Crossing Of The River Styx

From my earliest memory I have been a coin lover. Today is the first time I felt I have become a true coin geek.

 

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Re. the title of this thread. At first, I thought it was a death notice as no one returns from crossing the River Styx. Hopefully you have many more decades before crossing the River Styx. At least you will have enough silver to pay Charon the ferryman.

Your epiphany of becoming a true numismatic geek is more like crossing the Rubicon where Caesar said "alea iacta est" (The die is cast).

 

Dang!! You are correct... The Rubicon was the river my aged brain pan was looking for.

 

In Dante Alighieri's version of hell, Charon ferries the dead from Limbo across the river Acheron to the first level of hell. The river Styx was located in the 5th level of hell and was guarded by a giant monster named Phlegyas.

 

But it could be death from the old world or ways of actually having a life to the New World of Geekdom. Oh, and crossing the Styx makes you a "coinback." Get it? Shellback, Coinback? (geek laugh)

 

Now that was catchy.

 

What happens if Charon discovers his pay coins are Chineese fakes? Does he bring you back?

 

He just drops you in the river.

 

Coin Hell is trying to identify VAMs for 1921 Morgan Dollars.

 

While the stamp collectors' choir sing Air Supply songs.

 

First Rule of ancient stuff:

Understand Latin.

My knuckles are still deformed from being smacked with the dreaded Ruler of Brother Benningus, all those years ago.

That sucker was 14' long, as I recall. Well, it seemed that way. He could always count on me as a target of opportunity, and executed a historical number of successful attacks against me.

( I am just here for the Likes . Soooo....click away. It is true, though).

 

I got the ruler for audibly eating my lunch in kindergarten class. It damaged me for life. Just ask my kids.

I often wish I had a delete button in my brain to eliminate all the useless information that has my memory cells at capacity. I can recite all the 60's and 70's cigarette jingles.... Taste me taste me. Come on and taste me.... I'd walk a mile for a.... Well, you get the idea.... I have no room left in my brain pan to learn Latin. Hard enough to learn how to walk with a cane.

Oh, and there is something wrong with the CT software. I was only allowed to give you one like.

 

Were you sinister or dexter? Sinister kids got whacked to force them to the dexter side.

 

Fun coins Randy!

 

I was ambidextrous. THAT is a CARDINAL SIN in a Catholic School at that time. What made it worse was that it was in Paris, and they already were pizzed off at Americans and our heathen ways.

 

Is it worth it? Are they worth more if identified?

 

Meh some have a premium, I guess, but most don't. Due to the higher mintages there are a ton of VAMs for 1921 Morgans. There is a point where you will go cross-eyed trying to figure out which of the literal 210 varieties of die scibbles your coin can be. For some reason there are a bunch of varietes of actual die scibbles between the eagle's legs on the reverse. And that's just for the D2 hub reverse. The D1 hub reverse has it's own bunch of die scibbles.

Oh and the difference for D1 and D2 reverses is the number of berries on the wreath. Either 16 or 17 berries determines the reverse hub.

Here's a link just for the 1921 P Morgan varieties at VAM World:
http://ec2-18-221-104-31.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1921-P_VAMs

If you're really bored there are varieties where you may need to count the reeds on the edge too.