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SSSP (yes three Ss) and a GIVEAWAY!
Aethelred
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SSSP = Slabbed Shameless Self Promotion
SSSP - SLABBED SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION.
Because I am auctioning mostly US coins and Currency this week, I feel I must hold a giveaway for a Darkside coin. This is a 5 Sucres from Ecuador dated 1944, it is 38mm in diameter and .720 silver.
The winner will be the person who posts the most interesting photo and/or coin related story.
SSSP - SLABBED SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION.
Because I am auctioning mostly US coins and Currency this week, I feel I must hold a giveaway for a Darkside coin. This is a 5 Sucres from Ecuador dated 1944, it is 38mm in diameter and .720 silver.
The winner will be the person who posts the most interesting photo and/or coin related story.
If you are in the Western North Carolina area, please consider visiting our coin shop:
WNC Coins, LLC
1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
wnccoins.com
WNC Coins, LLC
1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
wnccoins.com
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That's what the doctor said too.
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<< <i>I got one I'd love to tell about about my 1913 sovereign. The story of how it got scratched and all. Could I submit it? >>
Go ahead!
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09/07/2006
I was watching this one on eBay (Turin 72mm), it started at about $20-$30 dollars, went up to about $45 on the last day of the auction, and closed at over $300; WOW!
This one was also on eBay (Dupuis 50mm), it started at about $15, and didn't move at all, until I sniped it!
Hope later also to find and post the picture of that coin and it really worth to do--you understand why if I'll managed to do it later.
Ufortunatelly, the original coin is not with me, because it was forbbiden to take coins away from Russia
And, Dead King, I should say that I planned to make such a giveaway : that every mate will post some interesting story about getting a new item for his collection and so on... but you made it first
Edited to add the picture:
And I see now that it wasn't silver coin, just CuNi, but I still was astonished and for me it was juast as the gold coin
I don't know how, but I lost it.
<------ lost slab
ex-spinaker, ex- Colin Cooke. That's my story.
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My love of gold.
Whenever I was a young boy I always was fasinated by coins. My dad used to buy whitman coin albums and we used to find lincoln cents in our change and fill it up with them. When I was 7, I was watching a cartoon, called Robinhood , and one of the characters got a gold coin for his birthday. My grandpa happens to be a geologist, and taught me many things about gold when I was young. I was always fasinated by it. When I was 7 I decided to get a gold coin for my birthday. I went to a store called Gold'N'Coins and purchased a 1997 american 1/4 oz. eagle with my own birthday money.
I didn't know what was good and not back then, so I decided for some unknown reason to put a small scratch in the coin. I didn't know it would defect the value. When I was 15 I became much more interested in coins again, and in paticular, gold ones. My grandfather had lost 1 platinum and 1 gold oz. coin. He said if I found it I could keep them both. We never did find them, but it was fun. Later I bought a 1/10 oz. maple leaf coin, and a gold sovereign. Ever since I got that sovereign it has haunted me. I always thought it was fake, but deep down inside I knew it wasn't. I annoyed people constantly saying it was fake, including my parents, and they said it wasn't. I was so obessed with it I could not sell it. So I decided to get it slabbed by ANACS.
The coin came back geniune, but net graded because of a scratch. I was upset about it, but I decided to keep it as a momento. The picture of the sovereign show points to the scratchs on the coin I made. I decided to go to a coin forum, and talk and gain more knowledge. I happened to stop by at this PCGS forum. When I first started posting people immediately became suspicious of me, making fun of me and harassing me. They suspected I was up to know good and was lying, like some on this forum do. Unfortunately nothing can be perfect, and there is always a bad apple in the bunch. You have to keep your eyes open, and some of the things I said left a red flag in some of the posters minds, including my friend Aethelred.
It escalated farther and farther, and then most of them (I hope all of them) realized I was not trying to start trouble, which I wasn't. I am very shy in real life. When I speak on the forum; I am protected by a wall of eletronic data; it's different. I speak differently, I feel safer. People don't judge you on how you look, speak, or talk. Just your personality. I guess this is what made me say some of the things I said, people thought it was suspicious and it went from there. I still post alot on this forum, but I try to make my comments helpful, instead of annoying. I annoyed many people on this forum, and I apologize for that, with my sovereign bit. I am obessive about things at times, and I just can't stop.
I've found out , that 99% of the people on this forum are very, very helpful and nice. Sure, sometimes they get annoyed, sometimes they make mistakes, as does everyone. No one is perfect. But the good definitely out ways the bad. Aethelred sent me a slabbed ANACS coin, over a dispute about my coin. That was very nice of him. So many people are helpful on this forum, and I really appreciate that.
I also wanted to add and say the properties about gold. It is very malleable, (Meaning you can smash it into thin sheets, without it breaking into pieces.), and ductile (You can make it into wires), and also makes good use in eletronics. It has been known by ancient people for some time, because of it's profound beauty and brilliance, of the sheer luster of gold. Gold does not tarnish, it is very inert. This makes it ideal for many things. Gold is divised up into karat. 24K(Karat), is pure gold. 12K is 50% gold, etc. Gold is often alloyed (mixed together) with copper, a very reactive but strong metal. The mixture of this alloy can result in copper spots, or the oxidation of copper raised to the gold alloy surface.
I wanted to say thank you to all the people on this forum for your help, and thanks to Aethelred for supporting this essay.
~Kevin.
WNC Coins, LLC
1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
wnccoins.com
<< <i>Well done Kevin! >>
Thank you!
WNC Coins, LLC
1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
wnccoins.com
WNC Coins, LLC
1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
wnccoins.com
This was my first purchase of an uncirculated Victorian coin, circa 1977. It was placed in a coin album consisting of PVC pages and forgotten about. It was retrieved 17 years later. All the other coins in the album were utterly corroded, save for this one - the only one that was worth anything in the first place. I will never upgrade this particular date.
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<< <i>does that mean midnight tonight? I'll be asleep. >>
Post something now and you can catch up Saturday!
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<< <i>does that mean midnight tonight? I'll be asleep. >>
Post something now and you can catch up Saturday! >>
I don't have any pictures and I already won one of your giveaways with my only coin related story, remember?
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1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
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<< <i>Wybrit wins! I think the PVC survivor is cool! >>
Ahh, I guess losing is a way of life for me ...
Congrats Wybrit!
<< <i>Ahh, I guess losing is a way of life for me >>
I wouldn't touch that with the 20' pole I keep for things I wouldn't touch with a 10' pole.
WNC Coins, LLC
1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
wnccoins.com