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• ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2011 9:41AM

  There's more at the door

  "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell

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• tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

  February 23, 2011 9:45AM

  
  ...very impressive!

  "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington

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• Meltdown Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2011 10:09AM

  Awesome...

  Click on this link to see my ebay listings.

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• Goldbully Posts: 17,934 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2011 10:26AM

  This is pretty cool Marty madness...........
  
  Mad Marty's Cook Islands Weenie Coin Collection
  
  
  

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2011 11:44PM

  Will the rubber chicken be next??? Cheers, RickO

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• AnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭

  February 24, 2011 12:04AM

  Very cool!

  All coins kept in bank vaults.
  PCGS Registries
  Box of 20
  SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 24, 2011 6:05AM

  
  
  i just paid for the slab at TT, i'll post a pic when it arrives.

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,757 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 24, 2011 6:36AM

  I used to own these
  
  
  
  
  

  CoinsAreFun Pictorials Album
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  CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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  Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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  More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC

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• DorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭

  February 24, 2011 6:58AM

  Didn't he just give those away?

  Becky

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• ChangeInHistory Posts: 3,092 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 24, 2011 7:09AM

  
  
  << <i>Didn't he just give those away? >>
  
  
  
  Sort of, I think he used them to raise funds for a charity.

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 24, 2011 7:11AM

  Marty's been pretty good to me over the years!!

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• kryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭

  February 24, 2011 10:06AM

  I knew I should have gotten his autograph

  Kryptonitecomics Ebay Auctions

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• canadanz Posts: 618 ✭✭

  February 24, 2011 11:19AM

  Can someone fill the new people in (myself included) on the backstory here?

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• Mesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭

  February 24, 2011 2:17PM

  Two or so years ago Marty had NGC encapsulate several Dassier medals and sold them for about $35 or $40 each with the proceeds going to charity (perhaps the NYs at the ANA summer meetings?). A year or two prior to that Marty did the same with the infamous W--nie coin with the proceeds again going to a charity.
  
  Here is a website that shows a collection of these medals. 18th or 19th century restrikes I believe.
  
  Here is the one I purchased. And, yes, it came with the Mad Marty Collection insert.
  
  
  
  DASSIER, Jean: England, 1731, Bronze, 41 mm
  Obv: Bust of Edward VI wearing a cloak lined with ermine, embroidered doublet, and hat with feather. EDOUARD. VI. D.G. ANG. FR. ET. HIB. REX.
  Rev: Tomb monument flanked by volutes decorated with festoons of roses. In the center is a square bas-relief showing the king as an infant Hercules strangling a dragon, symbolizing the papacy, in imitation of the fable of Hercules strangling the serpent. Exergue: NAT. 12 OCTOB. 1537. COR. 20. FEBR. 1547. M.6 IUL. 1553.
  Ref: M.I. i, 62/20; Eimer 30/30; Thompson 29/21; Eisler I, 260/23
  
  

  There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
  –John Adams, 1826

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