LLoyd, tell us a story...

laurentyvan

You've got to have some doozies that would make us chuckle. No names, just some tales about coin experiences that you found incredibly wonderful or incredibly stupid. I sense in your posts that you are a good raconteur-I hope you don't mind my asking.

Edited to add: leave it up to me to post about the time Lloyd was going to bed-I'll ttt tomorrow AM. I want a good story, told with lots of British invective and humor.

Lloyd

You all have to register with my story web site. It's free - just the $5 Paypal registration. And the $5 monthly subscription. There's also a paypal surcharge fee. And a premium story fee...

TRUE STORY:-

East London - 2003

There's a London dealer who looks like a tramp but sells the best coins at the highest prices you could imagine. He's got three of eveything. If he makes a single sale at a coin fair he's earned a weeks wages.

But he has very few real clients. The one's he has are what bankers and financiers like to call "cash rich". You know, bookmakers etc.

One of these clients knocked his front door on a Friday morning. Now our guy hates people coming to his house without appointment but this client with the big grin has spent so much he doesn't like to say anything to him.

The client ushers him to the trunk of his car and opens it with a triumphant yell. "What do you think of THIS?"

Our dealer looks inside the trunk with horror. There's a coffee, table the surface of which is inlaid with gold 5 Guinea pieces from Charles II onwards. There must be 100 of them.

"Actually there's 121" says the client. "Each one has been fitted into it's own private groove and stuck in place somehow".

Our dealer's chest tightens, and oxygen is at a premium. "wwwhy ddo they look flat?".

The client's grin grows even further: "the guy sanded it down to give a smooth finish

"Wwwhat's that funny colour?"

"It's been varnished, and lacquered too..."

"Who could do such a thing - that's terrible...?" (major chest pains now")

The client cheerfully slaps him on the back - I know it's terrible... But it's a good talking point, eh?

Lloyd

historygeek

Do you have a picture?

SYRACUSIAN

cosmicdebris

Oh My!

Nice sig pic Dimitri.

laurentyvan

nice talking point!????

1jester

Yes, I guess a guy with everything, or even more, wouldn't mind the thought of destroying those 121 5 guinea pieces---after all, the table's merely a conversation piece anyway.

ccrdragon

Some peeps just gots too much money and time and not a @#$%^& thing to do with it.....

elverno

Some celeb wallpapered his den or his kids room with comic books that collectors would kill to get. Can't remember the guy but I do remember he actually called himself a collector! To a comic collector hearing that the first twelve issues of Spiderman in mint condition got turned into a wall decoration is about the same as that da-n table...

Not as portable though.