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Make Yourself Luckier

June 10, 2018Uncategorizedbezel, coin, coinology, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, luck, luckiest, lucky, past life, reincarnationgorebagg

Create some luck in yourself, then make yourself luckier. The point is, why stop there? Why not make yourself still luckier, and keep on doing that luck thing right through the roof?

There’s no limit to the luckiness, provided you share it. If you have sharing problems, you’ll undoubtedly try to keep it for yourself, and you might abuse your gift, in which case, you never quite get it, and we’re all just a bit better off because of it.

“Joy Luck” is a shared lucky streak that benefits everyone, not just one person, or one family or one neighborhood.

Cooperation is the key, competition is the lockout. People are not built to be naturally cooperative. Like all jungle animals, they tend to compete.

In the Human and Brute Worlds, conflict is everywhere.

It’s possible to live in a place where cooperation replaces conflict, but it’s always in danger of being overrun by Neanderthalic Forces. Continue reading →

We Are Shipping!

March 30, 2018Uncategorizedcoin, coin search, coinology, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, high grade numismatics, jal, jewelry, mint grade, mint state, past life, past lives, pls, reincarnation, surveygorebagg

This quite findable ERROR “Low Leaf” Wisconsin Quarter is valued at $8,000.

Are we shipping? Yes, we are. It’s keeping us all jumping, especially Jewel, who is making her third run to the post office, Fedex & UPS today, although that many trips IS unusual, but that might be changing, in which case, we’ll be yelping for help in the shipping department.

Last night, I managed to finish 13 pairs of sterling silver quarter-sized “Proud Immigrant” earrings, along with a corresponding number — 13 — of sterling silver “Proud Immigrant” Pendants to make the sets complete.

The pendants come ready to hang on a chain. They are made right here in California, and are therefore just a bit more money than something thrown together in China — they retail at $39.95.

You get the entire three-piece set for only $55 wholesale — the coins are a gift.

What’s more, I’ll send you a black velvet “Stormy Monday” Display Bust with one pendant on a solid sterling silver chain, plus a pair of coin earrings, all in solid .925 sterling silver except of course the coins, all for the low, low price of $85.

How do I do it?

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Coinology Sales Tools

March 26, 2018Uncategorizedcoin, coinology, connection, display, ej gold, fund, gorby, gorebagg, jal, money, past, past life, prior lives, reincarnation, sales, sellgorebagg

You can sell Error Coins, too — this Pooping Horse is worth megabucks!!!

“These are the exact same U.S. quarters that you have now in your pocket or purse.” — at least, that’s what you tell them when they come through the gallery or studio door.

Clear your throat, and continue:

“The only difference between your pocket change and my coins is the quality of the coin. Mine have no scratches, no dents, no dings, no stains and no wear and tear.

“You’re looking at the result of hundreds of hours, which is the time I spend finding the good coins, the ones that aren’t worn down or scratched or dented or stained or otherwise made useless for jewelry.

“You can have any grade of coin for spending money, but with jewelry, it has to be perfect, absolutely flawless, like a diamond.

You wait for a moment to get the effect, then continue:

“If you’ll take out your change for a moment and put it on this velvet pad,” (indicating the velvet search pad on the nearby table or countertop) “I’ll show you the difference.”

Do so.

If they exclaim, “Wow!!!” when they see your Perfect Coins, it means that they’re impressed by this display and they’ll probably be willing to buy the jewelry.

You’ve made a sale, but you’ll have to start somewhere, and it might as well be with showing them through your collection of 100 of my Pegboard Perfect coins, meaning that those are what you should be putting out there when YOU’RE doing the search, at that level and grade, and not a whit below that grade.

When you know how, you can search your own. Continue reading →

What We Offer

March 18, 2018Uncategorizedcoin, coinology, display rack, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, money, offer, past life, pls, recall, recruit, reincarnationgorebagg

Exceptionally rare pump-handle in window DDR of the Homestead quarter. This will bring about $500-$700 on eBay if you manage to locate one and get it slabbed & graded.

I’m going to give you a short and limited rundown of the offerings in our necklace & earring department today — you can see it all at the gallery, and there are EIGHT coin merchants now operating in the gallery.

What the customer gets is a perfect U.S. State, Territorial or America the Beautiful Quarter in a sterling silver bezel, contained in a double-bag marketing package, ready to hang on your Master Pegboard.

Each Pegboard can have, and should have, its own theme or common thread, such as “Water” or “Birds” or “Travel” or “Love & Romance” or “Revolutionary War” or “Civil War” or “Protected Environments”, and so forth — the choices are far & wide, and the selection process down to “What Pegboards Will I Bring to the Fair???” is worth the time & effort.

A Pegboard can be framed, generally a 16″x20″ will do, and the frame will soon get dinged, so don’t worry about putting a used frame on it, just get it up there. In a shop, people will not be so forgiving, and there, you’d be well-served to put a new prettier frame around it.

Your Pegboards can also be mounted on an easel, or built onto a commercial stand, or put up a dozen different ways, and you can use the rotating merchandising trees on a counter-top or table to supplement the wall displays.

Let’s examine the result of your coin searches: Continue reading →

Interesting Designs

March 16, 2018Uncategorizedangel, bardo, coin, coinology, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, guides, history, jal, past life, reincarnationgorebagg

2012-D-Acadia-Lighthouse-National-Park-Maine-U-S-Quarter-Coin-Denver-Mint — Acadia Lighthouse Guiding Light

The Acadia Lighthouse serves as a Guiding Light, a Beacon. It sells as a pocket charm in an archival acrylic dollar-sized capsule for $10 retail, and as a locket for a necklace chain (chain not included) at $35.The Acadia Lighthouse also comes as a pair of earrings in sterling bezels with surgical steel French style ear wires, at only $69.99 a pair. Continue reading →

Imbuement is the Key

February 19, 2018Uncategorizedcoin, coinology, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, money, past life, reincarnationgorebagg

Come see me at my new zombie family pizza parlor! Great Pizza at Low, Low Prices.

Let’s weigh in on the Trump situation, and then move on to more important matters. Firstly, Donald does not know, and never will know, that dominating is not winning. I’m not committed to getting that message across for two reasons — I don’t argue with the stupid, and frankly, I don’t care what the hell he does.

If you want to reach the same “Just Fuck Off” headspace I’ve reached about Trump, Trumpies and Trumpism, thanks to whom I can now freely use the word “fuck” on national television news at prime time, I recommend the “Official Mantra of the Hopeless”:

“As long as business is good, who cares what else happens?”

This worked well in Eastern Europe, until the extermination camps actually started to operate full-time, which they will soon do here in this time-frame, if I’m any judge, and I am.

Okay, that having been said, enough is enough, and I’ll waste no more time and effort on Little-Penis Donald J. Trump this day, as is.

Let go of all the Trump shit, all the shadow-show and hysterical need to hide his cheating ways, all his freakout about the Russia Probe and his precious money trip, let it all go, let it all go, let it all go.

Forget about Trump. Forget about Washington. Forget about injustice. Concentrate on the Primary Meditation in the Folded Lotus Selling Mode, thusly: Continue reading →

How To Turn a Penny Into Dollars

December 10, 2017Uncategorizedcash, cent, coinology, coins, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, money, past life, penny, reincarnation, soul group, soulsgorebagg

Okay, you have a bag of “wheaties”, which means a bag of Lincoln Wheat-Ear Back One Cent pieces from one of three U.S. mints — Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco.

Of the three, you could always count on the mint in San Francisco to develop lots of mint errors, notably involving the mint-mark.

In the Philadelphia coins, there are no mint-marks, but on the other hand, there are lots of opportunities to strike it rich with DDOs, which is to say, “Doubled-Die Obverse” errors, which means that the die got struck twice during the creation of the die from the HUB — it’s all very complicated, but you can find out about the process by reading the Mega Red coin book, which I think you’ll find surprisingly good reading, if you’re at all interested in the history of the coins and the mints that made them AND the horses they rode in on!

You’re dealing here with circulation coins, not special coins issued by the mint to make money for the politicians, such as the “proof sets” and “eagles” and special issue “collectible” gold coins, and other equally miserable excuses for collectibles.

If you mark something as “collectible” and everybody collects them and keeps them totally intact and pristine and mint-condition, guess what? They’re not collectible at all, because scarcity is a powerful driver in the collectibles market, and that’s just not there when everybody has one. Continue reading →

Salt the Mine

December 4, 2017Uncategorizedcash, cent, coinology, coins, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, money, past life, penny, reincarnation, soul group, soulsgorebagg

Okay, here’s my entry into the coinology marketing field:

GORBY’S PENNY PROSPECTOR

It’s a packet, pouch, box or clear bag with a bunch of ordinary wheaties pennies — a carefully calculated mix of teens, twenties and thirties Lincoln Wheat cents.

Please note that I have avoided the nicer-looking but generally worthless later Lincoln cents, the forties and fifties. You can buy them by the shovelful in mint condition for very little, so why muck about looking for and through them for the coins you really want?

My thought is that the price would be slightly different for a bag of 1910’s, 1920’s and 1930’s pennies, but like a crackerjack box, each bag is GUARANTEED to contain at least one, and sometimes two or three, PREMIUM COINS. Continue reading →

Gorby’s Penny-Picker Cash Cow

November 21, 2017Uncategorizedcash, cent, coinology, coins, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, money, past life, penny, reincarnation, soul group, soulsgorebagg

What is a “Gorby’s Penny-Picker Cash Cow”, and why would I want one?

Okay, fair question, and here’s the best answer I can give you at the moment — a Penny Picker Cash Cow is a fair booth. Of course, it can be applied anywhere, in a store, apartment or traveling bus.

First of all, don’t bother to register the concept — it’s not new, but it might be new to you, which is, technically, new.

So, of what precisely does a Penny Picker Cash Cow consist?

First of all, shouldn’t you be asking whether this Cash Cow is a Work Thing or a Business Thing?

Well, it’s both. You earn a livelihood from your Bodhisattva work, and it takes several very specific forms — obtaining coins, sorting coins, searching coins, grading coins, packaging coins, selling coins and teaching coin search to others.

When you send in your $450, I buy a bag of wheaties and search them to cherry-pick anything EF and above, and put those in a different container. The lesser quality coins are placed in your “Search Bag” or “Go Fish Bowl” in your fair booth or shop or waiting room. Continue reading →

Turn Your Shop into a Place of Initiation

November 3, 2017Uncategorizedcash, cent, coinology, coins, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, money, past life, penny, reincarnation, soul group, soulsgorebagg

1941 BU Walking Liberty Half Dollar Magic Coin in capsule, $225.

Most silver half dollars run from about $35 for something decent all the way down to crap coins at $8 bucks apiece, if you don’t mind the fact that the coin is unrecognizable and basically worth the silver scrap price and not a lot more.

Even cheaper is the half dollar you get from your local grocer or bank clerk. You’ll need a half dollar in order to learn the very first trick a performing magician learns, which is called “The French Drop”.

The French Drop is the Very First Trick You’ll Ever Learn, if you learn from a pro, and learning The French Drop requires a specific and very serious and very official Initiation into the Order of Performing Magicians.

I’ll give specifics in a moment, but first, let’s examine the concept of coin magic itself:

One of the most natural and easiest tricks for which to find a prop is a coin trick. Almost everyone has a coin of some kind or another. The most common coin for the French Drop is the U.S. Half Dollar, but there are plenty of other coins and plenty of good reasons to use an unusual coin. Continue reading →