If Anaconda won the lottery, what coins would he buy?
SethChandler
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Assuming else was taken care of......houses paid off, college and retirement accounts maxed out, family taken care of, for Ms. Anaconda 1,000,000 for a shopping spree. His financial advisor says.....OK Ananconda you now have $5,000,000 to spend on coins. What would he buy? Would he build sets of a series or have a collection on monster toned coins? Or, would he buy 2 or 3 classic rarities like an 1804 Dollar or two?
I guess that he would build an awesome type set. It still gives you mobility yet the focus of having to put together a set.
Just curious...
I guess that he would build an awesome type set. It still gives you mobility yet the focus of having to put together a set.
Just curious...
Collecting since 1976.
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no offense snake man.
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<< <i>If it was a big lottery say $200 mil. then ANACONDA could buy a big chunck of PCGS and get all the upgrades!!!
I don't think it would take much to buy ALL of PCGS, let alone a big chunk.
<< <i>That big Snake! He wouldn't dare incur the wrath of the HepKitty! >>
............you tell em hep kitty, snarel. snarel........
We'll open up the question a little more to "what would he do with the money?"
The first thing i would do is buy Collector's Universe and implement Rational Grading as i have described it. I would hire an accounting
firm to make sure it graded every coin with complete anonymity and in accordance with the guidelines i've described.
Then I would hire Dave Bowers and get him a complete physical to make sure he lives and writes as long as possibe. I would give him
a staff and anything else he needs to keep writing. Next would be surreptitious acqusition of his DNA so we could clone him when
the need arose.
Next would be chasing down the MS 68 Red Wreath Cent that Jay Parrino offered for 1.5 million which he recently sold.
Next I would buy Heritage. The first thing i would do there is buy them a Dewalt grinder and put buffing wheels on it so we could start
buffing scratches out of their holders.
Next thing i would do is hire a staff of librarians to organize my library and to acquire all publications related to US coins.
Then I would buy a jet to that i could go to coin shows without hassle. I would hire Jim Halperin. He would join Stephanie as my
personal assistant. We would talk coins and topics related to futurism, and we would look at Stephanie.
Next would be the purchase of Bryan's (GSAguy) toned Morgan collection. Then the Cardinal collection of Bust Dollars. The the leading
collection of early copper. I then would hire Bryan and the owners of the Cardinal collection and the world's leading copper collection
and put them in charge of my collection.
If i think of anything else, I'll write more.
That was fun!
Just ribbing you - Law-man.
There is no way, at any cost, from what I gather, those coins will ever be sold.
Anything short of extortion would not secure those beautiful coins!
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subconscious that he no longer loved his Morgans and that he was now in love with me and that he wanted, more
than anything, for me to have his collection.
Bryan is a tad bit more sensible than that (mind you, not by much though).
I would think, better still, there must be a federal law on the books somewhere stating it is illegal for any single collector to own so many beautifully toned Morgans.
The threat of a jail sentence might get him to give up a couple.
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Great idea! And maybe show them how to handle slabs so 90% of the stacking pins aint broken!!
I know...I just ruined all your fantasies, didn't I.. Sorry...it was all in fun
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