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Coronavirus Housecleaning: What's in your Scrapbook?

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
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For better or worse, I've had the opportunity to revisit many books, photos, files and souvenirs I haven't touched in a long, long time. I'll post some of them.

What have you found???

Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,406 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 4, 2020 10:53AM

    These are awesome! I love the young Andy picture

    Latin American Collection

  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Boosibri said:
    These are awesome! I love the young Andy picture

    Ditto!

  • MilkmanDanMilkmanDan Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 4, 2020 11:23AM

    I can’t decide which coin related joke about losing ones shirt to insert here. Too many choices!

  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Was he wearing platform shoes?

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    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just looking through boxes of my cards from many moons ago.
    Good memories.
    The 42 Dodgers cards were my dads.

    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Your more knowledgeable than ever 😄👍

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    I give away money. I collect money.
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You had hair?? :D

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,676 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I found a pair of shoes I thought I had left at the TSA airport line.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Lakesammman said:
    You had hair?? :D

    He foolishly used it all up!

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:

    @MrEureka said:
    This from late 1980 or maybe 1981, before “coin investing” became a four letter word.

    Where is the heavy gold chain that this look required???

    OMG! And for us non-New Jersians, what is a Ho Ho Kus, because it doesn't sound legal.

    Tom

  • U1chicagoU1chicago Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TPRC said:

    @CaptHenway said:

    @MrEureka said:
    This from late 1980 or maybe 1981, before “coin investing” became a four letter word.

    Where is the heavy gold chain that this look required???

    OMG! And for us non-New Jersians, what is a Ho Ho Kus, because it doesn't sound legal.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho-Ho-Kus,_New_Jersey

    The meaning of the name Ho-Ho-Kus is in debate. From the official history on the borough's website, the most likely origin is a contraction of the Delaware Indian term "Mah-Ho-Ho-Kus" (or "Mehokhokus"), meaning "the red cedar."

    Other meanings have been suggested over the years and are listed on the borough's website, including an Indian word for running water, a cleft in the rock or under the rock or hollow rock, the word "hohokes", signifying the whistle of the wind against the bark of trees, the Chihohokies Indians whose chief lived here, the Dutch Hoog Akers for "high acorns" or Hoge Aukers, Dutch for "high oaks", the Indian word hoccus meaning "fox", or woakus, "gray fox", or that the "Ho" part means joy or spirit, and the rest of the name from "hohokes," meaning a kind of bark of a tree.

  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,783 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 4, 2020 7:39PM

    Does anybody know if the Bill Horton Pictured in the Magazine is or related too the Horton Family who owned Horton Homes of Eatonton , GA. When I worked for hud, and inspected thier operations, they used to tell me the owner was a big coin collector, but was I never able to meet him in person, the days I was there, he was always out!

  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I save old newspapers and magazines. The NYT Warren Commission report. Nixon Resigns. The Vietnam Peace Pact Signed.

    And also...

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  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1960NYGiants said:

    @MrEureka said:
    This from late 1980 or maybe 1981, before “coin investing” became a four letter word.

    "investing in the rear coin market" :*

    Yeah I just noticed that!

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 4, 2020 11:39PM

    Good stuff.

  • ernie11ernie11 Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This from a childhood photo album I was looking through this week. It is a photo my dad took after we returned from my first fishing trip. What I remember most about that trip was stopping along the Seward Highway that bordered the waters of Turnagain Arm and drinking ice cold water coming out of the cliffs above the roadway. To this day it was the best water I ever remember drinking. The fish were caught in the Russian River on the Kenai Peninsula.

  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭

    Andy, were you in "Boogie Nights"??

    TomT-1794

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice stuff!

  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,406 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why the choice of the California Fractional Gold book in the photo op?

    Latin American Collection

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have gone through a couple of old 'boxes'... I did come across this picture..which would have been 1960. Cheers, RickO

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Boosibri said:
    Why the choice of the California Fractional Gold book in the photo op?

    Good question! I wondered that myself. I did deal in fractional gold at the time, but a Judd book or Red Book would have been a more logical choice. I must have chosen Doering for the pictures of coins on the cover.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would have liked to pet Aki. :|

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  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rummaging thru toms-world (the basement)...


    and to keep it coin related...

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Today’s big find: My numismatic button collection! (The Walker is just a coin, shown for scale.) Although this is not the BST, if it were I’d offer the buttons for a $30 donation to Soi Dog.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MrEureka said:
    Today’s big find: My numismatic button collection! (The Walker is just a coin, shown for scale.) Although this is not the BST, if it were I’d offer the buttons for a $30 donation to Soi Dog.

    How was the Ken Bressett roast? Any memorable coin-related zingers you'd like to share? :)

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  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A counterstamped 1 bit piece that I re-discovered in a drawer at home:

    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

    RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'

    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CoinJunkie said:

    @MrEureka said:
    Today’s big find: My numismatic button collection! (The Walker is just a coin, shown for scale.) Although this is not the BST, if it were I’d offer the buttons for a $30 donation to Soi Dog.

    How was the Ken Bressett roast? Any memorable coin-related zingers you'd like to share? :)

    You should have asked me 7 years ago. I might have remembered a few!

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mannie gray said:

    @1960NYGiants said:

    @MrEureka said:
    This from late 1980 or maybe 1981, before “coin investing” became a four letter word.

    "investing in the rear coin market" :*

    Yeah I just noticed that!

    Actually, that's the way retail coin investing has always been done.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Re: "investing in the rear coin market"

    @MrEureka said:
    Actually, that's the way retail coin investing has always been done.

    Hmm...Truth, with multiple levels of meaning.

    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

    RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'

    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]

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