I’ll be walking into Foggy Mountain Music in Grass Valley a few days from now, bearing a pair of “Duke Ellington” U.S. Quarters earrings and a matching “Grand Ol’ Opry” Tennessee State Quarter pendant that sports Nashville style musical instruments.
I could just as easily make a pair of earrings that features American Naturalist John Muir, at Yellowstone National Park, with a matching pendant or complementing locket with an Alaskan Bear or a Mountain Goat.
You’ll find everything from the first Kitty Hawk Wright Brothers airplane to the latest space orbiter on the state, national parks and America the beautiful U.S. quarters.
There’s a new Gold Rush going on, and I’ll bet you don’t even know about it, and chances are that if you did, you wouldn’t be interested, because you’re in no position to take advantage of it.
The fact is, the New Gold Rush is happening right in your very own pocket or purse, and you are very much in a position to do something about it, right now, this very moment.
Look at the change you happen to have on you or around you, if any. Some folks never do carry change, so if you’re one of those, you’ll have to go out and get some.
You’ll want to do that, anyway, if you’re serious about searching quarters.
Takes more effort, energy and commitment than pennies — and a hell of a lot more money to get started, at LEAST $500 to buy a box of quarters will be your startup money, and frankly, you’ll really wade through $1,000 fast when you’re first starting out.
You’ll need several items before you begin your search:
- VELVET PAD — Up to you how large or small, but what really counts is the quality and feel of the REAL French velvet. You want your coins to slip & slide easily without spilling and dumping all over the place.
- #7 MAGNIFYING “SNOOP” — This can be the Opti-Visor, which is designed to fit over your regular eyeglasses, if any, or another brand you might prefer.
- QUARTER COIN WRAPPERS — These can be gotten from the bank, within limits, or ordered by the thousand online, at a price you can certainly afford.
- GOOD LIGHT — I use a 60 Watt Soft-White incandescent in a LUXO lamp, riding about a foot ahead of me and at about eye-level.
- JEWELRY BENCH — Not required, but a good bet if you want an EASY time of bending over a more or less continuous stream of coins. I like them right up there in my face, easy to see and easy to evaluate, generally without the need of the loupe.
- DROP BOX — This is right nearby, on your left, if you’re right-handed, ready to receive those many dozens of wrapped rejects, those quarters that didn’t make it off the wheel, re-wrapped by you, and now ready to go back to the bank, back into circulation, perhaps to return again next time somewhat more cleansed and purified, eh?
- 2×2 CLEAR BAGS — Small bags into which the better coins are dropped & sealed, with the reverse to the “front” of the bag, the side that doesn’t have the glued strip.
- 2×4 CLEAR BAGS — Marketing package into which the smaller bag goes, along with the backing card.
- BACKING CARDS — These are business cards you’ve had made up for the purpose of providing the customer with a way to replenish or replace or shop or browse. Make sure it has your website as well as your facebook account.
- BOX OF QUARTERS — This will set you back $500, and don’t think for a moment that you’ll get that all back in paper bills, because you won’t. You’ll be taking out the coins that are worth selling, and those need replacement with new cash. Don’t leave holes in your source coins, make sure it’s always a full box from the bank, to insure a good search.
There are a few other items you might need, but those will get you started.
Besides the obvious products, Chess Sets, Checker Sets, Backgammon Sets, Tic-Tac-Toe Sets and Memory Builder Sets and the pendants, lockets, earrings, charm bracelets, key rings, money clips and other jewelry, you’ll be perhaps surprised and amazed and delighted to learn that there are a ton of FINDABLE error coins among the State Quarters, National Parks Quarters and America The Beautiful Quarters.
Some of those errors bring big bucks, like this one:
There are a variety of mint errors common to both the quarter and the cent, notably the “Struck-Through” kinds, that were struck through some material, profoundly affecting the image.
This very coin might have easily passed through your hands without your notice.
If you want that to change, you’ll have to work for it. First thing is to train the eye to SEE THE COIN, actually SEE the coin, which takes a while, in spite of your egoistic self-confidence that you’ll see it right off the bat.
I’ll take long odds on that.
Learning to SEE THE COIN takes a few days or weeks, and even then, it’ll be YEARS before you see the subtle details.
I know what you’re thinking, and you’re absolutely right.
You can certainly learn ENOUGH to get by, to earn some extra bucks and to do some good around the planet.
It’s true, but it won’t be enough — at some point, you’ll want to go pro, and in order to do that, you’ll have to embark on a veritable orgy of seeing.
Seeing is different from looking.
Seeing what you’re looking at is the trick. Actually focusing and zooming in on it, making it the temporary “center of the universe”, the thing around which all other things turn.
In short, the coin is God.
Well, if not THE God, perhaps a god with a lower-case “g”??? In any case, make it important enough to take a moment to regard it fully.
You’ll note that it has a grade, or condition. It should be easy as pie to determine the grade. If there’s not a single scratch, buzz, flake, scrape or ding on any part of the coin including the outside of the rim, you MIGHT have a decent coin.
Finding an error in such a coin is worth plenty plenty money.
But what are you looking for???
$1,000,000 DOLLAR ANSWER:
Anything unusual.
I know it sounds too broad, but it isn’t — this concept is predicated on your complete experiential base of several thousand quarters you’ve already searched just to get your skills up.
You need to really know what is normal, before you can spot the anomalies.
But what to do with the non-error coins??? Simple solution is to extract the goodies from the pile of well-circulated trash, and isolate them into piles of “ready” quarters, which can be used in jewelry or other applications, such as pocket charms or space protectors.
These coins have plenty of “amuletic” juice, because they carry images related to special sites, such as Gettysburg and Chaco Canyon, where you will find working Trans-Space Gateways, commonly known hereabouts as “StarGates”, although the description hardly fits the actuality.
Gateways are pointless links in the framework of the universe, the thing behind the thing, which is correctly called “The Grid”.
When you shake one part of The Grid, you shake it all, which is how these things work for Remote Healing, my specialty.
REMOTE healing is directed through “Deflectors” and other simple psychic tools, some of which can be constructed of thought-forms, and some actualized in matter, which is to say, slowed-down-light, which is what this whole universe is, slowed-down photons, but relax, it’s totally mostly under control, now.
It wasn’t, before.
It wasn’t, before, but it is, now.
Hang on to that elusive factoid, as we march or lurch along on the Road to Shibboleth, or wherever we end up in this bizarre and unpredictable gaming level called “Planet Earth”.
Your focus in the quarter search is to find great beautiful coins to make into jewelry and game pieces, and that’s the entire scope of your inquiry and your efforts.
That doesn’t leave a speck of room for local events, politics in particular, and that goes double for sex and religion.
Unless the country in which you live has been taken over by a ruthless dictator, ignore all local shit, just let it pass, take no active part in any of it.
If, however, a tyrant does take over and start pushing YOU around, YOU in particular, there are certain steps that can and MUST be taken, among which is to join the POG at the Gallery and get yourself into a different life-stream, one that doesn’t contain a direct threat to you and your family.
Right now, that path includes the gallery, so get into it fast and stay in it, hunker down until the emergency has past, which will be sometime in 2024, then again in 2036, then finally in 2054, the so-called Year of the Jackpot, in which a lot of things come together.
Then again, some things don’t ever get assembled, and that’s why YOU are here, to remedy that by putting two and two together to make five.
It’s so simple.
Find not just “good” coins, but “great” coins, “fabulous” coins, “amazing” coins, and set them into jewelry findings such as pendants, charms, amulets, talismans, rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces, and sell them to get them distributed around the planet as far as possible.
They form a network of “Imbued Items” that make their way to Nexus Points along the Essence Network, which is what we’re trying to accomplish, before Trump’s Folly, which is right around the corner.
I just wish I could openly say what’s going to happen, but nobody would believe me, anyway. One thing for sure — the same outcome will happen, no matter who’s in charge.
It’s not about personal choice, but about plot development, and this series has to go another season.
We’ve got a contract with the Network.
Hopefully, you can eke out a living by selling your found error coins, jewelry and pocket charms, or you might stumble into a marketplace that has been waiting for just such an item as yours.
If you’re into marketing, you’ll be delighted to learn that there is a set of Civil War related quarters as well as a Revolutionary War set that I’ve produced for the Peg-Boards.
You can get a Peg-Board set up with a variety of subjects, or one single subject, or random subjects — they all run the same price, which is $300 for 100 fabulous high-grade quarters for jewelry or collecting, which includes the framed pegboard and 20 special marketing pegs, plus of course 100 incredible quarters for your shop, booth or kiosk.
You don’t want to lose the income from the ordinary coins, however, so take care to locate the best of the best in your bank box — anything that has absolutely NO flaws whatever will do the trick, but you can take coins JUST SLIGHTLY short of that, if you wish, for some applications, although for the games, you must have “PERFECT BOTH SIDES PLUS THE OUTER RIM”.
After a while, you’ll come to realize that totally perfect coins ARE available to you, but that they may take a while getting to your work-desk, perhaps months, if you search a box per night, as I do, and sometimes more.
Out of a single bank box of 50 rolls of 40 quarters each, a total of 2,000 coins to pass through your hands each night, you’ll typically get a yield of about 100 usable coins, meaning perfect in every respect.
Problem is, it’s always the same coins.
Well, not the EXACT same coins, but similar coins, as in “Ellis Island” or “John Brown’s Fort” piling up in huge stacks all over your workspace.
You’ll end up with a million of four or five recent issues and a few that are outside that short list of easily-found high-grade coins.
What I mean is, the most recently produced coins will be the freshest and best-looking of the bunch, while the older coins will tend to be more corrupted, more eroded, just plain tired and looking forward to a recycle bath and another pass through the mint press.
That’s the fate of most, unless they take active steps to arrive in better shape into the present space/time discontinuum, about which we’ll talk much later.
In the meantime, get busy making your shop — here’s how:
- Arrange a bunch of “raw” coins in clear bags on a pegboard. Do several with different themes, if you’re able to do so.
- Arrange a few special coins in your aluminum showcase, and include some examples of the jewelry you can produce with coins, or get mine and use them as sales tools — be sure to put a few fancy bezels in there as well as key rings & money clips.
- Get a supply of bezels so you can mount the coins right then and there in front of the customer and hand it to them to take home, thus eliminating the need to have an example of every kind of coin you have on hand.
- Put a mannequin bust on a pedestal or table, showing a pair of earrings and a necklace of your making, featuring the plain and simple “coin-edge” bezel.
- Find a place to show and tell, and sell and sell and sell and sell.
By the way, the fastest way to make a sale is to get the customer to take the item in hand. Once done, the sale is made, unless you manage to say something stupid to screw it up — otherwise, nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong.
I’ll be putting out a guide to magical uses of state quarters, with examples of healing coins, voyaging coins, helping, teaching and enabling coins, empowering coins and more, so watch for it at your local Coinology Center.
For a complete list of currently operating Coinology Centers near you, send a sealed self-addressed letter to yourself.
See You At The Top!!!
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