The Numismatists Graveyard...

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  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>Here lies John Smith
    Aged 70 Years
    EAC Age 20 Years >>



    Take him out and brush him with a stiff brush now and then........
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • topstuf
    topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>FINALLY....Not Buried in a Coin. >>



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    winner.
  • dragon
    dragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
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    Poorguy:


    "That Starvation Diet Didn't Work Out Too Well"
  • dragon
    dragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
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    Tradedollarnut:


    "STILL Looking For MS Trade Dollars With Chops"
  • dragon
    dragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
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    Legend:


    "I Told You No One Could Name 3 Marketmakers For Moderns"
  • dragon
    dragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
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    chvan:


    "I am looking to buy 2006 American Silver Eagle 20th Anniversary Coin Set must be in sealed brown box as received from mint. The brown box must not be opened and the white address label which on the box should not be removed. when shipping i want you to keep this box in another box and ship it to me."
  • Lionel
    Lionel Posts: 536 ✭
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    "I bought this cool tombstone with the profits from my platinum eagles."
    Anyone can make a difference, but most people probably shouldn't. -- Marge Simpson
  • shylock
    shylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
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    My only hope is the great numismatists aren't buried anywhere near the maxed out coins they made image

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    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
  • Cam40
    Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
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    `crack THIS!`

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    Shot 7, but they shot back

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  • percyb
    percyb Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭✭
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    I got bid away....
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
  • Coxe
    Coxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
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    Note to cherrypicking graverobbers: COIN UNDER BIDDER HERE
    Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
    NSDR - Life Member
    SSDC - Life Member
    ANA - Pay As I Go Member
  • pb2y
    pb2y Posts: 1,461 ✭
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    Whose got all my coins???
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  • Oldgrump
    Oldgrump Posts: 119 ✭✭
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    Well I'll be dipped. I done died and gone to heaven
    Steve
  • Cam40
    Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
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    this wasnt the body bag i was banking on
  • holeinone1972
    holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭
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    I was once mint, but now I am Poo1

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  • TheNumish
    TheNumish Posts: 1,628 ✭✭
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    lordmarcovan :
    "Please no metal detectors within 20 feet. I got my holey hat and vest on!!!!"
  • TheNumish
    TheNumish Posts: 1,628 ✭✭
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    "I thought I was one of the good guys but some thought I was just AG."
  • cladking
    cladking Posts: 30,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Time Flies but still clad.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • percyb
    percyb Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭✭
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    It's dark in here!
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
  • Bodie
    Bodie Posts: 282
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    My name would be doubled
    I'm not a vigilante, I'm an undocumented border patrol agent!
  • MPeter
    MPeter Posts: 568
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    I once was in circulation
    I no longer had circulation
    I was taken out of circulation

    Here Lies....... Sir Q. Lation
  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred and Ninety-Eight!"
    "Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine!"
    "Ten Thousand!"
    "Ready or not, here I come!"
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • NumisOxide
    NumisOxide Posts: 11,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    image
  • OKbustchaser
    OKbustchaser Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    She caught him chasing busts.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,777 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Seems like a good time for a TTT...
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • tradedollarnut
    tradedollarnut Posts: 20,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Here Lies SaintGuru....who used his CU winnings on a date with Scarlett and his wife found out!
    Early Dollar Set
  • rgCoinGuy
    rgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
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    If it don't fit:

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    OK, he COULD have been a numismatist image
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,777 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "Wow! This coin show is so hot it's practically on fire!"
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • tradedollarnut
    tradedollarnut Posts: 20,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If I see one more overgraded POS in auction lot viewing, I think I'm gonna die!
    Early Dollar Set
  • ahooka454
    ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
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    <<Here Lies SaintGuru....who used his CU winnings on a date with Scarlett and his wife found out! >>





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  • TwoSides2aCoin
    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    TwoSides2aCoin

    If you thought my widgets were bad, you should see the underwear my kids buried me in.
  • 57loaded
    57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
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    "please grade this tombstone, i sniped it off of eBay. did i pay too much?"





  • ChrisRx
    ChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
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    P-01
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  • Mesquite
    Mesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
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    Tomb of the unknown numismatist.
    There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
    –John Adams, 1826
  • direwolf1972
    direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
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    Not words just a picture.

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    I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.

    You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.


  • DMWJR
    DMWJR Posts: 6,102 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>"Wow! This coin show is so hot it's practically on fire!" >>




    LOL .... how many dealer tables are there going to be down there??
    Doug
  • BECOKA
    BECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
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    BECOKA,

    Impatient collector who should have waited for something better.
  • jfoot13
    jfoot13 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭
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    " Finally Crossed "
    If you can't swim you better stay in the boat.......
  • Longacre
    Longacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
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    "Bodybagged"
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • DJCoinz
    DJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭
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    "Do you ship to the far south?"




    imageimage
    aka Dan
  • rgCoinGuy
    rgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
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    "Old Coin Collector"

    "You can't take it with you so...."

    "Buried my coins on Longacre's property"
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • IGWT
    IGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
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    << <i>" Finally Crossed " >>


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    For MrHalfDime: Finally found that terminal die state.

    For Longacre: Gone to meet The Man™.

    For MrEureka: Now fully committed to the Darkside.

    For RYK: Departed . . . but not really.
  • percyb
    percyb Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>Suppose all numismatists were buried in the same graveyard. What would be your epitaph?

    While you're at it, feel free to create an epitaph for someone that has yet to post his own to this thread. (It will serve him right! image ) >>



    I'm still searching, only a little more deeply now. Come join me image
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
  • direwolf1972
    direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
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    "the modern coins in my pocket wont be modern forever"
    I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.

    You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.


  • IGWT
    IGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
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    For TDN: Didn't die 'til CAC approved the coroner's report.
  • elwood
    elwood Posts: 2,414 ✭
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    R.I.P.


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    or

    We sure had F.U.N..


    or


    Entombed




    Please visit my website prehistoricamerica.com www.visitiowa.org/pinecreekcabins
  • IGWT
    IGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
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    For CCU: Now Chalmers Short Worm Food.
  • mozeppa
    mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
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    welcome to the "FUN" show...

    Finally Undertaken Numismatics
  • Walmann
    Walmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
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    Culled
  • fastrudy
    fastrudy Posts: 2,096 ✭
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    100
    Successful transactions with: DCarr, Meltdown, Notwilight, Loki, MMR, Musky1011, cohodk, claychaser, cheezhed, guitarwes, Hayden, USMoneyLover

    Proud recipient of two "You Suck" awards

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