Be still, my heart

I wasn't really expecting to receive this envelope today. I almost ran out of the post office after signing for it....

 

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I wonder what ancient treasures lurk within that envelope. Hurry up and photograph for us whatever ancient beauties lie inside.

 

You know, collectors of moderns sometimes keep their coins sealed in the envelopes. They enjoy them with their imagination. Maybe you could try that?

 

These days the standard CT post is from someone who knows they won a coin by watching the lots close every ten seconds or so and posts a seller photo of the conquest even though it might be a moth or two before the thing arrives (assuming the post office does not lose it). I don't post wins until I have them in hand because three times this year I would have had to retract it due to loss, dealer bait and switch or selling the same coin to two different people on two different venues. What I see here suggests to me an empty envelope body bagged by the post office with a note apologizing for what was lost when it was ripped open in the machinery. My wife says I am a pessimist. Until you show us what was in the bag, I'll not know whether to be happy for you or not.

 

In this case, the "body bag" that Doug refers to is attached only to the envelope's backside, and contains the customs declaration papers. The envelope feels pretty heavy. I really think there are coins inside!

 

Thats me, if it isn't in my hands, I don't post it. Thats why I always make reference to a new post coin being 1 or 2 months old.

 

Do a striptease. Remove one layer at a time and post the pics. Make it last baby.

 

Yeah, I'm one of those who posts of a purchase before receiving it, but that's only because I'm exited to share what I bought and why I bought it. If you do not like it, too bad. To each his own.

 

OH YEAH....lets see what under that manila envelope next!

 

Gifts from the Swiss Coin Fairy!!! Yeah!!

You must have been a very good boy indeed. Hopefully, it didn't cost you one of your Adult teeth!

 

Plural!!!!!!

 

Sometimes, when a manilla package arrives. I clean my office, Windex the glass top desk, make myself a cup of coffee, set out the appropriate referenecs, turn on the lamp, pull out the scale, loop, and calipers; followed by playing the Gladiator soundtrack or some other Hans Zimmer score. Your coins deserve to be pampered, first; you can't just rip into them.

 

I like your process. Though I really like Zimmer, I m partial to Danny Elfman's soundtracks. His 1989 Batman is a masterpiece.

 

Yep, there is definitely something inside...

 

Stop teasing.

 

There may be coins inside these, unless the customs agents stole them and replaced them with lead weights...

 

One hallelujah...

 

Two hallelujah...

 

Vibius Panza plus which others?

 

Oh boy. I feel some republican denarii in the air tonight. Are we going to see a boar?