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Pillar of the Community
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i would like to say Thank you for taking the time to post here
and 4500 is one set what would is the count on just the LMC set?Thank you... Just memorials - about 2500 of it.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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My wife would have dis-owned me If I had that many coins around. I can only pray she can't see all the coin clutter around the house now that she's gone. Maybe that's why I must constantly straighten her portrait over the fire place mantel. Nah, that can't be it, that's were I've placed all my mineral samples now.
Great collection Carl! Wish I had the time and fortitude to look at that many each day.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7629 Posts |
Name's Chuck...and sorry to hear about the wife. I don't have one, so nothing to worry about there. I do have a girlfriend who knows how I am, so if it ever gets to the point of me calling her 'wife' she will have to be tolerant of what I do because it was here when she met me and I ain't changin'.
One thing I should point out here is that this is a hobby for most of you. You dabble here and there and pick through coins when you can, or when you want to. For me, this is my career. It's a job. I don't have 'employment' and I don't draw unemployment. So if I don't get to selling coins and looking through more, I don't eat...and from the look of my waist line, I must be doing all right.
All joking aside, I have been working on this since 1981. At first it was a hobby, then it turned into my job in 2004 - I stepped away from the corporate world as a computer programmer and never looked back. Just about everything I do in life has something to do with coins in one way or another. I write articles and books, do art work, photography, advertising design, database and web development, web graphics, I travel to shows and to speaking engagements, and I buy and sell Lincoln cents...that's it in a nutshell.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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All those coins are an impressive lot there Chuck. I'm also impressed that you've turned coins into your income. I can only imagine the TIME and efforts, work, you put into your coins alone, let alone all the other things you do. And it costs money to keep them organized and to package and sell them too! Wow is all I can say!! I imagine you are constantly busy busy busy!!  |
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Valued Member
India
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best of luck to grade and inventory all your coins.
chance favors the prepared mind
warm wishes
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Pillar of the Community
United States
601 Posts |
Bravo Chuck! I left my job of 15 years waiting tables in 2009, was scared to death.....2 years later on only my own income (wife gets to be a stay-at-home-mom) we've purchased a house and have had a new child to add to our family. I'll NEVER question my decision to go full time in coins. If I never made a penny more than waiting tables, my life would be so enriched and fulfilling that I'd never reconsider. There's nothing like being in control of your own time and life.
PS- an understanding coin wife is reeeaally the key to my success! She puts up with more clutter and coins taking over the house than anyone should.
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Valued Member
United States
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@ the A&E Hoarders comment, I LOL'd because I imagined them coming in with the film crew, and you answering the door with the Lincoln presidential mask on. No idea why that's the first thought that came to my head haha.
+ Very cool story, I enjoy hearing about people doing
exactly what they prefer to do and live well enough to keep
doing so.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
601 Posts |
Hoarders is an interesting show, I've been privy to 2 different collections which would have easily qualified- One was from an RPM collector who saved every BU roll he bought, and bought every one in town. When I wholesaled the last of his collection I had sold just over 12,800 rolls. The accumulated volume of a long time collector can boggle the mind!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pretty much what I've expected Chuck. I think you've explained bits and pieces before. Heck, it's your job, having plenty of inventory is part of it.
I understand the need to purge and reduce. I've built and repaired PC's for 20 years and I've had to purge inventory a few times over the years because it can get out of hand easily. It's part of the job though....it's really not hoarding....it's inventory.
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 United States
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Hey, you love Lincoln Cents, no need to explain anything ;-)
That is impressive Chuck!
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My big thing at present isn't so much purge and reduce - it's more an effort to expand into bigger and better things. I have grown tired of bashing my brains in with $1.50 coins. Time to move into and stay in the world of $10+ coins, preferable that most be at least $50. I'm going to start selling off most of the 'clutter' and start focusing. I'd like to be back down to no more than a hundred thousand coins within the next five years.
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United States
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That's what I am currently doing as well, selling coins that I want to upgrade or, just reducing my inventory all together.
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hmmm!
I notice a few programmers, designers artist and computer geeks here that's in the same field as I am.
I am happy we shared the same passion for coins, although I can't turn my hobby to full time in the near future.
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Valued Member
United States
465 Posts |
WOW,,by the way we are taking coin donations for the COPPERCOINS MUSEUM,,,,,not really,,but "U THA MAN"or something,,thanks for sharing,,
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Valued Member
United States
153 Posts |
Mr. Daughtrey,
Your post is very interesting. It gives my the incentive to broaden my horizon on my ventures in roll searching. I am learning to look for more varieties than just obvious ones. Thank You for all of your postings.
Rich
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