What you’re looking at here is an 1826 Capped Liberty Bust Solid Silver Half Dollar SLABBED into a circular coin-friendly acrylic capsule and foam shockproofing, then mounted on a handpainted fibrecraft box, then cleverly daubed with glitter-glue.
DO THE MATH — This coin was made and issued in 1826, only 14 years after the War of 1812 when the British marched on, and burned, the White House, along with some of the city of Washington, until the rainstorm came along to stop it.
So where the hell are the British today? Are they any better off? Think about it! Only fourteen years after the war of 1812, and how many after the War of Independence, often incorrectly referred to as the “Revolutionary War”, just as “The War Between the States” is often quite wrongly called the “Civil War” — it was anything but civil.
We’re now on the eve of the Second Civil War, and I’m trying to get a handle on which coins will be collector’s items in the future — I only know of the few examples that have survived into the 37th century, which is where I actually am, communing with this ever-so-quaint 21st century SIM of Planet Earth which you call “The Real World”.
Pardon me, while I laugh. (ref: Twain, “Connecticut Yankee” op cit.)
There’s more to all this than meets the eye, but you need to know a little history in order to successfully collect, trade and/or deal coins, and if you’re making the coins into coin-topped snuff boxes, stash boxes, trinket boxes, notion boxes, collectible boxes or super-saturated overdecorated mini-treasure-chests, I have the answer.
You can make plenty megabucks with this great little side-hustle, if you know some secrets, and I’m happy to share them with you — the more trinket-box vendors out there, the better, because they all help each other, while at the same time helping the general public.
On Planet Trump, it’s all about branding, money, corruption and power, and by golly, that’s what we’re selling here, power! Actually, money represents power, and handling money makes you feel better, even if you’re smart enough to spot the emotional trigger.
In short, money makes the world go ’round, and we’re dealing in trinket boxes topped with money, money, money — something even a hardened duck-hunter could love!
Surely — and I DO remember that you asked me not to call you “Shirley” — you don’t think for a minute that I’m going to waste my remaining time on Planet Trump making little boxes in which to keep trinkets and such?
Hell, no. My time is far more valuable than that, and I don’t do anything that someone else can do, keeping my efforts to those things not yet mastered by others, but I’m relying on YOU to get to that mastery.
In short, don’t count on everyone else to do YOUR job.
It’s all about the Blueline — we’re quantumizing it and transmitting it into the higher dimensions as quantum mechanicals, which have no wear-down effect. They just are. When it is, it is.
It’s all about the Quantumization Effects on the Blue-Line maps, and the connection with the desktop at Norton.
Remember that we’re here on Planet Trump to translate the BLUE-LINE MAPS into ETHERIC QUANTUM MECHANICS, meaning digital formatted one-and-zero strings, and from there into sub-elementals and engineered down into the CAUSAL PLANE through the NORTON STREET access module which you’ll now find permanently vibrating on the TRAKBRDO map, in which your starting point is the TRAMWAY, which you can see in the popular movie, “Defending Your Life”.
Yes, there really is a tramway — some see it as a raft on a river, but tramway is the easiest, and it carries your luggage, if you’ve brought any from your planetary experience and exposure to organicness.
Each and every coin stash or trinket or notions box, regardless of its intended or unstated purpose, carries with it a mandala that transmits a steady stream of prayer from our Ashram — by the way, those folks who perform those tasks do so as volunteers, which means that for every hour they give to the practice for the general good, there must be some subsistance, and your donations in this respect are greatly appreciated and acknowledged.
Let me show you another view of the same trinket box. Note that it’s made of natural undyed plant fibres that are hand-made into this 2″x2″ box in the Philippine Islands, near Baguio, which was one of my earlier duty-stations.
These mandalas pump out good vibes from a variety of spots around the planet, thanks to your efforts to place them in good homes around the world.
Nice as it was up in the mountains above Manila, I don’t actually miss it. I never liked being surrounded by water, even at a distance, having come from a place where there is only electrical energy, which tends to get zapped by a lot of electrons and stuff, but I digress — I’ll leave the GorbyScience for you to discover on your own.
When everything you see consists of bunching and collecting swarms of solarian star systems, you’ve got the right scale of existence — that’d be the Causal Plane, and you need to get off sideways, if you’re going to deliver anything at all on the quantum level, especially a BlueLine Map or new engine or driver.
Unfortunately, the BLUE LINE WORLD is right alongside DESTRUCTIVE FORCES, which in this case looks like Trump World, where Donald John Trump destroys the world so he can have some company on the Other Side, but boy, is he in for a surprise!
I found a great air-tight and waterproof BOX on which I can hot-glue small rocks and stony bits, and top-mount it with a silver dollar in a coin-safe acrylic capsule — note the hot red velvet ring around the coin, which holds it in place and absorbs most any shock.
The coin can be removed a thousand years from now and, unless the capsule has been cracked or opened, the coin will look exactly the same as it does today and yes, the coin CAN be safely removed from the capsule at any time, should you wish to remount it or have it slabbed & graded by NGC or PCGS or ANACS.
Now, this 1897-O example of a 19th century U.S. silver dollar tells the story perfectly. By itself, unimproved, this coin is worth about $32.50 retail, if you can get it, and the melt price will bring you ten and a half bucks at your local gold & silver buyer’s shop.
So you bought it for $10 and after a number of years, even decades later, you manage to sell it for $10 to a precious metals dealer in town. Wow. So after adjusting for inflation over let’s say twenty years, you get a net loss of about $8.50, because your paper dollar buys a LOT less than the silver dollar once did.
So there you are, stuck with a coin that’s not worth more than the melt value — what do you do???
Well, first of all, you DON’T PANIC. That’s strictly for amateurs. Stay calm, stay level-headed, help is on the way. You can sell that same coin for anywhere from $35 to $3500, depending on how much of an artist you are in the art marketplace.
With a big name, you can get big bucks. It’s all about branding, name-recognition — which is why there are so many remakes and restrikes and reissues and re-re-repeats of anything that has already got the attention of the huddled masses.
So there’s money to be made. They say that it takes money to make money, and that’s certainly true of the coin-topped stash and trinket boxes, but hey, it doesn’t have to be a coin!
If you have a market for your artwork, why not mount a piece of art on top, or perhaps a small sculpture??? The photo above shows how that can be easily achieved. The capsule keeps the artwork totally protected from everything from oxygen and dust to ultraviolet radiation.
You can use anything to top your boxes, but if you want to reach the most GENERAL market, hit them with something totally or seemingly familiar, like a coin — these, they use every day without seeing them or actually becoming aware of them or what they are or where they might have come from.
They certainly have never actually LOOKED at a coin, and that’s to your distinct advantage and, if you can pass the skills along to others, it’s going to give your kids a powerful tool for personal learning and transformation, plus a great little hobby for when they’re young, and a terrific way to leave a legacy when you’re old and getting gray.
Take that same coin and, with your knowledge of COINOLOGY, cleanly and neatly without harm to the coin, encapsulate that said coin and mount the aforementioned capsule atop a box of some sort, and decorate the box OR:
For those with a bit of foresight and advanced knowledge, you may wish to paint and otherwise decorate and glue and paste and smoosh stuff on the box BEFORE you mount the acrylic-capsuled coin on top.
Chaco Canyon comes on a handpained papier-mache box with or without glitter, but it looks and works the best on a STONE box, which I make by hot-gluing hundreds — it feels like thousands, when you’re done with it — of small stones around the sides.
It looks like this from the side. You’ll note that I leave the cap alone, to make it easier to operate the box as an air-tight waterproof environment in which you could keep a LOT of different things.
Here’s what it looks like when it’s been opened. You’ll note the thin fibrous threads of hot glue that still remain. I clean them off to the best of my ability, but once in a while, one survives, and you’ll have to pick at it to get it off there, and then, although it no longer acts as a glue, it will stubbornly cling to the back of your hand, resisting any attempt to dislodge it.
That, at any rate, is my daily experience with this stuff. The webbing will be your nemesis — you’ll spend the majority of your time getting the stuff off your hands. Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it is annoying stuff, and you’ll have to learn to deal with it if you make a ton of these boxes.
I’m assuming a lot, there, but this IS a very lucrative side-hustle, and can actually produce hundreds of dollars a week, if you play it right.
Of course you also MUST know ALL about coin search and grading. There are so many hidden factors and so much to learn that it can’t possibly be learned all-to-once, so I recommend a slow and steady flow of knowledge, and that’s why I’ve invented the COINOLOGY MASTER’S COURSE.
Gold Rush 1850 Coronet Stash Box — the coin acts as a “Time-Bender” and the internal CQR gives it the power to penetrate the aethyrs. You can find these on your own, with knowledge — specifically, Coin-Knowledge-y.
What, exactly, is that?
Coinology is one facet, one singular part of my survival training system, along with chocolateering, chocolate trading, which is itself an art to behold — tea and coffee trading, coin-trading and of course craft and woodsy skills, and other trade and family survival operations that you’ll need to know fairly soon, whether you want to believe it or not.
When the shit starts to fly, it’ll be far too late to do anything about it — just stand there and wait for the hammer to fall.
Things can’t get that bad, eh?
Oh, yeah? Well, once again, I offer the internal and external tools to handle the situation, but you’ll have to actually take action and send for them and learn to actually USE them — that, I can’t do for you, but provide the tools, I can.
Look on Norton Street for answers.
See You At The Top!!!
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