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So what is your biggest coin related injury?
rgCoinGuy
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OK, I admit, I pulled a dorko move today. Cracking out some Ike's from brown boxes that looked like they could use a dip, using a swiss army knife to get the crack started, it slipped off and went straight into my palm. An emergency room visit (and finding out my co-pay just went up) and 4 stitches later, I have to say, this is now my most expensive Ike. 
So who else will admit to a coin related boo-boo?
This isn't the one that got me, I will try to image it tomorrow when I am more in a "good coin mood" and replace this stand in Ike pic.
So who else will admit to a coin related boo-boo?
This isn't the one that got me, I will try to image it tomorrow when I am more in a "good coin mood" and replace this stand in Ike pic.
Quid pro quo. Yes or no? 0
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No ER visits yet
I'd advise you not to put a penny on a railroad track to flatten it.
You might not let go when the train comes by.
Then off to the hospital you go again.
Ray
for like 20 minutes
darn thing was sooo gray
"a lil longer longer he would of been bald"
Yeah, I amuse myself for my stupidity sometimes too.
I lost my member in an unfortunate schmelting accident................schmelting Lincoln Cents for copper of course !!!
Total costs of crackout including bail, fines, court costs & postage was $4,500.97.
I didn't want to mar it up hammering it into the
AU58 with a thumbprint or post mint damage ? What would you do ?
In reality, I cannot think of any injuries, but I've had a lot of pain in the neck using a loupe.
I specialize in Errors, Minting, Counterfeit Detection & Grading.
Computer-aided grading, counterfeit detection, recognition and imaging.
<< <i>Sitting at my desk, I dropped a coin and as I reached to to grab it, knocked over the lamp, it shattered on the floor, startled the dog, he jumped up and scared the sh.. out of the cat, the cat ran out of the room, tripped my wife, and she fell down the stairs knocking over a lit candle which caught the drapes on fire and the house burned down. OK not, but it coulda happened....... so don't you feel better now? >>
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I'm sure many of you have done that though... :-)
I specialize in Errors, Minting, Counterfeit Detection & Grading.
Computer-aided grading, counterfeit detection, recognition and imaging.
Another time, while detecting, shortly before digging up an 1894-O Barber half, I was chopping a root with my digging knife and whacked myself across the back of the hand with it. That stung. Fortunately the digging knife was pretty dull and didn't cut me, but I did have a bruise and a little torn skin there. The pain went away the moment that Barber half rolled out of the plug of sod. Funny how that works. Call it Silver Therapy, I guess.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
<< <i>OK, I admit, I pulled a dorko move today. Cracking out some Ike's from brown boxes that looked like they could use a dip, using a swiss army knife to get the crack started, it slipped off and went straight into my palm. An emergency room visit (and finding out my co-pay just went up) and 4 stitches later, I have to say, this is now my most expensive Ike.
So who else will admit to a coin related boo-boo?
This isn't the one that got me, I will try to image it tomorrow when I am more in a "good coin mood" and replace this stand in Ike pic.
If you got any blood on that Ike it's AT'd
<< <i>Lower back. Spent too long hovering over the copy stand trying to get a coin perfectly in focus.
Me too, sort of. I pulled my back out a few year ago, lugging around 34 pound bags, when I was going through my "unsearched wheat penny phase". Could not even walk for 3 days.
<< <i>I have had my ego brusied due to PCGS and NGC submissions coming back in a BBs. Does emotional duress count?
well so much for my witty post. as soon as i saw this thread having
more then 20 posts i knew the time for the joke has past.
<< <i>Hey Rob does Tammy need to make a run to Maggie Moos
>>
I could probably get some maggie moos out of this!
Some good and funny responses! Before this, whitman thumb was my worse injury also.
<< <i>I have had no actual physical injuries to my person, not counting eye-strain, but I did severely injure my acrylic kitchen sink with acetone removing pvc from some coins. It took the shine right off a couple of places. I haven't fessed up to my wife about it. She thinks acrylic sinks are no damn good. HM >>
LMAO hehehe
I specialize in Errors, Minting, Counterfeit Detection & Grading.
Computer-aided grading, counterfeit detection, recognition and imaging.
<< <i>I have had no actual physical injuries to my person, not counting eye-strain, but I did severely injure my acrylic kitchen sink with acetone removing pvc from some coins. It took the shine right off a couple of places. I haven't fessed up to my wife about it. She thinks acrylic sinks are no damn good. HM >>
Did you try some plastic polishing compound to get the shine back? May be worth a try.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
were hotter than a pistol, I did a deal of 15
Bags of Georgia Quarters -
Customer brought them to my building, I
took them up on a flat-bd cart (three trips),
and with my assistant, prepared to ship them
to a buyer in Florida. I had to pick 'em up and
put them on shipping counter, put 'em back
down, take 'em downstairs again, to the PO,
etc. etc.
The next day, woke up fine, flew to the Central
States Show. Woke up the next morning, feeling
totally Paralysed (sp) in my neck and back.
Turns out, it was my "first old-age chronic condition" -
I had irritated and swollen my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
vertibrea's in my neck, and it took thearapy and
chicropractor work to make me as close to normal
as I can be.
To this day, and probably for the rest of my life,
my neck gets sore and stiff, with sometimes
minor headaches if I sleep in the wrong position,
or look down reading too long, etc.
Aside from slicing my fingers every 5 years or so
opening up my Brinks/Dunbar shipments at coin
shows, that's been my biggest coin related injury.
coins and the unusual number of calamities and injuries I've suffered
there are none cause by coins!!! Even indirect injuries don't seem to
exist.
I suppose I should just stick with coins.
The only one even remotely related was when I first got a PC in Sept
of 2001. I bought an office chair that wasn't entirely comfortable and
neglected to find another use for it before I got a back ache. But this
was even before I joined here and used the computer for a wider var-
iety of things.