I want to share this with all my students — posting it just before class: Just about a week ago, I stumbled onto a 2000 Wide AM Lincoln Memorial Cent, and correspondingly sent it off to be inspected by John Wexler, who is the Sherlock Holmes of Mystery Coins. In a minute, you’ll understand why I tell everyone I know who’s involved with coin search to visit and study his site! Here’s the letter I sent, attached to the sample:
Spooky Experience #14: You’ve gone through half a bank box of pennies with your Instant-Read “Gorby’s Magic Find Baskets”. Suddenly you realize that the entire top row, from 1959 through 1981, is empty, blank, zero, zilch. What’s happening? You’re just the latest victim of the Melt Frenzy. Imagine an entire bank box devoid of copper coins. That’s what I got last night, and that’s what you’ll get, too, now or in the near future, and at one point, there won’t be any more Lincoln Memorials in circulation. In my estimation, you have about a year to experience in-circulation FREE penny search before you can’t, anymore, ever again. Opportunity knocks. Answer the friggin door, willya?
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Got hold of a new error — it’s the double “VDB” — the initials of Victor David Brenner, the sculptor who was the first to put a human face on a US cent. The initials are double-struck, sometimes triple-struck. I have a triple in hand atm, but it hasn’t been microphotographed yet, so I’m putting a couple of photos of the 1969-S double VDB up for you to see. You have to know where they occur and all that. I have that knowledge, plus the knowledge of how this minor industrial accident might have occurred, where it happened, and where you’re most likely to find this powerful and rare Strike Error! Tune in to the ICW this morning for more info.
New release in the works, We Buy Gold — an incredible romp through wealth, fame and glory, plus a great finish with Mr. Buddha. You’ll enjoy it. You can market We Buy Gold on the CD, plus imagine the result of putting up the sale poster for this game in your shop window or putting it up for sale online — it is a videogame, so should properly be listed under “videogames”. It will be available as a download as well as on disk.
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You know the theory: you can’t get rid of a habit, like biting your nails or smoking — you can only replace it with another equally strong habit. Well, here’s a harmless habit, coinology coin-sorting, that will give you fast, fast relief from some of those more harmful habits. It’s so absorbing, so focused and so exciting (I’ll explain why it’s exciting in a moment) that you won’t be able to tear yourself away! Think I’m exaggerating? Ask anyone who’s tried coinology, then send for the kit and get started on this great new heavy almost unbreakable addiction — coinology! If you aren’t amazed by the results, send it back for a full refund. Cost of coinology kit? $99 bucks. Most popular comment about coinology? “It’s terribly addictive. I can’t stop.” I bet you can’t, either. Take that bet — you’ll be happy you did!
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When you send for my new coinology “Academy in a Box”, you will have in your hands all the basics that you need to get started working in a whole new, totally invisible world. You don’t need to think or to know anything to make this kit work. It’s a mindfully mindless task, perfect for those Dark Hours of the Night. The kit includes Practice Search Rolls for you to familiarize yourself with the process of search, plus all the bins needed for a Level 1 penny search. All the dates are clearly marked; you merely act as a robot, placing each coin in its appropriate container. At the end of this process, you’ll have a large number of very high potential search rolls that could easily contain mint errors; at the same time, you’re learning to NOT look where it can’t be found, thus efficientizing your coin search process and saving you a ton of futility and wasted time and energy. Efficient means that you’ll be using my “production line” search technology, which is fully explained, demonstrated and illustrated on the DVD that comes with the kit. You’ll be amazed at how easy and FUN it is! The starter kit will be available after the testing week just ahead. I’m trying to keep the cost down to $99 — not sure if I can, but I’ll try. If you can’t afford that, just get the DVD — I send you the tabs and show you how to make your own homebrew coin sorting rig, if you can’t swing the price of the papier-mache handmades.
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Tired of searching and not finding? Looking for dates and mint-marks that have been around the block too many times? Want to zig while everyone else is zagging??? Well, zag no more! Try my NEW tutorial video, “How to Find the New Mint Errors”, which opens up the whole area of shield pennies. This is an amazing new area, and will soon overtake Doubled Die as the ideal hunting ground for choice specimens. There’s plenty out there — nobody has searched these yet. The video is $39.95 and includes all the info and lots of visuals to help you get started right away! Even if you’re an expert coin-searcher, you won’t know these newly accepted varieties, so get on board today, while there’s still plenty to be found!
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Learn to “read” doubles and other coin errors at a single glance! With knowledge and brain-training, you can transform a penny into gold! Here’s what the Coinology Search Packs will contain… You receive my DVD on how to search that particular coin, plus a sample “Brain Training” roll of example coins of that exact date and/or mint-mark. You learn where and how to look for the error, then you’re expected to go out and get a bank-box of pennies and perform a “raw search” for the same coin, to be tested in the “Search” part of the “Sort, Search & Sell” strategy of Coinlogy. As outlined in the recent workshop, these are separate and distinct actions, and all three are required in order to activate the Contagion and Similarity Laws configured by your Matrix through the sort, search and sell actions of the practice of coinology. You’ll see my personal search treasures posted on the coinology website, to help you focus on the target areas of the coin for which you’re hunting, so you can understand exactly what it is you’re looking for.
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It’s finally ready for Prime-Time. That means testing, testing, testing, to make sure it runs perfectly right before uploading it. This Orb is a little different, and requires a steady hand and a bit of practice moving around in the Orb space. You are required to perform a series of Herculean Tasks demanding gaming skills. Sorry about that, but that’s really the way it is, and I conformed the game to the guidelines already existing and given in print in my book, “Alchemical Sex” (also available in Spanish) which gives the information necessary to understand the process, but you can run it without knowing what you’re doing and get some results, albeit relatively feeble to the knowingness type of approach, where you do your due diligence and READ THE BOOK! Taking responsibility for your own trip is part of the initiation process.
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You buy a roll of Lincoln pennies off eBay — they’re all the right date and mint-mark for your target coin, so you send for it and open the package, expecting 50 totally different coins; but then when you open the roll, you have exactly 50 copies of the exact same coin. This is great if the coins all turn out to be that special error-coin you were hoping to find at least one of, but with experience, you’ll know that if you buy a mint box of coins that are all the same date and mint-mark, the chances are excellent that you’ll have thousands of exactly similar coins on your hands at the end of a search, so you might as well just search one, and take the other 49,999 searches as written, eh?