I’m currently creating a bunch of $50 1000-Coin Family Christmas Specials for about a dozen folks who took me up on my offer to pre-clean the batch of coins, meaning I’d take out the obvious crud and coins beneath grade, leaving only those coins that would be okay in an album. What you end up with is the same bank box of pennies, minus the crud. Whatever you were going to get is there for you to get. Nothing of value is removed, no matter what it might be, even a 1909-S VDB. Continue reading
What’s in a Flip? A coin by any other name, of course. A “flip” is a cardboard coin holder with an inert material “window” so you can see both sides of the coin. The ones I use are self-sealing, totally archival, coin-friendly and virtually indestructible by anything short of tearing one apart with bare hands. What do you get when you get a coin mounted by me in one of my hand-written flips?
There are some secrets I just won’t share online; this is NOT one of them. It’s about grading coins that go into albums. There just isn’t any point, and I’ll explain why:
Photo by EJ Gold for Lou Shaw’s MacBird, Player’s Ring Theater, Hollywood, 1967
Objective Prayer is the specific action taken to arouse the Shekinah and to announce oneself in that Presence. Once the Shekinah is present, the tech you learned using the Oracle Orbs will come in handy. How is the Shekinah raised using coinology? Once you have the rhythm of the coinology coin search, with the appropriate background sounds, it is possible that the Shekinah will make an appearance; this will generally be experienced as a space-change in which the hands and arms seem to have a life of their own, and they also seem very, very large — impossibly large, light-years across. There will be other Signs, not necessarily Cosmic — such as a tingle at the back of the neck. This is the time to make your contact and any appeal or question you might have in mind for this Close Encounter with the Shekinah. Such encounters are not all that rare, if you’re a steady coinology practitioner. Sooner or later the Spirit comes over you, and that’s what you’re after, right?
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Collecting coins toward a goal always means that in the end, you have to join a club, go to a swap meet, check out eBay and other online coin auction houses, meet people and talk to them about coins, all in order to find that Ultimate Coin you’re hunting everywhere for. Of course, you can buy it instantly at a high, perhaps ridiculous and out-of-reach price, or you can find it yourself. One way to find a great coin is to build toward it. To build, you must have a blueprint, an overall plan, within which are smaller sub-sets, called “Strategies” — designed with your goal and purpose in mind. Here’s a quick rundown of Basic Coinology Collecting & Trading Strategy:
Here is a wonderful Holiday stocking-stuffer, just the right size, the right “look” of luxury, the right emotional appeal, and the right price, only $9.95!
Gastown in East Side BardoTown, looking South toward the Overpass.
I took this snapper of the partially completed BardoTown, which is getting a total overhaul to accommodate the particle stuff in the new GODD engine. I’ll be working on BardoTown for a few weeks, hoping to get it ready for a holiday download day. I’m guessing December 1 for a release date. You can snap your own screenshots with F4 and use the shots as screen-savers. That’s how I’m using the above screenshot on my game-writing computer — this month. Yep, every month or so I change the screenshot according to Objective Whim.
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Would you know a good deal if you saw one? If you’re like most people, when it comes to pennies, they’re just these round things in your pocket or purse that you try to get rid of because they’re only good at a checkout counter when you’re using cash, which is rare these days. Good deals in pennies are rare and they are Out There To Be Found — but you have to know what you’re looking for. Most folks don’t see anything at all when looking at a penny, even bright and shiny versus dull and brown or downright rusty green and the date and mint-mark go completely unnoticed. Hey, nobody pays you to notice these things, so why do ’em? Actually, you could get paid for sorting and inspecting coins, and paid rather well, but you can’t just drop your line in the water and expect the fish to jump up into your basket and season and pan-fry themselves, which is today’s Great American Dream. Tune in to the ICW and we’ll talk. Bright & Shiny does not equal Mint. Learn to see.
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This is an investigation into the Brane-Power enhancements and mental/emotional benefits that stem from coinology as a Zen Practice, apart from the obvious emotional benefits of calming, patience and intense concentration. Let’s look at the actual steps you’ll take to prepare a coin for market, on eBay or in a shop or at a fair or festival or outdoor market, or swapmeet, or Tupperware party in order to understand how it works. The specific brain-power increasing steps are: Bag It, Tag It & Flag It. We’ll look at each step in detail:
