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RDCanecutter

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  1. 12 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    I wonder how the local population feels about their Dictator’s gun confiscation of 2012?

    Military only one with guns. He who controls the military controls the country. 

    History often teaches valuable lesson if you are paying attention. 

    From the photos I saw of Venezuelan military, I'm not sure they control their own guns.

    I mean, they were holding them, in odd and interesting ways. You might be safer if they were aiming at you.

  2. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    As an author (on the side), the best way to make money writing books, is to write a book telling other people how to write best-selling books. 

    How about relationship books allegedly for dudes, that you write so women will buy them for some dude who doesn't read them?

  3. 59 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    There was a great Op-Ed letter this morning in the WSJ on Bretton-Woods/Monetary System/Trump deficits/etc.  Written by a professor from Roanoke College.  I'll try to post it later.  Most of you should read it.  

    Already did, paper copy, because I am old and grumpy and exceedingly wealthy.

    Bottom line was that gold standard is fine until somebody starts acting like a human and flashing the credit card at strippers, then the French say, "Mon Dieu! Your dollar, take eet back, give us some gold, haw haw haw!"

  4. 27 minutes ago, Hate said:

    They prescribed Tylenol with codeine. All it does it makes me sleepy.

    And I’m home now with an ice pack. Thanks all for keeping me company during this.

    Hope you get normal real quick.

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  5. 20 minutes ago, Hate said:

    I’m getting discharged shortly. I actually don’t feel to bed right now. There is still pain when I get up or sit/lay down, but other than that I’m ok.

    Wait til the opioid dreams start. Whatever you last binge-watched on Netflix, you will now get to see on the ceiling of your bedroom, in brighter colors.

  6. Sorry you had to get hernia surgery.

    On the other hand, I am glad you were able to get surgery, instead of sitting in some jungle hut with your guts slipping out, getting pinched, and going gangrenous.

    My dog had to get this done, and she was right as rain soon after. Once you get used to the cone, you'll be fine.

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  7. 9 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

    My point being, there are people in those countries, that have lived there for centuries, that don't look like other people from those countries. The horror.  Shocking. 

    But white is bad. Unless you are a single white boy standing in a dance club and the local girls see you. Then white is bery bery good.

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  8. 48 minutes ago, DoobieWah said:

    Canecutter has provided some excellent information, but I would like to clarify one thing. All of the coins in the OP are well circulated. There's not really a problem with touching them. Your pulling them out and admiring them once in a while, (that's what she said), won't affect the value at all. Now you shouldn't clean them with anything that might scratch them, but holding them in your hand won't hurt them.

    Now if they were "Proof" or in "Uncirculated" condition that would be different, but in this case, "No".

     

     

    I mostly wanted to say "dickbeaters."

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  9. 1 hour ago, woohorn said:

    Growing up we used to clean old wheat heads by soaking them in tacobell hot sauce. Cleaned em up great, but probably ruined them for collectors somehow.

    You probably didn't hurt most of them. One thing you can do with old copper (heard this from a coin dealer, sue him if I'm wrong) is soak it in olive oil for a couple of days. I'm not talking about with some million-dollar auction winner, I mean with a handful of crusty green pennies you might find in a jar.

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  10. So the obvious Surly Entertainment Ploy when faced with a joint account is:

    1. Create a fake FB account with photos of a Vic Mackey Special

    2. Send messages to joint account saying stuff like "Heyyyy lover its meeeee, gonna be in town again next weeeeek, heyyy u dint rilly get married this is a joke rite heyyy?

    3.???

    4. Profit

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  11. Anybody got any 1923-D or 1930-D Dimes? They are probably Soviet counterfeits. For lots of the time that dimes were made of silver, the silver in them was worth as little as half the face value (I've heard of people in the 40s using their last dime to buy a beer,) so if you have mountains of silver mined by political prisoners, turn it into double the US cash with your own minting operation.

    The first to render an official opinion on “Soviet Dimes” was Q. David Bowers: “This coin is one of the most famous American counterfeits, a coin which appears several times a year in various places to plague collectors, and usually disappoints its owner after he spends time and effort only to learn that it is a counterfeit. This piece is not a cast or an electrotype, but is struck from dies. The lettering is thinner and not as well formed as on the originals. This coin falls into the interesting category of counterfeits in which the counterfeiters were not numismatists, and created coins which had no official counterparts.”

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    According to John J Ford, Jr. an editor of Numisma and famous collector:

    “To the best of our knowledge, these are counterfeits made of good silver and struck from excellent false dies -- evidencing better technical facilities than those available to American crime rings. They were made, along with many worn appearing (dateless) Liberty Standing quarters, prior to and during World War II -- and probably to the present day -- in the Soviet Union. Evidence of this practice turned up during the war, but nothing was done because of the probability of antagonizing our "gallant Soviet ally!" The Soviet technical experts evidentially perfected some process of transferring genuine designs from coins to plaster and from plaster to steel dies, the latter presumably by some machine similar to the portrait-lathe used in Philadelphia and Tower Hill (English) mints for over a century. They also have good silver, heavy presses and collars -- equipment available to no American counterfeiter. The purpose has nothing to do with numismatics. So far as we know these coins were intended (like those made by the Chinese and Italian imitators of American gold coins) to pass as a circulating medium. Silver, or gold, in the form of coins seemingly backed by a stable government, can be spent at a far better rate (i.e. has a higher purchasing power) than its bullion price as ingots. The Soviet imitations have evidently succeeded, as to date all specimens seen are considerably worn. The differences between them and the genuine are microscopic. It is highly likely that other dates have been manufactured and passed unnoticed. Fortunately for us, the quantities passed in this country have apparently been too small to disturb the economy.”

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    It is accepted that the 1923-D dime is nothing more or less than a struck counterfeit, made from skillfully hand-cut dies at some unknown time and place, but thought to have been possibly of Soviet Russia origin like numerous other modern silver struck counterfeits.

  12. 1 minute ago, txhorns said:

    So basically keep those coins and sell them for the silver value?

    The Morgans? I'd keep those until I wanted to sell them, and find a way to sell them directly to a collector for at least double the silver value. Remember to check for "CC", those might bring you a few hundred.

    Old quarters and dimes? Yeah, those are pretty much worth whatever their silver weight is unless you have some super-duper rare specimen.

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