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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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I really like the looks of that!
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
The beer?
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.
Is the reverse equally nice?
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
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 !
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?
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
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!
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
Reverse:
I'll go with vodka.
I dont drink or collect gold...so it is the rice paddys for me
Nice looking circulated gold!!
I don't drink either. Maybe I'd start.
Keep beer, give up coins....but I'd probably also have my collection of aged, dark rum stashed away too.
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.
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
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I'll go with the coin!
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
Free Masons had it right!
Great Saint !
Not sure I could do without beer. If I had to try, I'm taking Kim Jong down with me......
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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With gold like that, I'd give up beer instantly.
The makings of a Brad Paisley song.
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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.
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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Wine and coins.... Nothing like a really good Cabernet Sauvignon.... and gold, lots of gold.
Cheers, RickO
How about a little of both with a hundred year old Beer Token?
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.
That got spent a couple times. I got spent a few times, myself.
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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.
all around collector of many fine things
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.
I'll give up both coins and beer as long as I can keep my Kentucky Bourbon and Caribbean Rum
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
Beer will get me through times of no coins better than coins will get me through times of no beer.
Freak Bros. take.
No one has commented that someone bothered to send that coin to CAC?!
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.
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.
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!
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.
Both. Or as close as you can get. 18th century sterling mugs, filled with beer:
--Severian the Lame
I just can't decide
Beer sucks, so easy choice.
+1, not giving up the good beer
+1, not giving up the good beer
Never drank a beer in my life.
I like that well-worn Saint!
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Coins............no beer for me.
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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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.
Perhaps not coincidentally, I have found that overindulgence in coins can result in very similar side effects.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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Touché
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
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