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mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
what is the "dark siders" the "light siders"


why the poking fun at ones from one sider to the other siders?

too much cider? not enough?

i'd like to know as i aspire to be a insider (sic) with you guys some day! (and girls)

(just wanna know who's on first and what's on second ...i dunno!)

don't anyone say 3rd base!

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    darkside are world coins

    lightside are US coins
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,020 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Litesider = a simpleton who is only interested in United States coins.

    Darksider = a cultured, intelligent individual with superior taste, who prefers world coins (he is also allowed to collect United States coins if he wants).

    Greysider = a person who collects Canadian coins. In other words, somebody who can't really make up his mind if he's a Darksider or a Litesider.

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    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    Grey side - Canadian coins image

    Welcome to the boards!
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    mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    thanks all!


    i guess i'm dyed in the wool light sider....

    with psycotic tendencies toward the dark ...(just to make lord marcovan approve of me)

    lincoln cents only is what i have image

    but that due to very shallow pockets,

    but i do appreciate all coins...even the ones that are 12 feet in diameter and made of stone....say....don't they have a hole in them?

    ya got one of those lord m ?
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Greysider = a person who collects Canadian coins. >>



    Did somebody mention Canadian coins?

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    Russ, NCNE
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    Russ

    You Suck.image

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    How many coins is required to be a darksider? I have all US coins except for one Maria Therasa Thaler.
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    I can think of a dozen reasons not to have high capacity magazines, but it's the reasons I haven't thought about that I need them.
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,020 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Shallow pockets?

    Why, shucks... you're custom-made for the Darkness !! You'll get way more bang for your buck (not to mention history and geography), over there! And we don't even demand your slavish obedience... you're still allowed to play with your Liteside habit, as long as you don't spend ten thousand bucks for a coin just because it has a cute little plastic holder with the number "70" on it, or something like that! image

    Why limit yourself?



    << <i>but i do appreciate all coins...even the ones that are 12 feet in diameter and made of stone....say....don't they have a hole in them? >>



    Yap stone money?

    Why yes, it does have a hole in it, now that you mention it. But if I put any on my vest, I think it might slow me down just a little teeny bit! (Besides, I only collect coins with "aftermarket" holes, not mintmade holes, and I think the Yap money's holes count as "mintmade", sort of. My grandmother had a piece of it in her front yard in Stuart, Florida. As I mentioned in another thread, it must have been a Yap half cent or somethin', because it was pretty small (large pizza sized). At first, it looked like she had two Yap coins- one light colored and one dark (hey, there's that metaphor again!), but the lighter colored one was an old millstone made of some sort of granitey-lookin' stone. The Yap money was obviously made of volcanic rock.

    My grandmother passed on 23 years ago, but as far as I know, there is still a piece of Yap small change and an millstone lying in the front yard of a house in Stuart, Florida, if the Bermuda grass in the lawn by the driveway hasn't swallowed 'em up.

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    Nearly thirty years after she moved out of it, I can still smell the interior of that house- a mixture of paint and perfume and books and humidity. (Grammy was an accomplished painter, and I still cherish an oil painting she made of me when I was just three). I can feel the summer heat on the driveway, and the blast of air conditioning as we came in the side door. I had to leave my flip-flops outside, because they were usually all sandy from a trip to the beach, and loaded with sandspurs. (Some Yankees are lucky enough to not know what a sandspur is, I reckon. Just ask a Floridian sometime!)



    Huh? Where am I? What was I talkin' about?

    Geez. That little sentimental journey down memory lane has wandered a bit far off topic, if in fact I was ever on-topic to begin with! image

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>you're custom-made for the Darkness !! You'll get way more bang for your buck >>



    Very true.

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    Exactly a buck. image

    Russ, NCNE
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    darktonedarktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭
    next you'll want to know what ttt meansimage. mike
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    ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928
    Hopefully someday you will see the Dark.

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    Clankeye
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    BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    Don't ever go to the Darkside, there are too many things to collect and as you get older you cant tell one from the other----------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
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    FrattLawFrattLaw Posts: 3,290 ✭✭
    What if you collect toned foreign coins -- would that make you a "Rainbow Darksider?"

    Michael
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    islemanguislemangu Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭✭
    Yap stone money?

    LordM very nice. I felt the sand on my feet while reading from my NC banks youth.

    I hope this slight OT to the dark side is OK. I tried to get Yap stone money recently but my Yapese friends I work with everyday said impossible. They said the more valuable pieces were from foreign rock that had to be transferred over the high seas on flimsy vessels with often life sacrifice.
    In fact better I print this out and show it to them and get back to you on the pm or worstimagestart a dark side thread...is that the open forum or do they have their ownimage

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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Hey Russ, Show them you PURDY Panama coins!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Hey Russ, Show them you PURDY Panama coins! >>



    You mean junk like this?

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    Some doofus keeps sending me these. image

    Russ, NCNE
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    merz2merz2 Posts: 2,474
    Yea ! Another Lincoln collector.imageimageimage
    Don
    Registry 1909-1958 Proof Lincolns
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    morganbarbermorganbarber Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭
    Lightsiders, American coin collectors are, as a whole, great patriots. Darksiders are just packrats. Well, maybe that's a little harsh. I do enjoy a darkside piece every now and again. I've owned some all of my life. I still prefer to walk in the light-- call it "the sunny side of the street".
    I collect circulated U.S. silver
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    Moz,

    You are in!

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    mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    thank's for the welcome-ing in doodz !image

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