Alchemy, the Game of Transformation — NEW ORB!!!!

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It’s finally ready for Prime-Time. That means testing, testing, testing, to make sure it runs perfectly right before uploading it. This Orb is a little different, and requires a steady hand and a bit of practice moving around in the Orb space. You are required to perform a series of Herculean Tasks demanding gaming skills. Sorry about that, but that’s really the way it is, and I conformed the game to the guidelines already existing and given in print in my book, “Alchemical Sex” (also available in Spanish) which gives the information necessary to understand the process, but you can run it without knowing what you’re doing and get some results, albeit relatively feeble to the knowingness type of approach, where you do your due diligence and READ THE BOOK! Taking responsibility for your own trip is part of the initiation process.

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Search Rolls For Phun & Prophet

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You buy a roll of Lincoln pennies off eBay — they’re all the right date and mint-mark for your target coin, so you send for it and open the package, expecting 50 totally different coins; but then when you open the roll, you have exactly 50 copies of the exact same coin. This is great if the coins all turn out to be that special error-coin you were hoping to find at least one of, but with experience, you’ll know that if you buy a mint box of coins that are all the same date and mint-mark, the chances are excellent that you’ll have thousands of exactly similar coins on your hands at the end of a search, so you might as well just search one, and take the other 49,999 searches as written, eh?

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Do You Know This Girl?

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Do you know this girl? She can be found near the Fish Shanty in WarfTown, but if you’ve been there recently, you know that very well. She can help you find your way when all seems lost. Who is she? She is Maya, Goddess of Illusion, Queen of the Eternal Dance, Guardian of the Everlasting Flame, but you might know her just as a girl named “Jenny”. You can learn more about her in her very own special Adventure Orb, Maya.

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Handmade Silver Jewelry @ Meltdown Prices

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EJ Gold behind camera with comedian, circa 1968, photo by Herb Khaury (Tiny Tim).

Today on the ICW I’ll be offering handmade silver coin jewelry at melt prices in order to get them into the hands of others. I’ve had these coins — mostly silver dimes, quarters, halves and dollars for quite a while — the last coin in this set was collected by me in 1956, so they’ve been with me for well over half a century. The better Mercury and Roosevelt Dimes come in flips — they’re $10 apiece, disregarding special values. The jewelry-grade Mercury Dimes come in handmade .925 high-grade sterling silver coin-edged bezels with extra-large bail rings, the expensive kind. The melt-price of the silver coins is about $2.50 per coin these days, well above the numismatic values of most of the coins you’ll find now. I’m asking $10, $4 below my cost to put together the coin plus the vintage-style mounting with the large double-vee bail loop. The sterling silver keychains that hold a half-dollar are available with a variety of mintages, again for about melt-price.

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Adopt-A-Dime Silver Coin Rescue Mission

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This is an appeal from Adopt-A-Dime, my silver coin rescue mission. See, what’s happening is that a lot of beautiful silver dimes are being melted down because the silver value is so doggone high and it seems like it’s on an uphill run forever. There’s talk of it zooming past gold, but that’s ridiculous, unless we go back on the silver standard instead of the gold standard. I was never good at history, as they told me back in the 37th century. Anyhow, what you can do about this is to adopt a silver coin that might not be “perfect” by today’s standards, but will someday provide an important clue to our culture, what there is of it. Silver Dime Rescue Packs are available from $10 up, in increments of $10. A $100 pack gets you 10 high psychic, but otherwise quite ordinary silver Mercury dimes in danger of meltdown. I have varying grades available, from ordinary coins all the way up to AU57,  not quite good enough to survive without your help. At the same time you’re saving them from meltdown, you’re also saving silver!!!

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Party On, Dudes!!!

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I know that many folks who have just learned about coinology are sort of trying to wade through the maze of instruction that goes along with coin search as a Zen Practice. Problem is, there’s a lot to know, a lot to master and a lot of intricate steps with the attention, will and presence that can only be taught one at a time, mastered slowly and with integrity to purpose, and finally, to master the actual Practice of Coinology, a level of multiple attention that goes beyond the pale of ordinary thought. In addition, there’s the Magic of Magic Find; this is a constructed personal space which transcends Dimension. In order to delve into the Mysteries of Numisma, we must journey far, in a strange land.

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Wake Up With a Pocketful of Strange

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When I return from my nightly Shamanic Sky-Walking Journey — translate that to coin search, if you prefer the grittier phraseology — I generally have a Pocketful O’ Strange. What that means is, I have some, usually only a dozen or so, very bizarre examples of the coin-maker’s art. In general, these coins have been assaulted in some way after having left the relative safety of a million-pound per square inch device that spews pennies out at a rate of 5 per second, but assaulted in such a way as to leave them breathlessly beautiful and strange…meaning seriously weird. You might not be able to see the weirdness in the photos, but they are there to be seen with, you should pardon the expression, The Naked Eye. You’ll find these results of my Shamanic Journey each night on my eBay store. They range in price based on hard-science, strict coinology standards, and whimsy. One thing is guaranteed: every single one of my “Strange” coins will make you stop & wonder.

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Archaic Greek is Not Hellenic

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Archaic Greek Marble Bust — 700-550 B.C.

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Most of the Greek marbles you’ve ever seen are actually Roman copies. This is emphatically not a Roman copy; they copied typically the Hellenic forms. This is, as stated in the title, Archaic Period. It’s what you’d use to trigger many episodes of Past Life Recall.

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