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So all I can say is that today was really a FANTASTIC weekend. Saturday morning I wake up and make my family some banana chocolate chip pancakes. I then take my 3 1/2 yr old son to the local skating rink and he starts going backwards for the first time.. Huge milestone as daddy was a pretty decent defenseman in his day. We get home and he wants to play with the "beaver" coins. I really wanted to take a video of this and upload it here as a way I do "coin roll hunting" but in short I tear open the roll.. he then one by one rolls the coins.. in this case nickles down a vacuum tube towards me, at which point I sort it into one of a few piles depending on my criteria. He just loves it and has a blast! Sometimes the coins get sorted sometimes they all end up again in one big pile.. either way it's just good times. There's a chill in the air even though the breeze is coming from the south, so today I also took my motorcycle out for one last ride... it was pretty short but it certainly felt soooo good to be riding! With the two kids, I really haven't been on the bike that much if at all and will probably end up just selling the bike and putting the $$$ towards either my wedding or coins, either way the bike should go to someone who's going to put some miles on it... which isn't happening now. I then get a call from one of my banks and they say they were going to ship off two boxes of pennies on Monday but they would hold onto 'em if I was going to pick 'em up.. I was over at the bank in 10 minutes (it's only down the street)  Yippie!! More pennies... almost finished filling one bin.. I think once it's full I might have a contest related to the contents... I think one more box of pennies should do it!!  |
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..and will probably end up just selling the bike and putting the $$$ towards either my wedding or coins.. Problem solved I see.....and the answer is..!! |
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Great story. I enjoyed it
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This is a really great thread - you really seem to have been blessed with a lot of good finds. Always nice when it happens - a real special feeling.
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I really haven't been on the bike that much if at all and will probably end up just selling the bike and putting the $$$ towards either my wedding or coins, either way the bike should go to someone who's going to put some miles on it... which isn't happening now.  As a rider myself... all I can say is that you will regret it... even a little bit of riding is better than watching someone else ride... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Hope you have that container of pennies where you plan to leave it, it's too heavy to pick up an move now! How many dollars worth of pennies in the container?
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Just have to ask how heavy is that box of pennies?
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Just have to ask how heavy is that box of pennies? I'm not sure... I will weigh it once it's full... it's pretty heavy though. I'm only able to slide it and even that takes great effort. I don't think I'll be able to lift it. Either the plastic container or something in my back is bound to snap! Quote:
As a rider myself... all I can say is that you will regret it... even a little bit of riding is better than watching someone else ride... I totallyunderstand that SPP.. just with the two little ones now at home my wife says that if I go down it affects more than just me... and that's so true... I also don't really hang out with the guys that I used to ride with. Having kids has been a blessing for me in that way... I've really slowed down in many ways, and while I never thought I would.. I can honestly say I do like this pace a lot more.. needed something to do with my idle time and picked up my old childhood hobby of coins... so (thumbs up!!) Can always get another bike... but I hate to see a bike just sitting doing nothing... it's like money being wasted... Right now the market in the U.S. has also picked up a lot so now might be a good time to sell down there. |
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Well today was another fantastic day! Starts off this morning where I woke up and had a few minutes of quiet to go and check some of the stocks and numbers that always interest me. The one that really piqued my interest was the GSR was at 80:1. Couldn't do much about it though.. as I had commitments to coaching my wrestlers in a local tournament. The kids all did fantastic, we're a small team and only took 6 to the tournament, and each and every one medaled. The tournament ended and there was enough time to go to the bank, the LCS and meet someone off a kijiji to buy some silver. At the bank I asked if they had anything interesting come in lately... and they gave me $3 in nickel 50 cent pieces... and then they allowed me to look through the "reject tray" from their coin machine and I managed to pull out a few really cool foreign coins and .95 cents canadian silver! (three quarters and two dimes).. While at the bank I picked up my very limited number of gold coins... one krugerand and on 1912 $5 coin... I went to the LCS and they gave me a good price for the krugerand... but I didn't like the price they gave for the $5 coin so I'll sell that on my own.... bought some silver bars and SML's .. Then to a kijiji buy where I picked up the graded coins, JM bars the 1/2 pound silver and the 1kg silver... Pretty happy with everything all in all...  The stack of silver I picked up today ... will add to the pile!   The $5 I still have to sell.. anyone know what a fair price would be to ask for such a piece? My LCS was only going to give me 5% less than spot... and I think I can do a better than that. I would grade this piece a baggy MS... easy AU... forgot to mention that the LCS ended up buying my '78 round jewels coin for $3 as he already had a buyer lined up! Edited by AgCoinAu
02/21/2016 01:34 am
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The 1912 should go for at least $500 on ebay, probably be easier to sell if it is graded. |
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Awesome M! Nice stuff. MM
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Just keeps getting better... last night.. was going through a few rolls of pennies and stuck to one penny was a '67 dime! Pic's to come when I have a minute... but it's stuff like that, that just puts me over the moon! Usually I hope to find a George VI or two maybe a wheatie... or perhaps a nice minty coin that would make 63 or better.... but a silver dime in a penny roll... that's a first for me!
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Im glad you have a nice relation with your students .I hope you reimbursed the kid "who has less than nothing at times" for his gesture as it was probably his parents he pilfered them from...
cheers
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Gord I'm very glad you're able to see the best in others... Today was another REALLY good day! -Little bit of a back story here thought--- My family has been expanding in the last few years and at a very fast rate. 7 years ago I was a single guy then I met one incredible woman. We started to live together in a house I bought which for the two of us could only be described as "cozy"... A few years into this great journey and I now have two little ones running around this house that now could be described as a "tight fit" In the process of trying to make room most of my things from days of old when I was a bachelor have now been sold, or donated away. Just in the past few weeks I have not only sold my truck but also my motorbike to make room in the garage and to be a bit more practical. I lamented that I really didn't have much of an area for myself... and pretty much all of my worldly possessions could be found on one shelf... see picture below  Well today after packing to get ready to go to Calgary and coach one of my wrestlers at the National Championship and before I had to head off to a mini soccer coaches meeting for the team I'm going to coach .. I saw on kijiji and add for one of those roll top desks which I always have loved and admired. It looked like it wasn't solid wood and that it was a bit beat up but the price was GREAT.. so I sent a message and low and behold...  I immediately took a bunch of stuff off that shelf and have organized it in my new "coin desk"... Very VERY happy it's nice to have a place you can work with the coins and can easily get locked down so little fingers can't mess up with what you're working on.  |
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Your desk is so much neater than mine  |
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