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What is this from?Strudel Man posted:Yes, obviously, but if the reason for that drop in value is the bizarre habits of coin collectors rather than something more fundamental in what the person did, it reflects less on the guy than on who he's trying to sell it to.
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Bip Roberts posted:Oh poo poo epic burn picture caption. Yeah, Brits are top-notch on geography. http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/happy-thanksgiving-we-are-very-sorry#.vdZP6wLwRx 
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Tiggum posted:I will never understand people paying these ridiculous prices for things just because they're old. It's not like we've somehow lost the technology to make a coin like that, you could make a perfect copy if that were somehow a worthwhile thing to do. People like owning valuable things. A replica 1860 $20 gold coin has no market value beyond its weight in gold. A genuine, unaltered 1860 $20 gold coin is much more valuable because it has history and provenance from that period. Same applies to literally any other historical artifact, particularly if there are people interested in owning such artifacts. It's kind of like the difference between owning a genuine Van Gogh and owning a reproduction of Starry Night you ran off at Kinko's. One was painted by the nutter himself, the other was printed by a philistine who doesn't understand the point of a show piece.
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CommonShore posted:Coin collectors and values aside, the same "don't loving try to make it better, idiot" principles apply to the handling any historical artifact. Archivists, archeologists, curators, and professional restoration experts have extremely complex ethical codes and procedureal guidelines for handling, cleaning, and "improving" old things of historical significance. EG if you find an old print book in a ratty brown falling-apart leather cover, with the stitching coming out, don't take it to a book binder and have a new cover put on it with new stitching. The people who are interested in such things are interested in every feature of the item, and want to preserve everything. Some of the ignorant poo poo I've seen done to old books in the name of "improving" them is loving madness. This is the best part of every Antiques Roadshow. Except a lot of times it's someone's relative or a previous owner that did the damage.
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Parts Kit posted:Funny, I remember people saying the same thing 8 years ago about someone else. When you've got a deliberately obstructive house, senate and congress, businesses propping up every goddamn initiative they can to shut you down and economic sabotage and corruption stretching back to Reagan, I ain't surprised that things haven't improved much in under a decade.
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Tiggum posted:What is this from? I will never understand people making these ridiculous shitposts just because they can. It's not like we've somehow lost the technology to make a good post, you could make a perfect post if that were somehow a thing you set your mind to.
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CommonShore posted:Coin collectors and values aside, the same "don't loving try to make it better, idiot" principles apply to the handling any historical artifact. Archivists, archeologists, curators, and professional restoration experts have extremely complex ethical codes and procedureal guidelines for handling, cleaning, and "improving" old things of historical significance. EG if you find an old print book in a ratty brown falling-apart leather cover, with the stitching coming out, don't take it to a book binder and have a new cover put on it with new stitching. The people who are interested in such things are interested in every feature of the item, and want to preserve everything. Some of the ignorant poo poo I've seen done to old books in the name of "improving" them is loving madness. It's why armour past a certain point are suddenly super gaudy as gently caress with tonnes of tiny details, embellishments and polished so thin it's like a mirror. It would never be able to be used in battle, and wasn't. Collectors at the time either bought up suits and had them redone to look even more expensive (destroying the functionality of it) or they found ceremonial pieces that were meant for decoration or god worshipping and tried to pass it off as genuinely used in battle. The very, very few that were actually embossed at the time or had different type of metal added for contrast were basically only worn by kings, extremely rich nobles or used solely for festivals. By the time the techniques were good enough they moved on from making platemail anyway.
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Phanatic posted:Yeah, Brits are top-notch on geography. Stupid coin derail and no one's going to comment on this idiot?  Yes, not knowing an entire country exists is the same as not being able to place all of the states in the US. Which they don't live in.
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WarpedNaba posted:When you've got a deliberately obstructive house, senate and congress, businesses propping up every goddamn initiative they can to shut you down and economic sabotage and corruption stretching back to Reagan, I ain't surprised that things haven't improved much in under a decade. It is a mess but at least we have the second amendment. Oh wait, that just makes things stupider.
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ante posted:Stupid coin derail and no one's going to comment on this idiot? An entire country that's smaller than half the states in the U.S., and hasn't made international news since Noriega?
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ante posted:Stupid coin derail and no one's going to comment on this idiot? I think this may be done a bit tongue in cheek for some reason.
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Hard to believe that not a great deal of international importance has happened in most of the American states since god knows loving when?
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Davfff posted:Hard to believe that not a great deal of international importance has happened in most of the American states since god knows loving when? 
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Spectral Debt posted:People killed by cops? I was thinking mass shootings. ninja edit: reverse gis says I win
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International importance. Nutters shooting up civillians in the US is very sad, but it's ultimately not our problem.
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I mean a few get reported overseas, but if not just "in America" these things tend to be identified by city, which rarely indicate state. Man, this is a silly derail.
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Centripetal Horse posted:Does anyone else remember the helmet-cam video from a competitor in a downhill bicycle race (I think), where he comes to a sharp/poorly-marked corner, and just flies off a cliff? I'm pretty sure there are other bicyclists down there, and/or one or two more come sailing over the edge in the same spot as the guy doing the filming. I've found a lot of mountain-biking accident videos, but I can't seem to find this particular one. It's just a few friends on holiday at a biking resort, the corner is awfully marked though and they all just go sailing off it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46HJbbIWlA *edit: it's right at the start of the video too, looks like they just got started.
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Testekill posted:http://www.afl.com.au/video/2016-02-20/powerhouse-hickey-breaks-wangaratta-fence Yeah that looked pretty frightening for all 3 individuals involved, perhaps even shocking the whole crowd of 300. How is afl sustainable with such lovely attendance?
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Right at the very end of the old-coin-ruined-by-polishing-it video - "It's the worst tragedy I've ever seen."
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Stoatbringer posted:Right at the very end of the old-coin-ruined-by-polishing-it video - A second polishing rag is hitting the coin!
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Yeah that looked pretty frightening for all 3 individuals involved, perhaps even shocking the whole crowd of 300. Because this is a preseason game (Essentially a friendly) held way out in the country. Since it's a NAB cup game, everybody knows that none of the teams take it seriously so the matches themselves don't matter.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Yeah that looked pretty frightening for all 3 individuals involved, perhaps even shocking the whole crowd of 300. AFL has the 4th highest avg attendance of any domestic league in the world.
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88h88 posted:It's just a few friends on holiday at a biking resort, the corner is awfully marked though and they all just go sailing off it... this is why you always do a walk-through of a course before you ride it.
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Stoatbringer posted:Right at the very end of the old-coin-ruined-by-polishing-it video - I'd imagine within the scope his professional career it probably qualifies, given that it was the topic of the conversation. This isn't difficult to parse or strange. Goons.
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Scarf posted:this is why you always do a walk-through of a course before you ride it. Ideally, yeah but when you're riding from the top of a mountain you'd spend all day walking it... And besides, it's more fun to just pin it.
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KazigluBey posted:I'd imagine within the scope his professional career it probably qualifies, given that it was the topic of the conversation. This isn't difficult to parse or strange. Yea, goons don't do context very well. Nuebot posted:A second polishing rag is hitting the coin! This needs more love.
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13Pandora13 posted:I have something that will break your heart: I own a dresser and two small tables that were originally purchased by my great-great grandparents (I'm in my late 20s). They are solid white mahogany.  I feel your pain. I've got an antique mission dresser that my grandmother gave my mom when I was born. It had already been painted and my mom wanted to strip the paint and refinish it, but my grandmother said "No, it's just an old piece of furniture, just repaint it," which my mom did. Years later I finally did strip the paint and refinish it, and it's gorgeous, but any value it has now is strictly sentimental.
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Tiggum posted:What is this from? Looks like it's from Fox News, interviewing Noel Fielding. Noel Fielding is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoY4TyiiuZQ
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Anora posted:Looks like it's from Fox News, interviewing Noel Fielding. No he's not, he's sitting next to Russell Brand, I'm loving amazing if I'm sitting next to Russell Brand.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
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yaffle posted:No he's not, he's sitting next to Russell Brand, I'm loving amazing if I'm sitting next to Russell Brand. Agreed, Brand makes everyone seem amazing by comparison, but tbf, Noel is awesome no matter who he's sat next to. I particularly love his interactions with Richard Ayoade.
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Anora posted:Looks like it's from Fox News, interviewing Noel Fielding. i can't tell if you're making a joke or are just really dumb
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