Holy Land Relic Pocket Charms. More than that. Ancient Jewish, Roman, Greek, Egyptian and Medieval Holy Land Relic Pocket Charms, which means that the Air-Tight Archival Acrylic Pocket Charm sports a lump of silver, gold, bronze, stone or terra-cotta; some item of daily use, that was around during the time Jesus walked the Earth and the Maccabees ruled the Jewish World; and that means Christmas and Chanukah, in case you hadn’t made the marketing calculation. And what’s more, each and every 2,000 year old ancient Holy Land Relic Pocket Charm carries its own Certificate of Authenticity. As a matter of fact, the relic will date prior to Jesus’ birth, thus guaranteeing that at least theoretically, it is possible that relic was carried by Jesus or by one of his disciples, because it was in circulation during his lifetime.
Relics of this period are hard to find in the first place, but because of the tense situation in the Middle-East, anything is hard to get and expensive by yesterday’s standards.
I am able to find the very best, as well as the very cheapest. The Time of Christ Jewish coins wholesale at $20. The 2,000 year old Roman coins run $10 wholesale or $20 for the better coins.
If you would like to market my personal collection of ancient relics, in the form of Coinology Pocket Charms, I can supply them at wholesale in fairly adequate number at a slow but steady rate, as long as the supply lasts, but it won’t.
At least it won’t in relation to the type of ancient coins that I can still buy on the open market. Typically, we’ll have a “dry period” of a few years somewhere down the road, and prices will soar and I won’t be able to fulfill orders, so get ’em while you can.
Ancient coins never get more plentiful, just rarer and rarer, because they tend to vanish into large collections if they’re good coins, and if they’re not handled with knowledge, they tend to vanish onto the shelves and into the counters of the Salvation Army and other Thrift Shops.
I can see throngs of folks heading toward their nearest thrift shop to see if they can find some ancient Jewish coins sitting in a box somewhere obvious. It won’t be.
Random searches don’t produce income.
That goes for anything, but it’s especially true when marketing. You have to have a ready, receptive and eager market to sell into.
If you have to educate your buyer, you won’t sell enough to stay alive.
What you will be able to sell easily is something they already want. Most of the year, they don’t want anything like ancient relics, but at Christmas, Easter and other meaningful holidays, they do think Otherwise.
These Holy Land Relics sell, and they are very popular. Check on eBay and Amazon to see what I mean.
Graduation time has its own rewards, and there are appropriate coins and other ancient relic and modern coin Pocket Charms on hand for Weddings, Funerals and Bar and Bas Mitzvahs, Baptisms, Confirmations, even an ancient relic appropriate for a First Date with either sex. The Roman coins are very good for gay relationships — the Romans had no problem with gay marriage, and I have a few very expensive but stunning and high-grade Roman coins featuring famous cross-dressing Emperors.
Egyptian relics are also available, mostly from the Eighteenth (XVIIIth) Dynasty of King Tut, all guaranteed authentic, and they come in a variety of flavors, gold, silver, electrum, precious gemstones and terra-cotta clay, some of which is more expensive than the gold.
Want something in pure gold? Nothing beats ancient gold for sheer eye-appeal, and I do have several Pocket Charms featuring repousse and cast gold dating to about 2,000-3500 years ago, and some even slightly earlier, about 4500 B.C., which comes out to about 6,500 years old.
I try to limit the gold relics and artifacts to those not likely to be subject to melt-down when the price of gold goes above the relic value, which is a tragedy to the art history world, but it happens all the time, especially to U.S. gold minted coins.
Pocket Charms are great to carry — they’re like “worry stones” and they’re smooth and nice to handle, rub for luck or just carry to ward off evil, and as long as you stay within the bounds of common sense, they’re cheap and fun to give as gifts.
Personally, I use my Banish Tiger Pocket Charm to banish tigers. So far, so good.
And furthermore, my Pocket Charms, even the most ancient ones with pre-money trade beads dating back to 40,000 B.C., are relatively cheap.
Because all my artifacts have been in-country for over fifty years, they’re a lot cheaper than they would be if I had to buy them today. Sure, I lose money from inflation, etc. but I really don’t care — I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I have no use for in-game currency. All my real deals are conducted on an interdimensional version of eBay.
Someday real soon, you’ll have scientific evidence of that, but you won’t be able to trade on the Big Net until you stop your wars. I’m getting great long-odds in the InterDimensional Sports Book, that you won’t.
But enough chit-chat. Let’s get to Brass Tacks:
The average Pocket Charm will cost around $10 but it will carry junk relics.
At $20 the relic will start to look good. At the $25 wholesale, the relic will look damn good. At $45, the relic will have some serious attention from coin collectors. At $100, you’ll have reached the max I’m willing to go to produce a Pocket Charm. After that, the relic is far too collectible to be placed in a Pocket, Purse or Pouch.
However, I’m a Reasonable Being. I’ll listen to reason.
If you want me to make up a very expensive and sexy Pocket Charm involving a $3,500 Gold “in the name of Alexander” Stater, you got it. No problem. Now, if you want his dad, Phil the Second, tucked into a Pocket Charm, we’ll have to talk. I have a better idea how to achieve the result, without risking the expensive relic or coin.
Oh…did I mention that some of the gold relics are tiny statuettes of Diana, Eros, Priapus and other Greek and Roman deities? Well, they are. They measure typically around half an inch or about 13mm in length. They are miniature masterpieces.
I have one tiny ancient silver statuette of “David” from antiquity. It is probably Roman, about 1st century B.C.
If you’re interested in some of the more elegant relics that could be Pocket Charmed, you’re invited to visit these websites to select something:
jewels of ancient lands
vaults of time
I also make parchment Pocket Charms, and Inscribed Metal Pocket Charms — the metal can be anything from Hobby Metal all the way up to solid 24K gold. If you need amulets in 14k gold or sterling silver, I make them, too. It takes me about two weeks to make a twisted-wire gold ammy. I can fit virtually any coin into an amulet, from a tiny dirham all the way up to a $20 St. Gaudens, although I don’t recommend gold coins for the short term collector.
One incredible Pocket Charm I just recently constructed was a Healing Charm with a relic from the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It sells for only $35 and is guaranteed authentic.
Another interesting Pocket Charm contains a relic from the Via Dolorosa, the street along which Jesus dragged his cross, from the Antonia Fortress to what is now the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. I personally collected these relics in 1963-64.
Yet another type of Pocket Charm features a relic from one of the ancient Neolithic Stone Sites around England.
Still another contains a relic that was actually carried by one of the Knights Templar around 1100-1300, guaranteed genuine and psychically “hot”.
Okay, one more to get the flavor of what’s offered here — how about a Pocket Charm containing a coin from Middle Earth? Yep. Guaranteed authentic, Celtic relic from the Old Danubian Forest, at about the actual geographic point where Tolkien placed Eriador on his Map of Middle-Earth.
I can’t resist adding just one more that I thought of. How about a Pocket, Purse or Pouch Charm featuring a rare silver coin from the Island of Lesbos??? Rare, yes. Almost impossible. Those who got my few remaining Minotaur coins from Ancient Crete should rejoice. There are none out there at this time, nor are there expected to be. Gone, gone, gone.
It’s impossible to keep current on the website; coins and relics go faster than they can be photographed and listed. If you have an idea for a Pocket Charm, ask. I’ll post what I can, but they don’t last long when they’re listed. Most of my ancient relics are the kind that haven’t been on the market for many decades, so there’s a lot of interest from collectors as well as Magic-Users such as yourself.
One sure-fire cheap Pocket Charm is made from the 2012 penny; it runs only $1 apiece, when I have time to make them; you have to order 50 at a time to make me get out all the gear to produce them, but how many stocking-stuffers do you find at a dollar? Well, at the dollar store, I guess hundreds. Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.
Ancient relics or plastic? That is the real issue in gift-giving.
See You At The Top!!!
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