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shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
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What are the worst ideas you can come up with for coins?

Here's mine for all of you Americans who can remember back to the 1970's:

The Buford Pusser Walking Taler
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Obscurum per obscurius

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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    [groan]




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    LloydLloyd Posts: 887 ✭
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    DarkhorseDarkhorse Posts: 1,377
    'splain this tp youngins such as i, please.
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    laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Walking Tall vs Walking Taler. image

    Michael Jackson "Year of the child" commem. coin (sorry, sorry)
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    DennisHDennisH Posts: 13,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Telemarketers.
    Cable TV coin hucksters.
    Colorized coins.
    Anyone who doctors or overgrades coins with the intent to deceive.
    When in doubt, don't.
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    newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Michael Jackson "Year of the child" commem. coin (sorry, sorry) >>



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    AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Jeffrey Dahmer FAO commemorative.
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    LloydLloyd Posts: 887 ✭
    What do Michael Jackson and Whisky have in common?

    PM for answer if you're NOT easily offended....


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    satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720
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    StorkStork Posts: 5,205 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Your secret is out.... now we know you have 7 of those Churchill lovelies!

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    satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720
    Sorry Cathy. The real secret is that I know how to steal pictures!imageimageimageimage
    Roy


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    hamiltonjhhamiltonjh Posts: 1,140
    a commem depicting finally overcoming the great gas shortage.

    ok...thats stupid...forget it. image all my feeble brain could come up with at the moment
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    A commemorative celebrating the breakdown of constitutional rights??

    Or, even better, one commemorating FDR's great gold grab of 1933??

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    cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,333 ✭
    Dead or Live Presidents on coinsimage
    Bill

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    wybritwybrit Posts: 6,953 ✭✭✭
    Euros.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
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    newbiecollectornewbiecollector Posts: 2,992


    << <i>Euros. >>

    I find that very hard to dis-agree with....... what a bland bunch they are. Just my opinion of course.
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    wybritwybrit Posts: 6,953 ✭✭✭
    Also, British decimal coinage. Yawn.
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    newbiecollectornewbiecollector Posts: 2,992


    << <i>Also, British decimal coinage. Yawn. >>

    HEY..if you are going to mint zillions and want them to last 1000's of years you use a simple design, mint them in Kriptonite........... and it works, unfortunately........image
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    AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Gee, my idea didn't even rate a single comment? Must have been too bad to comment on! imageimage
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    NJMarkNJMark Posts: 14
    Any commemerative from Liberia,Marshall Islands and so on

    Mark
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    mongoosemongoose Posts: 589 ✭✭
    Coins that commemorate the lesser known fables and folklore stories.
    Wait a minute, RCM actually did this.
    The pig that wouldn't get over the stile
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    wybritwybrit Posts: 6,953 ✭✭✭
    Coins that commemorate the lesser known fables and folklore stories.

    Now that is a POS!
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    newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Any commemerative from Liberia,Marshall Islands and so on >>



    Or Cuba or North Korea or any other country that uses coin collectors to finance genocide
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    shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    How about this-- a coin that's only slightly different from a regular circulation coin and has to be bought for $55 encased in a huge leatherette-covered album celebrating a relatively minor event?

    Oops, the RCM already beat me to it with this. image

    Gee, my idea didn't even rate a single comment? Must have been too bad to comment on!

    Gross-- but I like it. image
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    satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720


    << <i>the RCM already beat me to it with this. >>

    And they were so ashamed of themselves that they didn't even post a picture at their site.image
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    AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    The worst has to be the US "Fifty Outlines of States Quarter Program."
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    mongoosemongoose Posts: 589 ✭✭
    Gee, my idea didn't even rate a single comment? Must have been too bad to comment on!
    Askari, perhaps your idea could be used...tied into a lunar series, and made into a 10-12 coin set where Dahmer eats a different body part on each new issue.

    RCM could then issue a coin that commemorates the entire series. Then they could sell a colorized version, then a holo version.

    I suppose they could then alter the packaging slightly and sell it all over again as a seperate item.
    Oh, wait... they already do that.
    Joe
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    newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    How about an Osama bin Laden commemorative program? It's just a matter of time ...image
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    wybritwybrit Posts: 6,953 ✭✭✭
    The worst has to be the US "Fifty Outlines of States Quarter Program."

    You've got that right. There are some pathetic designs on those quarters. I can't wait to see the designs they have for Wyoming and Colorado - a couple of rectangles.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
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