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impalajohnny · ‎10-19-2011

Hate the discussion board format? Wish there was a place to have a running chat like in the old ebay chat rooms that they took away?

Here is the solution, one thread devoted to chatting about anything and everything about coins all in the same place.

Post whatever is on your mind. There is no official topic here. So let's get the chatting started.

elheron-grande · ‎01-23-2014

Hola TDZ: Your post 23 Jan 2014 at 0546: A lot of good info there! el Heron has been consuming Italiano foods for 77 years, mas o menos. Starting at age 20 el Heron began to consume mucho Chinese foods along with the Italiano. Then at about age 44 el Heron added MUCHO foods de Mexico to the 'mix'. Mostly the 'genuine' meals of Mexico. The Fajitas Camarones cooked with natural pure lard, etc etc. Keeping the salt intake down also helped. El Heron feels lucky to have passed the actuarial table average life span. How much of this good fortune can be attributed to the above listed food types is unknown. However, whatever was consumed might have helped el Heron reach this age! ha! [Of course it also could have been all the foods with 'preservatives added' that helped add some years?. Who knows? Quien Sabe?]

Regards,

xx

elheron-grande · ‎01-23-2014

Added commentario: In addition to being somewhat healthy, by staying with a diet of Italiano, Chinese, & Mexican foods, el Heron now weighs 1 pound over what his weight was in first week of Sept 1956. Although, as mrs. Heron remarks, gravity seems to have shifted some of the poundage, nyuk nyuk! Regards,

xx

us2014.coing · ‎01-24-2014

i have a yellowstone coin that is silver but its realy shiny not like a reg silver quarter and has two small shallow holes drilled in edge or rim of it directly stright across from each other can somone help

@mcdcoins wrote:
Hey.

ted_200 · ‎01-25-2014

Could have been drilled for a mounting, or for a "spinner". Can't say much about "shiny"... polished? proof? A platinum plated coin from a promotional aftermarket set? Pics would help...

The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves.

ejtrilbee · ‎01-25-2014

Can anyone decipher dates on Israeli coins? Thought I ask before posting photos.

Found this site: http://www.collectionstudio.com/en/datescalculator/hebrew/ that has a calculator towards the bottom and was able to translate one as1957 but the next date I tried came out as 2355, plus, I have some with an inverted F that not one of the letters. Something's not right.

be back later...

gacooke · ‎01-25-2014

several of us can

"climate is what we expect weather is what we get"
M. Twain

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*smedley* · ‎01-25-2014

boy, wouldn't it be good if someone would put that info as it relates to coins into some sort of hard or soft copy that was available for purchase so people could have that knowledge at their fingertips?

oh wait...

ted_200 · ‎01-25-2014

@*smedley* wrote:
boy, wouldn't it be good if someone would put that info as it relates to coins into some sort of hard or soft copy that was available for purchase so people could have that knowledge at their fingertips?

oh wait...

Yeah, but I still struggle with Israel dates... between them sometimes dropping one of the digits, and the differing font styles, it takes me longer to figure it out than Chinese cyclical dates. However, in case someone DOES have access to a Krause, it's at the beginning of the Israel section...

The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves.

impalajohnny · ‎01-26-2014

@ejtrilbee wrote:

but the next date I tried came out as 2355

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3cjJTxp4EA

ejtrilbee · ‎01-26-2014

Johnny man, you gotta cough up those hairballs.

ejtrilbee · ‎01-26-2014

@gacooke wrote:
several of us can

That’s great Gary. I’m going to start a thread and put you guys to work.

“Yeah, but I still struggle with Israel dates”

I hear ya. I read that the same letter can have two meaning (4 or 7) depending on how its written/read.

I played for a while but came up with too many future dates.

gacooke · ‎01-26-2014

@*smedley* wrote:
boy, wouldn't it be good if someone would put that info as it relates to coins into some sort of hard or soft copy that was available for purchase so people could have that knowledge at their fingertips?

oh wait...

what smedley is hinting at is that Krause makes it easy by providing a page with the actual AD date, the Hebrew version as written on the coins in Hebrew numbers and Hebrew date in Arabic numbers. It makes it a lot easier.

"climate is what we expect weather is what we get"
M. Twain

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ejtrilbee · ‎01-26-2014

True, I saw that page in which my book had 1948 thru 2005 but there are certain letters (number combos) on coins that were not shown in the krause table.

I exhausted that avenue and the calculator before posting on the board. Perhaps my eyes deceived me but time will tell.

ejtrilbee · ‎01-26-2014

@*smedley* wrote:
boy, wouldn't it be good if someone would put that info as it relates to coins into some sort of hard or soft copy that was available for purchase so people could have that knowledge at their fingertips?

oh wait...

Here's what I'm talking about. Do you see the date below in your krause? I found all except the 2nd to last in my 2004 book.