A new "Superhero Movie" for coin collectors ?
RogerB
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Numismatics is not known for sparkling action, and immortal superheros. But this little cartoon - or is it a hobby editorial statement - seems to drive the point home.
Now the challenge: Describe a real-life "stellar action scene" from numismatics. (Would drinking cyanide would qualify; or popping a coin from a Whitman nickel folder?)
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The time so-and-so dropped a large rare gold pattern that rolled several yards across the tile and "thumped" into the side of a metal desk?
The panic when so-and-so threw away a $65,000 coin
in his vault room trash can?
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Lots of the coin collectors that I am acquainted with are far too cheap to go to the movies. You have to get a personal loan in order to pay cinema admission prices nowadays.
Opening the "Your grades are now available" email from PCGS ...
8 Reales Madness Collection
Mine
was a made up joke. This one is true!
That's kinda why I said
'so and so', instead of saying
...'another so-and-so' !
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I remember that. Was it ever found?
Part 2 will have more action scenes, featuring "whizzing", "scrubbing with a brillo pad", & "power drills".
No, it was never found in the
Simi Valley Trash Dump area.
So, I know the huge Trash Pile
it's in, but even back then (1986),
it was too late to even begin to
know where to search.
Worth a bit more today as a Proof-64,
and would probably 65+ today too.
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I will wait until it comes out on TV.
RE: "Worth a bit more today as a Proof-64, and would probably 65+ today too."
Wow! So burying a coin in the local landfill will increase its grade ?!! Is that what was done with a bunch of 1804 silver dollars? Maybe "Landfill" is a Super Hero....?
"How Freddy got his Stella Back"
A solitary man scours the garbage dumps of Southern California to recover a rare coin accidentally thrown away, while warding off bears, rabid raccoons, and two foreign spies. Help is provided by a young woman garbage truck driver.
Ed. S.
(EJS)
How about the recent action packed scene where a member of our forum's chop saw and slabbed dime were brought together and resulted in amazingly no loss of blood AND the coin though it went flying across the shed actually survived unscathed?
Having a $20 gold coin at the bottom of an ocean creates "supernova" toning and according to many, bumps the grade by a few points... maybe a landfill can do the same to a Stella???
Wonder if the value of that coin ever increase so much that you'll have the shipwreck companies start searching the landfill instead of searching the ocean floor?
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There have been a few movies with a rare coin (or coins) as the 'objective'....but they were not considered super hero movies.... How about a plot about the old coin collector who shoots two burglars attempting to steal his gold coin collection??
My lips are sealed......Cheers, RickO
As well as an acetone explosion/fire scene....
The movie "SuperBird" would be appropriate here.
Faster than a speeding planchet
More powerful than a steam press
LOOK...
Up in the sky.
It's a Bird
It's a Plane.
No.......It's SUPERBIRD!
Strange coin from the coin vault with etchings far beyond those of a normal quarter.
SUPERBIRD!
It can change the course of mighty collecting.
Bend Numismatists in it's bare............................
Oh well. You get the idea.
Pete
You've been in the hospital too long.... ! Too much betadine in your soup.
And they say coin numismatists have no cents of humor. Perish the thought.