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"Star Trek" coin
desslok
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It's a very nice looking coin, very well executed and beautiful design, but...
I cannot decide what I find stranger: A. That a place called Tuvalu would issue Star Trek coins (what do they have to do with it?), B. That anyone anywhere would issue Star Trek coins, C. That a coin exists with Queen Elizabeth on one side and Star Trek on the other, or D. That NGC would actually slab such a thing.
Has coin collecting gone the way of stamp collecting? Western marketers produce tourist items and tack on the name of some obscure island country?
https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/4508747-030/
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Tuvalu and the Perth Mint
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All the major TPG's will slab any monetized bullion coin issued by a Sovereign or private Mints...After all, they will slab ASE's
Nice coin... Trekkies will definitely want one.. Apmex has them at a reasonable price ($26.83)...not slabbed of course. Cheers, RickO
I see $36.83. I bought a few recently when prices were lower. Attractive coin with 50,000 mintage.
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it will sell well. lotta trekkies out there.
Agree...Definitely more Trekkie's than there are nickel or dime collectors
Queen Elizabeth should have had "spock ears".
Later, Paul.
It had three Canadian stamps on it, one of which had William Shatner as Captain Kirk.
Gives new meaning to the term "air mail".
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Which kinds of "coins" people choose to collect is not just a matter of degree of strangeness,
but can be further described using N-dimensional mathematics along an infinite regression continuum.
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
Crazy.
Coin collecting itself is strange when you really think about it.
Which kinds of "coins" people choose to collect is not just a matter of degree of strangeness,
but can be further described using N-dimensional mathematics along an infinite regression continuum.
Such an analysis could demonstrate that buying this Star Trek coin is, in interesting ways,
significantly LESS strange than buying an ASE graded MS69 by NGC.
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
Coin collecting itself is strange when you really think about it.
Which kinds of "coins" people choose to collect is not just a matter of degree of strangeness,
but can be further described using N-dimensional mathematics along an infinite regression continuum.
Many collectors employ a 70-dimensional continuum. Each dimension can be further split into an infinite number of sub-continuums, thus allowing such logical statements as "My MS65 is better than your MS65."
Star Trek coins are popular because Star Trek uses the word "continuum" a lot, thus validating the coin grading continuum. This is strange, since for the most part money no longer exists in the Star Trek universe. As more Trekkers become coin collectors, this may change.
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Still available direct from the Perth Mint. But it's cheaper from Apmex, JMBullion, maybe others too.
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But this "gold-pressed latinum slip" doesn't remotely resemble any coin I've ever seen.
And yet, NGC and PCGS are grading & slabbing 'em, like this: NGC verification
They're on ebay right now.
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But this "gold-pressed latinum slip" doesn't remotely resemble any coin I've ever seen.
Dozens of them cross the tables every night at Quark's Bar.
My Adolph A. Weinman signature
Coin collecting itself is strange when you really think about it.
Which kinds of "coins" people choose to collect is not just a matter of degree of strangeness,
but can be further described using N-dimensional mathematics along an infinite regression continuum.
Many collectors employ a 70-dimensional continuum. Each dimension can be further split into an infinite number of sub-continuums, thus allowing such logical statements as "My MS65 is better than your MS65."
No doubt about it, well articulated. The next warp event in numismatic grading, attribution, and appraisal (which is what the grade is suppposed to approximate, after all) may well be a 100-point scale, which moves as a log function, with numbers higher than 70 reflecting a geometric multiplier of the details or MS grade, to capture and "document" a level of premium, as determined by third-party experts, for extraordinary toning, extreme variety rarity, famous ownership pedigree or historical provenance, amazing minting errors, etc.
Good thing Sheldon left room for this development.
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
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The next warp event in numismatic grading, attribution, and appraisal (which is what the grade is suppposed to approximate, after all) may well be a 100-point scale, which moves as a log function, with numbers higher than 70 reflecting a geometric multiplier of the details or MS grade, to capture and "document" a level of premium, as determined by third-party experts, for extraordinary toning, extreme variety rarity, famous ownership pedigree or historical provenance, amazing minting errors, etc.
Each slab should also contain an embedded microchip that enables the grade on the label to be changed if the grading factors do. Take the "famous owner pedigree", for example. I expect each of my coins to grade at least three points higher once I become famous.
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Definitely more popular and a better design than the Canadian $5 Superman coins. Both contain 1 oz of Silver. BTW the 2015 Star Trek coin issued by the Pert Mint are selling for double the issue price....Tuvalu
All the major TPG's will slab any monetized bullion coin issued by a Sovereign or private Mints...After all, they will slab ASE's
Not a US coin of course, but as long as it's being discussed, a buddy told me to buy the first gold Canadian Superman issue. I thought it was way overpriced from the RCM. Boy was passing on that a mistake!
Later, Paul.
it will sell well. lotta trekkies out there.
Agree...Definitely more Trekkie's than there are nickel or dime collectors
no, theres nothing wrong with that either. just saying
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