Would You Still Collect Coins If You Won The $700 Million Lottery?

I would think my contest prizes would go up a few notches whenever I ran a contest here on CCF.

I still think I would have a manageable fleet of Tuna and Marlin sport fishing boats and two yachts to keep an eye on my Captains at work out of Lahaina Maui and another in Cape Hatteras.

( I have fished both places )

RE: jack Whittaker

A very sad tale. It is proof that money does not bring happiness. Since he was already rich, why did he buy the ticket?

For the sake of my happiness, it is best I do not buy lottery tickets.

Yeah, I'd still collect coins. But I'd still be searching the junk bins because I think it's fun.

And, like TheNickelGuy, I'd have lots of contests and give really good prizes.

And, like january1may, I'd support my local coin shop and any other brick and mortar store I visited -- to buy prizes.

There are a couple of coins that I doubt I will ever be able to afford that I would buy, but after that ... I would just do what I've been doing.

Yes.

.....but I would do this in a different method.

Start my own B & M coin shop.


Before you go sideways, I did not say that the B & M would ever be open, but I would have a business license, etc, etc, etc, and ETC.....and buy to my little heart's content!!

I don't think I would still collect coins. If I had hundreds of millions of dollars, I am not sure I would enjoy it anymore.

It is fun to hunt down coins just on the edge of what I can afford, looking for the best deals and buying them one at a time.

Example: When I was young I would go through my pocket change to put together a set of 1959-present Lincoln cents. Now I would never find any joy in that. Now I would just buy the set for $15.

Today, I hunt down deals and collect my favorite series one at a time. Great fun. For example, if I had hundreds of million dollars I could, in one week, buy every Libertad BU, Proof and Gold from every year and just be done with the crap. And since I don't have self control I probably would do it in one week.

If there is no thrill of the hunt, no anticipation, then what is the point? For me nothing.

I don't particularly care for owning coins. Seriously.

I just like collecting them. Once they are collected I am not very enthusiastic about them at all. I usually get rid of them. So anything I can outright buy without effort has no joy to me.

I don't want to own every Libertad ever made. I only want to pursue every Libertad ever made.

So, if I won the Powerball, I believe it would be the end of coin collecting for me.

Mark1959, that's right little buddy
I'd keep an eye on all of them!
You saw what The Skipper did in episode 6 season 2 when Thurston Howell III wasn't watching and he was a millionaire!