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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1 Longacre = a pacel of land that is one foot wide and 43,560 feed long. image
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    I found a two-headed quarter in my change...how rare are these?
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,720 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>1 Longacre = a pacel of land that is one foot wide and 43,560 feed long. image >>



    Feed?
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • JimDepotJimDepot Posts: 958 ✭✭
    Which are better, classic or modern?
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    Why does Britain stamp "20 pence" on a coin that is worth 33 cents. Why not put the real valuation on the coin? Why make folks convert?

  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478
    What temperature do you use for rainbow toning on your oven?
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • coasterfancoasterfan Posts: 1,302
    Are dealers ever worried when a magician approaches your table at a coin show?
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    upon showing an 1857 gold dollar to my neighbor...."That cant be real can it? I know they didnt have plastic so long ago"
  • If your coins are so expensive that you have to keep them in a vault or safe deposit box, what's the point of having them? Why not by replicas instead, they look almost identical.

    Kind of reminds me of folks with 6 and 7 figure jewelry....they wear fake stuff when they go out on the town so it won't get ripped off. The real stuff is in a safe somewhere....just like
    coins.

    What's the fun of having a super rarity or set of them all locked up????????????
  • CARDSANDCOINSCARDSANDCOINS Posts: 340 ✭✭✭
    Do you really make money doing this?
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,681 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Please post a coin which has a gerbil on it.
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • If coins are so valuable, why don't you put your thumb print on them so that they can be returned to you if they are lost or stolen?
  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623
    So let me get this right, You want how many of my fresh off the presses dollars for your one old crusty outdated ones.
  • There can't really be that much to learn about collecting coins, can there?
    Bob

  • JimDepotJimDepot Posts: 958 ✭✭
    But why don't you make it shiny?
    image

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To a dealer---I spent a lot of time polishing these coins so will you make me a generous offer?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    Are coins edible?
    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
  • Great thread, just sitting here laughing, with a totally blank mind.image
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    Brockage? Isn't that racist?
  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806
    Why don't numismatists wear clothes?
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,828 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why don't numismatists wear clothes? >>



    Why do some coin dealers never take a bath or change their cloths?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    When will this lunacy end?
  • FoxerFoxer Posts: 164 ✭✭
    There is a hole in my coin, why does the mint do this?
  • What is spot or melt?
    What is bullion, isn't that a spice cube?
    YOU PAID WHAT FOR THAT PENNY? what I hear from the wife.
    What do YOU think of my newp?
    Why are you so mad, I didn't know I was supposed to wear gloves?

    Just to say a few.
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    I was a Monkey
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who is HomeR unHall and what does he klekt?

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I told my cousin I collect 3-Cent Nickels.

    He told me that's the kind of investments he makes, too.
  • Would I be more popular with the really good looking ladies if I tell them I am a coin collector?
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why don't numismatists wear clothes? >>




    Looks like a straight line to me. image
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • Mintmarks? What are those?
  • Dollar coins, when the heck did that start?
    Is my 1943 Steel Penny worth millions?
    My $2 bill is rare, right?

    LOL!
  • What is numismathmatics anyways?
    In the time of Chimpanzee's
    I was a Monkey
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What is numismathmatics anyways? >>



    A short primer on numismathematics:


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    Buyer's fee: $15

    Taxes: $10

    Shipping: $25

    Total damage: $150

  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why did it take 10,000 years of civilization before someone invented coins?
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was this thread about coins??? What does numismatic mean???image
    Instagram: nomad_numismatics
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,720 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why did it take 10,000 years of civilization before someone invented coins? >>



    Because they invented beer first.
    image
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • Girlfriend (who is not into coins) asking this question while a TV commercial shows a large, ugly, spotted, gold plated replica coin (with a visible fingerprint) slowly rotating in an extreme closeup:

    Is that a good price?
    Bob

  • What is a coin?
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Why did it take 10,000 years of civilization before someone invented coins? >>



    Because they invented beer first.
    image >>



    Lol.

    ...as well as wine. imageimage

    The Egyptians were even cultivating yeast by 4400 BC which was 1200 years before
    anyone figured out how to write down the recipe. Then it was about 5,000 years be-
    fore anyone made something as big as the pyramid. It's a curious history.

    Check out Tom Robbins new children's book, "Beer". It is Grace who learns all about
    beer.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why is one side of my end-roll toner blast white?
    Which leads me to my second question. What do they blast coins with to make 'em blast white? image
    I never thought that growing old would happen so fast.
    - Jim
  • KonaheadKonahead Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭
    the only stupid question is the one that is not asked.
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  • What if collectors prefered their coins cleaned instead of original and cleaned coins brought the highest prices? image
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  • 'Is my chocolate gold coin made in the 60's considered modern crap?'
  • LRCTomLRCTom Posts: 857 ✭✭✭
    If I do it, it's "cleaning", which is bad. If they do it, it's "conserving", which is good. 'Splain me that, Lucy...

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A few minutes ago my 3 year old Son asked to see my iPod on my desk... which was actually a NGC slab image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623


    << <i>What if collectors prefered their coins cleaned instead of original and cleaned coins brought the highest prices? image >>



    pretty sure this IS the way the Morgan market works
  • JonMN34JonMN34 Posts: 60 ✭✭
    Not sure if it was asked, but...

    "How much is my silver dollar worth?"
    "What!?! But I cleaned it and now it is really shiny!"
    "What do you mean don't clean my coins?! But they aren't shiny anymore."
    Collector:
    Currency - 1928-1929-1934 Series Stars All Denom. - 126 of ~846
    Lincoln Cent Varieties
    Baseball cards: Kirby Puckett
  • Typical Dumbismatic questions we get at the store.

    I have a peace dollar with trust mispelled TRVST is it worth anything?
    Ok your paying me 9x face for my silver coins. Do I get the face value again added on top.
    I got a 43 penny like I saw on the news on tv. Do you have enough money to buy it?
    and on and on.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Why did it take 10,000 years of civilization before someone invented coins? >>



    Because they invented beer first.
    image >>


    So if beer was invented over 5000 years ago, and coins were invented 2700 years ago, when was the game of quarters finally invented?
  • curlycurly Posts: 2,880


    What does TDN stand for?
    Every man is a self made man.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Why did I get stuck with 100??
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!

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