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Moderator
 United States
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Outside CCF? No one.  I did have one friend in High School, but that was thirty years ago. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
589 Posts |
Same here no collector friends outside of CCF.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Had one, he died of brain cancer about 28 years ago.
As mentioned many (unfortunately) keep quite about their collecting for security reason, so you may know someone that collects and not even know it. These security concerns are probably one of the reasons coin collecting is so small. In order to get interested you have to be exposed to the hobby, but for security reasons, no one talks about it so no one gets exposed to it. And when you realize that a realistic estimate of the number of collactors comes in at somewhere around 1 out of every 300 to 600 people, and many of them aren't talking, it isn't too surprising that many of us don't have collector friends
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07/27/2017 1:27 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Besides you guys.............zero.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1780 Posts |
1 friend at work who collected pennies until he filled the whole set. He is quite proud of it. Now he likes bullion.
And of course my new friends here.
"We are poor little lambs...who have lost our way...Baa...Baa...Baa"
In memory of those members who left us too soon...
In memory of Tootallious March 31, 1964 - April 15, 2020
In memory of crazyb0 July 27 2020. RIP.
In memory of T-BOP Oct. 12, 1949 - Jan. 19, 2024
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3479 Posts |
A big FAT goose egg. Except for you fine fellows. That's why I'm here!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1609 Posts |
I have met someone whom was in my grade last year, though I couldn't call him a friend.
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Valued Member
United States
309 Posts |
As a coin collector, it's really lonely here in MA. LCS are slowly dying out as well.
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Pillar of the Community
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Besides you guys.............zero. same here. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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One. And we knew each other for ten years before he accidentally let it slip.
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Pillar of the Community
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And we knew each other for ten years before he accidentally let it slip. Yeah, that's what scares me - I keep my collection publicly private! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1494 Posts |
I've met a couple of people at shows and become friendly with them. But outside that circle, I can only think of one who mostly collects bullion.
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Moderator
United States
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And we knew each other for ten years before he accidentally let it slip. Did you bust him looking at his change at lunch one day?  Seriously, I do that, hoping to see some interest in their eyes, but nothing. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Personally, I have more coin friends than I can count. I am very very very lucky!
Probably because I go to loads of coin shows...and because I am a part of CCF.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I met one CCF member in person for a swap once. He was about 45 minutes from my in laws' place at the time, and under 10 minutes away from where I live now. He gave up collecting for family/job though :(
Many of my friends have a passing interest in coins, but none are even remotely serious about it. About the closest thing was a friend (ethnically Indian but born in the US) who asked me to put together a set of ancient Indian coins on a $100 budget. The rest have a small bag of world coins and wheat pennies, "somewhere".
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