Hideously Ugly Butt Ugly Music Coins

[Alan Glasser]

Hello, everyone.

Well, I am almost ashamed to admit that I have bids in on 3 truly U G L Y music coins. I believe there are 4 "coins" in the series from Fiji, "Music is My Life". I forgot the name of the image site I used when I converted over to the new computer..."Image Shack"??...no...that's not it...and there was a second one too...both gone untill I can remember their names. So I can't send photos yet. Anyway, my collecting guidelines must indicate some sort of severe brain malfunction but if the "coins" have a date, denomination, country of origin and "celebrate" music somehow, into the collection they go (if I win them).

Well, I have a good number of "hideously ugly" Music Coins but they meet the guideines. Since I have 7 categories of music/music related coins in the collection, I am thinking of starting an 8th category; "Truly Butt Ugly, Nasty Looking Music Coins That Should be Dropped in Acid That I am Too Embarrased to Put in the Albums With the Beautiful Pieces". What do you think?

Alan with no sense of good taste..... in Massachusetts (or anywhere)!

[chrisild]

Collecting coins is about being after what we like. Sure, we will all agree to that ... however, in my opinion, that also means we can ignore what we do not like. In German that is called "Mut zur Lücke" - the courage to leave gaps.

If you had a strictly limited and "doable" theme (say, a €1 coin from every euro country), then yes, you do want a complete collection. But is your goal to own every single coin ever minted that is at least vaguely related to music? Will be tough. So why not get images of those butt ugly pieces, and make a note where they are from, composition, mintage, etc. ... and then add a "too HUBU for my money" comment?

(After you have "won" the HUBU coins that you are currently after, of course.)

Christian

[<k>]

I'm going to move this to Coin Collecting, because I think it is more about the nature and act of collecting than about thematics. Yes, we know about completists, and I probably was one too, at one time, but nowadays I tend to think they're a bit boring and Asperger's. But I too have my Asperger's side in other respects, so I suppose it's a case of horses for courses.

As for "Alan with no sense of good taste", well, all that text in the colour of dripping blood makes me agree with you and think that you're the sort of guy who has no neighbours. (Because you ate them all...)  Watch out, Dale - you got competition!

[Prosit]

Of course what color suggests is strictly in the eye of the beholder (see below). 

For me on the other hand, the red reminded me of a beautiful springtime and all the little bunnies and birdies
as we shared a bright red apple    

Dale

........well, all that text in the colour of dripping blood ..........

[Alan Glasser]

 

<k>....OUCH!

Tastless, bloodsucking Alan in Massachusetts     

[Figleaf]

Alan, I am sorry but you don't collect coins. You have a fantastic, maybe unique collection of metallic portraits and designs with a connection to music that includes coins and excludes tokens and medals. That's your business and nobody else's and I hope this is the best place to get respect for your choices. Don't apologise for being yourself, please. Yourself is a very pleasant person who is fully accepted for what he is. As loony about numismatics as the rest of us

(BTW, nice butts aren't ugly, litter is)

Peter

[malj1]

I can smell those awful butts from 10,000 miles. Just got a huge whiff as soon as  I saw the picture.

[<k>]

<k>....OUCH!

Tastless, bloodsucking Alan in Massachusetts     

He wrote THAT in MY blood. 

[Alan Glasser]

Hello <K>.

Aspergers Alan here. Very thought provoking. To quote, "You have a fantastic, maybe unique collection of metallic portraits and designs with a connection to music that includes coins and excludes tokens and medals." 

Thank you...I think. A little bit snobbish in my humble opinion, but the Music Coin set is the work of over 40 years (I started in college) and contains many fine examples of historic, circulating coins from all over the world as well as more contempory NCLT's and "Unusual World Coins".. Just as 1 example, I just completed the collection of every "modern" coin from Austria with musical themes (pardon the pun).    Some of these took quite some time to locate and budget for. Just a snippet: 2 schillings 1928 Schubert, 1930 Vogelweide, 1931 Mozart, 1932 Haydn, 1936 Prince Eugene (more of a musical patron than a composer)...I could go on for pages with "legitimate circulating coinage" with historic meaning and beauty and from nation to nation. True, I am spread a little thin but the challenge that I enjoy so much is finding the new issues (and older ones that I have missed) and then researching the history of each composer, conductor, instrument, performer....I have combined my love of coins with what has been my career for a good bit of my life. If that makes me Aspergers,  than I indeed have a severe case and should probably be "committed". I'm damn proud of what I have accomplished (with help from many here on the board I might add) and have shared my inventory list with a few collectors in other nations and 1 in California. I have to admit we are a rather rare breed. However, sometimes I have to wonder where some of those "metallic portraits and design [music coins]" are going because I sure as heck can't find quite a few of them! Someone is buying them and probably enjoying possessing them as much as I do my collection. Contrary to what you say..I AM a collector. 

I was very deeply into early U.S. type coins from 1793 through about 1915 as well, and have a decent type set (as well as a good reference library)...though that coin collction will never be finished because what I need now is way out of my price range. Thus the need to continue collecting but in a new , revived/revised direction. I particularly loved studying varieties of coins from the late 18 and 19th centuries  from the U.S. and worked with Heritage Rare Coin Galleries as a "remote cataloger" during their transition into a more computerized means of assembling their catalog entries.

I am of the firm belief, as are you I think, that one should collect what they enjoy. I have found my niche, but I would never critique the interests of others.

Regarding "eating my neighbors", I can appreciate your humor of that, though I am a volunteer helper for those in our 55 and older community that can't do simple maintanance chores in their homes. I haven't eaten a neighbor yet...they are wonderful people...but they won't fit in a pot and would be tough and too chewy anyway. And by the way, I am on a new computer and experimenting with the options I rarely tried on this site before. Bear with me while I have some fun with font sizes, colors...and a touch of humor ( Hideous Butt Ugly Music Coins). That's my thing. Maybe I need to "get serious".....naw...never happen...and I LIKE red.

Alan...mental in Massachusetts

[malj1]

A special coin just for Alan.

[Alan Glasser]

I like it, Malcomb. Maybe I'll print out the photo and stick it to the new H.U.B.U.M.C notebook. May I change the print to red?   

Alan

[malj1]

.....and I LIKE red.

Sorry, I forgot that!

[Alan Glasser]

No problem, malj1. At least you're not Aspergers. 

Alan in Massacusetts

[andyg]

No problem, malj1. At least you're not Aspergers. 

Alan in Massacusetts

The only thing wrong with all this gigantic odd colour text is the lack of movement

[malj1]

You may have caused a bug...   or two