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coinkatcoinkat Posts: 24,388 ✭✭✭✭✭
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and its only Tuesday... discuss...

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    cladkingcladking Posts: 29,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...but is Tuesday really different than any other day?
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There was a Blue Moon last month.
    Wouldn't that cause one to rhapsodize rather than philosophize.

    (gratuitous mention of Blue Moon to keep thread coin related).

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

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    BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like coins.

    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

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    secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    I like metaphysical questions relating to coins. image
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,681 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm back from Long Beach and in coin withdrawal. I haven't seen anything cool since Friday. Show me something to buy and I'll stop being philosophical.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    We are but motes on the rear-end of the numismatic collective symbiont.
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    gamr0ngamr0n Posts: 608
    I wonder what Socrates, Kant, and Mill would say about coins...
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,681 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder what Socrates, Kant, and Mill would say about coins...

    That's what google is for.

    For example:

    The paradoxes of pre-Kantian Enlightenment thought are rooted in the following nostrums:

    * We have direct dealings not with things but with representations of things.
    * The mind is passive, or minimally active in thinking.

    Kant's challenge is directed at the latter. He thinks the mind is active in forming the very foundation of experience.

    According to the Lockean, 'collecting box', theory, perceptions just drop through the slot and into the mind. This analogy makes perceptions like coins - coins that can be sorted by the mind, but individual coins.

    According to Kant there are no individual unsorted coins. What we experience are coins-as-categorised.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,859 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I wonder what Socrates, Kant, and Mill would say about coins... >>



    As the Philosophy Department of the University of Wallamaroo sang:

    "Immanuel Kant, was an old pissant...."
    Numismatist. 54 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. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    seemyauctionseemyauction Posts: 3,655 ✭
    I collect coins, therefore I am.......


    AL
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    Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭
    If "70" coin are perfect, then those of the same die variety could not be told apart; any "pedigree marker" is basically a defect no matter how small. But we know that "70" coins can be told apart, even if not apparently by die variety. Ergo...
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    Ed. S.

    (EJS)
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    LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    Does the coin I just bought exist or not? Dang, I may have spent my money on nothing!

    -David
    Lincolncentman Toned Lincolns
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    JulioJulio Posts: 2,501 ✭
    THE LAW OF PATHEI MATHOS.
    Seems to fit the bill. Nuff said. jws

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    eyoung429eyoung429 Posts: 6,374 ✭


    << <i>Does the coin I just bought exist or not? Dang, I may have spent my money on nothing!

    -David >>




    Ah, but the real question is not the coin in existance but was the money you had even exist or for that matter, how do you know if you even exist.
    This is a very dumb ass thread. - Laura Sperber - Tuesday January 09, 2007 11:16 AM image

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    IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
    "The coin is slabbed, therefore it is."

    Jean-Paul Sartre

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