You Got One Wish

well my genie gave me a 50 person out of 1 billion chronic health condition so were not on speaking terms. James

 

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Don't blame your genie. Every single one of us, bar none, exit this party at some point. Some of us just get a heads up on how our departure will play out. I'd be willing to bet most, not all, of us here on CT, above 55 or so, have some condition they didn't sign up for. Heaven knows I've got mine.

Enjoy every day. Thank whoever it is you pray to, or look to for guidance and inspiration for all the good things you've got in your life. Your 'genie' isn't to blame.

As Bobby McFerrin said, 'Don't worry, be happy'.

 

What an awesome bit of inspiration!

 

Actually I blame one of my Grandpas. He got in the thick hair line and ignored the good pancreas line completely. Lol. James

 

For me, probably something like this. Only a handful known.

 

Honestly... and can't think of something specific, but I'd probably say some kind of unique error, so even after I cash it in I'm still a permanent part of the history of discovering that coin.

Hey if you're going to wish, wish big lol. May as well be for something I can't possibly lose.

 

I could think of quite a few worth more (like that Aussy slab lol) but at the moment I got this pretty in mind

 

Nice But, the answer is Always More Wishes.
Not to be greedy but covering future wants
I'd like one of these though.

 

This coin is still owned by the Perth mint. Its melt value is about US$130 million. The mint has gotten a lot of PR value out of it, but that’s probably diminished. Keeping it around represents a loss of potential investment gain or business profit of about $13 million per year. So, if they keep it, will the annual PR value be more than that? Maybe. Unless they find a buyer for it, fair chance it will be melted in the near future. Mike

 

These kinds of things seem to be entirely for the PR and prestige of making "the biggest/most valuable coin" or some such. Is it technically/legally a coin? I suppose, but let's be real here: nobody in the general public can own it, it was never intended to circulate, and it would never realistically be used as a monetary instrument. It's a PR stunt, pure and simple, and likely it's going to be melted down as soon as they decide they need the gold more than the PR. I can concede that it technically counts as a coin, but I'm certainly not going to think of it as such.

 

Same here -- unless the Mint offers to donate it to me to add to my coin collection, in which case I'll say "yes, of course, I'll be happy to accept that coin."

 

I'd go you one better. My wish would be to own my own personal genie. Imagine getting everything you possibly could want.

 

Pretty sure there have been some stories written on that same premise. It never seems to work out well for the protagonist.

I think as part of my legalese I'd include a safety switch: "I wish that at any point in the future I will always have the option to say the phrase 'I WISH I HAD NEVER FOUND A GENIE', at which point all previous wishes and their effects are undone, and the entire universe returns to its exact state right before the genie appeared to me, with no genie present."

When I'm feeling down or hopeless, I can always tell myself that I've probably already done this, and so things aren't as bad as they could be.

 

Well if they're out of storage space I could offer to take it off their hands I suppose lol...

But let's be honest I'd be selling the thing to get more coins with the proceeds; if I was forced to keep it, it's kind of a proverbial "white elephant" gift.

 

Well, if it were the original Barbara Eden, then yeah! Loved her setup inside that bottle. Who needs coins anyway?

 

Hubba hubba!

 

$20 Saint Gaudens doesn't even have to be the 1933