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Coin World: Flashy gold $20 double eagle graded Proof 64 Deep Cameo tops $200,000 at Platinum Night

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:
    @Justacommeman said: "Some of us are in the process of installing a program to translate yours and Insider2 posts. Separate you guys are a handful. When you coin rap battle it’s impossible to keep up."

    So, you are one of the members here who actually understands what the Colonel writes? it's mostly Geek to me. B)

    I pick up foreign languages pretty quickly. When Rick speaks in tongues he can lose me though

    mark

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is the fault of my Esperanto to English translation software, which was originally programmed to process Sanskrit to Tagalog. The app was free with the Hebrew to Inuit program, which has been found to be infected with a Russian virus.
    Gotta stay ahead of the curve on emerging markets, mark, but the different keyboards can be a challenge.

    For some it's easier than others, I found that praying in Hebrew and counting in Arabic gave me a head start.
    The problem is not that @Insider2 doesn't speak Geek, it's that he's never gone post-Hellenic and conceptualizes his grades using Roman numerals B)

    If that was clear, let me try again.......

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ColonelJessup said: "The problem is not that @Insider2 doesn't speak Geek, it's that he's never gone post-Hellenic and conceptualizes his grades using Roman numerals."

    Close. The actual problem is he's been locked away in an Ivory tower and rarely got out to gain your experience in the real world of wizards, sharks, and dragons.

  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:
    @ColonelJessup said: "The problem is not that @Insider2 doesn't speak Geek, it's that he's never gone post-Hellenic and conceptualizes his grades using Roman numerals."

    Close. The actual problem is he's been locked away in an Ivory tower and rarely got out to gain your experience in the real world of wizards, sharks, and dragons.

    Your grading on these seems OTM :)

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 22, 2018 12:58PM

    OTM? I have no idea what this means, probably funny?

    Anyway, when I started grading, it was much simpler. This coin was considered to be an IMPAIRED PROOF. No more, no less. I'm dying to defend that statement and put my personal "number" on the coin based on published "standards;" however:

    My personal grade does not matter as better numismatists than I have graded it PR-64 and a collector has bought it with at least one underbidder.

  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "On The Money"
    David Hall, 1976 ANA

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:
    OTM? I have no idea what this means, probably funny?

    On The Money

    • David Hall, 1976 ANA maybe

    My personal grade does not matter as better numismatists than I have graded it PR-64 and a collector has bought it with at least one underbidder.

    The path to enlightenment is clearer now. Thank you :'(

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You think the Colonel writes in a foreign tongue ?

    You all should have the honor and privilege to
    HEAR him talk at a table at shows - your mind
    can turn to Turkish Taffy!

    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.
  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 22, 2018 1:20PM

    Isn't it 5 o'clock somewhere? Thanks.

    Speaking of taffy, I'm into my stash of Fralinger's.

  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 22, 2018 1:36PM

    @FredWeinberg said:
    You think the Colonel writes in a foreign tongue ?

    You all should have the honor and privilege to
    HEAR him talk at a table at shows - your mind
    can turn to Turkish Taffy!

    He's just pissed because I got there first to a great company motto he wanted.
    "I'll buy your errors if you buy my mistakes".

    (Or another even shoddier attempt at deflection). :s
    There was an interesting thread last week about misleading advertising.
    Did you know that Swedish meatballs were invented in Turkey?

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell

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