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percybpercyb Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭✭
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I noticed uranium now trades on a commodity exchange for 78 --whatever that means.
Is Uranium a hard metal that could be used to mint coin or what?
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Uranium coins carried in your back pockets would cause serious health effects on more then just Uranus! imageimage

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  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    you can't lose them either...they glow in the dark!

    you will too after a while...

    never mind those bleeding sores...you not need to worry about them....for long!image
  • DJCoinzDJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭
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  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,093 ✭✭✭
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Philadelphia Mint Employees - Uranium Division image

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  • tombrtombr Posts: 863 ✭✭
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    I hereby appoint Broadstruck the official cartoonist of the CU threadsimage
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,028 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you hold on to uranium coins long enough you'll get lead poisoning.

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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,832 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What would you make the die from? Spent Uranium Shells goes through tanks.....theyre pretty hard.
  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image

    I hereby appoint Broadstruck the official cartoonist of the CU threadsimage >>


    i second the motion.
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Guess a Uranium Coin PCGS Set Registry wouldn't be very competitive? image

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  • ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    Damn broadstruck, that is the nastiest thing I have seen in awhile.
  • DJCoinzDJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭
    Damn Broadstruck, that is NASTY! image



    << <i>image

    I hereby appoint Broadstruck the official cartoonist of the CU threadsimage >>

    That's what he's been ever since he started posting. image
    aka Dan
  • ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    I mean thats really scary. I dont know about any of you, but I would not like to take a uranium bath! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
  • habaracahabaraca Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭✭✭
    well take away your official cartoonist Title
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,093 ✭✭✭
    What did you do, Google image search "nastiest thing ever" and post the results?

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  • VintageJeffVintageJeff Posts: 1,282 ✭
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  • ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    Now thats some nasty stuff!
  • VintageJeffVintageJeff Posts: 1,282 ✭
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    1967 Topps PSA 8+
    1960's Topps run Mega Set image
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What did you do, Google image search "nastiest thing ever" and post the results?

    Well when I tried that here's the nastiest thing ever that popped up...image

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    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • Mar327Mar327 Posts: 2,074
    GEEEEEEEEEEZ Rosey AND Hillary... I just bought these glasses and really thought they were crack-resistant. They shattered all over the keyboard. image

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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,028 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for the edit Broadstruck.
    That was indeed gross. image

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  • VintageJeffVintageJeff Posts: 1,282 ✭


    << <i>GEEEEEEEEEEZ Rosey AND Hillary... I just bought these glasses and really thought they were crack-resistant. They shattered all over the keyboard. image >>



    Can I go for the trifecta?

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    1960's Topps run Mega Set image
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  • Mar327Mar327 Posts: 2,074
    If you go to "Coins and Money" in eBay and do a search for Ugly - you get 22 listings in auctions and 21 in Stores. Guess there are honest sellers out there! Here's one of 'em:

    Ugly Money

    Couldn't find any uranium coins, but there are stock certificates in the category...
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  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    Too bad! We need massive new supplies of uranium. This is needed to fuel all the new nuke power plants we desperately need and China is currently building. I'd buy uranium coins except I wouldn't want to make a pocket piece out of one! image
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Best to wait till someone invents a loupe with a built-in geiger counter! image
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    Natural uranium, largely devoid of radioactive isotopes (which is why refinement is an expensive enterprise), poses no radiological hazard. Uranium toxicity is largely due to the fact that it is a heavy metal, among a large class which are not popularly thought of in terms of glowing monsters of science fiction. Its bulk modulus is nearly the same as silver's, indicating it certainly is coinable. (Melting point is less than 15% higher too at STP. Not sure at what pressure it melts at room temperature though.) In a slab, it should be handlable without consequence. However, it is as impractical as lead for commerce coins to be handled raw.

    edited to add>> It also tones an ugly black.
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  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    coxe ..are you TRYING to ruin our fun?


















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  • JcarneyJcarney Posts: 3,154 ✭


    << <i>What would you make the die from? Spent Uranium Shells goes through tanks.....theyre pretty hard. >>



    That's not a function of hardness, it's a function of density. Think lead. Lead goes through steel too, but isn't as hard as steel, just much more dense.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never seen a coin as ugly as a few of these photo's posted in this thread.. yikes.. Cheers, RickO
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,351 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image >>



    Isn't this a pic of Rosie interviewing for an intern possition with Bill Clinton?



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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    OK. Want some ugly?

    I once, curiously, went surfing to see if there were indeed more than one way to skin a cat. Well, I found a vetrinary medical page devoted to the proper way to skin a cat. Here is a sample.

    (pic removed by popular demand)

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Spent Uranium Shells goes through tanks.....theyre pretty hard.

    Guess if you dropped a Uranium Coin off the Empire State Building it would fully penetrate the sidewalk? image
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That skinned cat pic is pretty gross! imageimage
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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,983 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Damn. I just lost breakfast.

    (It wasn't the cat. It was Hillary.)
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  • Mar327Mar327 Posts: 2,074
    Dang - that cat picture just wasn't necessary. We already had Rosie's picture up twice. I lost my breakfast just seeing her again.

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  • ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    Thats was just wrong. That cat had me gagging. Dude! wtk!image
  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
    You always know there is going to be interesting content when something like "Uranium Coins?" hits page two..... Funny pics everyone!
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,983 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Broadstruck, did one of your guys drop this?

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    I knew it would happen.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jmski52, that's the Nastiest Jeff I ever saw... looks like Moldy PVCheese! image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    1: That Jefferson is really crappy. Looks like it sat in a toliet and then someone tried using comet.


    2: Sloth like BabyRuth?
  • halfnuthalfnut Posts: 1,619
    As a Nuclear worker that works next to reactor's with the head removed you guys are scaring me, I don't glow ----- YET




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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    I am sure, Dan, that adequate safety protocols are in place to make sure you are not in danger. Are you to wear a dosimeter badge while on the premises?
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    Yoda looks surprisingly a lot like that skinned cat I took down as I feared it was a thread killer. Funny.
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  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yoda looks surprisingly a lot like that skinned cat I took down as I feared it was a thread killer. Funny. >>



    I had a cat named "Thread" once... image
  • ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    I cant believe this thread is not poofed yet. That yoda is fing great! Stoned yoda using the force to eat a twinke.
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭


    << <i>I cant believe this thread is not poofed yet. That yoda is fing great! Stoned yoda using the force to eat a twinke. >>



    Here's another yoda stoned using the force to justify something or another at a press conference.

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