Is there anything in life besides coins?



Coin Collectors Anonymous


A penny saved is a penny earned.


What I am doing there is trying to get people to think, and turn coin collecting into a more fun and intellectually stimulating pursuit.


Here are a few rules you may find useful:

  1. To belong to CCA, you must be a fanatic coin collector. It must meanmore to you than anything else in life.
  2. You must spend your last dollar buying coins.
  3. If you have a choice of a $100 dinner, or some part being spent on coins, you will eat fast food, and spend the other $95 on coins.
  4. You must be in long term layaway on your coins.
  5. You look at Yahoo at the 200+ listings for Coins every day.
  6. You must be willing to convince other compulsive collectors like yourself, that this is OK behavior.
  7. You must belong to a whole list of coin organizations.
  8. You must read at least 12 coin magazines per month.
  9. Your magnifier collection is something to be proud of.
  10. You walk around wearing your magnifier, wherever you go!
  11. You get a P.O. Box, just for Numismatic related materials!
  12. You must have belonged to a coin club at least 5 years.
  13. Everyone knows you at the coin shows.
  14. You live at the Internet, posting to rec.collecting.coins .
  15. You go to work for one or more coin dealers, in order to pay for your out-of-control life style obsession love affair with coins.

    Are coins more important than food? Hmmm.

    That is food for thought!

I sold my soul for a couple of...coins!



Here are the 12 steps to recovery from coin collecting...

  1. We admitted we were powerless over coin collecting, and that our hobby had become unmanageable. Well, our hobby is manifestly manageable - It's our livesthat have gone to hell in a handbasket!
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could cause a recovery of our senses, and that power exists on a Hastings Triplet-at least 5x, and at most 20x.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of many coin dealers, as we know them, or imagine them to be, fools that we are.
  4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our coin collections, in case we were ever audited on our taxes, or avoided doing this completely, for the same reason.
  5. Admitted to a coin dealer, to ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our obsession,...er..., collection.
  6. Were entirely ready to have a coin dealer remove all of our money from our bank accounts....ready, willing, and able-no- insistent!
  7. Humbly asked a coin dealer for a layaway plan on that special coin (Not asked, begged!.
  8. Made a list of all coins we had cherry picked, and were ready to pay bid for them, and were ready to be buried with them - no cremation for us; our coins would melt.
  9. Made amends to all of those coin dealers who we sold whizzed or fake coins to over the years, except where they were out of business already, or deceased (or those who sold them to us in the first place).
  10. Continued to take personal inventory of our collections, and when we spent the mortgage money, promptly admitted it.
  11. Sought through prayer and coin clubs, to find others who might feel the way we do about collecting.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carrry this message to other coin collectors, and to practice these principles in all of our coin related affairs.


You really hooked on coins when:

  1. You look forward to the change in the supermarket!
  2. Try to add up your total purchases before checkout, to see if you can maximize your change return by buying one more thing!
  3. Buy rolls at the bank, and feel you have to explain yourself!
  4. Start giving coins to relatives, as gifts.







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