Estil

29 minutes ago, The Count said:

@Estil Haha, that's why I can't count that high. My book of wheat ears is pretty solid, but I'm missing some of the toughies. 

Then you must be like Scrooge McDuck and be tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties!  No not the candy.

I wish i could find that one clip where you decide to count the number of hairs on Gordon's head...ZERO!  There are ZERO hairs on Gordon's head!  And then you decided to count the little hairs on Gordon's mustache!  

BTW, did you know that Frida from ABBA is a Countess?  No fooling!

1 hour ago, The Count said:

I still set aside wheat ears and older currency and Canadian change when I come across it, I just don't pay with cash much these days.

You can get rolls at your local bank or credit union and do it that way!  You can get a whole box of pennies (50 rolls of 50 pennies each) for $25 and you'll get to count all the Wheaties and Canadians and coppers (1959-81) you get!  And for whatever reason Sesame Street very seldom if ever mentions numbers after 40 (their "brought to you by" numbers only go up to 20) so imagine getting to count twenty five hundred pennies!  *Kermit freaking out from the thunder and lightning* Ah ha ha ha ha!  

4 hours ago, Daniel_Doyce said:

Well, words can have more than one meaning, ya know.

Are you interested in bullion or collectible coins? Because they are two different things. You can get bags of cull Franklins to just get melt value coins, but the high end deep cameo proof Franklins command a premium even over regular proofs as truly rare (and beautiful) coins.

I have to at least be able to tell the year and mintmark so I can fill my albums (most of my collecting hobbies do involve trying to get all the years (and mintmarks)).  Otherwise it's no fun.  So obviously I'm a collector first and a stacker second.

On 4/4/2024 at 11:15 PM, Daniel_Doyce said:

 Getting a deep cameo (DCAM) early strike commands a large premium compared to normal proofs.

I always thought the term premium regarding silver/gold coins/bullion was a bit odd.  Am I buying silver or am I buying insurance?  I mean I guess you gotta call it something but I'm more used to these kind of premiums:

25 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Dude, you gonna do something, do it right...

53 minutes ago, wongojack said:

Now predicting less than a 10% chance for ideal conditions in my area. Oh well.  I've already seen a lot of stuff in my life.

Oh no sir, a total eclipse is something you don't wanna miss for the world if you can at all help it.  Now this guy OTOH, had his heart set on seeing a transit of Venus (where Venus passes in front of the sun) but... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil

PS: In my UK days (early 2000s) I got to see a total eclipse of the moon (moon looks red) though!

37 minutes ago, Daniel_Doyce said:

Should also point out that if you have any 1965-1969 Kennedy halves still, they are 40% silver. There are 1970 silver halves, but only in mint sets.

Yes indeedy!!  It can be VERY easy to overlook those as well as the 35% silver war nickels (1942-45; the ones with the big letter above the Monticello; incredibly at the time apparently nickel was more important for the war effort than silver!!).  And of course when CRHing pennies be sure to keep aside ones 1981 or earlier!  They're at least 3x their face value in their 95% copper content!  True copper is only a semi-precious metal but it too can be fun to collect!  For example, I got a nice starter set of Ike dollar size UK schedule coins from the mid-to-late 80s (I think they were made 70s-early 00s); I'm not sure if they're bronze or brass though...

Believe it or not, you can still find a few Buffalo nickels CRHing (sadly you might be able to see the year/mintmark which is no good for filling your album holes) and I even once found an INDIAN penny!!

40 minutes ago, Daniel_Doyce said:

Depends where you want to go with the hobby. Searching through rolls is fun, but pointless nowadays for silver. You'll get more checking the Coinstar reject bin. There's a huge spectrum from that to collecting slabbed DCAM Franklin halves, which look so amazing. Franklin halves are even prettier than Walking Liberty halves IMO.

I'd consider straight bullion accumulation a different beast altogether, and not really a hobby. You can just get silver at some small markup above spot from places like APMEX

Actually I did once get super lucky and got a 1900 Barber quarter out of a roll from a local Kroger!  Though obviously I'm very much a silver collector first (want to get as many years/mintmarks as I can) and a stacker second.

So just under a couple years ago I took the plunge and started doing a coin collection, which you can read the full story here:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1076707/so-i-finally-took-the-plunge-became-a-coin-collector-old-fashioned-roll-hunting-kind-update#latest

And why doing regular ol' coin roll hunting and filling in Whitman folders is a lot of fun, and it's a really special treat to get to do half dollar rolls (as my local bank and credit union branch so rarely have any) my REAL love is, as Yukon Cornelius would say, SILVER!!  When I started my hobby my grandma let me go through her big penny jar (I sometimes like to get a whole box/case of pennies ($25 or fifty rolls of 50 cents each) and keep aside not only the Wheaties and Canadians but copper (1959-81) pennies as well!) and the nickels/dimes/quarters she had...and she had a little baby food jar that had 17 silver FDR dimes, six silver quarters, and even a few silver JFK halves!  For those who don't know, dimes/quarters/halves from 1964 or earlier had 90% silver...or as I like to say, back when we had good HONEST money.

And how have I managed to do with my silver stash so far?  Well, I got all the American Silver Eagles (BU in capsules of course) up to 2020 except 1986, 1995, 1996, 1998) and I got a few Canadian Silver Maple Leaves as well (so far I got 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1999).  Plus I got two folders of silver FDR dimes and two sets of silver GW quarter folders (the ones I'm missing are in the link above).  And yes, even Mercury dimes, no doubt Alan Jacksons favorite!  I want to next get started on silver Franklin and Walking Liberty halves...which maybe I could get a few if those KY unclaimed property checks I applied for ever arrive...

And last but not least I have a neat bronze/silver/gold plated 1992 Kentucky Bicentennial coins that only 1,792 of each were made (and a set of three has matching serial numbers) and just recently picked up a neat 1969 silver coin commemorating UK's 1000th franchise win and Adolph Rupp's 800th coaching win (and it just so happens he was inducted into the HOF that year as well).

So, any other fellow coin and/or silver enthusiasts here?  I'm really happy my local coin shop is a lot closer to me now!

Once again I'm just BARELY out of totality range   BTW, here is 11 year old me back during the 1991 partial eclipse; I'm the one sitting in the chair pointing...and you have no idea how ugly and geeky and dorky I felt back then and especially middle school years...  

You know, there is near unanimous consensus that the Simpsons is not as good as it used to be...but then try to ask exactly when the show jumped the shark!  Interesting thing about that...the show wasn't even half done when Fonzie jumped that shark in S05E3 (the show lasted 11 seasons)!

2 hours ago, Aguy said:

Nah, he would just slap it with his hands like everyone else playing Track and Field.

I love the Power Pad...it's so bad.  And did they ever use Side A for anything?

So I just recently turned 44 about a week ago and I've been doing a lot of thinking about what direction I want to go in my life.  I suppose that's to be expected...perhaps this is an example of mid-life crisis or something?  But lately I've gotten to thinking that I've gotten way too old for childish things like video games and baseball cards and that I should concentrate on more sophisticated grownup sorts of hobbies like coins and stamps.  After all look at all the great leaders and important figures in history like FDR who were avid coin and/or stamp collectors.  I don't recall even one great historical figure who had a video game or a baseball card collection.  I already did get started doing coins just under two years ago (inspired by the Penny Collection episode of the early 60s Dennis the Menace sitcom) and just last year I got into stamp collecting.  Therefore I decided to sell all my video games and baseball cards and other silly childish things so that I can focus on my coin and stamp collections.  As someone who is now in his mid-40s it's time I grow up and be a true adult with more adult, age appropriate and more time tested hobbies. 

My email (and where you send Paypal payments) is estilrumage@hotmail.com if you have any questions or if you wish to purchase anything.  Here's a video I made showing the games and cards I have for sale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

3 hours ago, Tulpa said:

Unfortunately they aren't very good at making legal arguments (part of my job has me monitor and sit in on the court cases, virtually.)

Internet Archive shoots themselves in the foot a lot. Which is why their arguments are often losers. The other issue is that they just don't have the resources to fight a copyright fight long term, which they need to do but are not able to do so. If you're even using someone else's copyrighted material without permission, you have to be able to survive multiple lawsuits.

I would not count on them sticking around long term.

I sure hope you're wrong on that one.  Maybe they need to set up shop at a neutral country like Switzerland or Sweden (?) where the US Copyright Nazis can't get them.  Hey, that's what the Wikileaks guy did, right?  As Jimbo from South Park would say, all of this (and video game (rom) preservation) is about history!

11 hours ago, mbd39 said:

The original point of copyright is to compensate the creators. When a book is out of print and isn't even available digitally it can only be purchased used and the creator (or their estate) isn't being compensated either way. The law makes no sense in this case.

 

Indeed it needs some common sense reform/updates so we can more freely preserve things like these for historical purposes.  If the Copyright Nazis had their way we'd have lost many works forever...just like how we lost 90%ish of silent films and 50%ish of pre-1950 sound films because people back then didn't think nearly as hard about historical preservation.

11 hours ago, Tulpa said:

Well, copyright law protects the book whether it's in print or not. So unless Title 17 of the US code changes, it is what it is.

Internet Archive's stance is that they want to use the doctrine of first sale as a way of uploading books to the internet. They'll buy one copy, scan it, and then allow one user at a time to view it. And there is merit to that argument.

Unfortunately, they've been losing the court cases regarding this.

I hope not...I mean what they're doing is no different than what a regular library would do and I hope they don't lose to the Copyright Nazis.  Their archive is far too valuable for historical preservation.

To quote my MegaMan Legends 2 guide over at GameFAQs:

MegaMan Goes Classical - Does the music that plays when you're aboard 
the Sulphur-Bottom sound familiar?  It should if you like classical 
music.  That piece is "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741).

Whatever became of Jeff Rovin and what does he look like?  Quite the man of mystery for us retro gamers, no?  And IIRC isn't the graphics in Rad Racer the only time he awarded an A+ (calling 'Frisco and LA at night "miracles")?  I don't know if he ever gave any category in a game a full F and I don't think he gave out very many D's either.

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How can you have a Cincinnati thread without their offical theme song?

RIP Riverfront Stadium (1970-2002); any Cincinnatians here remember the 70s Big Red Machine?

Can they figure out a way to use it on Everdrives so I can get these on a real system?

So I'm continuing to work on FF Pixel Remastered and is Tweetie, eh I mean Celes in FF6 seriously flipping me the bird when she's preparing magic???  And is Denise, my White Mage in FF1 also giving me the middle finger after each battle victory???

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While we're on the subject of Blondie (the singer, not the comic strip) you might want to do this one in the future.  You know in all my almost 44 (sigh...) years I never got to ride in a convertible and it looks WAY cool!  I mean they famously use one in Outrun after all...