Here are a bunch of personal notes expanded from a short stack of Post-It notes by my coin-searching pad. I hope you can use this information to gain a better understanding of the technique and liberating technology of Soul-Searching and Sweep-Searching under the 3 Aspects of Coinology which together form the triple-faced Goddess of Coinology, Solaria.
If, on the other hand, you have a favorite god-form, don’t hesitate to assume it for your searches. So, with a lot more further ado than you might like to see, here are the aforesaid previously mentioned “personal notes”, which are, as I’ve already indicated, expanded from much shorter notes written on sticky note paper and plastered by the side of my coin search table and adequate Soft-White lighting.
The biggest hurdle in coin-searching is knowing exactly what you’re looking for, and that really is hindered by studying photos. They simply don’t convey the “feel” of the coin, and once you’ve had an example of that particular error coin in your hand, you’ll not likely forget it, and you can and will SEE the error, thus giving yourself the confidence needed that you WILL RECOGNIZE that coin when it comes up in a search. No doubt about it.
- BEST ODDS — These come in flips at $5 per coin. They are BoBs, which is an anagrammatic way of saying “Best of the Best”, and are in-circulation Lincoln Memorial and Shield pennies that I feel will bring top dollar in the marketplace — the actual retail prices will vary somewhat depending on what coin comes up. I select them at random, unless you direct me to create a set of error coins for your display. You get the coin in a flip. I describe the coin on the front side of the flip, and put a retail price-tag on the lower right hand corner of the flip, representing what I think the coin will bring, subject to your trading skills and deal-making. Feel free to change that price tag, but do take into consideration that it relies on established market prices on eBay and in coin shows for its retail estimates. Make no mistake, there is no better grade of coin at my desk than my BEST ODDS coin assortments. You can order any number of BEST ODDS coins, but please keep in mind that I do NOT keep track of what I’ve already sent you, so if you want to build a set, tell me NOW, and I’ll put one together for you — you have only to specify the number of examples you want in the pack, and I’ll endeavor to make them all different varieties of error. All in all, you’ll probably want the half-dozen or maybe the top ten most common errors.
- HIGH-GRADE ODDBALLS — These Lincoln Memorial and Shield Pennies come in a 50-coin tube which is wholesale priced at $50 per roll — that’s a dollar a coin — and are selected at random from my personal stacks of High-Grades. They are in fact the Crux of your Coin Searches, and form the basis for your retail shop. They serve as an inspiration to your customers — perhaps with a little training and a lot of luck, they can score as big as you’ve done, as evidenced by the displays of “found” coins at your Coinology Kiosk. You can find your own High-Grade Oddballs & Errors, or you can buy them from me at wholesale prices. They generally sell around $3-$5 up to $45 for the top grade unusual errors.
- SECONDARY ODDBALLS — These lower grade oddball & error Lincoln Memorial and Shield Pennies are priced at a mere $5 a roll for 50 coins, which is only a dime apiece. My best guess is that they’re worth anywhere from $3 to maybe $5, but some rare errors are worth a lot more, even in a lower grade. These are coins I put aside thinking I’d be selling them, so rest assured, they are all quite saleable, some more than others — it’s all about luck of the draw.
- RANDOM COIN PACK — This is a pack of 50 pennies that could be anything at all, totally random, no idea what’s in there, all for the low, low price of only $1 a roll, plus shipping, or you can get the same thing from your own local bank for half a buck. This particular paragraph is a gag, placed here just to see if you’re actually paying attention. If you are, please laugh to indicate that you got the joke. Thank you.
- AMULETIC COIN JEWELRY — I can send you a variety of coin jewelry, all of which is amuletic, some more so than others. The prices range anywhere from $20 a pair for sterling silver bezel earrings all the way up to 14k gold lockets, if anyone’s interested.
- DATE COINS — These come in packs of 50, at $2 a roll, any date you like. Date coin rolls are never searched, so there’s a chance you might hit a good error coin — I’ve found my share of 1995 DDOs and such. Since contemporary coins come to you totally unsearched, there’s a good chance you’ll find something in every shipment.
OFF-ZAFU MEDITATION is Coinology. What you’re doing anytime you perform one of my exercises or skill-drills, including guitar practice and coin search and more.
- CHILLING EFFECT — Practicing the Coinology Soul-Search has a “chilling effect” on you, making things go better, less tension, less apprehension, less misery.
- SIMPLE SEARCH — You can start out by performing the Simple Search, which is bright & shiny versus dull & dark, making two distinct piles of coins in two distinct grade regions. This simple search is a very effective beta block against overactive mental chatter.
- DUMPSTER-DIVING IN THE HIGHER DIMENSIONS — That’s what it is, Dumpster-Diving. Don’t ever look closely at the coins that come to you from General Circulation — they’ve been through a lot, and you probably wouldn’t want to know exactly what happened to them on their way to your workbench.
- 100% RECOVERY — When you’re gold-mining, you think in terms of percentage of recovery of the gold, meaning how much gold you got out, versus how much was in there in the first place. In Coinology Searches, you get the same effect when you apply the right procedures.
- COINS ARE DROPS — If you’ve participated in the Bardo Safaris, you’ll know instinctively exactly which drops you should react to, and which ones can be ignored.
- HOW TO LOAD A COIN INTO A FLIP — Open the flip so the glue part is up. Holding the coin with dry fingers, on the rim edge only, place the coin face-down onto the plastic window in the flip. Rotate the coin so it’s readable — “ONE CENT” should be visible and rightside-up. Close the flip and flip it over vertically, then write out your information as shown by my examples sent to you in your kit — um, if you didn’t order samples in flips, you can’t examine them very well, can you?
- HOW TO OPEN A ROLL OF PENNIES — It varies. Some you can open on one end, some you can break, some you have to make a harmless slice to get it to break. Once open, the coins can be shaken out by tilting the roll at a 45 degree angle, and tapping the roll against the edge of your workbench top. They should sort of slide out. Form them into five about-equal stacks.
- HOW TO STACK COINS — Watch a Vegas dealer handle chips and you’ll get the idea. You can easily move the rolls around on the velvet pad by moving the bottom coin first.
- HOW TO PUT COINS IN A ROLL — You don’t have to count them one by one if you have a tube handy — first count out exactly 50 pennies and place them in the plastic square roll tube, noting where they come to, exactly. Now empty the tube and fill it with raw, loose coins up to the same point. You now have a fast way to count out fifty coins, great for filling coin bags.
- HOW TO LAY OUT COINS — Put a stack in front of you on your velvet pad, then gently push them to the side and guide them as they fall, in an expanded line pattern, so that each coin has its own space, no coin on top of another, then turn them one by one face-up and rotate them so you can read the date and see the portrait.
- DON’T LUST FOR RESULTS — Relax, you’re not going anywhere. The whole point is to relax, slow down, insulate yourself from the world around you and dive into the high-attention needed to perform the coin-search tasks.
- BE HAPPY WITH SMALL WINS — You don’t have to hit the Big Prize every time, and in fact, if you DO happen to hit a bigtime coin, be real — you’ll probably want to keep it as a souvenir or as part of your display, or both, and rest assured that sooner or later, if you keep up the practice, you WILL hit it big, maybe many times.
- EACH COIN HAS ITS OWN UNIQUE PERSONALITY — I know you’ll think I mean this in some esoteric sort of ethereal way, but I don’t. I mean it exactly as I stated it. Every coin has consciousness and in fact, everything that exists in any universe has some form of consciousness, mostly higher than you’d think. Look at the coin until it regards you back, then “read” it for psychometrics and examine it for errors.
- SHUT OUT THE WORLD — In order to carry out a clean sweep search, you’ll have to shut out the world, meaning ignore everything around you for the duration of the search, unless it’s an emergency or there’s a tempting snack being served.
- HOW TO CLEAN A VELVET PAD — You can take the crud off a velvet pad with a variety of crud-removers, including a gimmick made for jewelers, which you can find at any jewelry or retail store supply shop.
- SHOCK OF RECOGNITION — This is the well-known effect of looking at something and actually SEEING it. The Shock of Recognition will help you find great coins in a heap of junk, the jewel in the lotus, Coinologically speaking.
- KNOW WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR — That’s tantamount to “Know Thyself”, and is pretty much the basis for your search. You can send for samples of what to look for, as described at the beginning of this article.
- DON’T BE TOO EAGER TO COLLECT A COIN — After a stunningly short time, you’ll be up to your eyeballs in “great” coins, and at some point, you may seriously consider building a storage unit right next to your Coinology studio. Only take in those coins that are worthy, and DON’T LOWER THE BAR just because you’re not finding any.
- NOT-LOOKING GIVES YOU THE EDGE — Knowing exactly which coins are not worth looking at will save you time and energy, and make your coin searches much more efficient and effective.
- ONLY BAG UP WHAT SELLS — Knowing exactly what will realistically sell on the street will help you prevent wasting money on flips for coins that shouldn’t be flipped. This comes with time-in-grade and no amount of book-learning or classroom presentation can be a substitute for personal experience personally experienced.
- GOVERNMENT LOTTERY — Error coins are sort of an unwitting and unwilling Government Lottery, in which you can cash in your losing tickets and try again as many times as you like.
- ROLL YOUR OWN AND SAVE — If you want to save the $3 you’d pay at the supermarket coin machine, you can roll the coins up into paper wrappers and bring them, one roll at a time, to your bank, if they’ll accept them from you.
- 100% SATISFACTION OR YOUR MONEY BACK — If you don’t like the coins the bank gave you, simply turn them around and buy another box, adding whatever the difference is between the original box, at 2500 pennies, and the box you’re cashing in, less the coins you kept for sale or display.
“It’s Just a Penny”
You can wear a ton of magical gear formed from a penny or more than one penny or a group of coins. They can be incorporated into many forms, from hat to glove, jewelry and fashion.
The fact is, pennies are ignored and considered almost worthless. The phrase, “Not worth a penny”, implies that a penny isn’t worth much to begin with.
With knowledge, you can transcend that ignorant state.
Some pennies are worth millions. I’m willing to show you how to transform your pennies into dollars, and that makes a lot of cents!
YOU CAN WEAR “INVISIBLE” HELPERS — they look just like ordinary coins, but they either collect or contact higher entities, totally invisibly to any casual observer.
- OFF-CENTER coins can help focus on getting clear of stuckness, getting out of the box and out of the boundaried regions of time and space.
- RPM — Re-Punched Mintmarks can be used to penetrate spaces, to clear obstacles and to connect with one’s Place of Origin, wherever that may be.
- ANNEAL ERRORS are coins that have a bubbly surface, which we call “Rhino Hide”, great for warding off the evil eye — Malocchio — and resisting unwanted influences, but mostly it’s that “Rhino Hide” Protection that we’re after from this variety of coin.
- TURN OF A CARD — Think of the search game as a sort of poker or blackjack or dice or roulette came, where there’s a winning combination up ahead of you, but it’s up to you to call it — if you miss it, there’s nobody else to save you from losing it.
- BE PREPARED FOR BIG SURPRISES, but ready for constant disappointment as well. Both are equal, if you’ve got the idea working right. The outcome is totally unimportant and focusing on money or personal problems won’t help the search.
- OPEN CHANNEL “D” — Keep the Time-Frame open with your SuperBeacon, Cloud Chamber, Matrix and Matching Ammy. Lots of good time-bending skills can come from this exercise.
- COLLARS AND PARTIAL COLLARS can be used to restore balance & energy.
- BROAD-STRUCK — These are rare enough that I tend to have them slabbed by PCGS whenever I happen across one, but as I said, they’re mighty rare.
- DIE BREAK — Die breaks can be found in along a time-line of breakage, from the very first signs of the break all the way to the fatal catastrophic collapse of the die and its replacement on the production line. Die breaks can be used to create the atmosphere for change from the present condition.
- RAINBOW — These are for Good Luck.
- CHERRY REDS — Deep dark cherry red tones are great for LOVE and ROMANCE.
- HOLEY PENNIES — Pennies with holes in them pop up every now and then, not all that often, but they do show up here and there over time. They are terrific for all sorts of “overcoming” scenarios where you have to overcome odds and the odds are against you.
- DARK ONES — These are great for RESISTANCE to any incoming crud, especially government crud. They can look really good, too — some of them have natural lustre to them with no alteration whatever.
- BUFFED — These are coins that I have personally put on the bench and made into jewelry items, hand-polishing them as I would any other jewelry metal.
- DON’T DO IT FOR THE MONEY — Really, don’t. It IS true that you can make LOT of money from coin search, all the way from searching bank boxes and pocket change to buying auction lots of unsearched rolls, but that mustn’t be your motivation. Keep your goals pure and clean, and look for the excitement of the chase, the thrill of the hunt.
- POWERFUL MATRIX MOUNTS — You can find powerful Matrix Coins in all denominations from copper and silver to gold, and they can be mounted in acrylic capsules and further mounted into a Matrix Board, which can then be housed in a deep black square ready-to-hang frame, blasting out into the space without anyone being the wiser. It’s just a display of some pennies. Just pennies is all.
- COIN TAROT — You can learn to read the coins like tarot cards, where error coins mean certain specific things within the context of the reading. Coins are dealt the same way cards would be set up in a spread.
- “COINO!” — Similar to BINGO, target coins mounted in flips and described on the flips, are mixed up in a hat, then pulled one by one and placed on a square board of 9 regions. Players match the called coins with similar coins only, until one player or several players get all 9 squares filled first.
- PORTAL POWER MATRIX — Set up a “Slider Portal” as we did in the Gallery, and you can expect to meet some strangers, some of whom will be stranger than others.
- PARK YOUR BODY — Just as you do in a SuperBeacon Session, park your body and use the minimum amount of arm waggle to accomplish the coin search.
- BUILD A COINOLOGY KIOSK — Get out there in your studio or garage and put up a table or two, each with its own coin display case, and fill the cases with coins you’ve found, plus coins you’ve traded for, plus any small antiques you’d like to get rid of.
- DO A “POP-UP” COIN SHOW — Get several coin show display cases and set up your own coin show, with the whole family pitching in as dealers.
- SEARCH N’ SELL — Just what it sounds like — search for coins, and sell them, plus sell your services to help folks learn how to search n’ sell for themselves. Help folks get out of poverty with this simple and easy system.
Now ask yourself the following question:
What kind of coin would a total stranger with no interest in coins and no time, not even a second to spare, be likely to instantly buy?
The answer is very simple and very predictable, if you know your humans of Planet Earth. It’s about them.
Trump isn’t the only megalomaniac in town.
Yes, the coin is ABOUT THEM.
You tell them, “I have your date”. You explain about “Significant Dates”, which include birthdays, graduation, confirmation, sweet 16, and of course, “when we met” coins, that carry the date the couple fell in love, or commemorating the date of the final decree of the divorce.
In short, any date is possible, and if a coin doesn’t exist that will serve, you can craft up an embossed metal thingy that will do the job.
Getting folks to resonate with their own past will certainly start to jog them out of their sleep state, if they’ve got a soul to stir.
Get on the job now. It’s cheap, easy and simple and did I mention the cheap part?
When you go to the bank to buy your $25 box of pennies, you’ll be getting the pennies, but consider them as a $25 rebate on a $25 purchase. How much cheaper can it get than that?
Time-Twisters are coins with a twist. Come to my next workshop to find out exactly how YOU can use and apply Coin-Knowledge with Coinology.
See You At The Top!!!
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