Bronze & Copper Collector

Is it possible that it was "Altared"???

I'll take the high erode and let the sands of time catch up with him....

Thanks Richard, I just emailed him...

Think positive Richard, most likely it will eventually get there, don't know when however. I know the feeling.... Top 3 stories that come to mind right now. I lost an F-76 that way many years ago.... The seller tossed it in loose in an envelope where it rattled around and punched a hole in the side where it slipped out.... I was the proud recipient of an empty envelope. The F-76 was purchased from a non coin dealer on ebay who did not know how to properly ship a coin.... As infuriating as those who go to the other extreme and overly secure the coin DIRECTLY to a cardboard sheet with an exuberantly abundant supply of tape.. I only lost a few dollars, but I missed out on a substantial upgrade.... as well as the loss to the collecting community..... I can only hope that it was found by some who knew what it was so that it would not be totally lost and might surface again one day.....  C'est la vie. ....  I mention this ONLY as a contrast to your coin which was properly packed. Similarly, with a happier outcome, was an F-103 that went missing in December, in the midst of the Christmas rush..... I received the missing package in a USPS body bag about 8 months later with the coin still intact inside. The outer packaging was all torn up. Fortunately the seller knew what the coin was, knew how to properly package it to survive mishandling, and had images posted of it, should it appear anywhere else in the future..... Not numismatically related however, was the time I sent 2 Christmas cards to the EXACT SAME ADDRESS, a friend of mine and a gentleman who lived in her basement apartment. She received her card the day after I mailed it. He was miffed because he never received a card. I told him that I had sent him one at the same time, but I'm sure he had his doubts. Fast forward to the following September or October, and I received the card back as UNDELIVERABLE, along with postmark from around the country, Texas, California, Nevada, Illinois, New Jersey, of course New York, etc. We all had a good laugh at the well traveled card. Point being, short of being totally destroyed, it will most likely eventually turn up, either with the proper recipient, or with the sender, you.... As an aside, although it is uninsured and more expensive, I prefer to ship more valuable sales by FedEx, as it is tracked at every stage and generally arrives within 2-3 days. This also applies when I want to ensure that something that I ordered safely arrives. Nothing is perfect, but Fedex seems to offer the best odds. And, although I never pursued it, I believe you can purchase 3rd party insurance for shipments.

Of course another interpretation could be that the person is WEARING the barrel and shooting the fish in a stream, ocean, river, lake (any body of water containing said fish)... he/she might need to be concerned about getting a splinter though...

That's what I came up with.... Powers of 2.....

Hasn't that always been part of the problem?? The length of it, that is......

A tantalizingly mouth watering assortment of coins imaged on that plate....

A well articulated and well thought response.

I think we all understood your point though... Interestingly enough, I don't think he went fully insane until circa 1810

I doubt Victoria would have had much influence in 1797, having not been born till 1819....

I'm not sure if this has been posted, I couldn't find anything... I just found my 3rd 1909 DOT Penny, however the dot is in a different location.... Slightly lower in the same basic area.... Has anyone made note of this before???? Thanks, Gary Images as follows: 1909 DOT Specimen 1 1909 DOT Specimen 2 1909 DOT Specimen 3 Image 1 1909 DOT Specimen 3 Image 2

The issue in instances as this, would be more with the TPG than with the seller. Especially when the seller says to buy the coin and not the slab. I would NOT put it in Ebays Worst. I believe it was PROPERLY placed in the TPG section by the original poster. Just my tuppence worth....

Another thought, look in the deleted folder to see if your spam folder was accidentally deleted. I sometimes hit delete instead of rename, or paste instead of copy.. and then go bonkers trying to find the file...

A long shot, but take a look and see if the spam/junk folder has been dragged to the inbox and is now a subfolder of the inbox. In that instance, you would probably (hopefully) be able to reverse the process and just drag the folder to where you want it to be. Or, alternatively, try searching for the missing folder and see if appears elsewhere among your other folders... It happens to me occasionally too...

If anything, that's an understatement....

Without using "y", the only one I came up with, albeit accidentally, was "catchphrase".

That's how I did it.....

In answer to your question... Yes, I can calculate how far the dog ran altogether.... If anyone is interested in how far the dog ran, the answer to that is 10 miles....

PM sent

A very valid point. Interestingly enough though, I have no recollection of any presentation, in any variation, of this conundrum that I have seen wherein that stipulation is made. It appears that the assumption is that truth and lies are absolutes and any specific knowledge is irrelevant...

Touching

Based on my searches of a limited number of F-114's, it appears to manifest itself on the F-114 1882 Gouby-BP-1882- La but not on the F-114 1882/1 Gouby-BP-1882-Ma

Close... I ate some pie (i 8 sum pi)

Very clever... Took me a few minutes to realize sigma didn't mean sigma