Candaian -US Coin Wars

I see one in every Cheerios and Trix box in North America...better than the Cheerios Sacajawea.


Ruben

 

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Now here is the thing. Write this second, we have Moran Mania overtaking all the users on CoinTawk, (TM) Time Warner Inc, and supposedly that is because of the speller thingie.

By ignoring it all together I prove my veristility at language creativity and prevent such errors.

But my favorite thing is using the ipod wristwatch to photograph my coins on the park bench in winter producing exquisitely highly dithered images and to type with my 14 year old thumbs, which are destined to be surgically replaced when I reach 30, on the electronic touch screen keypad, and then demand to know the type, year and grade of my circulation discoveries.

Now I dare you to find any gramatical errors.

Ruben

 

Yes!



Infact, I propose the new monetary system, the chocolate standard.

 

Dang, so close!:smile

 

You argue with Fatima all day about the stupid Gold Standard while at Work!!

I want to work with you. Do you work for the Post Office?

Ruben

 

oh goody! Unix has had one since the mid-1960s. And then it highlight formats your text in EMACS. See how that has changed humanity. It forced everyone to speak English.


Ruben

 

Oh you leave yourself so open with that statement.........

 

One, I don't argue with posts anymore. Two, I am the boss, so all of the IT reports come to me.

 

I could still use the job...

 

Your using Mosiac?

 

Seriously, if you think about this, we might be onto something here. The next 50 years of quarters can be Flowers of America, each one scented by Este Lauder or Coco Chanelle.

This could be the thing that finally draws women into the hobby in a serious way.

Ruben

 

I just checked ebay for one of these glow dinosaur coins. One is bid up to $140. The RCM is selling them for $30. I tried to order but there "awaiting stock" and I could not order.

 

I wouldn't buy it for 140 bucks. I'd sell you one for that price though, if i had one.

 

BTW - your from Washington. Do you know your state is busy trying to pass a law that will make it take in raw gold as currency. Every Bureaucracy in the state will have to turn over.

 

As a 'Merican living in Canada since 1997, I am usually ashamed of the grannie-bait that the RCM puts out, as I am with this creature. Every once in a while, they will get something right and put out a coin that is both beautiful and merits commemoration, but they are few and far between. Almost without exception, you can pick up nearly every RCM NCLT product that they spew out 3-4 years down the road on the secondary market for 40-60% of the issue price (most exceptions being in wildlife series). RCM products are sold (within display cases) at every Canada post office, secondary mail center (usually the largest retail or drug store chain stores where the public can mail items or buy stamps), or coin dealer (via full-page ads in newspapers or numismatic papers. The RCM puts out a huge, huge assortment of NCLT crappola that, evidently, lots of people buy. I can only guess that when Aunt Martha or Uncle Fred goes to the post office to mail their Xmas packages, they see these bright and shiny trinkets and think that they would be just perfect for little Timmy from Santa. There is so much new stuff put out that the annual Charlton Canadian catalogue had to put out a separate volume every year just for NCLT. Just think about that .. a new Canadian Red Book every year, just for non-circ coinage!!

As a side note, the original newspaper article was quite funny and well-written ... which is surprising since it originated in North Carolina.... that's a joke as I'm originally from Okla.

 

As far as I'm concerned this is one war I dearly hope we lose.
I do know though that my ten year old son would probably think the glow in the dark coin is totaly cool.

 

"Prehistory meets high technology as the Mint uses its first-ever glow-in-the-dark collector coin to shed a new light on the lost world of prehistoric animals"

Oh goodie for Canada. But you know, they've always put prehistoric animals on their coins. It's called the royal family.

 

Not that I'm a royalist but ... what is so much better about a long row of dead presidents on coins?

Christian

 

Nothing as long as you can scratch them and then smell them. Polk is particularly interesting

 

Not much sir, which is the real trajedy since Washington himself said that this was exactly what we fought the revolution against.

Long live lady liberty, and put her back on our coins!