Do You Have A Collecting Buddy?

My Mom!

I've even got her to collect too! She has 2 Indian Head's and 1 or 2 Flying Eagles left to finish the set.

My Grandmother got me interested in collecting coins (she passed away 40 years ago, when I was only 8 years old) ... she started me on collecting Canadian pennies, which I steadily added each year's penny as it became available through my spare change. However, two years ago my wife randomly gave me a book for collecting quarters and then "shabamm!" => my coin collecting addiction kicked into overdrive and I've been "seriously" collecting Canadian quarters ever since (the jokes on her!)

Well said!

I have gotten more from this site than any other source in my life.

repj: my guess would be she enjoys spending time with dad! Does it get any better than that?

Well Ken, I live in Thompson Manitoba (700 miles "North" of Winnipeg) ... ummmm, but if you pay my airfare to NYC, I promise that I'll man-up with some gas-money to get us to that party on Long Island, deal?

I'm just sayin' ... let's drink some beer and hunt-down some of dem coins!!

As to coin clubs, glad you have one where you can trust those other members. Not sure what the crime rates are in your country, and/or area of that place but around me there are many coin clubs. Not really popular though since many want your name and address. And again by me, may as well put out a sign saying I have something to steal here.
I tried a few coin clubs and as soon as they wanted personal information, I vanished with a puff of smoke almost.
I realize that many people right here on this forum may well live in some sort of crime free areas, but almost in any large populated area, you really don't know who is who.
Try imagining our police advertising how the crime rate has fallen around here to the point of only 30,000 cars a year stolen inside the City limits. This excludes the suburbs. Murders too have fallen to less than 700/year. And no one even attempts to count home invasions or other robberies.
NO around me a coin buddy, or mate, may well turn out to be someone like Jeffrey Dommer or worse.
As to "what's the point in having a collection if you can never talk about it with or show it off to somebody?"
Sort of true I guess. I have several older cars with very little milage. Now so old parts are getting scarce so I don't take them out much. I always shutter thinking of women that slam their car doors into the next one and it could be mine. Aroumd me women are to busy on cell phones to look where they are going so taking an old car out is sort of like having coins you can never tell anyone about.
Wouldn't life be great if you could run and tell ALL your neighbors about just purchasing a 1916D Mercury dime in MS-62, for example

Yes I do. My Brother and I were talking a few years back and I was pretty emphatic about purchasing precious metals as a reasonable counter to the floundering Fed. He was a natural because he has had an impressive collection of key dates that he assembled as a youngster. This year at our family reunion the discussion continued and he conceded that he should have jumped on the boat back then. I helped him buy some gold and silver bullion this Spring. Now he calls me when he picks up some new pieces to get my feedback. It's really a lot of fun having a hobby that includes my Brother. He has a pretty bad case of MS so it gives him something to do at his desk. This reminds me that I have to hook him up with Coin Community. I truly love this forum and there are a lot of great people here to bounce ideas off of.