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Valued Member
Australia
465 Posts |
Crazy idea man here. Was just reading a thread about swapping of world junk and came up with this :
How about everybody gets together to form a communal collection of every coin in the word. A virtual album could be created with scans / pics of the coins placed in it. When you hovered the mouse over the coin it would tell you the owner and the location. Competition to have the most number of entries / bingo with coins in a line etx. Coins of greater quality knock out coins with lesser quality. Could help with trades...
Obviously the database would be huge and would take a lot of work to both create and maintain but I think it sounds fun. Could start with just America / Australia with certain denominiations.
Any thoughts. (Apart from who is this crazy man!)
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Moderator
 Australia
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It sounds like a similar concept to the one the American TPGs run: the Registry Sets. You register with the TPG that you're the owner of that particular coin, and you can compare your sets with those of other collectors. One problem with your proposal, as I see it, would be keeping it honest. Anyone could hunt the 'net, pulling pictures from here there and everywhere and claiming that they're their coins. The registries are (theoretically) kept honest because each slabbed coin is numbered; if two people tried to register the same slabbed coin, then the registry managers would know that at least one of them is either lying or has a fake slab. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Sort of like already noted. How would you or anyone know who has what. If it's just for photos of coins, may as well just purchase a book of world coins. Many, many of those around. As to actually attempting to trade coins from different parts of the world, that too may fall into some legal problems. Not so much in modern times but some years back my Son spent some time in the Krakow college in Poland. While there he also roamed around most of Europe and knowing I collect coins he attempted to send me some from there. Some from each country. He found he was stopped in many places if attempting to send money out of the country legally. Naturally as most kids figure out, there are other ways to send anything.
It sure would be an interesting venture if someone could really do a monitary exchange on a realistic basis with no worries about a plus of minus if values.
A long time ago a friend of mine was a short wave ham. They had a similar contest for short wave hams all over the world where they would spend a week attempting to contact as many people in different countries as possible. To prove the contact they would send post cards to each other.
Something like that would be really interesting for coins. Of course postage back then was a lot cheaper than today.
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Valued Member
 Australia
465 Posts |
To keep it honest a certification system would have to be put in place. First ideas :
1. Photo of coin at an angle (specified by moderator) i.e. Front side, 45 degree from above with coin turned 180 degrees.
2. Video clip of coin. This would be much harder to forge. Storyboard : Coin already placed on table in the centre on a sheet of A4 paper (which has a code written on it provided by the moderators). Coin turned over. End
3. Users would be given an honesty rating (only visable to that user and the moderators).
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Pillar of the Community
Philippines
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Hi dibby33! good idea, similar to omnicoin? there are existing virtual coin galleries now and you can contact the coin owner at the site.
The video clip of a coin would be a nice blast at the start, but only at the start
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Pillar of the Community
Philippines
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Hi justcarl, I was one of those shortwave hams in the past, we made our own huge aerial antennaes and we stuck those postcards all over our walls. I remember just talking with another person at the other side of the world - in REAL TIME - was a blast, didnt matter if it was 2am, at times, when voice quality was low, we would communicate our short talk in morse code, of which I was then a classified operator, yes- I didit dat did dat. I find that perhaps the modern equivalent of that past ham's excitement is now talking to someone on the moon -- or perhaps in collecting coins!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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HI Nick. I remember well going over to that friends house and seeing all those post cards on his walls. I used to love his antenna he built himself on a tower that was emense. It had an auto control that would lover it when the wind got above a certain velocity. He inpired me to attempt to try out for a license but that Morse Code stuff was just beyond me. Lots of stages of licenses too and my friend had some really high ones. I tried to start out with a Kenwood 2 meter radio but as I said, just couldn't figure out that code stuff. The internet sort of kills that type of situation since now you can use the internet to talk to anyone on Earth if they have a computer and access to the internet. This forum is an example where people already are members from other countries. Easy to just ask someone from China to please send me some of those US coins your making.   And that is why something like that would be great for trading coins. Not just the photos but the actual coins. Wouldn't have to be anything valuable, just a trade of what is being used or was used recently. Naturally that silly cost of postage might kill that idea too. |
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Pillar of the Community
Philippines
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 yes on that, then commerce sets in and coins are shipped in bulk, for redistribution by coin dealers. If costs keep piling up, then the collector just starting out, may be collecting only pictures! |
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Valued Member
Australia
465 Posts |
The video would only be used to verify the ownership of the coin.
After some thought I have decided that this is a crazy idea and would require more time and effort than I currently have available. ..where is that back burner?
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