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ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
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Someone help this poor soul. Oh, the humanity.

What is that thing?

Clankeye
Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I wonder what he's going to do if somebody bids on it? I notice he has only a $9.99 opening and no reserve. Looks like a modern token of some sort.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Ahh, Baron Von Clankeye. The master of the zeppelen "Coinboard."
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Hehe, I couldn't help myself.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭


    << <i>The master of the zeppelen "Coinboard." >>



    If I am the master of a Zeppelin, I wish it better luck than The Hindenburg.

    Carl
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Hey! It's not for sale, Russ. Can't you read?

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Carl, with you driving the zeppelin Coinboard, nothing can go wrong. image

    Edited to make the point of my statement clearer.
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  • DoctorOfToneDoctorOfTone Posts: 81
    I think it is one of those coins from the late 60's that Shell Oil gave out everytime you filled up!!
    The D.O.T.
  • WardhainesWardhaines Posts: 53 ✭✭
    Isn't it one of the franklin mint's president series bronze medals?
  • nuckleheadnucklehead Posts: 1,500 ✭


    << <i>I think it is one of those coins from the late 60's that Shell Oil gave out everytime you filled up!! >>

    That's exactly what it is, I have the entire set in a frame.It goes up to LBJ and that's it.The set looks cool,as if they're made of gold but of course they're not.
    Friends are Gods way of apologizing for your relatives.
  • nuckleheadnucklehead Posts: 1,500 ✭
    I believe gasoline back then was like 30 cents a gallon.image
    Friends are Gods way of apologizing for your relatives.
  • VonZipperVonZipper Posts: 707
    Funny, if the thing is not for sale why fill out the payment instructions? imageimage

    Pennies make dollars, and dollars make slabs!

    ....inflation must be kicking in again this dollar says spend by Dec. 31 2004!

    Erik
  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    Now I have seen it all.

    Brian
  • WilliamGibbsWilliamGibbs Posts: 38
    It's a medal from Shell, but from 1992, not the 1960s. The promotion, according to the back of the holder given away with the pieces, ran from May 22, 1992, through Dec. 31, 1992. I have, by sheer coincidence, a complete eight-piece set of the 1992 Shell medals on my desk at the office. A fellow staff member found them in her father's estate and gave them to me. The quality is what you would expect for this type of give away promotion (low).

    William T. Gibbs
    News Editor
    Coin World
    William T. Gibbs
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  • coinnerdcoinnerd Posts: 492 ✭✭✭
    Shell gave away aluminum game pieces. The bronze set was one of the prizes. This is one from the bronze set. Late 60's if I remember rightly.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I have a few from this series, and I think they date from the late 60s or early 70s, but I don't know exactly.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    So have any of you told this guy what it is he is selling? After all, he is desperate. I certainly agree with him that there is probably no sum in the world that would be adequate compensation for his Grandfather's Shell Oil token.

    Carl
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Clank,

    He says in the auction that he'll contact anybody who bids. I'm fervently awaiting his eMail.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Russ--
    Offer to trade him a vintage Union 76 antennae ball.

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Clank,

    Keeping mine, but I might offer him a Jack ball.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • coinnerdcoinnerd Posts: 492 ✭✭✭
    I told the poor guy that his heirloom had priceless sentimental value and virtually 0 monetary value. (Heartless I know)
  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>Hehe, I couldn't help myself. >>

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    Roy


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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Well, he eMailed me to ask why I bid on it.image Good thing it's the only thing I'm bidding on right now, since he didn't reference the auction, or the token or even put a subject line in the eMail.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    So Russ, can you let us in on your little secret?! Why exactly are you bidding on it?!image

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    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    1jester,

    I only bid to see if he was feeding us a load, or if he actually would close the auction after he found out what it was.image

    Russ, NCNE
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  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭
    looks like his counter isn't working right.
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  • coindaughtercoindaughter Posts: 662 ✭
    Wow! This guy needs to find himself a dictionary. Or more. That was a difficult read.
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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭


    << <i>looks like his counter isn't working right. >>



    Well if it is working right, I'm going to steal his auction title. The count went from 170 to 300 plus in the last 20 minutes.

    Hmmmmm, maybe I'll get me some of these Shell Oil tokens....

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • DCAMFranklinDCAMFranklin Posts: 2,862 ✭✭
    I'll bet the counter IS working correctly.

    I've said on many occasions, don't underestimate the number of lurkers out there reading this Forum!!

    A thread comes up about a coin and it not unusual to see the counter explode by 100's in the next couple of hours.

    Plenty of stuff exchanged between lurkers about what is said on this Forum. image
  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭


    << <i>I'll bet the counter IS working correctly. >>



    Go to the auction site, hit refresh 5 times and tell us what you see.
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  • ccrccr Posts: 2,446
    Huh, I have one of those things. Same as one in the " not for sale " E-Bay auction. Thomas Jefferson that is. It`s basically just cheap brass and it`s tarnished. It`s reeded in case antone is wondering. Someone gave it to my brother and he gave it to me back in 1993. I`ve always wondered what it was. Here`s a scan of mine and it isn`t for sale.

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>hit refresh 5 times and tell us what you see. >>



    Just did, and what I see is that the counter went from 345 to 350.

    Russ, NCNE



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  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭
    Russ, that shouldn't happen should it? Other counters see me once so to speak.

    I also got debugging warnings on that page.
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Well, let's all bid it up to over $1000 and keep him to his promise that it's not for sale. Then what would happen?!

    imageimageimage
    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭


    << <i>Then what would happen?! >>



    The usual shouting, tears and bitter recriminations.

    Carl
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Hey! This guy ended the auction and now I'm not going to get my cool coin!

    Russ, NCNE
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  • BNEBNE Posts: 772 ✭
    Russ wasn't about to spill the beans that this was the accented hair variety, which required the purchase of Shell "Plus."
    "The essence of sleight of hand is distraction and misdirection. If smoeone can be convinced that he has, through his own perspicacity, divined your hidden purposes, he will not look further."

    William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Too bad, Russ! Now there's no chance of turning that beautiful masterpiece into a Toned JFK!!!

    imageimageimage
    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    ttt

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