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  1. 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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  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 1 minute ago, txhorns said:

    Looks like I have a bunch of Morgan dollar coins from the late 1800s to early 1900s.  Are those worth anything?

    I also know someone who collects all quarters from before like 1965 because supposedly the silver value is much higher than the coin value.  Is that true or is he crazy?

    Even ordinary Morgan dollars in middling shape can be sold for 25-35 each if you put in the work. If you just walk in a coin store, you will get 14-15 for them.

    https://www.alabamagoldrefinery.com/product/morgan-2/

    Check the part under the eagle and the wreath. If you see "CC" that's Carson City mint, and those are worth multiples more than the others.

    Your friend is correct about the old quarters, also dimes pre-1965. Their silver is currently about 10 times the face value. Half Dollars up until 1970 also have silver in them.

    Your friend may or may not be crazy, but he's right about the silver.

  11. 12 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Speaking of pee.

    My grandfather was a miner.  He would venture down into the ground each day and whilst he was working, he would chew plug tobacco.  There was a coworker that constantly bummed a chew from him, and my grandfather would oblige.

    One day, however, my grandfather had enough.  As the fellow miner came around, my grandfather said sure, then pulled the plug out of his overalls.  He then said hold up, turned around and took a piss on what was left of his plug.  He then handed it over to the coworker and exclaimed "that's how I keep it moist".

    Coworker never ever bummed a chew from him again.

     

     

    Bigdaddy Canecutter back in the 1920s was sitting in a train station, waiting to go to some factory job in Birmingham that probably resembled a pit of Hell.

    Rich Man comes up and asks for a chaw of tobacco. Bigdaddy gives him one. They get to talking, and Rich Man is looking for somebody to supervise a building project at a college in Montgomery. "Well hell I can do that" says Bigdaddy, and I guess he could, because that building is still standing and so are the others they built there until he died 40 years later, steadily employed at what might as well have been his own private fief.

  12. 10 - I am still driving my Geo Tracker because it's the closest thing to a 1990s VW Thing.

    20 - I am still driving my Geo Tracker because it's the closest thing to a 1990s VW Thing.

    30 - I am still driving my Geo Tracker because it's the closest thing to a 1990s VW Thing. A jealous incel husband sends a Facebook Murder Drone to take me out for banging his childless wife to help replenish the population, but my own wife knocks the thing out of the air with her eye-laser because it's my job to get all y'all's childless wives pregnant, and it's funny to watch my old ass thrashing around on top of a 400-pound 20-year-old.

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  13. Just now, Lone Star Horn said:

    The Chronicle can kiss my ass. The street is named after the river, like the rest of the north/south streets in the same area. The river was named by the Spanish, so there is no loop at the end, it is "lup-e"

    Same for San Antonio, named by the Spanish for Saint Anthony of Padua.

    And the Spanish word is originally mispronounced Arabic with an -oob sound at the end, which was the whole point of the joke.

    >joke<

    But we can be all serious n shit. Texas was also named by the Spanish, or at least they recorded what somebody told them. They didn't pronounce it Tek-sas, That's Anglo-Saxon, ie, Redneck Goober Shazam Shazam talk. We must end this Guadaloop-in-Teksas crazy mispronunciation talk.

  14. 14 hours ago, AggieFactFinder said:

    when we step away from all the other stuff, there is some good shit that draws us together:  Tiger at the Masters; Game of Thrones anticipation; Avengers at a packed theater; playoffs in your city- there is a lot that binds us.  No matter how small my role, I feel a part of it with others.  And that doesn't suck.  

    None of those things speak to me. I had no problem with you before, but after 5:37pm today. we are sworn enemies.

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