Please Provide an Amazing fact about Coin Collecting
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Some monks endured a spiritual practice whereby they eliminated all their body fat through diet and exercise, ate wood lacquer tea to kill off internal bacteria, then sealed themselves in a tomb holding a string attached to a bell. A year after the bell stopped ringing, the tomb was opened, and if the monk’s body was found to be uncorrupted, they were revered as a saint; if not, they were re-buried.
The process took years, and as they continued, the monks required more and more help from their brothers until they entered the tomb. And the whole time, you’d hear bells ringing from the nearby tombs as the monks inside slowly wound down the last days of their lives, voluntarily poisoned, starved, and buried alive for a chance at sainthood.
And not a single one of them collected coins.
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I do it in my sleep. That's the only explanation for some of the monstrosities I've ended up with.
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When your chips are down, we will do anything to get thru those pearly gates.
I always remember in the olden days, they put coins on your eyes when you died. You had to be a coin collector to move on.
I think that they were used by the dead to pay the admittance fee.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
The ancient Greeks would put a coin in the mouth of their dead so they could pay Charon the boatman to ferry them across the river Styx to the land of the dead.
The coins over the eyes were to keep the eyes of the deceased closed so the eyes wouldn't pop open and scare the mourners. One of my friends in college had a summer job with a cemetery relocation contractor. A major highway was coming through an ancient cemetery that predated the Civil War. He was part of the crew that dug up the bodies for moving. He found many coins and some jewelry which were supposed to be reburied. The coffins were mostly wood and many had long since disintegrated. If a body and coffin were long since disintegrated, they had to take a 12" cube of soil which were considered the remains of the deceased and place it in a new coffin for burial at the new cemetery as required by law.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Thanks for the brief history about the Greeks.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Drinking booze and bidding online at a coin auction can produce some interesting, speech related, ephemera the next day.
U.S. Type Set
The number of books written about coins and coin collecting by Q. David Bowers. Anyone have an exact number?
Fingerprints on coins. Does one ever stop and think, these prints that are left on these coins , especially the older ones, can actually be left by some historical people? For instance, the 1864's. Abraham Lincoln can very well be one of them?
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.The coin market is always double nuclear.
You don't have to be rich to collect. There are coins to fit almost any budget.
The earliest recorded coin collection belonged to the first emperor of Rome, Augustus Caesar. He lived from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14. That is over 2,000 years ago!
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Carson City coins were first minted on February 4th, 1870. Most if not all books say it was February 11th. If anyone is interested in my proof or the reason why the 11th was reported, message me. Most don't care but I thought it was an amazing error when I found the real date.
bob
What was the first animal to appear on a circulating US coin?
An eagle appeared on a circulating coin in 1794. The second animal featured on a circulating coin was the bison, also called a buffalo. It was on the nickel from 1913 to 1938.
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Coin collecting can be completed by falling asleep with you iPad in your hands with eBay pulled up. The act of rolling over can add to your collection.
Have you seen the new three volume book regarding the Carson City Mint and its coins that Amos Publishing just made available? If so, curious if in your opinion it is worth the approximate $300 needed to acquire it?
The chain cent was produced between my brother’s birthday and my birthday, 1793
You end up with coins you don’t want to spend!
Ads in comic books can sometimes become the catalyst to a middle schooler in chasing a unicorn.
https://i.imgur.com/YEe3cAj.jpeg (circa 1982)
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
Collectors pay many multiples of a coins assigned value to own it..... Hundreds - even thousands - of dollars for a cent... And so on... Non-coin collectors are amazed at our stupidity.
Cheers, RickO
We learn something new every day!
No, I have not seen it.
bob
The man that wrote Star Dust who even played with Bix Beiderbecke and Bubber Miley was a coin collector... And a fairly famous one at that
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
TDN paid 10M for a little thin piece of silver!
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
yolo
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/date-sets/hashtags-prefect-coin-grading-service-1879/album/7621
It lowers my blood pressure and its full of little surprises in CRH searches. Cheers.
He is reportedly still awaiting a USPS registered package of coins for his collection.
Coinlearner, Ahrensdad, Nolawyer, RG, coinlieutenant, Yorkshireman, lordmarcovan, Soldi, masscrew, JimTyler, Relaxn, jclovescoins
Now listen boy, I'm tryin' to teach you sumthin' . . . . that ain't an optical illusion, it only looks like an optical illusion.
My mind reader refuses to charge me....
yolo
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yeap ... at least I think it is Print!
OMG ... My Mother was Right about Everything!
I wake up with a Good Attitude Every Day. Then … Idiots Happen!
yolo
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/date-sets/hashtags-prefect-coin-grading-service-1879/album/7621
Pie are round, so are most coins.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
You will never get the area of a circle using that formula. Coins are admittedly round, but Pi r squared!
GSA dollars were handled with gloved hands during the sale. Fingerprints on GSA CC dollars most likely belong to people who worked at the CC mint, and were left before fingerprints were first used by law enforcement. If you collected fingerprinted GSA dollars, you might actually be able to find repeated prints, which would leave me rather impressed, actually.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Amazing how it can separate you from your money.
And yet bring you closer to it.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Old money is better than new money.
...a penny saved is at least a penny earned...
...yes, you should step over the dollar to pick up that dime...
...a W quarter is worth more then it's weight in silver...
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Rusty does know his stuff. The date of first minting was brought to his attention by my research given to Museum Director Mr. Bob Nylen.
I can provide that proof but need email addresses to do so. Send me your addy if you'd like it.
bob