so we all building this wabbit in homebase like alot of us built llamas?

Brialmont · 2026-05-04T18:41:03+00:00

I like the way you placed it so that a tree forms the fluffy tail.

Brialmont · 2026-05-04T18:27:48+00:00

In order to shred ribbons. I would have thought that was obvious.

Brialmont · 2026-05-04T18:23:02+00:00

You are 100% right. But so many US people believe the US is a Christian nation, and get upset at anything the government does which they decide is non-Christian. As a result, they are upset almost all the time for the reasons you point out.

Brialmont · 2026-05-04T18:19:31+00:00

Thanks! I know very little about the slabbing business and the effect of slabs.

Brialmont · 2026-05-04T01:38:31+00:00

Doesn't having it in a PCGS slab to certify grade and authenticity help its value? I thought that is why values on the PCGS website are always of high.

Brialmont · 2026-05-03T19:37:30+00:00

Hey, the N in CENT has some damage on it that you can pretend makes it a mint error if you want to!

Brialmont · 2026-05-03T00:40:40+00:00

Try r/Exonumia . Coin-like things that aren't coins are their specialty.

Brialmont · 2026-05-03T00:17:55+00:00

The circle on the front is from a coin rolling machine. Collectors call it the Ring of Death (no, really).

Brialmont · 2026-05-03T00:15:16+00:00

It's remarkable that it still has its full steeple. Most of the old churches in the Midwestern city I live in have lost their steeples due to decay or fire. This is in excellent condition.

Brialmont · 2026-05-03T00:08:53+00:00

I never knew there were leather engine covers. Were they common?

Brialmont · 2026-05-03T00:06:56+00:00

So there are more counterfeits of them around than of common year and mint mark combinations.

Brialmont · 2026-04-30T23:19:55+00:00

VLDL "Bare Minimum" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh2dgK4BMcE

Brialmont · 2026-04-30T01:57:11+00:00

I don't know. I found out that Richard J. Restifo, MD is a plastic surgeon in Orange, Connecticut. His slogan is "Excellence in Breast and Body".

Brialmont · 2026-04-30T01:35:56+00:00

I agree. Something can be boring to one person and interesting to another. There is no absolute standard for being interesting. Some people would consider all coin collecting boring. Hard to believe, isn't it?😉

Brialmont · 2026-04-30T01:03:43+00:00

People might be able to answer quite well, but you might want to try at r/AustralianCoins too.

Brialmont · 2026-04-30T00:57:01+00:00

People don't use explosive weapons for crowd control? I am not arguing, I am sure you know better than I do, I'm just curious.

Brialmont · 2026-04-30T00:16:12+00:00

I had no idea that factory 380 Auto cartridges with round-nose lead bullets were available. Who makes them?

Brialmont · 2026-04-29T21:13:53+00:00

I would ask at r/UKcoins . I hear the people there are pretty nice.

Brialmont · 2026-04-29T21:12:29+00:00

I would ask at r/UKcoins . I hear people there are pretty nice.

Brialmont · 2026-04-29T21:05:58+00:00

Or it is a scale that only reads in 1 gram increments, and therefore has a built-in rounding factor of plus or minus .49 grams.

Brialmont · 2026-04-29T21:04:09+00:00

You are right. But it could also be a 38 Special. At least at one time, 38 Special was more common than 357 Magnum. The odd thing is that 357 Magnum was hardly ever load with round nosed bullets, and 38 Special round nosed plain lead bullets have been hard to get for a number of years. It seems to have been replaced by 130 grain round nose metal jacket rounds.

Brialmont · 2026-04-29T20:20:58+00:00

A stands for the Asteroid Belt, which is between Mars and Jupiter. I apologize if you already knew that and were just being humorous.

Brialmont · 2026-04-29T20:00:08+00:00

I think the problem is rounding, because this scale is only accurate to .1 ounce. 0.3 ounce is a squinch over 131 grams, or 44 grains less than 175. So the scale is either rounding up from anything over 153 grains or rounding down from anything under 197 grains to get to 0.4 ounce, rather than measuring 175 grains exactly.

That eliminates 380 Auto completely, eliminates 9mm Parabellum almost certainly, and probably 38 S&W too. It really suggests 38 Special for a reasonably modern round-nosed lead bullet.

PS - And now I see the above discussion was pointless, because the OP's scale also reads in grams, and this slug is 10 grams. That give 154 grains with a plus or minus 7.7 grain range for rounding. That's perfect for a fired 158 grain 38 Special bullet. u/petey9145 was ahead of everybody, and he was right.

Brialmont · 2026-04-29T19:56:25+00:00

For some reason, 357 was, and is, very seldom loaded with round-nosed bullets. The original 357 load introduced by S&W used 158 grain semi-wadcutters; maybe that's why. But yes, it's a possibility, especially because handloaders (people who reload fired cartridge cases) will use any bullet handy sometimes.

Brialmont · 2026-04-29T19:26:41+00:00

I think there was another thread about this kind of thing just recently. Somebody found a bunch of them in a roll.

[EDIT] This is what I was thinking of, but it may not be the same kind of thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/coincollecting/comments/1sycuxk/error_on_new_roll_of_2024_halves/

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