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Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭✭✭
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If the North Koreans took over, and you were forced to give up one, which would it be?

I'm enjoying an ice cold IPA while I admire my latest dirty old gold acquisition (Great Collections). It's a tough call for sure!


Have a nice day!

Dave

Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
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    DCWDCW Posts: 6,978 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I really like the looks of that!

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    Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The beer?

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
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    carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is the reverse equally nice?

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    ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Depends on the beer! Are we talking bud light and miller lite or are we talking about New England Brewery co and Treehouse? Oh and nice coin ! ;)

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    1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,414 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2017 3:57PM

    Nice chunk of gold. If the north took over you most likely wouldn't have a choice of gold.

    I'm guessing this was someone's pocket piece, or were these pieces regularly heavily circulated?

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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A no brainer for me......I can't stand the taste of beer.

    And it what world would N. Korea be in charge of any thing! :s

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    FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2017 4:05PM

    Both no matter what. Beer might be tops. 56 years drinking beer. 27 years getting coins. Beer Wins.

    By the way I drink PO1 Beer.

    Ken

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    Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reverse:

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
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    ldhairldhair Posts: 7,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll go with vodka.

    Larry

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    chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭

    I dont drink or collect gold...so it is the rice paddys for me

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    FHCFHC Posts: 323 ✭✭✭

    Nice looking circulated gold!!

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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,760 ✭✭✭✭

    I don't drink either. Maybe I'd start.

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    Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,153 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Keep beer, give up coins....but I'd probably also have my collection of aged, dark rum stashed away too.

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    CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No brainer.

    I have made beer for years - tasty.......

    I cannot make US gold coins without landing in the clink......

    So I will give up beer and make wine instead.

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    JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,822 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll go with the coin!

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    RB1026RB1026 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭✭

    Considering my devotion to each, this is like trying to pick one of my kids over the other. I suppose I'd have to give up beer. Otherwise, after a few frosty cold ones I'd likely just cave in and buy a coin and be right back where I started anyway ;)

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2017 5:44PM

    Free Masons had it right!

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    thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,758 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great Saint !
    Not sure I could do without beer. If I had to try, I'm taking Kim Jong down with me......

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    WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 8,976 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't miss the headaches, heartburn, dehydration, insomnia, sluggishness, weight gain, shortness of breath and nervousness associated with overindulgence in beer. I'll keep the coins....

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    AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    With gold like that, I'd give up beer instantly.

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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 19,706 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MrHalfDime said:
    A tough choice, to be sure. It is somewhat reminiscent of a similar choice I was given 35 years ago, when my wife told me that I had to choose - it was either the coin collection or her. I sure do miss her at times. :)

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    mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I really enjoy beer.....dark, dark beer. No IPAs. Yuck.
    But I dearly love coins.
    Tough call.
    Now if the choice was between coins and wine, easy choice.
    Coins.
    I despise wine--every kind I have tried. That is some horrid stuff.
    I don't see how people can drink it.

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 11,916 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2017 9:54PM

    Easy choice...I don't care for beer...not even free beer. The ONE time I forced down enough beer to be come intoxicated...I wound up talking to cats.

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    1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did the cats have anything interesting to say ? :smile:

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wine and coins.... Nothing like a really good Cabernet Sauvignon.... and gold, lots of gold. :)<3 Cheers, RickO

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    Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How about a little of both with a hundred year old Beer Token?

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    BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    While the "right" coin is a pleasure to behold and to possess, overall I believe that I have had fewer disappointments from Beer than from Coins.

    Right now, make mine a Sierra Nevada Torpedo.

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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 43,858 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That got spent a couple times. I got spent a few times, myself.

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    coinpro76coinpro76 Posts: 366 ✭✭✭

    Gentleman, keep your coins. As in all times of prohibition the craftsmen come out of the woodwork to protest.
    I just capped and bottled 5 Gallons of Ale on Sunday and will gladly show you how you can do the same if the time comes.

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    shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am not a gold person at all, but I have never seen a $20 in G4...that is cool!

    I'd give up beer, my son makes some really nice mead.

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    BaleyBaley Posts: 22,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll give up both coins and beer as long as I can keep my Kentucky Bourbon and Caribbean Rum

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    epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭
    edited August 30, 2017 11:35AM

    Beer will get me through times of no coins better than coins will get me through times of no beer.

    Freak Bros. take.

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    david3142david3142 Posts: 3,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No one has commented that someone bothered to send that coin to CAC?!

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,487 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 30, 2017 1:28PM

    Since I almost never drink beer, the choice would easy, but if I had to give up wine, good bourbon or good Scotch, that would be a different story.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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    CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I learned to like beer back in the '70's when I could make a 12 ounce bottle for 7 cents. And it was "less filling" as the alcohol content was about 8%.

    All natural and never got a hangover.

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    BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 30, 2017 4:46PM

    When I was in college in the late 1970s, "Rhinelander" beer (Joseph Huber Brewing Co.) was maybe $3.49 a case. It was good enough. Granted it was only 5% ABV, and granted you could get a stunning 1904 or 1928 Twenty Dollar gold for $245 - $275. A case of 'Old Style' was maybe a dollar more, a case of 'Blatz' was about the same price as Rhinelander. Beer was our tipple.

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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,935 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Both. Or as close as you can get. 18th century sterling mugs, filled with beer:

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    LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,317 ✭✭✭✭✭


    I just can't decide :D

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    TheRegulatorTheRegulator Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭

    Beer sucks, so easy choice. :)

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    SimpleCollectorSimpleCollector Posts: 536 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShadyDave said:
    Depends on the beer! Are we talking bud light and miller lite or are we talking about New England Brewery co and Treehouse? Oh and nice coin ! ;)

    +1, not giving up the good beer

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    SimpleCollectorSimpleCollector Posts: 536 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShadyDave said:
    Depends on the beer! Are we talking bud light and miller lite or are we talking about New England Brewery co and Treehouse? Oh and nice coin ! ;)

    +1, not giving up the good beer

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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,218 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never drank a beer in my life.

    I like that well-worn Saint!


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    BullsitterBullsitter Posts: 5,342 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Coins............no beer for me.

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    MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭

    I don't mean to hijack the OP's thread with endless discussions of favorite beers and other libations, but I could no longer resist commenting on two earlier posts. To mannie.gray and others, who expressed a fondness for "dark, dark beers", I would highly recommend Belhaven Scottish Ale https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/148/1163/, perhaps the most enjoyable beer that I have sampled in a long time. And to Bill Jones, who stated his preferences, I would point out that the term "good Scotch" is redundant ;) .

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    BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,413 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have NEVER seen a Saint like that. It proves that gold did circulate...........well, some of it did.

    Pete

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    BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BuffaloIronTail said:
    I have NEVER seen a Saint like that. It proves that gold did circulate...........well, some of it did.

    Pete

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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerfan said:
    Don't miss the headaches, heartburn, dehydration, insomnia, sluggishness, weight gain, shortness of breath and nervousness associated with overindulgence in beer. I'll keep the coins....

    Perhaps not coincidentally, I have found that overindulgence in coins can result in very similar side effects.

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    WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 8,976 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 31, 2017 10:34AM

    @MrEureka said:

    @Walkerfan said:
    Don't miss the headaches, heartburn, dehydration, insomnia, sluggishness, weight gain, shortness of breath and nervousness associated with overindulgence in beer. I'll keep the coins....

    Perhaps not coincidentally, I have found that overindulgence in coins can result in very similar side effects.

    Touché :D

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    USMarine6USMarine6 Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 31, 2017 5:47PM

    Do you notice what it reads under America on this can? Its not a coincidence that it's all over our coins also. Beer and coins go together like......well like beer and coins

    I'm not giving up either one

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