I've been dedicating quite a bit of my free time organizing and cataloging my collection, and I am curious as to how much time do you estimate you all spend with your coins.
Not including the time I spend looking on ebay and local shops, it seems to me that i spend about an hour and a half almost everyday. During the weekend, it may be more!
I don't spend long actually sorting through coins because I keep my collection pretty small.
I look through them every now and then, but most of the time I spend on Numismatics is searching auctions for coins I want. Discussing things on sites like this, or reading histories about the countries that I collect the coins from. At the moment I'm reading the book "The End of the Empire and the Making of Malaya"
The other thing I like doing is to make up custom catalogues of the areas I collect. Because I only collect pre-1945 I don't use all of the Numista catalogue for the country. So I have some exercise books where I'll list all the pre-1945 coins, I'll write them in pencil if I need the coin and in pen if I have the coin.
It won't be much time now anymore, but starting out when I began sorting , dating, carding, putting into a binder, uploading here, sorting the extras into tubes, revising and re-revising my list of goal countries ...I was spending about ALL my free time on coins. It was eat, sleep, work, coins, repeat! It is so much fun for me I can't believe the amount of time that would pass . I may have pulled 4-5 hours some days, take a break and maybe some more later . Now that everything is cataloged there will be days now I probably won't even look at them and then just 30 minutes to an hour filing my new arrivals or searching for some lots on ebay!
Well, that makes me feel much better, because I was beginning to think i was developing some kind of addiction!
I've kept coins for a good park of my life, but only recently started to catalogue them, organize, and actually pay for new coins. Can't even imagine how long it would take to do the same before Numista was around!
Coin collecting is not an addiction, but a passion, which I feel makes the time I spend on it, worth every second.
Having sorted out the way in which I organise my collection many years ago, means that side of it now takes very little time. Receive a coin, add it to me Numista list, add it to my own database, then place it in appropriate location. Sorted.
Now though, it is the hunting for the coins I would like to buy and obviously Numista exchanges, which take up my coin collecting time, which is around one hour a day and a little more at weekends.
At this time, I am trying to find the last five coins from a collection of twenty four, and they are pretty elusive, so the hunt is on.
Cataloguing is a very important process when you are collecting coins. I paid a big price by neglecting this process initially and at the end, I lost count of my coins and misplaced a few as well. Ever since then, I regularly keep updating my catalogue as and when I keep adding new coins to my collection. It is much better than postponing the process and doing it at one go...
I don't spend as much time as I would like. Life is busy and I'm getting married in a couple of months, so planning for that has taken up a lot of time (of course I'm okay with that!). I got back into collecting somewhat recently (about 6 months or so) after having put the hobby away for many years since I was a kid. But once I finally decided to turn my small hoard into a properly organized and cataloged collection, I've been loving every minute I've been able to work on my collection since then!
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
Honestly it's good for long nights in; put on something on Netflix (the Man in the High Castle I highly recommend!) and sort through my collection. Someday I'll re-arrange everything, since it's been a year since I last did it. Right now coin time for me is mostly photographing everything (and by extension perfecting my lens work).
Because its summer holiday and I do not have anything to do, im doing a giant list about something coin related. Just started letter B, and it took 11 hours of work without breaks to finish A, so about 5 hours a day
Like looking at my reflection on an antique mirror...except for the writing.
here's the problem with quitting, smoking or otherwise: every time you fall off the wagon is just that; it is one time.
When you truly quit, that's forever. And forever sounds like a really long time...
Quote: "Jasanche"Like looking at my reflection on an antique mirror.
So you are a spammer?
But kudos this time it was not a simple bot post.
wow. Didn't expect that in the Numista forums, as I haven't seen that many here. Guess I should take my blinders off...
You'd be surprised....
I see them about more often nowadays, usually advertising writing services for some reason. Some of them are disguising themselves as intelligent posts now.... they must be evolving.
I didn't notice it was a bot either. I thought it was a weird post, and was strange that it was a new account which bumped this old thread, but yea.. it fooled me. Not enough to actually click on the links, but still :))
yeh, they are getting clever.
One should also check suspicious first poster's profile to see if there are links or "personal website" which may be an advert of phishing scam. Everyones profile pages on every webforum in the world are picked apart by google regularly, and links carefully catalogued.
Jasanche, you should go back and edit the links out of your quoting post too.
anyway, back to topic - Ive been spending all my free time (when not browsing this web site) building little coin storage cabinets out of wooden cigar boxes and felt, I guess two or three hours every day this week, plus trips to the hobby store for materials.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
They're so mundanely-disguised that I too was a little confused as to whether they were advertisements at first, but the links more than confirm it. Apparently they were also a tad too ambiguous to delete.
Quote: "CassTaylor"Resurrecting the diverted topic a little bit;
I honestly don't think that all of the advertisers are bots. Check out this account, and it's posts:
https://en.numista.com/echanges/profil.php?id=102834
They're so mundanely-disguised that I too was a little confused as to whether they were advertisements at first, but the links more than confirm it. Apparently they were also a tad too ambiguous to delete.
you are right, they are not automated software, they are real persons payed (payed a pittance) to plant the links where google will find them - they are mechanical turks
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
