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Dave99B
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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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  • DCW
    DCW Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I really like the looks of that!

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  • Dave99B
    Dave99B Posts: 8,947 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The beer?

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • carabonnair
    carabonnair Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Is the reverse equally nice?

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  • ShadyDave
    ShadyDave Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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 ! ;)

  • 1Mike1
    1Mike1 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2017 3:57PM
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    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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  • DIMEMAN
    DIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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

  • Fairlaneman
    Fairlaneman Posts: 10,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2017 4:05PM
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    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

  • Dave99B
    Dave99B Posts: 8,947 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Reverse:

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • ldhair
    ldhair Posts: 7,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'll go with vodka.

    Larry

  • chumley
    chumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
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    I dont drink or collect gold...so it is the rice paddys for me

  • FHC
    FHC Posts: 333 ✭✭✭
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    Nice looking circulated gold!!

  • Shamika
    Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
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    I don't drink either. Maybe I'd start.

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  • Walkerguy21D
    Walkerguy21D Posts: 12,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Keep beer, give up coins....but I'd probably also have my collection of aged, dark rum stashed away too.

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  • Cameonut
    Cameonut Posts: 7,436 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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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  • Jimnight
    Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'll go with the coin!

  • RB1026
    RB1026 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭✭
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    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 ;)

  • Coinstartled
    Coinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2017 5:44PM
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    Free Masons had it right!

  • thebeav
    thebeav Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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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  • Walkerfan
    Walkerfan Posts: 10,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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....

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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  • AmazonX
    AmazonX Posts: 681 ✭✭✭✭
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    With gold like that, I'd give up beer instantly.

  • messydesk
    messydesk Posts: 20,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @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 gray
    mannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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.

  • oih82w8
    oih82w8 Posts: 13,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 29, 2017 9:54PM
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    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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  • 1630Boston
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    Did the cats have anything interesting to say ? :smile:

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wine and coins.... Nothing like a really good Cabernet Sauvignon.... and gold, lots of gold. :)<3 Cheers, RickO

  • Batman23
    Batman23 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How about a little of both with a hundred year old Beer Token?

  • BillDugan1959
    BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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.

  • TwoSides2aCoin
    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That got spent a couple times. I got spent a few times, myself.

  • coinpro76
    coinpro76 Posts: 366 ✭✭✭
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    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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  • shorecoll
    shorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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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  • Baley
    Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'll give up both coins and beer as long as I can keep my Kentucky Bourbon and Caribbean Rum

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  • epcjimi1
    epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭
    edited August 30, 2017 11:35AM
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    Beer will get me through times of no coins better than coins will get me through times of no beer.

    Freak Bros. take.

  • david3142
    david3142 Posts: 3,693 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No one has commented that someone bothered to send that coin to CAC?!

  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 30, 2017 1:28PM
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    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.

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  • Cameonut
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    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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  • BillDugan1959
    BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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.

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

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  • LeeBone
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    I just can't decide :D

  • TheRegulator
    TheRegulator Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭
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    Beer sucks, so easy choice. :)

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  • SimpleCollector
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    @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

  • SimpleCollector
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    @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

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Never drank a beer in my life.

    I like that well-worn Saint!

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  • Bullsitter
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    Coins............no beer for me.

  • MrHalfDime
    MrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
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    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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  • BuffaloIronTail
    BuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,765 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have NEVER seen a Saint like that. It proves that gold did circulate...........well, some of it did.

    Pete

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  • BillDugan1959
    BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BuffaloIronTail said:
    I have NEVER seen a Saint like that. It proves that gold did circulate...........well, some of it did.

    Pete

    Somebody's pocket piece for a very long time.

  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,777 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @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.

    Andy Lustig

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  • Walkerfan
    Walkerfan Posts: 10,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @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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  • USMarine6
    USMarine6 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 31, 2017 5:47PM
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    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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