Hey! Where did Russ's thread go!

Shamika

Russ just put up a thread asking where Airplanenut's thread disappeared to regarding his visit to the Smithsonian and now his is missing.

CoinAddict

You had better watch out. Your's is liable to be next.

cosmicdebris

ziggy29

Interestingly, it looks like he posted the same thread on the board "across the street," and reported later (in an edit) that he had to remove that one, too.

What's the deal? I didn't see it.

Russ

I just got off the phone with David Hall. I can't reveal specifics, so don't even ask, but I can say that the removal of Jeremy's thread was necessary and the right thing to do. It was not David or PCGS being heavy handed.

Russ, NCNE

XpipedreamR

Catch22

Let me guess, PCGS will be slabbing the coins and doesn't want a bunch of griping about having been cleaned to get the gunk off of them.

JrGMan2004

Louis

Big brother ?

earlwbollinger

That reminds me.
A while back I tried to post a photo to the public binaries newsgroup and it kept going poof after a few seconds of visibility.
I finally figured out that the jpeg image cannot be all numbers for the filename (eg "1865.jpg", "1680.jpg"), adding some letters to the filename solved the problem eg ("Spain1680.jpg").

dorkkarl

what, you got a little red phone beside your computer that's a direct line to the hallowed halls of hall?

K S

Myqqy

Wow, this is getting interesting. I'm also impressed that Russ has a private line to HRH!!

Tootawl

Do you Airplanenut was making this up? He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would make this kind of stuff up.

LAWMAN

I just got off the phone with God and he said it was all a big joke. We are supposed to be happy and not aggravate ourselves and others. People, it is just an internet forum.

jhar

billboat

Could it have been the description of Smithsonian Staff handling of coins? I read the post and that's all I can think of--hope this thread isn't next.

mgoodm3

<< <i>Could it have been the description of Smithsonian Staff handling of coins? I read the post and that's all I can think of--hope this thread isn't next. >>



I was wondering the same thing.

ksteelheader

Probably has something to do with those people not supposed to be in the place they were in!

billboat

AHA! The Coin Vault perhaps? Seriously, the deleted post thread on the NGC board may hold the answer--original post was deleted by Airplanenut--but not the replies.

FC57Coins

I think this whole thing stinks of Haliburton - did you know that Dick Chenney was CEO of Haliburton????

Bear

If Russ says that there was a good reason, I will take Russ's word for that.

Just glad I got to read the excellent thread before it was removed.

Myqqy

I think this whole thing stinks of Haliburton - did you know that Dick Chenney was CEO of Haliburton????

Uh-oh......

FC57Coins

<< <i>If Russ says that there was a good reason, I will take Russ's word for that. >>




Yes - we should always respect our elders - even if they're Republican lying sacks....

dorkkarl

i on the other hand, am glad i missed it. otherwise, i'd really be pizzed!

K S

Shamika

Can somebody PM me about what's REALLY going on here?

XpipedreamR

<< <i>Can somebody PM me about what's REALLY going on here? >>





Yeah, I'll take one, too, please!

dimples

Jeremy was probably commissioned to write a feature story on his adventure & had to delete any previous story written. Whad do ya think eh?

CoinAddict

Hopefully that is what it was, Dan. I hope that he still shares the pics with us.

MrEureka

Russ is correct.

Rampage

I read Jeremy's post early this morning. It was very interesting read. Sorry to see it got removed.

I will say, however, that last month, I went to the Smithsonian to see the coin exhibit before it went away for the rest of my life. It was very nice, however, I think they could have done a little bit better on the lighting.

I loved seeing the 2 1933 Double Eagles and the 1804 dollars! They were just fantastic!

Manorcourtman

What a great story!! I am so glad I read it!! Sorry if you missed it people. It involves many very rare US coins.

maddogale

Perhaps the big hoo-hoo is over security with the recent release of "intents" of the Al-Raghead network on a possible strike at US financial institutions/icons. what better way than to steal/destroy national coin treasures of the US?.... Still kind of dumb to remove a innocent post IMHO....

MrEureka

I went to the Smithsonian to see the coin exhibit before it went away for the rest of my life.

Rampage - With any luck (for all of us, but especially for you) time will prove you wrong.

ziggy29

<< <i>Rampage - With any luck (for all of us, but especially for you) time will prove you wrong. >>

AMEN to that.

I saw it once, probably about eight years ago. I lived in California all my life, and my wife's family was from southeast PA. Once when we were visiting them, we decided to spend two days in DC. I absolutely HAD to see that collection. My goodness, for any coin collector who knows they'll never be the next Eliasberg, it was positively jaw-dropping. Seeing those 1804 dollars, the 1933 Saint, all those wonderfully preserved rare coins in one place...talk about dying and going to heaven. My wife, bless her soul, was walking around with an occasional "wow" and "these are pretty," but that's about it.

I'm really dismayed that they've dismantled it, but I'm *extremely* grateful that I at least got to see it all once before I die. I just hope those who haven't yet seen it will someday be able to say the same.