Numismatic Disputes Disrupt North Korean Summit

ColonelJessup · May 24, 2018 12:19PM

Rumors abound concerning a firestorm of controversy on an obscure coin-collectors' website relating to a just-announced commemorative coin relating to the just-cancelled Trump-Kim summit meeting.

Chatroom denizen turned social media darling @CaptainAhab was quoted as saying "I'm lampooning this round metal object. Unless you believe in time travel, of course. Coin? Try to spend one yet?". World financial markets are currently trembling at this challenge to the credibility of the issuing authority.

Esthetic opinion has been mixed, with heated exchanges, especially between third-grade crayola devotees and 8th grade metal shop theorists. Cartoonist/culture maven Stan Lee commented "Disney fired that artist in 1934. And those archetypes have been much more convincingly portrayed on Pee Wee's Playhouse. Get off my lawn".

Insiders (not him) relate that Supreme Leader Kim was not flattered by an image that "does not sufficiently recognize the status awarded him by the US news organization "The Onion" as the World's Sexiest Man". but American officials resist commenting on reports that North Korean hackers substituted an image of the currently embalmed Chairman Mao to pre-emptively sabotage the meeting.

National Security Advisor John Bolton stated "The President's hair looks better than a mushroom cloud, get my point? #Winning"

Secret Service officials have not yet commented on the few that have begun to show up on Ebay, but reports say they are already charging up their golf carts in readiness.

Plans for a Wall commemorative have been put on hold until algorithms currently used for tax policy are adapted to studies of time travel

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FredWeinberg · May 24, 2018 12:39PM

I'd much rather read and listen to the Colonel than John Bolton

ChrisH821 · May 24, 2018 12:43PM

oldabeintx · May 24, 2018 12:43PM

Best laugh I've had all day, maybe all month. Thanks Colonel.

WillieBoyd2 · May 24, 2018 12:48PM

Both this coin board and another board have removed discussions about this item.

ColonelJessup · May 24, 2018 12:49PM

I hear way too much from "the Colonel" myself, and imagine he has ten times that much drivel in his head that he spares us. I classify his writing style as "neo-pretentiously florid"

BillJones · May 24, 2018 12:58PM

It's not a surprise that that this effort failed. The North Koreans have a bad track record with presidents from both political parties. It's sad that something could not have come of it because everyone, including the North Koreans, would have been better off. My dream for the North Koreans would have been that they could have developed a sort of hybred economy that China has.

Kkathyl · May 24, 2018 1:55PM

I want one or ten

Justacommeman · May 24, 2018 2:22PM

So I take it those horrendous Trump-Kim Challenge Commemorative coins are being recalled.

This summit was never going to happen.

mark

topstuf · May 24, 2018 2:24PM

I heard that Kim had a whole bunch of Kweichow Auto Dollars stolen from his peasants that he promised to produce at the summit.

When he reneged, the summit was cancelled.

That's what I heard.

Maybe.

GRANDAM · May 24, 2018 2:32PM

Korea is FOOLISH,,,,,, with all the coin the US was going to send them,,,,,,, Kim won't be upgrading any of his Registry Sets now

Insider2 · May 24, 2018 2:35PM

IMO, some of those coins will reach the market and go for $$$.

CaptHenway · May 24, 2018 2:35PM

When asked if victims of the Trump/Kim "coin" scam would receive refunds, Trump said "I don't recall!"

Insider2 · May 24, 2018 2:45PM

Is @Screwie posting in this thread?

Edit: The @name turned blue so he must be real!

Timbuk3 · May 24, 2018 2:53PM

!!!

Justacommeman · May 24, 2018 3:24PM

@Insider2 said:
IMO, some of those coins will reach the market and go for $$$.

The same thought crossed my head. For now it looks like you can get them on the cheap

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/05/24/commemorative-north-korea-summit-coin-selling-at-a-discount/23442959/

m

JBK · May 24, 2018 3:56PM

@Justacommeman said:

The same thought crossed my head. For now it looks like you can get them on the cheap

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/05/24/commemorative-north-korea-summit-coin-selling-at-a-discount/23442959/

m

If you check the White House Gift Shop website (which took me an hour to access after that news broke) you will see that the challenge coin they are selling is not the same as the one produced for the official delegation.

Cameonut · May 24, 2018 4:12PM

I have to wonder how many on this forum have ever negotiated with Koreans. Or anyone else on a high-stakes issue.
I have.
Koreans are tough negotiators and somewhat unpredictable.
They test you to see what they can get to try to get an advantage.

Gotta play your cards properly - hopefully you have a position of strength. What is happening is classic.

The guys and gals in the peanut gallery ought to keep their traps shut. Dems are used to giving things away for free.

I think it is highly likely that NOKO will be back to the table with a different attitude.

As I stated in the poofed thread, I think that being at the table is far better than lobbing nukes across the hemisphere.

Justacommeman · May 24, 2018 4:14PM

@JBK said:

@Justacommeman said:

The same thought crossed my head. For now it looks like you can get them on the cheap

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/05/24/commemorative-north-korea-summit-coin-selling-at-a-discount/23442959/

m

If you check the White House Gift Shop website (which took me an hour to access after that news broke) you will see that the challenge coin they are selling is not the same as the one produced for the official delegation.

You mean there are two challenge coins produced of the same event that was never going to happen? Holy Crap. Well the gift shop one is 20% off

m

drfish · May 24, 2018 4:24PM

“The coin will be made whether or not the summit occurs as scheduled because the theme is coming closer to peace and celebrates the act of communication among countries,” according to a message from the gift shop.”
Yeah, that’s the ticket!

ElmerFusterpuck · May 24, 2018 4:25PM

I see this thread turning into a mushroom cloud. Or at least a destroyed nuke site.

EagleEye · May 24, 2018 4:29PM

So... Who "Can't Handle the Truth?"

BigMoose · May 24, 2018 4:33PM

I have heard that the real reason why the Summit won't happen in June is that fatboy is scared to death that he will be deposed if he travels to Singapore. How could this be as he is so universally beloved by his people?

Justacommeman · May 24, 2018 5:22PM

@BigMoose said:
I have heard that the real reason why the Summit won't happen in June is that fatboy is scared to death that he will be deposed if he travels to Singapore. How could this be as he is so universally beloved by his people?

Which fat boy?

m

Smudge · May 24, 2018 5:45PM

Gee, I never would have thought this thread would turn political.

Moldnut · May 24, 2018 5:53PM

Oh, those chat room weenies.

coinkat · May 24, 2018 7:08PM

Oh well... There goes the secret plan to sell challenge coins/medals in the White House Gift Shop as part of the yet to be introduced federal deficit reduction plan.

Unofficial and unconfirmed reports hint that the challenge coins/medals will be replaced with Plan B... The sale of Playing cards and calendars.

ColonelJessup · May 24, 2018 7:13PM

Alex Jones is an Iranian troll

Nah.....

Laugh at the Brits for Brexit, but the ones who bought coins from those two nice kids last week will make more off them than some of us will with our tax breaks.

Goldbully · May 24, 2018 8:55PM

@coinkat said:
Oh well... There goes the secret plan to sell challenge coins/medals in the White House Gift Shop as part of the yet to be introduced federal deficit reduction plan.

Unofficial and unconfirmed reports hint that the challenge coins/medals will be replaced with Plan B... The sale of Playing cards and calendars.

Can't decide if this is humor or sarcasm.

After a few seconds of thought, it's not funny, so must be sarcasm.

ricko · May 25, 2018 7:16AM

This should become a TV soap opera.... "As the stomach turns".....Actually, while the coin is not attractive, the event is important. Having been trained in, and actively involved in negotiations for many years, it is interesting to watch the events unfold. Stay tuned folks... Cheers, RickO

TwoSides2aCoin · May 25, 2018 7:28AM

I like the hair.

asheland · May 25, 2018 7:53AM

asheland · May 25, 2018 7:53AM

TwoSides2aCoin · May 25, 2018 8:06AM

@Justacommeman said:
So I take it those horrendous Trump-Kim Challenge Commemorative coins are being recalled.

This summit was never going to happen.

mark

I like you Mark, but I still think "leaders" can make anything happen.

coinkat · May 25, 2018 10:59AM

It is clearly not funny that our democratic experience has descended to a new low which create circumstances that beg for humor with an edge. Some may suggest this Is sarcasm and others understand and appreciate the difference.

Have a great Memorial Day weekend.

ColonelJessup · May 25, 2018 2:06PM

Monday, I go to visit the grave of a man killed two days before I was born. Monte Cassino 4/11/44,
After my Mom remarried, my Dad's twin sister uncovered unmentioned "friendly fire" when he was re-interred here from the Nettuno cemetery. The Muslim Gold Star parents hadn't shown up yet to give me a taste of the true depths of stewpidity of Cadet Bones Spurs, and I'm not sure if I'd thought about that piece of my history for a dozen years before, but when he called John McCain a loser, I wondered what list my Dad or I was on for believing sacrifice meant something. :'(

Pray for the Republic

coinkat · May 25, 2018 3:05PM

Hopefully contemplating character and what constitutes character will emerge as a higher priority...

Justacommeman · May 25, 2018 4:56PM

@TwoSides2aCoin said:

@Justacommeman said:
So I take it those horrendous Trump-Kim Challenge Commemorative coins are being recalled.

This summit was never going to happen.

mark

I like you Mark, but I still think "leaders" can make anything happen.

I won’t hold my breath but I hear you

you’re swell yourself ; )

m

logger7 · May 25, 2018 6:19PM

How much healthier would the world leaders be if they took up healthy and historical hobbies like numismatics, the "king" of hobbies?

Numismatic Disputes Disrupt North Korean Summit

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