Was back in the states for Christmas, was channel surfing quite a bit, kept seeing those shopping channels, every other was was for coins. Was great, they always paired off a southern guy (meeyint cundition em ess sixty fiiiiiiiiiiiiiive) with a northern one (Moigahn dallah goigiss), holding up coins and tilting back and forth, back and forth, mostly with the new state quarters and Morgan dollars. Didn't see much of that a few years ago, why so popular all of a sudden? Any good deals to be had?
No. Good subject line though. The other night, I had 3 channels selling coins. And they sit there and talk everything to death. Then pause for a while. Then somebody awkwardly yells something out and it starts over again. 30 minutes later, maybe they move on to something else. The Obama coins available now are insane. I've seen de-faced Kennedy halves with Obama prints on them. The dollars of course. I even saw on one channel, what was 'highly touted' as the ONLY LEGAL TENDER Obama coin on the planet! And they had all 4,000 of them. A $5 colored coin from Liberia that was stamped with Obama on it and colored. Reverse was proof. WAS IN AN NGC HOLDER LABELED 'GEM PROOF'!! Also came with a DVD of his inauguration speech. ALL for $29.95! Can I interest you in a 1978 mint set? No!? Well how about 40 years worth of mint sets!? Would you like a PF69 Thomas Edison commemorative? No!? Well how about 20 years worth of MS69 commemoratives all in one batch for the low, low price of 600.00!? That's basically what I saw going on. Very uninteresting. If they cut the prices in half and started offering something different up every 30 seconds, I could handle it. Otherwise, it's just more bad tv I'm forced to pay for.
I don't know how you guys can even stand to watch that stuff. Every minute on the air means multiple people paying far over fair market value. It's really shameful. I wish someone in the mainstream media would shed the light on their practices.
Sinful isn't it? But like Barnum said....there's a sucker born a minute....or something like that.:smile
No good deals Czech but I DO love your typing of the accents. I read it and thought I was one for them!
"they sit there and talk everything to death. Then pause for a while. Then somebody awkwardly yells something out and it starts over again. 30 minutes later, maybe they move on to something else." Especially the yelling part, you gots that right. And what's up with Liberia these days, busy making coins I see? I guess we should stock up on Liberian poppy for the next time we visit, me and the missis, don't ya think? Always a southern guy throwing coins, usually sounds like my dad after a few drinks and another "Virginia Tech 1965-1969" story.
