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MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,812 ✭✭✭✭✭
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...late this afternoon in Baltimore, I was buying and selling Latin American rarities at the show and bidding on US colonials at the auction. Tonight, I spent 3 hours working up a Panda deal.

Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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    pruebaspruebas Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Panda deal??? :o

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    1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A new world order.

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    AotearoaAotearoa Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just now finished watching The Wire. Baltimore on my mind...

    Smitten with DBLCs.

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    ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,623 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A ...... a ...... P.... P .... a n d a .... deal? rEaLlY? :#:s:D

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    GluggoGluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Aotearoa said:
    Just now finished watching The Wire. Baltimore on my mind...

    Love that series I think I might have to watch that all over again. It’s been over a year maybe 2 now.

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 36,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pandas are off my radar screen because of the Chinese counterfeit problem. I used to think they were cute.

    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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    erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love Pandas! One of my goals this year is to finish the set! Let me know if you plan on selling them!

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,853 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    Pandas are off my radar screen because of the Chinese counterfeit problem. I used to think they were cute.

    Agree especially since they reduced the weight from one Troy ounce to 30 grams.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,721 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well your focus is certainly coins.... Lots of coins... :D Cheers, RickO

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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You poor fellow.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,310 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    Pandas are off my radar screen because of the Chinese counterfeit problem. I used to think they were cute.

    Is Alibaba counterfeiting them openly like they do everything else, or the Chinese Mint, or what?

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2, 2019 6:16AM

    @CaptHenway said:

    @BillJones said:
    Pandas are off my radar screen because of the Chinese counterfeit problem. I used to think they were cute.

    Is Alibaba counterfeiting them openly like they do everything else, or the Chinese Mint, or what?

    The government in China doesn't allow counterfeiting Chinese coins and that crime probably carries the death penalty over there. They have no problem with counterfeiting US coins.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,709 ✭✭✭✭✭

    3 hours?? I can't imagine it taking more than 2-3 minutes for you to buy or pass. :D

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    thebeavthebeav Posts: 4,130 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MrEureka said:
    If you catch me sorting wheat pennies at my table tomorrow, just shoot me.

    Back in the 80's, I sorted an awful lot of wheats......Littleton, at the time, was a very strong buyer of dated rolls. I could date sort a bag in a little over five hours, and it was actually worth doing......

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    bidaskbidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MrEureka said:
    ...late this afternoon in Baltimore, I was buying and selling Latin American rarities at the show and bidding on US colonials at the auction. Tonight, I spent 3 hours working up a Panda deal.

    What Latin America rarities?

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    SoldiSoldi Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Paradisefound said:
    A ...... a ...... P.... P .... a n d a .... deal? rEaLlY? :#:s:D

    Paradise found can see the Panda factory from her back porch.......or was that Sarah Palin

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    savitalesavitale Posts: 1,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Panda deals are not hard to find.

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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @CaptHenway said:

    @BillJones said:
    Pandas are off my radar screen because of the Chinese counterfeit problem. I used to think they were cute.

    Is Alibaba counterfeiting them openly like they do everything else, or the Chinese Mint, or what?

    The government in China doesn't allow counterfeiting Chinese coins and that crime probably carries the death penalty over there. They have no problem with counterfeiting US coins.

    That's funny, then who is making the very deceptive fake Pandas.

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 36,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:

    @PerryHall said:

    @CaptHenway said:

    @BillJones said:
    Pandas are off my radar screen because of the Chinese counterfeit problem. I used to think they were cute.

    Is Alibaba counterfeiting them openly like they do everything else, or the Chinese Mint, or what?

    The government in China doesn't allow counterfeiting Chinese coins and that crime probably carries the death penalty over there. They have no problem with counterfeiting US coins.

    That's funny, then who is making the very deceptive fake Pandas.

    I don’t know, but if they are Chinese, I would not want to be responsible for paying their life insurance death benefits. The Chinese law is clear. You don’t copy Chinese coins that were minted 1948 and later. It not a good idea to pull the dragon’s tail.

    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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