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When you die, will you direct your executor to have coins placed on your eyelids?
RWB
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If yes, what coins would you want used? Slabbed or raw? PCGS or NCG? Would you prefer a full Viking funeral complete with flaming ship cast off into the sea and a coin-doctor dog at your feet?
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...i would think everything would depend on what kind of insurance policy was in effect at the time.
My 2004 and 2006 proof platinum $50 coins, counterstamped with my name, DOB and DOD.
Or could she send my ashes into the refinery and get a BigE coin back
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
Yes, because I want Cheron to row me quickly across the River Styxs, the river that separates the world of the living from the world of the dead.
A couple of obolus should do the trick.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
Can you imagine someone digging me up in say a thousand years?
bob
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
<< <i>I superglued a couple indian head cents to my eyelids, when I croak, I'm set! >>
Both heads up, tails up, or combo, one heads, one tails, what year? 1877?
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
<< <i>I want a lincoln penny on my belly button......... >>
We aught to be able put together a collection for you and get one of those new Shield types for you.
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<< <i>I want a lincoln penny on my belly button......... >>
We aught to be able put together a collection for you and get one of those new Shield types for you. >>
ah yes a shiny new lincoln penny on my belly button...
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
PCGS Registries
Box of 20
SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
<< <i>There were actually seated quarters used to keep Abraham Lincoln's eyes closed. Heritage had them up for auction a few years ago. >>
Link, please?
One of the other vendors, he was amazed by this and asked me to do an ambrotype (image on glass) of the guy dead in the box.
OK. Bring out my camera, get in close, and took the shot, and the guy paid me my $40 and he had his picture.
Two weeks later I ran into him setting up at another event (it was like a circuit) and we started talking about that plate. He told me it seemed a little oversize and he had a hard time getting into an old original case he had.
In the course of conversation, I told him it was amazing how clear and precise the definition on the plate was, and I told him I could even see they were washington quarters on the guys eyes.
WELL. You never seen a more troubled look come upon someone so quick! He looked green. He looked SiCk.....and found a way to end the conversation and sort of avoid me for the next few events.
I think what this guy done was to remarket that plate as an old original image of a dead soldier in his coffin.....Probably about a 2,000 dollar image to a collector.
Bet he got nailed on THAT deal!
<< <i>Several years ago I done Civil War reenactment photography.... >>
Which guy did you talk to later?
Nobody here gets out alive.
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Camelot
When you die, will you direct your executor to have coins placed on your eyelids?
No, but there is a directive to put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain.
The entertainment can never be overdressed....except in burlesque
PCGS Registries
Box of 20
SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
<< <i> Would you prefer a full Viking funeral complete with flaming ship cast off into the sea and a coin-doctor dog at your feet? >>
Hmm, Yeah... that's the ticket!
<< <i>Of course. These coins are meant to be paid to Charon as a fare for transport across the river Styx. I believe the nepenthe is included in the toll.
Nobody here gets out alive.
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Are you actually Dennis Miller?
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
<< <i>Charon will accept my two jelly donuts and like it, or else. >>
Donuts? Donuts? Donuts !!! Step to the head of the line.
<< <i>Are you actually Dennis Miller? >>
Robin Williams channeling Krishnamurti. Sometimes Baba Ram Dass channeling Ed Wynn. Or variously Shep, Moe or Curly.
What's confusing you is the nature of my game.
Wait.. Charles Bukowski channeling Rainer Maria Rilke!!!
<< <i>These coins are meant to be paid to Charon as a fare for transport across the river Styx. >>
I thought the ancients put a coin into the mouth of the deceased to pay Charon.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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<< <i>These coins are meant to be paid to Charon as a fare for transport across the river Styx. >>
I thought the ancients put a coin into the mouth of the deceased to pay Charon. >>
I looked it up and I am right. But when I looked it up I noted you are also right, so I am wrong.
When they say "you can't take it with you" I get it. I can deal with giving up my coins. But now, from what I infer from Bear's comment, I must prepare to hand over my donuts. Makes me reconsider my operative definition of Hell.
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<< <i>These coins are meant to be paid to Charon as a fare for transport across the river Styx. >>
I thought the ancients put a coin into the mouth of the deceased to pay Charon. >>
I looked it up and I am right. But when I looked it up I noted you are also right, so I am wrong.
When they say "you can't take it with you" I get it. I can deal with giving up my coins. But now, from what I infer from Bear's comment, I must prepare to hand over my donuts. Makes me reconsider my operative definition of Hell.
I'd rather have a donut put in my mouth than a coin.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
I thought that was so bizarre when I first heard it. But that is how the ancient Greeks carried their money when alive.
The Beatles song, 'Taxman', includes the lyrics:
"Declare the Pennys on Your Eyes" -
They were refering, and complaining, that the
tax rates in England were so high, that you
would probably have to declare the coins that
were placed on your eyes before you were buried !
for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne