The guidebook we all need

Stole this from the r/coins subreddit, thought it was appropriate

 

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Now that made me laugh.

 

Obviously the author has no idea what they are talking about. All those pictures on the cover are clearly mint errors and are worth a lot of money. I showed this picture to my local coin stores and my at least 42 friends and they all agreed that they were mint errors.

 

Totally.

I run a FB page on Korean coins. By doing this I have learned that some people around the world use FB as their Google, so I get all kinds people from all over the world posting blurry images of chewed-up South Korean coins that look like they came out on the losing end of an axe fight with the text, "Hey mang, how much dis worth (in my country's currency)?"

I alleviated this problem somewhat by posting a quick-and-dirty "rarity" guide with "$$$, $$, $" symbols as a key to values.

Seems to have worked, as these kinds of posts have dropped off in the last week since I created that "value guide."

 

I swear, this would NOT be a bad book to publish.

At least online. All we would have to do is keep the link to it handy.

 

Excellent. I'll pass though and wait for the cliff notes on the youtube channels.

 

That was hilarious!

 

I’m sure reasonably priced as well!t

 

Holy. Freaking. Crap. That is the funniest post I've seen in a very long time.

 

Anyone have the first edition? Gotta complete the set!

 

Now that is hilarious right down to the author...

 

Ha!! I missed the author.... so great!!

 

Me, too!

"Now with even blurrier photos!" The author must have stolen some of the photos from CT. I'm always amazed how someone can take a clear photo while holding their cellphone in one hand and a loupe in the other.

Chris

 

Too bad you didn't think to author this. You could have made a fortune.

 

The book would practically write itself. Just collect all the error threads that get posted here on CT.

 

Honestly, I've thought about making a couple of threads like this. I would like to make it required reading before someone is allowed to post. I'd really like to have an "entrance quiz" where people have to read a couple of threads about common questions and problems, make them answer some questions about what they read and what their road-rash coin is. They'd have to pass the quiz before they were allowed to post. I think it would significantly improve the average quality of the threads on this site.

 

I was thinking the same exact thing.

 

I'll get to it boss. There will be quite a few. A very extensive list

 

Simply imposing a minimum post count before starting a thread would help lessen the problem.

 

Well then, it'll need to be one of those oversized 'coffee table' books.