I just wrote an "eBay guide" on a topic I know next to nothing about!
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OK, not the most informative guide, but I had fun with it.
If y'all give me plenty of "helpful" votes, I'll write some more; who knows- maybe even about topics I do know something about!
I also reworked one of my old stories about Darkside cherrypicking into a "guide". Again, not exactly "helpful", but entertaining, perhaps.
This could be fun. I encourage you brainy Darksiders to do this, too- just think of the knowledge here on this forum (seriously).
I only discovered this little new feature of eBay last week.
<-----OK, not the most informative guide, but I had fun with it.
If y'all give me plenty of "helpful" votes, I'll write some more; who knows- maybe even about topics I do know something about!
I also reworked one of my old stories about Darkside cherrypicking into a "guide". Again, not exactly "helpful", but entertaining, perhaps.
This could be fun. I encourage you brainy Darksiders to do this, too- just think of the knowledge here on this forum (seriously).
I only discovered this little new feature of eBay last week.
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Don
I love your storytelling abilities !!!
... oh, and I gave you a "Yes" vote
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Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
Keep on writing Rob !!
<< <i> I live in the South and sold coins at the redneck flea market occasionally. My chances of getting twelve hundred bucks out of this lot of coins locally, let alone selling very many of them at all, was roughly equivalent to my chances of playing tiddlywinks with my ears. >>
Great narrative Rob!
You are right about James Conder of Ipswich Suffolk being one of the first catalogers of the tokens. His first catalog being published in 1795 and a revised edition in 1798. It was the standard reference for the series until 1890.
See? I created the guide, and now I am learning!
It's a shame I don't remember the distribution of the Dutch coins. Several of the better
pieces went out in one trade for modern world coins and some were included as freebies
with lots of world coins to people who had possibly Dutch surnames. There are still a few
left.
In those days I was busily trading anything not nailed down for modern world coins. Most
people simply assumed I was nuts and wanted to capitalize on it. Most of my best trading
partners were quite sophisticated and wanted nice coins and many of these have done ex-
ceedingly well over the years. But they haven't done as well as what I was trading for. While
half of these have had no price change the other half are up from two fold to 200 fold. (only
averaging about 3 unfortunately). There's still a lot of hope for all of these since the junk
moderns were traded off as well.
The beauty of trading is that both parties can profit. Indeed, sometimes both parties can have
substantial profits. It's also a hoot. I'd get a rythym going with some where they'd send me a
box of coins and I'd switch the address labels and send it right back. Sometimes the stamps
wouldn't even be cancelled so fresh ones weren't really required.
And another guide added. (Nothing most of y'all don't already know, but something the general public might not know...)
<< <i>I always liked that story of the 1877 cent.
That's 1877 cents, plural. You should like the story- you were one of the heroes!
Man, that 1937 set was nice. Ajaan the Shroomdude has picked up some nice 1937 proof sets, but none I saw matched that set you sent me, Sam.
Sometimes I regret having sold it.
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<< <i>I always liked that story of the 1877 cent.
That's 1877 cents, plural. You should like the story- you were one of the heroes!
Man, that 1937 set was nice. Ajaan the Shroomdude has picked up some nice 1937 proof sets, but none I saw matched that set you sent me, Sam.
Sometimes I regret having sold it. >>
I often regret it. Interestingly it came in a trade with a '50 and a '53 which are
equally spectacular. They look like they were cherried out of a larger number. The
'37 didn't fit my needs. The others are in a safety deposit box.
It might have been Israeli stuff that I traded for it. Palestinian specifically. I let a
lot of this go very cheap because I believed it was greatly overpriced by Krause
and there was no market. Now it's priced at triple what it was and actually sells
at catalog!! Ya just never know and in the days BC it was hard to even have a clue.