atlantida Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 What do you folks think about these memorial coins featuring Michael Jackson? http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-King-o...id=p3286.c0.m14 http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-King-o...id=p3286.c0.m14 http://cgi.ebay.com/1OZ-COIN-RARE-silver-C...id=p3286.c0.m14 http://cgi.ebay.com/330-Michael-Jackson-24...id=p3286.c0.m14 http://cgi.ebay.com/350-Michael-Jackson-Si...id=p3286.c0.m14 http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Michael-Jackson-H...id=p3286.c0.m14 http://cgi.ebay.com/OFFICIAL-Michael-Jacks...id=p3286.c0.m14 http://www.banknotes.com/kt9c.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumisMattic2200 Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 It's a gimmick, surely?! Why is the denomination a lifetime?? sorry for being negative, at least he looks good in the design... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 The nose and the lips are all wrong, remember he had multiple plastic surgeries to "correct" those! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlantida Posted August 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 Do you think it's a gimmick? I think "lifetime" is a time unit; if you read it carefully you may understand, why it says "one lifetime" on the coin. For instance - a person has lived his entire lifetime well and has died. Another one would be a day or a century. I also think the coin depicts Michael in between of his surgeries, but the nose is kind of wrong; perhaps the mint can't make it perfect on a metal. I've seen uglier coins of MJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldeCollector Posted August 7, 2009 Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 I still think these sorts of things are a waste of money and utterly pointless. It is a horrible looking coin though, seeing as he was/is the "King of Pop" I would have thought more effort would have gone into such a "coin". The reverse looks some "Happy Meal" toy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted August 7, 2009 Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 Lol on the crHappy Meal assertion. It does look like something junior would get with his mini-whopper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlantida Posted August 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 To everyone - their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drusus Posted August 7, 2009 Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 Some of those other ones are a bit nicer looking, the one in the first post look terrible. None I would buy....ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumisMattic2200 Posted August 7, 2009 Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 Good if you're a collector of MJ gear I suppose... this sort of thing is not really numismata if you ask me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlantida Posted August 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 Serious coin collectors probably will not buy these kind of coins, but those who collect novelty money, they may buy anything that's affordable. It probably takes a lot of $$$ to mint coins like that since they are minted in limited quantities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumisMattic2200 Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 ^^Honest and to the point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBobo Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 Well, they are better than the gold plated US coins with his image plastered on one side, that is all I've been seeing until I read this post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicolid Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Are they made from plastic ? Col Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jugoslavija_post Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Why does the back of the fourth one have that one Cuban guy on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn235 Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Meh. It's a cool gimmick, but I wouldn't pay more than 50 cents for anything in there. They're asking $50 for each of the first 10 in each series, and $5 for the remaining 90. Complete rip-off. But then again, the banknotes website is asking $10 for a series 2003 star note $1, F-VF. Bah. Reminds me a lot of the Chinese "Hell" bank notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted August 31, 2009 Report Share Posted August 31, 2009 Here is a piece "from" Sierra Leone - yes, an actual coin in the sense that it was issued by or on behalf of some government. Other than that ... oh well. http://deutschermuenzexpress.de/images/pro...mages/370_0.JPG Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlantida Posted October 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 Meh. It's a cool gimmick, but I wouldn't pay more than 50 cents for anything in there. They're asking $50 for each of the first 10 in each series, and $5 for the remaining 90. Complete rip-off. But then again, the banknotes website is asking $10 for a series 2003 star note $1, F-VF. Bah. Reminds me a lot of the Chinese "Hell" bank notes. Well, getting paid $1000, $3000, $5000, $10000 a month is not a rip-off while most of the world's people must live on less than $1 a day. A true rip-off is when you can't get paid more than you need to survive and not when you have a choice to not buy. Talking about paying less than the cost as well as paying your employees too little is what destroys a society and an economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drusus Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 ^^ Which has nothing at all to do with this thread...I have minted coins for the birth of my daughter, its not cheap but doesnt justify the cost they are being sold at and if they need to get paid, then maybe they should mint or produce something worth buying instead of selling cheap coins with a dead pop star on them for far too much money. The lot of those people who cannot make enough money to live is not the topic of this thread... Oh...they dont remind me of hell banknotes...hell bank notes are cool...these are less than cool...I will collect Hell Notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiebrian Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 ^^ Which has nothing at all to do with this thread...I have minted coins for the birth of my daughter, its not cheap but doesnt justify the cost they are being sold at and if they need to get paid, then maybe they should mint or produce something worth buying instead of selling cheap coins with a dead pop star on them for far too much money. The lot of those people who cannot make enough money to live is not the topic of this thread... Oh...they dont remind me of hell banknotes...hell bank notes are cool...these are less than cool...I will collect Hell Notes Go to the CSNA website and look at the magazine archives, they have a very cool article on these! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiebrian Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 As far as the Michael Jackson coin goes, I do have to say one thing. Here in the good old U.S.A., if an obese man can die of a drug overdose while on the toilet and get a postage stamp (Elvis)and a woman who had sexual relations with the President and his candidate brother and couldn't hold any of four marriages together can die of an overdose and get a postage stamp (Marylin Monroe), why can't an accused child molester die of an overdose and get a coin? I'm just making observations... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willieboyd2 Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 Using that criteria, the US could not issue coins honoring anyone. For example, George Washington, owned slaves Thomas Jefferson, owned slaves, had a mistress and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiebrian Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 it was just a joke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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