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A Numismatic Nightmare

RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
Well, it all started when I ordered and received a box of coins and related items from forum member, Pistareen (John Kraljevich). The headliner item that I requested was a proof Saint in its original cellophane wrapper from the Mint, something that I never thought to exist as such. He said that he would send me some other items that might interest me, as he often does, and when the box came, I emptied (or dumped) the contents on my kitchen table.

Mostly, I was interested in the proof Saint in the cellophane wrapper when my wife came in and informed that I had received another box of coins. Whoa! I had forgotten that I ordered another proof gold coin, a raw 1906 proof half eagle, with unusual color, also from a forum member, newmismatist, with whom I had little contact recently but had developed a relationsip with earlier.

Well, I was studying both coins rather intently, realizing that I could only keep one, knowing exactly how much money is currently in my checking account. The proof Saint was difficult to view, as the cellophane had become somewhat opaque over the years. It was challenging to determine if this coin was truly a proof. On the other hand, the 1906 proof $5 was most definitely a proof but had strange but attractive color which I could not tell for sure was original (but probably not).

Anyways, all of this made me hungry, and I grabbed an apple from the kitchen table and took a few bites. The apple was somewhat tasteless...

Getting back to the coins, I decided that I wanted to keep the Saint and was interested in knowing the invoice price. I reached for the invoice, and lo and behold, learned that there were two apples on the JKAN invoice, each over $5000, and after some diagnostics, I had just bitten into a preserved apple from a Johnny Appleseed lineage tree on George Washington property, valued at $5850. Now, it would appear, I would have to buy the half-eaten collectible apple and pass on the coins. What a shame!

And then, the alarm clock sounded, and it was time for me to wake up on Monday, October 29, at 5:30 AM.

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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,022 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You are kidding.
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭
    At least the box arrived to you in good order.
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hmm....I'd stick to snappy one-liners and snarky retorts.

    Or perhaps you could do a sequel to Bear's beloved Camelot, introducing the Dreck Dragon.
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You are kidding. >>


    I am completely serious. I dreamt that last night.
  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,319 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RYK, I have officially moved you one notch higher on the "twisted list of forum members"

    You moved from "almost, but not quite normal" to "slightly twisted, especially under duress".

    This places you just higher than a large number of forum members and just below allegri. He is "moderately twisted". Don't worry, you are well below Anaconda, near the top of the list, under "irrevocably twisted and in more than one way".

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,274 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You need to stop wearing your CRO hat to bed.
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭
    ...let me see now, you're saying you dreamt that you ate a golden apple image














































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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What I thought was interesting was the usual interplay, in dreams, of what is fact or real (my checking account balance and fruit on our kitchen table), recent thoughts (I recently saw a proof half eagle that I thought was reasonably priced), people from your life (my wife, JK, and Ron), and the absurd (a proof Saint in a cellophane wrapper, cut apart from the rest of the coins in the set AND, of course, the pedigreed apples).
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Were the proof Saints shipped in cellophane? I always thought they were wrapped in tissue paper when they were shipped by the mint.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,656 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What I thought was interesting was the usual interplay, in dreams, of what is fact or real (my checking account balance and fruit on our kitchen table), recent thoughts (I recently saw a proof half eagle that I thought was reasonably priced), people from your life (my wife, JK, and Ron), and the absurd (a proof Saint in a cellophane wrapper, cut apart from the rest of the coins in the set AND, of course, the pedigreed apples). >>




    combine it with a seinfeld episode and replace it with one from the local store. it's ok, it's all fantasy.
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  • jayPemjayPem Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've only had a couple of brief periods where I began having coin dreams...I consider the fact that I was dreaming about coins at all a bit of a nightmare in itself image
  • RB1026RB1026 Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like a possible gas leak in your home...... image

    That is hilarious. I've had many "unusual" dreams in my day as well, which mimic reality and employ various factual aspects mixed with bizarre fantasy. What makes the dream really interesting to me is that pretty much all of it could have happened. Very funny stuff!

  • mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yours are better than mine, and I wish I had THOSE kind more.

    My last "good" one, I dreamed the positions to my right were taking 122 mm artillery fire, and then it shift to our area. I dove in a slit trench. I remember the trench was deeper than expected. I woke up when I hit the floor, and we have hardwood floors. I had bruises up and down my right side, and I am just glad I did not land on my face. My wife said I yelled out, stood up in bed, and dove off the side before she could grab me.

    In 30+ years of marriage, she had gotten used to the "flahback events", and normally can just grab hold of me and yell in my ear until I wake up. image
  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
    I love it! Almost anyone who's been around coins long enough has had similar dreams ---
    well, maybe "similar" is too strong a word, in this case, what with the historic apple and
    all. Most of my coin-related dreams involve finding a hoard or collection in some unlikely
    place, and the joy and fun of searching through it.



  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How much do you want for the movie rights? And who do you think should be cast to play the RYK role? Movie title?
    Or do we have to wait for the next dream to find out? image
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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,644 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RYK has apparently discovered a drug that only takes effect when one is sleeping.
  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What I thought was interesting was the usual interplay, in dreams, of what is fact or real (my checking account balance and fruit on our kitchen table), recent thoughts (I recently saw a proof half eagle that I thought was reasonably priced), people from your life (my wife, JK, and Ron), and the absurd (a proof Saint in a cellophane wrapper, cut apart from the rest of the coins in the set AND, of course, the pedigreed apples). >>



    Exquisite! The birth of cubism in numismatics. Very surreal and yet more vivid than I imagined from RYK.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mebbe the dream is trying to tell you to plant more numismatic seed?

    image (hey, if this thing don't get out more often it might drown or smoething)
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was sortta concerned by the part where you dumped the box out on the table to see what was inside. Usually, normally, perhaps, a person might take a cello-wrapped mint proof Saint out of the box CAREFULLY..... n'est-ce pas?

    Then, at the end of the story I became much more concerned........
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can see that, I had a similar dream in that it involved gold coinage about
    a year ago, I was like a drifter dude and I was doing some odd jobs for a
    HOT redhead at her ranch and she would pay me in BU 1911D half eagles
    from a little change purse she had that was full of them, but her apples had
    freckles on themimage

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  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I started to think this was fishy when you got a Federal coin from Pistareen and a Proof gold from Newmismatist. Now it you got a Comitia Americana medal and a box of Conder tokens, I would have been sitting on edge waiting for the outcome. Maybe if the apples came from John McIntosh......


    Added - Newmismatist has been known to have Proof gold, but not in the last 20 years.
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  • aclocoacloco Posts: 952 ✭✭✭


    << <i>RYK, I have officially moved you one notch higher on the "twisted list of forum members"

    You moved from "almost, but not quite normal" to "slightly twisted, especially under duress".

    This places you just higher than a large number of forum members and just below allegri. He is "moderately twisted". Don't worry, you are well below Anaconda, near the top of the list, under "irrevocably twisted and in more than one way". >>




    Ditto.
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  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
    Wow, RYK, Freud would have had a field day with that one.
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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    I have some heirloom tomatoes I'll sell you for only $4000.
  • With the competing coin packages, both rather tantalizing, you should be thankful you didn't have a numismatic wet dream!image
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like dreams , but if I had to interpret it, I would only guess it wasn't a tasteless apple, rather a raw potato.
  • Interesting to say the least, by comparison it makes my “numismatic nightmares” of getting unwarranted low DSR and negative feedback quite underwhelming....
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  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Time to lay off those late night snacks. image
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