How much should you charge for your painted coin flips?
Depends. One measure is the value of your painting. The other main factor is the actual cost of the coin you’ve inserted in the flip — not what you originally paid, but today’s market for that coin in that grade.
Categorically, “pretty okay” coins are going to measure up more or less like this:
Yes, if you know how to do it, you can double the value of your money — at least the collectible part.
Here’s the deal:
You buy a coin for, let’s say, ten bucks. Then you hold it for a couple of decades and bring it back to your coin dealer. You’ll get at the maximum, five bucks for your trouble, but if you deal with wholesalers, as I do, you get a QUARTER of the price back, because they have to wholesale it for half, see?
So you’ve got some coins, but they aren’t very rare, very scarce or very desirable. In fact, they fall into the category of “junk collectibles”, which are things that only a collector could love, and for which the market is very limited. Continue reading
When it comes to deriving the maximum enjoyment and benefit out of the upcoming workshop, you’ll be able to wring out a lot more of the good stuff if you have a couple of things around the house before the workshop actually happens.
One of the things that will definite enhance your experience is a Godd Particle.
I’m planning on demonstrating Bardo Communication and Guidance, and if you have one of those handy, you can install it on your computer or work it directly from the USB. Continue reading
A number of years ago, an auction lot from the Egypt Exploration Society’s 1936 auction was acquired by my friend, noted coin specialist and antiquarian author, collector and dealer, the noted Amarna expert, Joel Malter. Continue reading
That’s right, you heard me rightly … “What war?”
I’m not buying it. I respawned in 1941, we’re fighting a world war in Europe and another one in the Pacific, and it went on for years, and then the Korean war started right after that.
People who can’t get along are not going to survive the asteroidal impact in 2026 — there’s barely enough time to act now, and by the time they do, the technology won’t be there to handle it.
I have a one dollar bet on it back home in the 37th century. Not SIM dollars, a real Federation Dollar, and that means I can finally go on that dream vacation I’ve always wanted to go on, but I haven’t been able to dream up any destinations, so here I still am.
Yep, I’m still here, 80 years later, carving coins and painting flips and stringing ancient beads into modern fancy necklaces, because war or not, we have to make a living. Continue reading
I’ve started a new flip art direction, which I’ve called “The Dead Emp Series”, because I use a bunch of my hand-engraved “BoHo Nickels”, in the form of 2,000 year old Roman Bronze AE type coins.
I’ve altered them slightly, to render the emperor pictured on the coin clearly dead. It’s more or less a skull-out of the king. Continue reading
Prices are “per bag”, which will vary in amounts based on the stuff inside, okay? I’ll get special bags for the project, which will show off the herbs nicely. Jewel and I have been studying hundreds of packaging options, and we think we have a winner with our Clear Bags. When appropriate, a ribbon is wrapped around the things, but that doesn’t happen often, except of course with the honey. Continue reading
What is a “God World in My Pocket”? Well, it used to be a z-scale miniature railway scene stuffed into a tiny velvet jewelry box, but that’s awfully hard to carry, and expensive to ship, so I’ve modified it into a FLIP, and I’ll do my best to tell you why:
The God World Token is an extension of that long-ago project, in the form of a hand-painted, signed & dated coin flip surrounding a coin of choice.
It is similar in function to a Thangka, powered in this case by a somewhat heavy solid copper silver or gold coin, which acts as an “Induction Ring”, which is an engineering item produced along quantum mechanical lines. It works, and that’s good enough for me.
The coin assists in other ways, as well. Continue reading
Wow, at last, a way to burn oils, incenses, powders, herbs, salts and more, without having to buy charcoal briquettes that fume up the atmosphere and are downright dangerous. No more sputtering charcoal spitting out sparks in your home!
Now I can offer those things to you, knowing that you will be able to burn them safely — the burners I have in mind have automatic timers and temperature settings from low to mid-high.
Everything I could possibly want to burn at my Altar will work in the burners which I have selected as the best currently offered & available. That’s the thing — many of these wondrous items are not available due to supply chain issues, but even so, you CAN find one, with some luck and perseverance.
The good ones run around $35-$65, but watch for no timer or no heat control — some have them, some don’t. This is not a place to save a couple of bucks. Be kind to yourself, and if possible, be lavishly kind to yourself. The burner will be used to do good work in the higher spheres, thus earning you Merit and passing the Blessings on to those around you! Continue reading
It’s all about vibration, that’s what all the mystics will tell you, even if you don’t ask, and the reason they tell you this is because it’s true — everything is a RESULT of tiny little vibrating strings that fill the universe with nothingness.
Then along comes some wiseguy with a Higgs particle, and the next thing you know, there’s stars, and galaxies and supergalaxies and galactic chains and … Well, it gets pretty big and messy from inside, but from the outside, you can barely see the entire galactic cluster without an electron macroscope, but that’s quite another quantum. Continue reading
