Over 11,000 Shares - Mashable's Story on Valuable Pocket Change

[TonerGuy]

I am somewhat surprised that they did a story like this and more surprised that more than 11,000 people shared it.

 

Mashable's Pocket Change Story...

 

Hopefully some of those State Quarter Collectors come back to the hobby when they turn 30... I am always trying to talk coins with YN and potential YNs.

 

Are you doing anything to help bring in YNs ?

 

What are some ways we can bring new blood into the coin collecting ?

[RWB]

Transfusions of the correct blood type, or at least plasma.

 

PS: A dead cat lying in the road will get 11,000 shared tweets...

[Conder101]

A Franklin half dollar? How likely are you to even HAVE a half dollar in your pocket change?

 

Up to $100 for a grease fill error on a state quarter? Only if you find someone else that read this article and wants to buy it from you for that. More like up to 50 cents.

 

The 95 DDo and the missing edge letter dollars maybe. But they missed another good one. How about the 1982 no mint mark dime?

[TonerGuy]

Up to $100 for a grease fill error on a state quarter? Only if you find someone else that read this article and wants to buy it from you for that. More like up to 50 cents.

 

Hey if it gets people looking at their change it might get more people interested in the hobby, which is good for all of us. I never want to see what has happened to stamp collecting happen to coin collecting.

 

And now the FB Shares are up to over 20,000. That's pretty good.

 

If I were an (online) dealer I would be doing a short video of that story and offering a reward for those coins no different than dealers like Max Mehl use to do. It worked then and obviously it will work again.

 

With social media it would be very easy for a dealer to get a huge following very quickly.

[RWB]

"With social media it would be very easy for a dealer to get a huge following very quickly."

 

Yep -- and lose it in 15 minutes.

 

Meaningful relationships of any kind do not develop through superficiality, "ButtBook" claims not withstanding.

 

PS: The dead cat has 117,000 plus an MTV offer.

[TonerGuy]

"With social media it would be very easy for a dealer to get a huge following very quickly."

 

Yep -- and lose it in 15 minutes.

 

Meaningful relationships of any kind do not develop through superficiality, "ButtBook" claims not withstanding.

 

PS: The dead cat has 117,000 plus an MTV offer.

 

How old are you ? I am curious...

[RWB]

... probably about your age maybe a little older. How old are you? Where do you keep your coin collection? When is nobody home at your house? Is a key under the door mat? What're your FB username and password?

[A.Phillips]

I am glad that the Presidential dollar is dropping in value now because I remembered when someone found the Presidential dollar without lettering edge back in 2007, they sell it for more than $200 on ebay (raw).

 

 

I haven't find any good from changes ever since though.

[TonerGuy]

... probably about your age maybe a little older. How old are you? Where do you keep your coin collection? When is nobody home at your house? Is a key under the door mat? What're your FB username and password?

 

I just asked about age. Dont overreact.

 

I just checked online. No, you're considerable older. Im 45.

[RWB]

UPDATE: "The dead cat has 117,000 plus an MTV offer."

 

The dead cat now has 122,000 FB shares, 22 BFFs and a reality show deal to replace "Sons of Guns."

 

Akkkk!

 

Someone tweeted that this was not Bill the Cat ...

 

At 45 you should know better that to trust FB or "social media" for anything meaningful....but, maybe I'm wrong about that.

 

Social media are an introduction - nothing more. What happens after that introduction is the important factor. New coin collectors will not appear from Tweetland, Candyland, or the Confederacy. "Meaningful relationships of any kind do not develop through superficiality..."

 

[TonerGuy]

 

At 45 you should know better that to trust FB or "social media" for anything meaningful....but, maybe I'm wrong about that.

 

Actually I do know better. I have clients, friends and business associates that have built multimillion dollar businesses from social media, Google Ad Words and SEO campaigns. I have several clients that have raised over $200,000 with Kickstarter campaigns. And of those a few that have gotten VC funding based on the lack of meaningful relationships from Kickstarter.

 

Social media is more than cat videos. Sorry, but you are simply wrong about this. But please go back and enjoy your cat videos. Dont let me ruin the Internet for you.

[RWB]

You sound liek the stock "investor" who never lost. For every example you mention, there are thousands of failures. For example Kickstarter has records of failed funding - huge numbers. The others you mention are all secondary or tertiary stories that began with exactly the non-superficial contacts mentioned.

 

But here's another use:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28952831

 

It's clear you "don't get it." Collecting tweets and shares is easy - keepign them is not. Enjoy the fantasy.....and hopefully enjoy collecting real coins, not tweeted ones.

[Conder101]

I am glad that the Presidential dollar is dropping in value now because I remembered when someone found the Presidential dollar without lettering edge back in 2007, they sell it for more than $200 on ebay (raw).

And when the 1995 DDO was first discovered they were selling for $270 raw.

[TonerGuy]

You sound liek the stock "investor" who never lost. For every example you mention, there are thousands of failures. For example Kickstarter has records of failed funding - huge numbers. The others you mention are all secondary or tertiary stories that began with exactly the non-superficial contacts mentioned.

 

But here's another use:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28952831

 

It's clear you "don't get it." Collecting tweets and shares is easy - keepign them is not. Enjoy the fantasy.....and hopefully enjoy collecting real coins, not tweeted ones.

 

There are thousands of business failures however the money is raised. Your point is well - pointless. And it is obvious you dont understand Kickstarter or social media.

 

You can stop trolling my posts. For a man that is so well respected and authors some of the most interesting books and articles on coinage, your forum posts fall far short of being even on topic.

[Afterword]

Cat fight! (Well, sort of.)

[FranklinHalfAddict]

You sound liek the stock "investor" who never lost. For every example you mention, there are thousands of failures. For example Kickstarter has records of failed funding - huge numbers. The others you mention are all secondary or tertiary stories that began with exactly the non-superficial contacts mentioned.

 

But here's another use:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28952831

 

It's clear you "don't get it." Collecting tweets and shares is easy - keepign them is not. Enjoy the fantasy.....and hopefully enjoy collecting real coins, not tweeted ones.

 

There are thousands of business failures however the money is raised. Your point is well - pointless. And it is obvious you dont understand Kickstarter or social media.

 

You can stop trolling my posts. For a man that is so well respected and authors some of the most interesting books and articles on coinage, your forum posts fall far short of being even on topic.

 

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