Coin Dealer

PHILOSOPHY

Honesty is the root of all evil.
Money is the best policy.
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but coins answereth all things.
Whether he admits it or not, a coin dealer has been brought up to look at inventory as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than
Coin Dealers all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
There are stupidities. . . that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever . . . collectors, for instance, or Nodrog
Numismatics, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of coin dealers, especially in the more pompous ones, which makes them dissatisfied with their own loot and envious of another's.
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore a coin show, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
When choosing between two evils, a coin dealer will pick the one he hasn't tried before.
Natural selection, as it has operated in numismatics, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a collector returneth to his folly.
A collector sees not the same coin that a dealer sees.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a numismatist the taste of manganese.
We never really know what stupidity is until we have opened a coin shop.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

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