A cautionary tale from a longtime Numismatist

Fiction. And bad fiction.

 

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“If you drop a gold coin in mud, it does not lose its value.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

 

I think perhaps you should have told this person where to seek out the Mental Health professionals . Anyone that does this type of think is obviously deranged. Furthermore you forgot to mention how many of this persons coins did you hold on to . Did you bite the gold to see if it was real or not? . Next time keep this garbage to yourself ,and at least make up a story you might have people believe. Or keep it to something interesting , this type of story is full of it to the brim. Real men and women do not hide behind a Newbie name. It you cannot identify yourself , and it says you are a coin person for a long time , ya right . What next time you going to tell us you seen King Midas turning brakeshoes into gold?One other thing a urine bath would have showed up as acid on the coins at the TPGs . Go Figure!! Mind ya I did pick up a few crappy looking coins in my travels.

 

To TucsonBushwacker. Just keep taking the meds and you'll be ok !!!

 

Two of my sons were wrestling in a dispute over a quarter when the older one popped it into his mouth and a few seconds later swallowed it. Cost me about $125 back in the 1980s to have it fished out. Smaller coin would have passed, according to the doc, but a quarter was risky.

 

Probably was hoping to interest members in his "online coin blog" or at least rile up people so a few might get canned.

 

A novel way to tone coins.

 

Not really new at all, as I understand it.

 

All I can say is

 

Natural toning?

 

Wouldn't it be easier, cleaner and more effective (in terms of getting back at the community) to just drill a hole through every coin he can get a hold of.

 

Marketing idea to clean edited coins...

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I've eaten some un-natural chili that would have made any coin unidentifiable.

 

1 word...

acetone

mmmhmmm

 

We were playing the quarter game with beer in Tucson in 1980 and I swallowed one.
Are you saying it's still in my system after 38 years? I imagine it would have hurt like hell when I had an MRI 10 years ago.

 

lol