Padium wrote:
mosez wrote:
No, I think I'm the kind who avoid conflicts. When I was a kid, I allways chose the little apple before the big, if I got the first choice.
But I was ruthless in one thing, pursuing the growth of my coin collection. I raided stores, buses and others, wich I knew had coins. Then they had to look through all the coins in their possession, compare them to my list, and then I swapped them for more plain coins. I actually came across many rare ones that way. This took time for honest working ppl, but I had my way of talking them into what I wanted. I must have been a real pain in the ass for them, but I just kept on doing it. I also cheated other collectors, by swapping less valuable coins for better ones.
I guess everyone has a bit ruthlessness in them, if the cause is important enough to battle for.
Wow, someone else with a coin collection. Sweet! I got a lot of rarer coins working at mcdonalds, I even have 2 Canadian $2 bills that people had paid with and an American JFK 50 cent piece. I have also come across strange foriegn currencies including some Japanese and Australian coins. I once had a customer try to pay with a danadian $20 bill from the 70s. I had to talk him out of it, simply because I didn't have a $20 in my wallet that was new enough to swap it with, and it was so old we weren't allowed to accept it. I still wish I woulda had a 20 in my wallet to have gotten that bill that day... One of my favourite coins is my penny that I am not sure where it is from, but is over a century old.
It was very interesting, but I lost the interest for my collection and passed it on to a relative, in exchange for a motorbike when I was 13. For a couple of years I was very motor focused. At sixteen I started to collect records (just stones) I have most of them today, but I'm not very active.
Strange that you are from Canada, cause I started out collecting coins from the brithish colonies and USA. All these countries fascinates me somehow, must have something to do about moving cultures to a different part of the world,etc..
But, back to the thread, nothing ever made me more ruthless than the coin collection.
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I don't pay any attention to you, standing there thinking you are in control, cause I am in control-mosez
05 Jan 2009, 12:51 pm
