Oh lord

[conleytheking]

Pawn stars Is telling everyone our secrets! And making me jealous.

 

[$nack-Money]

I'll have to say I had never thought about CRH until I came across this forum. Since then (about a year ago), my large volume has been detrimental to the wild silver in my area. Therefore, in my area at least, posting in this forum has had a huge impact on the local crh hobby.

 

[SilverForBrains]

I'm going to disagree here. I went for four and a half decades of my life without having any knowledge of coins ever having had any intrinsic metal value. And I don't recall any conversations with my family or friends about any of this. I vaguely knew about people investing in precious metals; I was aware of coin collecting. But not the convergence of the two! Maybe I'm an anomaly, but I think it's actually more likely that my ignorance was typical of the majority. People just have full, busy lives, filled with advice on what products to buy and what stocks are hot, and they probably don't tuck away this kind of knowledge unless it's pounded into their head. What seems to obvious to us here, and now, is not obvious to most people.

(Actually this brings up an interesting tidbit. One of my favorite books is Replay by Ken Grimwood; I re-read it every few years. It's sort of like "Groundhog Day" but for a whole lifetime - this guy keeps finding himself back at his youth in the 1960's, with all knowledge of the life he had been living and what's going to come. Anyhow, there's a scene where he advises somebody to start accumulating 1964-and-earlier silver coins; he plans on telling them to sell just before the 1980 peak. The funny thing is, I had read this book multiple times over the last couple of decades, and it did not sink in at all. The scene wasn't something I remembered; it didn't make me start looking at the change I accumulated. But then my latest read, with the knowledge of silver I have now, of course I noticed it this time!)

I think you're dead right about that, most people have way too much on their minds to start thinking about coins

 

[cooper36]

first one didn't take

 

[cooper36]

bah why couldnt it be chum and he just offer the dude face for the silver coins, and tell america that guy was stupid thinking there was silver in them...

 

[jarlbartar]

I'm going to go along with what most of the others are saying on here - there arent a whole lot of us generally speaking. I can think of about 50 people that I know if I sat them all down and told them about CRH, coin values, intrinsic values, stockpiling for the future - maybe about 5 to 10 would be even slightly interested. Of those 5 to 10, maybe 3 would give CRH a try. After seeing how fruitless and frustrating it can be to get skunked on a box of halves most would get frustrated and quit. It dosent have the "payoff" that other hobbies have - like fishing, bowling, golf where there is a lot of skill involved and you can track your improvement over time. The majority of the population know what a Muskie or a 300 game or a hole in one is. But on the other hand, you might get some strange looks when you start talking about a 1976 D type 2 eisenhower.

 

[sagittarius98]

I'm going to go along with what most of the others are saying on here - there arent a whole lot of us generally speaking. I can think of about 50 people that I know if I sat them all down and told them about CRH, coin values, intrinsic values, stockpiling for the future - maybe about 5 to 10 would be even slightly interested. Of those 5 to 10, maybe 3 would give CRH a try. After seeing how fruitless and frustrating it can be to get skunked on a box of halves most would get frustrated and quit. It dosent have the "payoff" that other hobbies have - like fishing, bowling, golf where there is a lot of skill involved and you can track your improvement over time. The majority of the population know what a Muskie or a 300 game or a hole in one is. But on the other hand, you might get some strange looks when you start talking about a 1976 D type 2 eisenhower.

Exactly. I know people at our school were thinking Jefferson was on the cent, and weren't sure who was on the others. We first would need to know basics about our coins, something most people lack.