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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bingo.



    Hoard the keys.
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,916 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Isn't that called a

    "Grasp of the Obvious" ?

    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.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Homer Simpson moment..... :D:D:D Cheers, RickO

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,638 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 14, 2016 9:23AM

    How about we change the Hobby Protection Act to require copies be marked: "IT'S A COPY, YOU IDIOT!!!"

    :)

    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.
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Abegail looks kinda hot. :D

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 14, 2016 11:32AM

    I saw that FB page and nearly gagged. But as an investment, it's okay. Still not too keen on it as a social networking platform. Okay, off my high horse now and back to the mule. Abegail asks a good question. :joy:

  • COCollectorCOCollector Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "How do you know it's a copy?" -- Too funny!

    Successful BST transactions with forum members thebigeng, SPalladino, Zoidmeister, coin22lover, coinsarefun, jwitten, CommemKing.

  • COCollectorCOCollector Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭✭✭

    At last, a thread for my favorite Copy:

    Successful BST transactions with forum members thebigeng, SPalladino, Zoidmeister, coin22lover, coinsarefun, jwitten, CommemKing.

  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There are tale tale signs :smiley:

    Steve

    Promote the Hobby
  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It has been my experience that anything that comes in via "Text" almost never materializes into anything.

    MLAeBayNumismatics: "The greatest hobby in the world!"

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