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Posts posted by RDCanecutter
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1 minute ago, Prepuce of Doom said:
Tell us the truth - you've personally rubbed the nipples off that thing, haven't you?
I'm just as God made me.
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This is the kind of coin I like:

A couple of dings, and a big slash across her bottom foot led the guy at Royalty Coins in San Antonio to let me have her for the price of silver. I liked the coin better than a perfect one because I could pick it up and look at it.
Royalty Coins, btw, is a great shop. I did my fly-on-the-wall act in there, pretending to look at stuff while really eavesdropping. They were offering fair prices to people who wanted to sell.
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14 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:
what's the difference between the red book and blue book?
I think the Red Book was meant as "retail" and the Blue Book was meant as "wholesale". But this is coming from a guy who never owned a Blue Book, so I am just speculating. I think the Red Book maybe has more info.
I also heard of something called a "Gray Sheet" that sits mysteriously behind the counter at coin shops.
My impression is that they are a lot like Comic Book Price Guides, ie, fantasy prices that make people think they have great treasures, which, yeah, they do, if they can find the one guy willing to pay those prices.
They are good to see relative scarcity and which coin is supposed to be three times more valuable that something else.
Once I had a gig doing free-lance work where a broke dude would pay me with Morgan Silver Dollars from his collection, and I eventually ebayed most of them for whatever Red Book said Very Fine + Shipping & Handling was. Probably the buyers also had Red Books and thought maybe the coins were better condition than VF. I could have made up a price out of thin air and maybe that would have worked too. People get funny about shiny objects.
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Degenerate youth of Britain, too lazy to practice with longbows...
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On 4/18/2019 at 2:18 PM, DoobieWah said:
So here are the current ebay listings.
Set up a corporation in New Mexico. I think I heard on the radio that it's one of the states where you don't have to reveal who owns it.
Write a check for 5 grand to this mysterious corporation to buy a coin for you.
Have the corporation buy a good looking fake and pay jeweler to mount it in a pendant for you.
Figure out what you want to do with the $4,800 still in your corporation's bank account.
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20 hours ago, Homercles said:
I wanna have a few drinks with you RDC, you’re an interesting cat
12 hours ago, futureman said:that guy fucks.
Startin to sound like a set-up, y'all.
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Just now, gsoda3 said:15 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:OK, on your 1 dollar gold coin, my book says:
Very Fine: Feather-curl tips on headrdess outlined, but details worn.
Extremely Fine: Slight wear on feather curls of headdress.
About Uncirculated: Trace of wear on feathers, nearly full luster.
NB: This is all gibberish to me, the next coin I grade will be my first. But if it helps a Sulrster in any way, so much the better.What book is this? And would you have a rec for a book like that for English coins going back to the Georgian era?
Official Red Book US Coins 2017 edition is what I'm using.
Sadly, I do not know who to check for English coins, would have to google it.
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This is more how I roll, yo:


Top row: First bullion coin that I know of in Mexico, 2nd = the coin that Humphrey Bogart was begging for in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (prolly keep you alive for a couple-three days, 3rd = about 60 bucks gold, smaller than a dime. Doesn't matter what the date says, they are probably still cranking them out.
Bottom 4: brass and copper, would have been clutched in small hands to get something to eat. 20 centavo might have been Frida Kahlo's bus fare, if she dared set foot back on one.
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OK, on your 1 dollar gold coin, my book says:
Very Fine: Feather-curl tips on headrdess outlined, but details worn.
Extremely Fine: Slight wear on feather curls of headdress.
About Uncirculated: Trace of wear on feathers, nearly full luster.
NB: This is all gibberish to me, the next coin I grade will be my first. But if it helps a Sulrster in any way, so much the better.
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7 hours ago, futureman said:
I can’t find a listing for the gold dollar. also can’t tell if it’s 1856 or ‘36 but neither of those dates show up on the chart.
I don’t know how to “grade” these coins. based on these pics do you think they would qualify as at least “very fine (VF)”?
It's an 1856, they didn't make an 1836 (I found this out by digging around in my book after you posted the photo. I ain't even any kind of expert on US gold.)
On the chart, make sure you look under gold dollars, it's there, you might have been under silver dollars.
Will post more deep thoughts after devouring steak.
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11 hours ago, futureman said:
now you guys are really getting me curious. again, I doubt I’ll get rid of them, and there are more as well; I only photographed a handful of them. where could I take them in austin to have them looked at?
I just now found this site myself:
https://www.usacoinbook.com/coins/gold-dollars/large-indian-head/
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For eBay, use the search bar, but do the "Advanced" search, then click the "sold" listings.
This will show you what people paid for them, as opposed to when sellers (like me) slap something up there at 4 times the going rate just to see if fish will bite.
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2 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:
Isn't that Indian Head reverse die worth something?
D'oh. Didn't even notice that. @futureman
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16 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:
'Cause you are one of these.
fixed it to display the glory of my gold toof:

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23 hours ago, futureman said:
“dickbeaters” has always cracked me up more than it should.
It's actually a shame that it matters if somebody touches a coin. I mean, the damn things were meant to be passed from hand to hand, thumped on bar counters, clinked together. I blame the Crazy Old Men.
The hobby is split between Normal People Who Like Coins, and Crazy Old Men. The Crazy Old Men are the ones who will actually spend money to get coins. They invented the minute gradations, the use of plastic slabs to guarantee authenticity, the obsession with minor details. Me, I couldn't enjoy owning a coin where I'd lose a thousand bucks if I breathed on it. But if you want the most money for a rare coin, you have to play by their rules.
I like beat-up common foreign coins where I can pick them up and look at them and who cares if they've got a scratch or not.
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Just now, futureman said:
thanks for the info! I haven’t touched them since he died and I took those pics. and you recommend leaving them as is, not even wiping off with a cloth? I doubt I’ll try and sell them but would like to do whatever I should to preserve them.
Yeah, I wouldn't touch them with anything.
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28 minutes ago, futureman said:
thank you @AUS-97HORN for this thread.
@Armybrat or anyone else who knows about coins... I pulled these from my granddad’s desk after he passed. held onto them for years and never known if they’re worth anything. any of these look familiar to anybody?
Disclaimer: Check everything I say before you sell anything:
A'ight, first things first: You've got $8.50 of old US gold coins, which is a little less than half a troy oz. So at todays' price, that's a little better than 500 bucks worth of raw gold. Just eyeballing your photo, I reckon a dealer could get twice that, so maybe you could sell them for more than 500. If any of them are some rare variety, obviously, even better. I have no idea if any of them are rare.
For the silver, I guestimate you could get 15-20 each for the Booker T and the Peace Dollar. Maybe more if you retail them yourself on eBay with a higher price.
The 1836 half dollar is interesting and has potential. It should be worth far more than its silver content. For it, and basically all of them, you want to hold them by the edge, and don't clean or rub or touch the front and back-- maniacal collectors will pay multiples more depending on how much less wear there is.
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2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:
If it's worth something, you will knock down the value putting prints from your dick-beaters on it like that. You want to hold it by the edges.
Flip it over, and see what's under the wreath and over the D and O of Dollar. Anything there, or just a bare spot?
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19 hours ago, Handcruser said:
Find out where he is speaking and stand up in the middle of it and ask for your money.
Then do it again at another event.
Maybe he will pay. But really we just want to see you do it.
You can also put him on blast. We’ll get him.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ProAnd also find out who plans to have him speak in the future. Then contact them with your settlement and ask innocently if they could give part of his check to you. They won't, of course, but your true goal is to rub some stank on him, if only 1 in 10 places start turning him down, then like Khan said, "I have HURT you, Kirk, and I want to go ON hurting you."

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8 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:
Or run for Governor of Alabama.
OP, use Roy Moore as your vengeful angel.
Find one of Roy Moore's Beg-a-Dollar sites. Send 2 dollars cash in your tormenter's name. Maybe send 57 cents to the Westboro Baptist Church, also in his name. Find some vengeful forum (eg, Surly) where you post pompous shit that irritates the inhabitants, and tell enough about yourself that the neckbeards dox you, except the details lead them to your dude.
DON'T SWAT him. But if you get him connected to enough fruitloop groups, maybe it will provide you with personal amusement.
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If it's any consolation to the OP, this guy's "success" on social media is probably about as real as Cinderella's Castle at Disneyworld. He's probably still scamming somebody else, and will eventually get prosecuted for bigger things, or robbed and left alone in the corner of the nursing home by his 4th trophy wife and any nose-candy children.
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Buy a baby Capuchin monkey and teach it how to jimmy locks and open upstairs windows. Then teach it how to jab hatpins into mannequins' eyes. Then you and your lock-pickin, eye-jabbin Capuchin monkey go on a vacation somewhere out west. Leave your phone at home, and use cash.
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14 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
What's the best way to get him out?
The top of the chimney. Otherwise you're getting him in.
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34 minutes ago, HornsOverIthaca said:
Clearly they actually are, but those look like non-cray eyes to me.
Lemme help a brother out:

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My dog Roosevelt has passed
in Daily Texan
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Good old dogs. They hang around as long as they are able, and usually a little extra on top of that.