You Suck Award nomination

Swampboy

What else but "you suck" can you say to someone who scored this bit of silver (however tiny) that had orbited the moon and then had been made into a medal on its return for $1 at a flea market.
Exonumia for sure, but for this score member @asheland gets my nomination for a PCGS Coin Forum You Suck Award.

Boosibri

Cool!

Mgarmy

Awesome!

abcde12345

I thought the "You Suck" award was given to those who scored a major financial gain, not so much on the "cool factor". Unless that little bit of silver is worth hundreds, I would call it definitely a neat and inexpensive find yet not a "you suck" one.

Here is more info.

http://www.spaceflownartifacts.com/flown_apollo14_franklin_mint_medallions.html

Here is one that recently sold on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-Franklin-Mint-Made-From-Silver-Carried-Aboard-Apollo-14-Coin-/124571082373?hash=item1d0103de85:g:OHgAAOSw09hgCNvU&nma=true&si=Nd61%2FhU%2BajEKlL%2FxY9%2Bjr5hwNNo%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

And another:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-Franklin-Mint-Apollo-14-Limited-Edition-Medal-Made-Frm-Mission-Flown-Silver-/233811172420?hash=item36703b5c44:g:MfYAAOSwnrNfzSDt&nma=true&si=Nd61%2FhU%2BajEKlL%2FxY9%2Bjr5hwNNo%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

jmlanzaf

@abcde12345 said:
I thought the "You Suck" award was given to those who scored a major financial gain, not so much on the "cool factor". Unless that little bit of silver is worth hundreds, I would call it definitely a neat and inexpensive find yet not a "you suck" one.

Here is more info.

They sell for $25 or so. Maybe a nomination for a "You licked award"?

Edited to add:

I always wondered how many ounces of silver they mixed with the 10,000 grains (20 oz) that actually flew in space. So they made 130,000 medals so each one contains about 0.00015 ounces of actual space silver!

P0CKETCHANGE

That’s pretty cool. I don’t have anything that’s been in outer space, although I am of course made of stardust.

vplite99

Not really, JMHO.

Pnies20

Psssssh .... We never went to the moon

(Just kidding 😄)

Nic

Edit

bolivarshagnasty

It's always been amount big monetary gain. No need to repurpose the "You Suck" award.

Swampboy

It is all about the money.

I get it

yspsales

Tough crowd!

bearcave

😮

Jimnight

That's nice!

abcde12345

@Jimnight said:
That's nice!

asheland

If the moon coin doesn’t pull it off, how about this?
650 grams of .950 fine French first standard silver for $9 😈

LanceNewmanOCC

@asheland said:
If the moon coin doesn’t pull it off, how about this?
650 grams of .950 fine French first standard silver for $9 😈

.
You Suck, no.

FH, yes!

morgandollar1878

Those are pretty cool and it was a very nice find, but does not qualify for the "You Suck" award.

ricko

@asheland.... For about $650 value... You earned a You Suck award. Cheers, RickO

BuffaloIronTail

@Jimnight said:
That's nice!

I degree.

Pete

AlanSki

I once did some things with myself in a port o potty in 130 degrees while in the middle east.

How many of you can say you did that? I did have a coin in my pocket though.

DoubleEagle59

@AlanSki said:
I once did some things with myself in a port o potty in 130 degrees while in the middle east.

How many of you can say you did that? I did have a coin in my pocket though.

I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight.

U1chicago

@asheland said:
If the moon coin doesn’t pull it off, how about this?
650 grams of .950 fine French first standard silver for $9 😈

Only if you purchased those rabbits along with the silver.

Kliao

@asheland I’ll raise you to a Wallace sterling flatware set found for $18 at a garage sale a couple years ago.

Crypto

I had one of those moon coins as a kid, it was so small it fell out of its holder into a very 70s shag carpet never to be found again

SeattleSlammer

@asheland said:
If the moon coin doesn’t pull it off, how about this?
650 grams of .950 fine French first standard silver for $9 😈

@Kliao said:
@asheland I’ll raise you to a Wallace sterling flatware set found for $18 at a garage sale a couple years ago.

Either You Sucks or some prison time for both of you. Lol

vplite99

@morgandollar1878 said:
Those are pretty cool and it was a very nice find, but does not qualify for the "You Suck" award.

Swampboy might qualify for a self-awarded "You suck".

asheland

@Kliao said:
@asheland I’ll raise you to a Wallace sterling flatware set found for $18 at a garage sale a couple years ago.

Nice!!!

yspsales

Somehow stumbled upon a You Suck thread from 2012.

There used to be a committee, and a You Suck award had to be 100x return or a top pop.

Even think they had a website.

It was a walk down memory lane.

Guess cancel culture precludes us spiking the ball on the midfield star.

Might have something to share in a day or too.