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Well I just officially pulled a FredWeinberg! :D

BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
I was wiping off a heavily scuffed slab I had to photograph through oil...

Looking on my desk to find it I tossed the slab worth $1K in the trash can and set the napkin meant to go in the can on my desk imageimage
To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,622 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Always use a metal trash can. The "CLANG!" can tell you you just did something stupid!
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • Sorry Broadstruck, if you realized your mistake and found the coin; that's not a "FredWeinberg." image
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Sorry Broadstruck, if you realized your mistake and found the coin; that's not a "FredWeinberg." image >>



    image

    OK how about an almost FredWeinberg imageimage
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Definitely a 'heart' test moment....image Cheers, RickO
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,911 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, I wish what you did (fumble & recovery)
    Was a "FW"

    If it was, I'd have a Stella in my office, or more
    Probably, at least an invoice showing a sale for it!
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well I was doing 3 things at once which now confirms women can multitask much far better...

    They can fry out pork chops, talk on the phone, smoke a cigarette, & breastfeed a newborn all at once imageimage
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • image I had to look up the spelling of multitask. For a second there, it looked like a Freudian Typo! image

    And please don't tell my husband I was smoking around the baby...
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nobody pulls a Fred Weinberg. Nice try , though. Now if you said you pulled a BNB or his three legged buffalo… I might agree image

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,052 ✭✭✭✭✭
    that will bring up the blood pressure a few points. glad ya found it early enough image
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't feel bad. I hear those things happen when you hit 80. imageimage

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    feeling all fluffy with a peaches n herbs song playing
    while thinking of breastfeeding moms smoking ciggy's while frying you up some pork chops

    is most likely what did ya in image
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    " smoke a cigarette, & breastfeed a newborn all at once"

    Yikes!
    image
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,622 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Well I was doing 3 things at once which now confirms women can multitask much far better...

    They can fry out pork chops, talk on the phone, smoke a cigarette, & breastfeed a newborn all at once imageimage >>



    How 'bout smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo?

    image
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Recall touring the National Bank of Detroit headquarters in the 1960's.

    Guide walked us through a massive room containing a large number of numbered boxes. It was explained that all office garbage was stored for 6 months before disposal. Probably saved a few careers.

    Hope that no one threw out a half eaten liverwurst sandwich though.
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can you write that off on taxes ?

    Steve
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,703 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just be sure you don't dip your coins in your sarsaparilla and drink your dip.
    Tempus fugit.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Just be sure you don't dip your coins in your sarsaparilla and drink your dip. >>



    ....or Ginger Ale.



    """"It all happened on June 24, 1922. World-renowned numismatist J. Sanford Saltus was discovered in his room at London's Hotel Metropole, lying on the floor, fully dressed. He was dead at age 69, but not from natural causes.

    A coroner's jury labeled Saltus's passing as "death by misadventure," according to an account in the August 1922 issue of the American Numismatic Association's publication, The Numismatist.

    The day prior to his death, Saltus purchased a small quantity of potassium cyanide for use in cleaning silver coins he had just purchased. The Numismatist noted, "Potassium cyanide, although one of the most deadly poisons, is frequently used by collectors in cleaning coins..."

    Unfortunately, at some point after Saltus retired to his room, on the 24th, he ordered a bottle of ginger ale. "A glass containing the poison and another glass containing ginger ale were found side by side on the dressing table," The Numismatist reported, "and it is believed that while interested in cleaning the coins he took a drink of the poison in mistake for the ginger ale." Ouch!"""

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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Mr. Weinberg would appreciate it if you didn't pull on him image
  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,048 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Well I was doing 3 things at once which now confirms women can multitask much far better...

    They can fry out pork chops, talk on the phone, smoke a cigarette, & breastfeed a newborn all at once imageimage >>



    How 'bout smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo?

    image >>



    Well don't tell me.
  • coinguy1989coinguy1989 Posts: 1,056 ✭✭
    What is the story surrounding Mr. Weinberg?
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fred misplaced a 4 dollar Gold Stella, not that's its lost, it maybe in a northern San Fernando Valley or the Simi Valley Landfill

    Steve
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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Fred misplaced a 4 dollar Gold Stella, not that's its lost, it maybe in a northern San Fernando Valley or the Simi Valley Landfill

    Steve >>




    Spending eternity nestled between an expended can of Cheez-wiz and a Ritz cracker recipe for mock apple pie.
  • winkywinky Posts: 1,671
    Are you a senior citizen? image
  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Well I was doing 3 things at once which now confirms women can multitask much far better...

    They can fry out pork chops, talk on the phone, smoke a cigarette, & breastfeed a newborn all at once imageimage >>



    How 'bout smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo?

    image >>





    Only us oldies will Prolly remember that one!

    My GF used to shift gears, drink coffee, & talk to me on the phone every morning on her way to work.
    Fearing for her safety I eventually bought her a car with auto trans . . .

    HH
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!

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