Did anyone here ever come across any of those "Ballistic Rolls"?
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Just idle curiosity - did anyone here ever end up with one of those rolls? For some dumb reason, I was thinking about their advertising hype and the security guys wheeling carts of those rolls across the street in NYC.
Now, I can't stop wondering about them.
Now, I can't stop wondering about them.
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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
btw - Who would store face value nickels in a gold-bar-shaped case? That's just asking for trouble.
Photographed in a toddlers hand to make them appear "larger" than they actually were.
These were given away for FREE! You got 102 Presidential Dollars in each roll. The only fee they could not waive was the "Vault Fee" of $124. Shipping and Handling was an additional charge.
What Deal!
In 2008, the Monroe Dollars were available online for only $142 a roll plus $11.88 Shipping.
The clincher was these were only available for a limited time and the web site actually had a countdown clock!
The name is LEE!
But I don't know how you could get more Ballistic than this
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The word 'Ballistic'. I wonder what it means in this context.
I suspect it just 'sounds cool' and is pure marketing. I suspect they don't mean the trajectory the coins take if you throw them up into the air.
Does "Ballistic" have any sort of numismatic meaning at all?
The customer will go ballistic, when he realizes he has been had.
They also produce a mean whallop when stuffed into a tube sock and swung around one's head. A lot of these ballistic rolls were ordered by wives and girlfriends to keep
their significant others in line. You don't want to be in range when someone goes ballistic on you.
roadrunner
Stuff it in my pocket.
Next girl I met, I could say "I have a ballistic roll in my pants".
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Photographed in a toddlers hand to make them appear "larger" than they actually were.
These were given away for FREE! You got 102 Presidential Dollars in each roll. The only fee they could not waive was the "Vault Fee" of $124. Shipping and Handling was an additional charge.
What Deal!
In 2008, the Monroe Dollars were available online for only $142 a roll plus $11.88 Shipping.
The clincher was these were only available for a limited time and the web site actually had a countdown clock! >>
The Toddler's hand thing, I think, crossed the line of totally false advertising. What total B.S. How utterly stupid. Who comes up w/this C#^I?
<< <i>I wouldn't exactly call this a roll.
But I don't know how you could get more Ballistic than this
I had to help move a few of these when the Presidential dollars first came out. Even with
a floor jack, they were an adventure!