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Revenant

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    Revenant

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    1 hour ago, ColonialCoinsUK said:

    Wishing you all the best - take care.

    I hope you are all able to get some sleep in the hospital, I could never sleep in a chair and everyone couldn't wait to be back in their own beds!

    Thanks. They have fold-out beds now that are OK but I find the real problem is the constant nurse and doctor visits and the constant nuisance alarms from wires getting disconnected.

    Revenant

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    50 minutes ago, Just Bob said:

    I couldn't hep but chuckle, seeing the awards announcement ranking right up there with Christmas and your anniversary.

    I am glad your family is doing so well. After what you guys have been through, you deserve some good times.

    Yeah... Pretty tongue-in-cheek to list it but it bridges the gap between New Year's Day and the Anniversary so I'll take it!

    Revenant

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    14 hours ago, thisistheshow said:

    He was SHOCKED when he saw how big those bills are!! Take care!! 

    P-91 is the most zeros ever printed on a note but I don't think its the highest denomination. In the 1940s Hungary printed notes that were I think 1 million or 100 million "Bilpengo." Their currency unit had been the "pengo." A "bilpengo" was a "Billion pengo," and I THINK at the time they were using a now antiquated meaning for Billion wherein a Billion to them was a Trillion for us. They used "Milliard" for Billion. So, if I read up on all this right, "1 million bilpengo" was "1 million trillion pengo." They just didn't print that.

    Revenant

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    On 12/17/2020 at 10:02 PM, thisistheshow said:

    I haven't posted here in a bit @Revenant but I wanted to share a story. I help with homeschooling my middle child, and he is always curious about economies, money, different things. He put forward to me the crazy scenario of ever seeing a one million bill. My mind immediately flashed to your collection as I explained to him about hyperinflation. I even showed him some of your posted notes, and he was quite impressed! 

    That's awesome! :) Glad it's doing some good and getting used like that. It captured my imagination 12 years ago and I've never forgotten it.

    Coinbuf

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    5 hours ago, Coinbuf said:

    I am quite sure that @Revenant is correct and the old registry system interface is way on the back burner.  I just hope that when the new NGC/ANA system is introduced it can address all the issues the new registry has.  Which is not to say that the new system is not better in some ways because it is, just that I hope they are able to take the good from the old and new and create an even better registry experience.

    The part that worries me is PMG still has no new registry, just the old one. They still haven't announced any plans or timeline to make one, but they're increasingly dropping the old system. I like the PMG side too - especially with my Zimbabwe hyperinflation set.

    Coinbuf

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    6 hours ago, deposito said:

    Thanks guys.  last couple years I just remember seeing banners about it on the collection pages, I figured maybe they weren't doing it this year for COVID or something

    I think they just had their hands full and it was a lower priority item to have a counter. If you use the old site like I do often it may also just be that they're supporting Collector's Society less and less in favor of the new Registry.

    Coinbuf

    Posted

    I find that I quite enjoy writing about things I'm knowledgeable about and which I enjoy, which is probably good considering writing reports is a big part of my job. I 100% agree with you that none of what I write is art - I often find I'm rather self-indulgent, going off on tangents sometimes that I'm sure many don't care about and digging into details. I do a lot of dialing myself back sometimes. lol 

    I hold the record for the longest report where I work, clocking in at over 2400 pages - but I only had about 400 of that. Most of the rest was automatically generated results / data outputs that had to be documented in an appendix. lol 

    I hope your sets do well this year! If not, there's next year!

    Revenant

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    5 hours ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

    Almost,

    That's a really neat coin by the way, goes really good with the notes. That depiction of a bird (or one very similar) is one of the watermarks on the notes right? You can't beat the price and first place to boot.^^

    The most likely sets to have a chance at "worst of the best" are world countries, circulation issues (no proofs or precious metals), moderns and registries with only one participant. Also a minimum of one coin in the set. Using those criteria I started at the bottom with Zimbabwe and worked my way up, found a tie in Vatican City but found a new champ in Thailand and stopped.

     

    Ah.... well, nuts. lol

    Thanks. Yes. It looks a lot like the type A watermark used until 1994. :)

    Six Mile Rick

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    Again, I'm very sorry to hear about your loss. We all deal with this stuff in our own ways. I can't imagine having lost a life partner heading into this year, when person-to-person contact has been at a premium for many of us. I really poured myself into my Zimbabwe note set in 2019 because work was slow and I needed something to focus on that was more positive with Sam's birth. It sounds like you've chosen to focus on a new business, which is / can be good and positive and constructive.I know my wife is the first person I usually talk to about my collections and new purchases I could see that becoming bittersweet and having pangs associated with it if I lost her / that aspect of it.

    Keep trucking, man. Maybe you'll find your way back to it and find joy in this again after some time.

    Coinbuf

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    1 hour ago, Coinbuf said:

     

    I plan to spend some time this weekend trying to finish up all the descriptions but there is a ton of info I still need to add and I may run out of time unfortunately. 

    Enjoy the family if you can though. :)

    I have a note coming that is supposed to arrive in the mail Monday the 30th. I have a description pre-written for it and my fingers crossed because it would be a very nice last minute addition to my 3rd dollar set.

    Coinbuf

    Posted

    Somehow I knew what this was about when I saw that title (not the specific sets but what you were eligible for). ;)

    You're clearly doing this wrong though. You're supposed to put all of your hopes and dreams into one set / basket and set yourself up for disappointment. lol 

    The discussion about reconfiguring your penny set is interesting given the conversation we've been having in the Registry forum.

    Revenant

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Just Bob said:

    Ben really has grown! He doesn't even look like the same boy.

    Facebook has that thing now when it will show you old posts and photos from years ago and I'm always amazed by how much he has changed in 1, 2 and 3 year timeframes.

    He is as big as his 7 year cousin and it's hard sometimes to remember he's only 4, but mentally / developmentally he's definitely still only 4.

    Revenant

    Posted

    1 hour ago, dleonard-3 said:

    We're all pulling for you and your family.  Hoping for the best for all of you.

    Thank you! :)

    1 hour ago, Just Bob said:

    I hope everything is okay with the little guy.

    Have you ever tried Wizard Coin Supply?

    I don't think I have heard of them. When I hear Wizard I normally think of a company I used to buy comics from. I may have to look into them the next time I need something. Thanks for that.

    We got a few mixed messages over the weekend. They initially were going to do a revision and were prepping him for surgery and then an attending put the cabosh on it. We thought his shunt had slipped further and that his ventricles had enlarged further but what we didn't realize was they were comparting to his scans from 2019 and it is unmoved and his sizes are stable when compared to his scan from earlier in 2020. So, while the shunt has slipped and the placement isn't as good as it could be, he seems okay for now and behaviorally / developmentally he seems to be doing fine. Which is why they aren't concerned enough to do anything for now. Yeah, he stopped talking and responding to us for 20 minutes at home but they didn't see that and it was just 1 event that, even if it was a real thing, might not be associated with the shunt / intercranial pressure, so they're not going to jump to a shunt revision. So I guess we'll see how he continues to do. So, really no change from before, he just decided to scare the mess out of us.

     

    Revenant

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Six Mile Rick said:

    I stopped collecting coins a year ago when my wife passed away. Sold some dimes to Geof and Sandy Katz to help with the mortuary services. Thanks to them all went well financially.

    I'm very sorry to hear all of that.

    12 hours ago, Six Mile Rick said:

    I check in once in a while to see how everyone is doing. It would be nice to read more journals than those that have been entered this year. Far and few in between.

    I probably would have been posting more over here this year but Covid lockdowns have limited some of my ability to do some coin related things with the boys that I otherwise might have and I've been posting a fair bit about my Zimbabwe note set on the PMG side. That has been a major focus of mine for 2 years now and I put it with PMG to not bother those not interested.