June 21 - Goatertainment - Silver bells
10This video is goatertainment for the goat. Other people might enjoy watching it, but it’s mostly just a project I’d been fiddling with and being a goat finally got me motivated to finish.
I recommend headphones. And I also recommend that if you ever find a silver dime (or even a quarter!) you should set it aside. Even with silver prices going nowhere as they have been for the last year or so, 90% silver coins are worth ~12x their face value.
But… the real reason you should set it aside is that jingling a few silver coins together makes a positively delightful sound. That’s the video I should made instead!
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I like collecting coins, but haven’t seen a silver coin in my change in a long time
When I started collecting, in the late 60’s, the selection of cool coins was amazing! Indian pennies, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes, etc…
Looking for ‘errors’ on coins or bills is the main thing to find in your change now.
Also, oddly enough, I saw on Ebay that people collect “Fancy Serial Number” bills. I looked at my bills, nothing. I checked my wifes wallet (can be dangerous…) and found a cool serial number - 33666333. I listed that dollar bill on Ebay & made a (small $8) profit! Hmmm…
@daveinwarsh Nice! I never think to look for fun serial numbers. I’ll admit to browsing them on ebay, though. The whole “red star” phenomenon is kinda interesting, too.
@UncleVinny - I think I have a $5 bill with red printing somewhere. It wasn’t in great condition, iirc.
We used to play a bar game like liar’s dice with the serial numbers on money.
Good times.
Terrific temporal tintinnabulation!
I have a small collection (two quarters, to be exact) of silver coins on my dresser. I find them by sound when I empty change from my pocket and set them aside.
I hope my wife doesn’t grab them one day if she decides to roll up change as she does every once in a while when it piles up.
It’s kind of crazy how you get them to vibrate. Is that a special tool?
@kdemo Oh, thanks for reminding me. The “coin holders” I’m using are the little plastic hangers that a couple of pairs of socks came on. I carved up a little bit of soft eraser to act as the insulator. I wanted a small, springy-but-grippy nub at the center of each coin so that it’d dampen the ringing as little as possible. I think it sounded about as good as when I balanced each coin on a fingertip… but it looks fancy.
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@UncleVinny - Very inventive! But did you have to remove the socks?
@kdemo had to! Woulda messed with my precious timbre.