How much should you charge for your painted coin flips?
Depends. One measure is the value of your painting. The other main factor is the actual cost of the coin you’ve inserted in the flip — not what you originally paid, but today’s market for that coin in that grade.
Categorically, “pretty okay” coins are going to measure up more or less like this:
Yes, if you know how to do it, you can double the value of your money — at least the collectible part.
Here’s the deal:
You buy a coin for, let’s say, ten bucks. Then you hold it for a couple of decades and bring it back to your coin dealer. You’ll get at the maximum, five bucks for your trouble, but if you deal with wholesalers, as I do, you get a QUARTER of the price back, because they have to wholesale it for half, see?
So you’ve got some coins, but they aren’t very rare, very scarce or very desirable. In fact, they fall into the category of “junk collectibles”, which are things that only a collector could love, and for which the market is very limited. Continue reading
When it comes to deriving the maximum enjoyment and benefit out of the upcoming workshop, you’ll be able to wring out a lot more of the good stuff if you have a couple of things around the house before the workshop actually happens.
One of the things that will definite enhance your experience is a Godd Particle.
I’m planning on demonstrating Bardo Communication and Guidance, and if you have one of those handy, you can install it on your computer or work it directly from the USB. Continue reading
That’s right, you heard me rightly … “What war?”
I’m not buying it. I respawned in 1941, we’re fighting a world war in Europe and another one in the Pacific, and it went on for years, and then the Korean war started right after that.
People who can’t get along are not going to survive the asteroidal impact in 2026 — there’s barely enough time to act now, and by the time they do, the technology won’t be there to handle it.
I have a one dollar bet on it back home in the 37th century. Not SIM dollars, a real Federation Dollar, and that means I can finally go on that dream vacation I’ve always wanted to go on, but I haven’t been able to dream up any destinations, so here I still am.
Yep, I’m still here, 80 years later, carving coins and painting flips and stringing ancient beads into modern fancy necklaces, because war or not, we have to make a living. Continue reading
Yes, we’re in the earliest stages of a full-combat civil war, neighbor against neighbor, family against family and brother and sister against brother and sister, but that doesn’t mean you have the time to put on the brakes and get off the planet, and it surely doesn’t mean to go buy a blue or grey uniform, at least not right away.
First of all, it’s blue and red uniforms, like the teams — and secondly, the only war I’ve ever recommended is inside a computer gaming engine, like the Godd™ Engine, or the engine driving Diablo 2R or the one behind TF2.
Real shooting wars are stupid.
First of all, nothing is solved. At some point, negotiations are still necessary, and even dictators don’t always get their way.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I have, when my reflexes were a lot better than they are at the age of 80, challenged the top gamers to duels and matches, and have managed to secure the title of “Runner-Up” in a number of two-player games.
I’ve even played against Tokay and Thrush and other early gaming champions in Quake and Doom style arenas. Continue reading
The coin above was made at the very beginning of the United States of America, and is one of the rarest of its type. The price is designed to give room to the next owner to resell it at a profit.
Problem is, you haven’t a clue what the hell I’m talking about, and that will remain your condition until you achieve COINLIGHTENMENT, which may be never, unless you can MAKE yourself become interested in the subject, but why on Earth would you do that?
You’re already busy, and have no time for frivolous pursuits like coin collecting — but it isn’t coin-collecting — it’s achieving a state of knowledge that can have incredible rewards, some of which are in personal wealth, but many are along the line of personal enlightenment and spiritual attainment, all from the study and trade of coins.
What you’re looking at here is an 1826 Capped Liberty Bust Solid Silver Half Dollar SLABBED into a circular coin-friendly acrylic capsule and foam shockproofing, then mounted on a handpainted fibrecraft box, then cleverly daubed with glitter-glue.
DO THE MATH — This coin was made and issued in 1826, only 14 years after the War of 1812 when the British marched on, and burned, the White House, along with some of the city of Washington, until the rainstorm came along to stop it.
So where the hell are the British today? Are they any better off? Think about it! Only fourteen years after the war of 1812, and how many after the War of Independence, often incorrectly referred to as the “Revolutionary War”, just as “The War Between the States” is often quite wrongly called the “Civil War” — it was anything but civil.
We’re now on the eve of the Second Civil War, and I’m trying to get a handle on which coins will be collector’s items in the future — I only know of the few examples that have survived into the 37th century, which is where I actually am, communing with this ever-so-quaint 21st century SIM of Planet Earth which you call “The Real World”.
Pardon me, while I laugh. (ref: Twain, “Connecticut Yankee” op cit.)
There’s more to all this than meets the eye, but you need to know a little history in order to successfully collect, trade and/or deal coins, and if you’re making the coins into coin-topped snuff boxes, stash boxes, trinket boxes, notion boxes, collectible boxes or super-saturated overdecorated mini-treasure-chests, I have the answer. Continue reading
Yeah, I’ve got a whole new product in my hands tonight — A guaranteed authentic 100-year-old VERY VINTAGE U.S. 1920 Lincoln Penny sealed into a protective acrylic capsule which is then mounted on a tiny papier-mache box to make a small and intricately designed “Trinkets & Treasures Box” or what is commonly called a “Memory Box”.
You’d keep small personal items that belonged to a person, place or time in there, which creates a powerful bond with the space-time config that is the source of the memorabilia. Continue reading
What is the “Best 20”, anyhow???
I completely understand your puzzlement and wonder — and I’ll be only too happy to explain:
You send me $25. I go to bank, “buy plenty wampum”, to quote Stan Freberg, meaning I get a $25 box of U.S. in-circulation business-strike pennies from the bank, bring the box home with YOUR name on it, and begin plundering the box on your behalf.
Why? For money? Continue reading
If a coin that touched an Extreme Error Coin is lucky, how lucky is an Actual Error Coin? That’s what I’m offering — actual error coins in State, Parks & ATB quarters.
Here’s what you’re looking for in a quarter search:
