RonnieR131

So much to do on the way back, I'm going to have to skip the baseball cards. Besides, I plan on getting an antique bicycle, and don't you just know I'd end up clothes pinning the baseball cards to the frame, angled into the spokes to make that awesome flutter noise.

Oh yes, count me in. Thanks, good man. (Going to the garage, continue to work on my time machine. Rocking on 70, and don't care if I return to the present)

Non valuable lincolns, acetone. Everything else, no touchee.

I used the ignore function on myself, but after several hours I changed it back. I realized not only did I like myself, but I'm the only person I trust, and I'm my own best friend. I missed me.

I know, their auction magazine is a little better, but not much. Buyer paying 20 per cent juice deserves better pics for sure.

This was my lucky coin that I carried in my pocket in the late sixties to flip 'heads or tails'. This is also the first coin I ever saved, the same coin I posted a picture of in kbbpll's thread 'your least recent acquisition'. When I got dressed, pocket knife and this coin went in my left pocket, lighter and motorcycle key in my right pocket. If they weren't there, I didn't feel 'complete'. I can't remember when it disappeared, about '71 or so, but I found it in a cigar box a few years ago, and memories came rushing back. Luck.

Back on track, I tried to ignore myself and it wouldn't work. Software.. Still have to listen to myself singing in the shower, off key, and can't remember the words. Pitiful.

gmarguli, I don't know if you're Superman or if your slightly evil. With eyesight like that I wish I had you in my tackle box when I go fishing so you could help me tie lures. You almost had me thinking I saw 1946 as well, until I sat back, then I could plainly see 1948 D over D.

Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and just when you thought all sounds were covered, along comes Eddie Van Halen with another new twist on sound. A great performer. RIP.

My brother got tired of discarding all of his mechanically doubled coins, and after about 20 yrs., in the mid 90's started throwing the most extreme ones in a plastic bucket. He knows his stuff, knows they're 'no counts', and knows they're not acknowledged by anyone. He's never been confused about any of them, no wishful thinking at all, a realist. On a rainy day a couple of yrs ago he went thru them, discarded about 75% of them, and kept only the extreme of the extreme. He put them in cardboard displays, denomination being the only organization, not dates or anything else. When he gets the rare chance to show off his legitimate coins, sets etc., het gets congratulated. Then he said, when he shows his extreme 'no count' unrecognized common mechanically doubled pieces, guess what? That's the ones that get the all of the attention, oohs and aahs. Then he has to explain to the ones that are non collectors that they are worthless and why they are. Many are as good as the 1920 example above, and some even more extreme. Why am I bothering to say this? Because I already know the neat collection he has, studied them several times, been there done that. When I go to his town to see him, the first thing we ask is to see his 'no count' pieces. Fun and interesting! So ac80, the ones that aren't real doubled dies, the 'extreme' ones, save them anyway, you won't regret it.

I agree with Coinbuf, an oddity to hang on to, and labeled explaining exactly. Just curious Greg, was that mint mouthwash with or without fluoride? I'd have cleaned him up and made him smell good as well. Nice find.

I just received The Maurice Storck Collection catalogue from Heritage, and several pieces displayed were AU details 'rim damage', and even more were AU details 'cleaned'. Displayed with pride. I like that. "Cleaned', hell yeah.

Congratulations! It's nice to here someone getting a random deal like that, kind of like 'advanced' roll searching. A lot of people got good deals last night at H Auctions when the live bidding closed during the presidential debate, the numbers just seemed to freeze, hammer prices were nice.

Is ‘55 doubled die in this bad of shape worth the cost of grading?