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That's simply freakin' awesome!!! I'm hoping to find one of my coins some day on a woodcut illustration. Your coin is very recognizable and if the illustration is one of those that is true to life it should be easy to spot.

Buy that book! Like now, buy it!

 

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I'm with Carthago, find a way to buy that book! Maybe you could make a reasonable offer rather than the asking price. It's beautifully-bound, autographed and likely quite rare...AND YOUR COIN IS IN THERE!!

 

wow, ancientnut => if your coin is actually in that book, then buying that book would be worth the price of the book!! (having the sweet antique book + the actual coin = cha-ching!!)

... most of my coins can be found in MAD Magazine

 

That's true, there would be little point to including an erroneous description in a searchable database. A friend recently identified a misnumbered plate in the Cahn - Hess Haeberlin catalogue. That's something that could be corrected in a database.

My catalogue hard copies, however, will remain untouched - no notes, no corrections - for the same reason I don't watch "colorized" black and white movies. I like the charm of the original!

 

Her First Edition of The Hobbit

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As a Tolkein fan, I am trying NOT to drool over your 1938 Houghton Hobbit... Dang. That is super cool!

 

I do not have a 1st edition of The Hobbit (which is very cool), but I do have several Tolkien 1st editions on this dedicated Tolkien shelf. Yes, the second shelf is doubled, you cannot see the books behind the first row.

 

Haha! That looks strangely familiar! I do have a 1957 9th impression Hobbit, and a 1967 13th (with all the color and b&w), both by Allen and Unwin.... And a lot of the same books that you have. I wonder if coin collecting and Tolkien collecting naturally go together... or just collecting period.

 

Well, you Tolkien dudes got me all fired-up to show my Lord of the Rings set (sadly, it is only a second edition ... but it's still amazingly geeky cool!!)

=> Click on 'em!!



=> gawd we're geeks, eh?!! (and lovin' it!!)

 

Coolness at its geekiest... or Geekiness at its coolest!

 

Yes and Star Trek, video games, fast cars, cold beer, firearms, great dogs, MotorHead and all the other cool trappings of geekdom The Gods have put on our earth to make us happy geeks!

It's a known medical condition.

 

@Carthago You are correct but you forgot pens, comic books, comic book art, celebrity autos and...

You are also right about the medical condition. I confess I am a long time sufferer.

 

Sorry gang, but once I got snapping photos I couldn't stop myself!!

=> here are three super cool old books from our wonderful bookcase ...


"man, ya gotta click on them"



Chums is a fantastic ol' hardcover collection of "CHUMS, the weekly magazine for Boys" ...... it's a pretty cool old time-capsule!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chums_(paper)

 

Count me among the ranks of ancient coin AND book geeks. I have 24 books by J.R.R. and Christoper Tolkien. Perhaps more appropriately, I also have over 100 books on Greek tragedy...

 

Steve - Those are very interesting books I've never heard of! It reminds of Ripley's Believe it or Not which I liked as a kid.

Perhaps it's just me getting older and less optimistic about some things, but there was a sense of wonder, mystery and adventure about the world that kids used dream and read about when they grew up in prior generations. The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities looks fascinating and exciting to me right now and it's a 130 years old! It's exactly the kind of thing I would sit in bed and read as a kid.

Having everything at your fingertips with Google is a huge advance for mankind, but it's making us lazy and taking the excitement of mystery out of our world which is a loss IMO.

 

Ah, firearms... I have a bad habit of rebuilding them and tricking them out with cool bells and whistles... lots of fun and money.

 

Just an FYI => man, there is no end to the geekiness, eh?

http://www.colonialacres.com/produc...sup-tm-sup-fine-silver-coin-tax-exempt-152203

 

Ummm, hey ...

You US-dudes do know that Kirk was Canadian, right? (I'm just sayin')




Mind-blowing, fricken geek overload!!! (I love it!!)




I'm sorry, but that photo never gets old (so cool) ... RIP

 

Yeah, that is why he over-acted in EVERYTHING... had to compensate. SPOCK, however, was from Vulcan, USA.

 

Ahahah, good one ..

... but hey, I don't care what you say, Gandalf ...

=> any dude that scores Daddy-leading-man with young Heather Locklear wins the man-prize!!



=> my gawd ... yummy!! (I loved that chick!!)

Beam it up!!

 

LOL, not gonna fight that... She be a Bodacious Babe...
She was also in Spin City with another Canadian... Michael J Fox... you would THINK she would learn from her past Canadian mistakes...

LOL, BTW, you got me to capture the $20C Enterprise Coin! $20USD shipped...easy abscond - thanks for the Heads-Up!