10-19-2011 12:39 AM
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.
09-07-2016 09:26 PM
09-07-2016 09:28 PM
09-08-2016 06:02 AM
@gairoberso0 wrote:
I need help. I have a 1901 morgan. VF condition. How's the value?
assuming it's a no-problem coin, $25-50 range...
09-08-2016 06:08 AM
it's a fact that one sold for that much... apparently at least two bidders thought it was worth that much...
is it truly *worth* that much? not IMO...
the short story: around 2006 a PCGS graded MS70 2003 cent went for over $13k on Teletrade...
09-13-2016 10:27 AM
Holas to fellow chatting board folks. Since Heron began chatting on the original
Coin Chat Board in January 1999 plus having mucho fun on this most recent version
of coin chatting, there have been many discussions about folks buying coins or bullion.
Actually we have discussed the fact that many folks buy gold coins & coin bullion not
knowing what they are buying. And not knowing the true value of said items.
Heron is going to report some informacion that he believes to be of interest.
If anyone disagrees, please contact the authors of this article to register any
complaints. Heron merely passes along the info.
Perhaps some of youse AARP members have already seen this article. Perhaps
not?
Article in the AARP Magazine August - Sept 2016 issue.
Article entitled 'All That Glitters...........' ,writ by Doug Shadel & Joe Eaton.
This article reports about a woman that saw one a those cable TV ads for gold
bullion. When she contacted that advertiser she was sold on buying 'collector'
gold coins. However, she actually paid $600 more than actual market value
for each of said coins. She purchased 14 $20 Dollar USofAmerigo coins.
So, she is out of pocket for $600 X 14. She did not know anything about gold
coins.
Should she have researched? Of course. However, one way to learn, and fast,
is to lose $8400 on one transaction.
And we continue onward trying to splain to folks about researching FIRST and
then buy.
Apparently we are LOSING this war against ignorance.
Makes one wonder what is being taught in schools nowadays.
Especially when high school chirren do NOT know where the name of the USA
originated. Amazing!
Regardos.
09-13-2016 10:38 AM
Hola Rottn: your post of 19 Octember 2011 - 2130: Some of us did manage
to find this chatting place after the original coin chat board was exterminated!
Hope you are having fun with coin collecting. Heron.
xx
09-13-2016 11:06 AM
@elheron-grande wrote:Holas to fellow chatting board folks. Since Heron began chatting on the original
Coin Chat Board in January 1999 plus having mucho fun on this most recent version
of coin chatting, there have been many discussions about folks buying coins or bullion.
Actually we have discussed the fact that many folks buy gold coins & coin bullion not
knowing what they are buying. And not knowing the true value of said items.
Heron is going to report some informacion that he believes to be of interest.
If anyone disagrees, please contact the authors of this article to register any
complaints. Heron merely passes along the info.
Perhaps some of youse AARP members have already seen this article. Perhaps
not?
Article in the AARP Magazine August - Sept 2016 issue.
Article entitled 'All That Glitters...........' ,writ by Doug Shadel & Joe Eaton.
yep... good article...
10-03-2016 10:50 AM
Holas coin & paper money collecting amigos! Another newspaper article of interest
but perhaps mostly of interest to Navy personnel:
Wall Street Journal 30 Septiembre 2016 Page A-2:
Headline "NAVY TO DROP ENLISTED SAILOR JOB TITLES".
Heron feels that this is taking Political Correctness a bit too far. The Navy has traditions!
Apparently the PC folks believed there were too many job titles that ended in 'man'.
[Radarman, Sonarman, Engineman, etc etc].
el Heron cannot imagine a Navy without Bosun's Mates!
This is really regusting [Opinion].
[The Radioman title was eliminated in the mid 1990s along with communications via
Morse Code]
Dos Exquis..
11-26-2016 02:39 PM
I NEED SOME HELP WITH THIS NEVER BEFORE SEEN ERROR IF POSSIBLE I NEED THE VALUE AND WHAT I SHOULD DO WITH THIS IT IS A 1990 D BUT THE D IS OVER (LOOKS LIKE ITS OVER A S AND THEN ANOTHER D)
11-26-2016 04:21 PM
not an error... not an OMM... damage...
12-02-2016 10:03 AM
I recently listed a 1914D cent that was removed because of a complaint that it was actually an altered 1944D. That I completely understand and had no idea it was such an item. I then listed it as what it was, a 1944D cent that was altered by having part of the 4 scratched off. This was clear in the title and bold in the description. Now my account is restricted and it was removed??? I clearly listed it for what it was. I have listed many coins that have dates worn off or love tokens made from dimes with an entire side of the coin ground off and those are ok???
12-22-2016 09:57 AM
22 Dec 2016 - 0950hrs: Yes, you got that correcto! elHeron-grande started on the original Coin Chat Board January 1999. Part of his ID was the woid Heron. The Heron is a large wading bird, standing about 6 feet tall. In addition to fish, they eat small mammals, snakes, birds, rats, mice, muskrats, salamanders, lizardos, and just about anything they wanna.
elHeron Grande watched a Great Blue Heron stand next to a ground squirrel burrow at the Surf City Central Park. The bird waited. He had mucho patience. And then a young ground squirrel poked his head outta the burrow and the rest is history.
The Heron swallowed that ground squirrel whole. Then flew off apparently happy as a lark [which is a much smaller boid]...!
el Heron Grande cannot say for sure but most chat board 'references' were in connection with Heron Grande. Such is life in cyberspace, ey?
Regardos Muchos.
12-22-2016 10:12 AM
22 Dec 2016 1010hrs: Holas fellow coin collectors! About the 1st week of October 2016 Heron reported the news about the USN eliminating enlisted 'job titles'. This was an issue created by a civilian appointee to the Navy Departamento.
The GOOD NEWS is in this article of the Wall Street Journal 22 Dec 2016 PAGE A7.
Headline: "Navy Restores Traditional Job Titles". Article by Ben Kesling & G. Lubold.
Summary: There was such an large negative response to the 'change' that the Navy Department back-tracked.
One Navy Vet was energetic in this move to restore job titles. He collected more than 100,000 online signatures to restore the system. Hooray for him!
Although Heron was in the USCoastal Guards, he can now restore his Radioman First Class stripes to the bulletin board in office. And now view those neat 4 'lightning bolts' representing electrical transmissions of Radio! Yeehaw!
We shall see how long this restoration will remain! Maybe with a new administration we can remain traditional for a few more years? Quizas? Quien Sabe?
Regardos.
12-22-2016 09:01 PM
@elheron-grande wrote:Although Heron was in the USCoastal Guards, he can now restore his Radioman First Class stripes to the bulletin board in office.
el Guardians de la Coast never pulled the boneheaded lets-remove-the-ratings-so-we-can-be-more-like-dogfaces-and-grunts move...
i never once thought about modifying my shadow box by removing indications of rate...
12-22-2016 10:38 PM
I Say Hi to All
And if a Gal can ,May I pop a cap also ! That was when I was lurking not posting.
The rest of the time I have Been learning from Him and all of the rest of you.Hope to start selling at the 1st of the year..
Infact I'm pop 2 something ain't right
Lindy