(This thread may be slightly off-topic initially, but should become coin-related fairly soon.) Other people have posted "unboxing" threads like...
My wife and daughter are polite but bored when I show them ancient coins. I am polite but bored when they show me new shoes or clothes.
OK. That shut me up. LOL
Yay! That parody FINALLY GOT AN LOL! LOL
My point exactly. Nice coin jewelry, but poor coin choice.
Yeah. You didn't need to redact it. What's done is done. Still a nice lookin' ring.
HB2U, Bing! I thought you looked pretty good for a dead guy. Should've known you were still goin' strong, since I hear you every year around...
LOL! We beleaguered, outnumbered slabophiles certainly are an unrepentant and stubborn lot, aren't we? Great analogy. Me: "Look, I know this...
OK. I do collect hobo carvings and love tokens and other "creatively damaged" coins, so perhaps my knee-jerk reaction was a bit ironic. If you...
I will concede one other point to the opposition. NGC's white "prongs" also interfere terribly with getting good photos of a coin after it has...
You weren't kidding? You really cut a Caligula AE into a rectangle to mount it into a modern ring? Sorry, but that is indeed murder, in the...
I don't collect rings.
Please, oh please tell me you're kidding, and that you cut down a repro Caligula. If you're going to destroy an ancient Roman bronze to make a...
This was my impression as well. Certainly more deceptive than your run of the mill "tourist fake", but still looks "off" to me.
Boy, i sure hope it's fake and you didn't cut down a Caligula AE to make that! If it's real, I'm gonna go throw up. If it's a replica, I'll say...
I had no idea. I leaned towards Coin 1 based solely upon the overall softness of the devices, but didn't pick up on the differences in the...
Great coin! Nice example of a very cool type. I too was taken by this design. I only have half a dozen ancients in my present tiny collection,...
Et tu, jwitten? I recognize you from CU, and know about your propensity for toned gold, but didn't know you did ancients. Good, maybe another...
Well, there you go! Ken Dorney, a recognized name in the business! I only recently started posting here, but I recognize Ken Dorney. He is a...
This was the last collection I completed before I moved on to a "Box of 20". Even the slabophobes usually admit that it looked great this way....
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