Show me a black mamba coin

KollectorKing

Hemispherical

Amazingly there is such a thing. Enameled on Gibraltar 10 Pence.

Not mine.

Namvet69

Flashback time for me, in Nam there is a poisonous snake nicknamed the 2 step cause if you got bit you had 2 steps left in this world. I think it was a krait. Peace Roy

ColonelJessup

Kobe Bryant already has a coin? Probably making something impossible from 30 feet. Cool!

ShadyDave

topstuf

The toning of a black mamba coin can ruin it in four hours, if, say, dipped and retoned. However, a dip to the obverse only can bring market acceptance within 20 minutes. Now, you should listen to this, 'cause this concerns you. The amount of toning that can be considered okay can be gargantuan. You know, I've always liked that word..."gargantuan"... so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence. If not treated quickly with antidip, 10 to 15 millidips can be permanent. However, the black mamba coin can deliver terrific admiration from a single glance.

Hallco

@topstuf said:
The toning of a black mamba coin can ruin it in four hours, if, say, dipped and retoned. However, a dip to the obverse only can bring market acceptance within 20 minutes. Now, you should listen to this, 'cause this concerns you. The amount of toning that can be considered okay can be gargantuan. You know, I've always liked that word..."gargantuan"... so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence. If not treated quickly with antidip, 10 to 15 millidips can be permanent. However, the black mamba coin can deliver terrific admiration from a single glance.

There may be a hoard in Barstow, California! Potentially an underrated post!

ColonelJessup

@topstuf said:
The toning of a black mamba coin can ruin it in four hours, if, say, dipped and retoned. However, a dip to the obverse only can bring market acceptance within 20 minutes. Now, you should listen to this, 'cause this concerns you. The amount of toning that can be considered okay can be gargantuan. You know, I've always liked that word..."gargantuan""... so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence. If not treated quickly with antidip, 10 to 15 millidip can be permanent. However, the black mamba coin can deliver terrific admiration from a single glance.

Brobdingnabian hyperbole al a Swiftian satire is always best served in plethoric gargantuan portions
edited to add: this sentence is totally accurate and most egregiously useless

grip

@Namvet69 said:
Flashback time for me, in Nam there is a poisonous snake nicknamed the 2 step cause if you got bit you had 2 steps left in this world. I think it was a krait. Peace Roy

Pit viper almost transparent in color. We would hunt them when bored.

BillJones

Most any Chinese counterfeit. Unless you are marketing the things, your pocketbook is dead as soon as you buy one. Here is one of the sillier examples.

LanLord

@Namvet69 said:
Flashback time for me, in Nam there is a poisonous snake nicknamed the 2 step cause if you got bit you had 2 steps left in this world. I think it was a krait. Peace Roy

There is no snake that is toxic enough to kill someone that rapidly.
Not to say the bite wouldn't kill you, but the most lethal snake (inland Taipan from Australia) still takes over an hour to kill a person.
The hyperbole of those kind of names are pretty common. There are other snakes referred to as 20 paces snakes for similar cause. That too is not correct.

georgiacop50

Yep. Similarly in India they have a banded krait that they claim you die from the bite before you can count the 20 or so crossbands. (BTW more people die from snakebite in INDIA than any other country....mostly because so many folks go about barefooted).

CaptHenway

Oddly enough, as my wife and I were having a lovely Mother’s Day brunch put out by three of my four stepdaughters, the conversation turned to some of the adventures she had raising four adopted daughters as a single mother working for the State Department in Africa. When she got to Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, the girls were 4 and under, and the Embassy aide showing them the house they were assigned to said matter-of-factly that there black mambas in the back yard. The Embassy was not going to do anything about them until she insisted.

“Leave them alone and they won’t bother you!” the aide said. “Try explaining that to a 4 year old!” my wife said.

LanLord

@CaptHenway said:
Oddly enough, as my wife and I were having a lovely Mother’s Day brunch put out by three of my four stepdaughters, the conversation turned to some of the adventures she had raising four adopted daughters as a single mother working for the State Department in Africa. When she got to Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, the girls were 4 and under, and the Embassy aide showing them the house they were assigned to said matter-of-factly that there black mambas in the back yard. The Embassy was not going to do anything about them until she insisted.

“Leave them alone and they won’t bother you!” the aide said. “Try explaining that to a 4 year old!” my wife said.

Geeze, that would not be much comfort if I had kids living there.

ricko

Snakes have been of interest to me since I was a kid... used to bring them to school for oral reports... made all the girls scream when I dropped one down my shirt... Used to catch them and keep them for a while.. fed them mice... When my Mom found out I had any in my room, she would make me get rid of them... Caught rattlers and copperheads in the mountains here...Cheers, RickO

thisistheshow

Help me out. What's a Black Mamba coin?

CaptHenway

Boyhood friend caught a blue racer, 3-4 feet long. Beautiful!

WillieBoyd2

What's a Black Mamba coin?

johnny9434

@BillJones said:
Most any Chinese counterfeit. Unless you are marketing the things, your pocketbook is dead as soon as you buy one. Here is one of the sillier examples.

![](https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/0k/gdkla51q79f6.jpg "

from the dark side

Bullsitter

BryceM

<----- See this guy over here? As a guy who occasionally enjoys a foray into the African bush, the black mamba ranks rather high on my list of nope-ropes. They're usually happy to get away and do something else, but the occasional one will be aggressive. Interestingly they often bite you on the torso, as they rise up about 3' off the ground as they chase you. No thanks. The puff adder is right there too as he's too fat and lazy to get out of the way. Step on one of those and you'll quickly collect a couple of excruciating punctures to the leg.

Funny as it sounds, the cape cobra doesn't frighten me all that much. I've seen plenty and even had one rise up out of the grass with its hood flared and hiss at me from about 24" away. It is amazing how your spinal cord takes complete control and gets you levitated and moving in the opposite direction while your brain is still trying to figure out what's going on. Powerful memory, that.......

Here's a puff adder we found a few hundred feet from camp:

ACop

Hmm...The black mamba is more brown than black. I suppose the same goes for Kobe. I think I have the perfect P$ for this thread but I'd have to photograph it upstairs and thats not so easy for me yet.