2010-G?

You think that's somethin'? Don't look now, but he's got a Proof 70 goin' on, and that thing's probably gonna go for big bucks!

http://cgi.ebay.com/2010-G-PF70-ULT...em4aa24f58ba

I've done my good deed, it's somebody elses turn.....

Steve

Yeah, but what are your chances of getting a PF70, or even an MS68? You might have to go through a number of rolls before you find either of those. And that could get a little pricey!

(Why does that sound oddly familiar?)

Steve

What's interesting is that I don't see it in the picture in the auction. I wonder if he switched TUMS on me. If he did, I got the better of the deal!

Reminds me of a non-coin related story:

A friend of mine years ago told of the time he went to the grocery store and was gonna play the old switcheroo in the meat department. He was going to take the price tag from a cheap cut of meat and switch it for the tag on the pricey cut of meat he wanted. He got so nervous about doing it, he accidentally put a higher priced tag on the one he wanted and ended up paying about twice what it was worth!

This from the same guy that had some condensation on the inside of his watch crystal so he did the logical thing and put it in the microwave to dry it out. The watch came out with the hands all curled up and twisted. He took it back to the store and the salesman asked him what happened to it. He said "I don't know. I put it on the nightstand when I went to bed and when I woke up it looked like THAT!"

The salesman gave him a new watch.

Good ol' John T.!


Steve

I thought that too, but I did some research and discovered that, as the listing states, "G" is for the mother mint in Green Lake, but they stopped putting the mint mark on them in 2008.

Another amazing factoid, the "L" in L489 means that the molds were manufactured at the plant in Lhasa, Tibet in April of 1989. TUMS minted from those molds carry a premium! Lhasa is the capital city of Tibet and apso is a word in the Tibetan language meaning "bearded," so the Lhasa Apso TUMS are known as the "bearded TUMS", hence the Cud. All Lhasa Apso TUMS have the Cud.

If you find a Lhasa Apso TUMS without the Cud, you have a real rarity!



Steve

Don't forget to check for the Wide UM variety.

These same joke auctions were posted a couple years ago.

You guys are so hilarious..... I have the best laugh of the week so far (after reading the whole thread). Thank you all.