if you're into collecting machine doubled coins, you are MISSING THE POINT in collecting doubling. I cannot say it any clearer. You really need to either learn what's valuable and start looking for the truly collectible, or at least make sure your family and friends know what you're doing is a waste of time if they plan to pay for your funeral with your coins.

Anyone, please raise your hands if you began collecting as a way of life. This is supposed to be fun! IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MISSING THE POINT. It has EVERYTHING to do with personal likeness.

If someone finds anything significant to themselves throughout life, then that significance becomes priceless to that person. If someone likes the color blue & you tell them that it's completely pointless to like the color blue because green is better, thats called pacification by force. I personally collect because I enjoy it. This is how it's supposed to be..... an enjoyable hobby.

If the market is changing do to inexperienced sellers/buyers or what ever, then we who sell true DDs/error type coins or whatever need to be more forthright & aggressive in our description of directing the market to what we want. Nothing happens if all we do is sit around on a forum and BS about it & get pissy at each others own personal thoughts & differences.

Yinzi50, my biggest advice to you is........ collect what you enjoy. You know what you like. You know what is important to you. If you think a certain MD is significant to you, then you have by all rights to keep that coin. Do not let anyone tell you that it's junk, if you like it, then that's all that matters. You are not wasting your time if you call it a hobby and learn from what you have.

There is no MISSING THE POINT, except to those who forgot what it was like to be a kid again & collect innocently.

I'm through replying to this topic unless it's going to be straight old fashion civilized non-personaly directed education. I'm sure others will post comments about it some more.

Copper, you've tried to make your point as aggressively as you can. You've made the MISSING THE POINT comment as many times as needed. We, at least I understood before this topic your personal greivance toward MDs & such. I don't think as many people are MISSING THE POINT as you think. Money drives our daily lives. It's been done before & will be done until the end of time.......people will try to make money for what they want any way they can, even if it means corrupting what we believe & don't believe in. This include selling MDs to the un-witting.
Eric

About 4 or more Coin shows coming up in April. Think I'll go sell all my MD's there.

I personally like and collect MD coins as long as they have a significant shelf doubling on them and not just a hard to see minor "Doubling". I also know that they have no value, except face, for them. I also like and collect coins with die cracks which I know have no real value unless the crack is major ie. it looks like the die is shattered or split in half. Even then I know that die cracks like that the premium is usually not much. There are other types of coins that I collect that have no true collector value but I like them so I collect them. Coins are a hobby to me not an investment vehicle. I do collect some coins with value but value is not what determines if I keep something or not. I keep my normal coins ie. Morgans, Walkers and other coins and my true error/variety coins with real value separate from my worthless die cracks, MDD's and other minor oddities. I have made sure that my family knows that the binders with the worthless coins are just that. And after my passing the coins in them should just be dumped out of the binder page pockets and rolled and spent, if nobody in the family wants them. They also know that the other coins have value and should be treated as such. Keeping the valuable coins separate from the coins that the only value over face is my enjoyment will help them when I am gone. I think everyone that collects should make sure that family knows the difference as that will make it much easier on them when the time comes. So in my opinion, and it is just an opinion, you should collect what you enjoy both valuable and worthless but be sure that your family knows what is what.

Chuck is right in the fact that you can find MD everywhere. However, I do like to collect them if they are severe examples, and yes I would pay a little more for one if it was to my liking. I would not pay a DD price for one, or even close to that.

Uneducated collectors are flooding the market, and paying too high of prices for some of these coins, but that is just the School of Hard Knocks. People need to research anything before they buy and that includes coins. If they pay too much for a coin, it's their own fault. People who take advantage of these uneducated buyers are committing fraud and should be prosecuted.

I have noticed that whenever there is an argument on the forums, there are two people that are always the ones instigating or provoking it. You may be the experts, but arguing your point in the way you do, only creates an unpleasant atmosphere here. I value your opinions, but it only needs to be given once.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

This is supposed to be a place where we can come with questions without being assaulted. Members here range from novice to expert and that needs to be taken into consideration. This is a hobby and it is supposed to be enjoyed. Your arguing is taking that enjoyment away, please take that into consideration before you reply with heated remarks.

As far as selling these junk "errors" (ex. 1993 Cent with MD), if you started the bid at face value, and the competing bidders bidded up to $5.00, then you shouldn't feel like you ripped anyone off. Of course, as long as you stated in the description that this is a common MD and not a true error. Apparantly, some people do like MDs and are willing to pay for them, so let 'em.
(As far as shipping charges go, that's a whole different story!)