Uh-oh - Where am I going to find over $100K?
Blade
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I received the David Lawrence catalog today for the Richmond Collection Part 1 - US Gold auction coming up in late July. My 2 1/2 yr old daughter was watching me flip through the catalog. She has a few of her own coins and amuses me by taking an interest in shiny coins.
One page caught her eye and she got really excited and asked me to get her a coin. It has a really pretty girl on the front. And a big star on the back. All she could say was "Ooohhh - I like the Star coin!!!!"
Now where am I gonna get the cash for a PR66 Ultra Cam Stella?
One page caught her eye and she got really excited and asked me to get her a coin. It has a really pretty girl on the front. And a big star on the back. All she could say was "Ooohhh - I like the Star coin!!!!"
Now where am I gonna get the cash for a PR66 Ultra Cam Stella?
Tom
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Current focus 1855 date type set
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Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !
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I fear the interest on that loan might take a bite out of that profit!
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2) You could make a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Lourdes, and to the place where the three shepherds saw Nossa Senhora de Fátima in the hopes of receiving the $
3) You could pray a lot to St. Jude
4) You could re-finance your house.
Or, like most of us, you can admit that you're S.O.L.
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
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Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
Simple!
Send your daughter over to Grandma and Grandpa and she can simply repeat her request!
<< <i>I like the Texas state quarter idea - I can afford one of those, can even upgrade to PR69 DCAM. >>
Maybe you can buy her a replica of a Stella?
If she can tell the difference, then send her to coin show where she can rip enough coins to make the 100k herself
She sometimes looks over my shoulder as I type messages here, but rather than being interested in the pictures of coins, she zeros in on the picture in my icon. ("That's YOU, Daddy!") She also likes some of the pictures of cats and dogs that people have in their icons and sig lines. ("Look, Daddy! ARF-ARF!")
I'm getting off rather cheaply, as hers is a Darkside collection. Her name is Victoria Hope Shinnick and she was born in 2001. Shortly after she was born, I realized that Queen Victoria had died in 1901, ending the Victorian era. So the "New Victorian Era" began on September 21st of 2001, a century after the old Victorian era had ended. The beginning of the New Victorian Era added a little bit of brightness in the world, to make up for the dark event that had occurred ten days previously (which also made her middle name all the more appropriate).
So it kinda "clicked"- I have begun a 1901 Victorian type set for her. All the coins of the British Empire that were struck that year with the old Victoria's portrait. I also got her a 2001 British 5-pound piece that the Royal Mint struck that year, commemorating Victoria.
The set idea worked out nicely, too- it'll be a challenge, but not too hard, and there are some slightly more expensive coins to get, but overall they should all be do-able in time. Some of the coins I need do not cost very much but are hard to find. I'll have the fun of collecting it and she'll have something to keep or sell as she wishes, when she's grown up and settled down, by which time I'll be a crusty old man.
I'll probably be skipping the 1901 Australian half-sovereigns, which were struck at two different mints in proof only, and which currently go for something like $7-8K each. I will be getting the three 1901 Australian sovereigns, as well as the homeland British sovereign and half-sovereign, though.
This one's worth waaaay more than a PR66 UCAM Stella
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Edited to add that Victoria is a delightful looking young lady!
Now she does look just like her mother!