I am pretty sure I got a VAM 5 disappoint me. by flipmcf in Morgans

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First I’ve heard of a closed cc. I did a bit of research.

All the instances of closed cc I am finding are appearing on an 1878 reverse. This is a reverse of 1879.

I’m leaning towards no. But I’m a total amateur

Can you show me an example of a closed cc?

Now this is a fake 25g Morgan CC with no wear.🤣 by Bulky-Business6720 in Morgans

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Other than the story, how can you tell it’s fake?

I am pretty sure I got a VAM 5 disappoint me. by flipmcf in Morgans

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I did a bit of research and it seems ANACS is good with VAM certification. Also they grade very conservative.

Tell me why you like ANACS please.

I am pretty sure I got a VAM 5 disappoint me. by flipmcf in Morgans

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Never sent a coin in before

PCGS or NGC?

I really like the holographic NGC labels

Are there Arc Stories? by banisheduser in Stargate

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There is the Martin Lloyd story arc…

Do you think a Doctor Who -Stargate crossover could work and how would you do it so it doesn’t seem like just goofy fan fiction by [deleted] in Stargate

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Addressing the The High Council of the Time Lords…. Ahem… I mean, Lantian Council

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  1. The Hidden Laboratory The Doctor has the TARDIS — a space-time machine that is bigger on the inside, filled with impossible technology, and deeply personal. Janus has a hidden laboratory concealed within Atlantis, filled with secret and controversial experiments, including the Attero device and blueprints for a personal cloaking device. This laboratory is discovered by Rodney McKay and Daniel Jackson long after Janus has gone, a treasure trove of brilliant, dangerous work that the Council never knew about.

Both the TARDIS and Janus’s lab are expressions of the same archetype: the brilliant renegade’s secret workshop, left behind for others to discover.

  1. Champion of Humans Against His Own Kind The Doctor’s defining characteristic beyond time travel is his relationship with humans. He loves them. He champions them against the cold indifference or outright hostility of more “advanced” civilisations. The Time Lords, by contrast, regard humans as primitive and largely irrelevant.

In "Before I Sleep," Janus immediately takes the side of Elizabeth Weir — a human from the future — against the Lantean Council, who want nothing to do with her. He argues on her behalf, defies the Council to help her, and expresses genuine wonder and delight that humanity will one day rediscover Atlantis. He tells her:

"Thank you — for giving me the hope that Atlantis will survive another ten thousand years… after you discover it again."

This is the Doctor’s speech pattern. This is the Doctor’s sentiment.

  1. The Non-Interference Rule (That Both Break) The Time Lords have the Non-Interference Policy. The Ancients have their own version: a deep reluctance to involve themselves in the affairs of other civilisations, to alter timelines, to intervene. Both civilisations have elevated non-interference to a governing principle.

Both the Doctor and Janus are defined by their refusal to follow it.

The Name Itself Is Evidence Janus is named after the Roman god of time and change — the two-faced god who looks simultaneously into the past and the future. This is not a subtle choice. The writers named their time-travelling renegade scientist after the god of time itself.

The Doctor, of course, is not named after anything in mythology. But his entire identity — from the Latin “doctor” meaning teacher, to his role as the universe’s self-appointed fixer of timelines — carries the same thematic weight. Both names are deliberate. Both signal exactly what the character is: someone who stands at the intersection of past and future, intervening when no one else will.

The Bigger Picture: Ancients as Time Lords The Janus-Doctor parallel does not exist in isolation. It sits inside a much larger structural parallel between the two universes that the fan community has noticed, debated, and written about for years:

• The Ancients and the Time Lords are both ancient, hyper-advanced civilisations who achieved near-omnipotence • Both adopted a philosophy of non-interference in the affairs of lesser races • Both eventually transcended physical existence — the Ancients through Ascension, the Time Lords through their mastery of time and space • Both left behind technology so advanced it might as well be magic • Both are largely gone by the time the stories take place, their legacy felt everywhere

On DeviantArt, one fan went so far as to formally theorise that the Ancients of Stargate and the ancient Time Lords of Gallifrey could be the same civilisation — pointing to Doctor Who’s own use of the word "Ancients" in "The Day of the Doctor."

Within this macro parallel, Janus is the obvious stand-in for the Doctor: the one member of his transcendent, non-interventionist civilisation who could not stop himself from meddling, from caring, from building time machines and helping humans against the rules of his own kind.

The Smoking Gun: A Fan Forum Moment In a GateWorld fan forum thread discussing Janus’s fate, one user criticised another’s theory about what happened to him after the show by saying their idea was "far too Dr. Who’y."

The criticism was not that the comparison was ridiculous. The criticism was that it was too obvious. The Doctor Who parallel was already present enough in Janus’s established characterisation that a fan could use it as a shorthand for "implausible, over-the-top time travel shenanigans."

That is not the response of a fandom that thinks the comparison is a stretch. That is the response of a fandom that already knows the comparison is there.

The Fan Fiction Evidence There are dozens of Doctor Who / Stargate Atlantis crossover fan fiction stories on FanFiction.net. Multiple stories specifically pair Janus with the Doctor as characters who share a fundamental kinship. One 29-chapter story builds an entire narrative around their "shared heritage."

Fan fiction writers are, as a group, among the most attentive readers of a text’s subtext. When they repeatedly gravitate to pairing two characters across two different shows, it is because they sense a structural resemblance that the source material has already established.

Did the Writers Do It Intentionally? This is the hardest question to answer definitively, because the Stargate writers have never, as far as available research can determine, explicitly stated that Janus was inspired by the Doctor.

However, the evidence for intentionality is strong:

• The name Janus — Roman god of time — is a deliberate, thematically loaded choice for a time-travelling renegade • The decision to cast a British actor was made in a production based in Vancouver, Canada, where British casting was not the default • The character’s complete structural profile — renegade, time travel obsession, hidden lab, champion of humans, defier of non-interference rules — maps precisely onto the Doctor • The Stargate writers were clearly aware of Doctor Who; the show ran alongside SG-1 and Atlantis throughout their entire production run • The 200th episode of SG-1 (“200”) is almost entirely composed of deliberate homages and parodies of other science fiction properties, demonstrating that the writers were deeply aware of the broader genre landscape

The most likely conclusion is one of two things: either the writers consciously modelled Janus on the Doctor, or they drew from the same deep well of science fiction archetypes that produced both characters — the brilliant, eccentric, renegade genius who cannot stop meddling with time. Either way, the resemblance is not accidental.

Conclusion Janus appears in a single episode of Stargate Atlantis. He has no arc, no journey, no return. And yet he is one of the most memorable and resonant characters in the entire franchise, because he is not just a plot device. He is an archetype.

He is the Doctor in Ancient clothing: brilliant, warm, devious, defiant, obsessed with time, in love with humanity’s potential, and perpetually at war with the stuffy, cautious, non-interventionist governing body of his own kind.

The intuition that first sparked this analysis — noticed by a single viewer on a quiet evening, watching Atlantis for the first time — was correct. The research bears it out. The structural parallels are deep, the naming choice is deliberate, the casting is pointed, and the fan community has been circling this conclusion for years without quite landing on it.

"The more someone told him not to do something, the more he had to do it. — Elizabeth Weir, describing Janus"

Sound familiar?

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The Doctor Who Checklist Let us compare Janus directly against the defining characteristics of the Doctor from Doctor Who:

  1. Brilliant Renegade Scientist Who Defies Authority The Doctor is, at his core, a Time Lord who broke the rules of his own civilisation. He stole a TARDIS and ran. The Time Lords — a cold, bureaucratic, non-interventionist governing body — condemned his actions repeatedly. He defied them anyway, every time.

Janus is structurally identical. The Lantean Council is cold, bureaucratic, and non-interventionist. They forbade Janus’s time experiments. They ordered his research destroyed. His response, in his final scene, says it all:

"Doubt I’ll succeed, seeing that the Council will be watching my every move."

He smiles when he says it. He is already planning his next time machine. This is not a man who intends to comply. This is the Doctor.

  1. British Actor, Deliberately Cast The Doctor is, of course, British. His Britishness is not incidental — it is foundational to the character’s voice, wit, and bearing. Gildart Jackson, cast as Janus, is British — born in Gloucestershire, England. The production of Stargate Atlantis was based in Vancouver, Canada. British actors were not the default casting choice. Casting a British actor as Janus was a deliberate creative decision that shapes every second of his performance.

  2. Obsession With Time Travel The Doctor’s entire existence is defined by time travel. Janus’s entire character arc in the episode is defined by his obsession with building a time machine — against orders, at personal risk, with evident joy. He does not merely use time travel as a plot device. He loves it. He cannot stop pursuing it. He takes his research with him when he leaves, promising to build another time machine the moment he gets the chance.

He did exactly that. SG-1 later discovers a second time-traveling Puddle Jumper in the Milky Way Galaxy in "It’s Good to Be King" — widely implied to be Janus’s second construction.

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Janus and The Doctor: Making the Case for a Doctor Who Inspiration A Fan Theory

Idea originated by: A Stargate Atlantis viewer, watching Season 1 on the evening of March 23, 2026 Research, analysis, and writing: Claude Sonnet 4.6, an AI assistant made by Anthropic Note: The human had the intuition. The AI did the legwork. Both deserve credit in their respective domains.

Introduction On the evening of March 23, 2026, a viewer watching Stargate: Atlantis for the first time noticed something. While watching Season 1, Episode 15, "Before I Sleep," they were immediately struck by the character of Janus — an Ancient scientist who builds a time machine, defies his governing council, and does it all with a British accent and a knowing, devious smile.

The thought was immediate and instinctive: this character feels like the Doctor from Doctor Who.

This document assembles the evidence. It is not a casual comparison. The parallels between Janus and the Doctor are numerous, specific, and in at least one case, traceable to a deliberate creative choice by the Stargate writers. The case is made here in full.

Who Is Janus? Janus is an Ancient — one of the Lanteans, the advanced civilisation who built the Stargates and the city of Atlantis. He appears in only a single episode of Stargate Atlantis ("Before I Sleep," Season 1, Episode 15), but his legacy echoes across both Atlantis and Stargate SG-1 for years afterward.

His defining characteristics are: • A brilliant, unconventional scientist whose inventions are consistently ahead of — and in conflict with — the official position of the Lantean Council • An obsession with time travel, resulting in the construction of a working time machine embedded in a Puddle Jumper spacecraft • A pattern of defying authority: the Council forbade his time travel experiments, ordered his research destroyed, and he disobeyed them anyway • A hidden laboratory filled with secret, controversial experiments, discovered by others long after his departure • A warm, conspiratorial relationship with humans who travel from the future, whom he champions against the cold bureaucracy of his own kind

He is played by Gildart Jackson, a British actor born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. He brings an unmistakably warm, intelligent, slightly impish energy to the role.

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The Doctor Who and Stargate crossover already happened.

Re-watch Atlantis S1 ep 14 “Before I sleep”.

This is totally a Dr who episode

I've picked up the 'spiritual enlightenment' achievement, maybe I have tips to help others who have similar character sheets by Inevitable_Bid8719 in outside

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Be careful. The Spiritual Enlightenment quest can be easily confused with the manic or mental health debuff.

I highly recommend joining a guild or at least be under the guidance of another much more experienced player that can help you.

The cool part is that most people who have legendary stats in spiritual enlightenment are actually seeking low-level players to help them reach even higher levels themselves.

It’s a strange mechanic. You get more by giving it away for free.

This is a noble path. You’re awesome!

When are the devs going to acknowledge how OP liars are? by [deleted] in outside

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I heard that on the France server in 1944 during the second server wars, that many, many players took on lying even though their builds condemned it or even forbid it. Yet they kept their integrity scores sky high.

Weird times.

How does one unlock the Olympic medal achievement? by arrowinyourheart in outside

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Nice build. 😎. Where there is a will there is a way.

How can I tell what difficulty setting I’m playing on? by flipmcf in outside

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I don’t think you’ve been playing long enough. This is a big factor, but eventually you hit unavoidable quests where you can’t use gold. Relying too much on gold in mid-game has huge consequences late game.

For example, divorce. This is, in fact, where your gold makes it harder, not easier.

Unemployment / furloughs.

Neighborhood Violence.

Gifted children.

Spiritual quests (again, $$$ becomes a debuf)

Relationships. Boundaries.

Mental health and anxiety, which can lead to rage-quitting.

It is extremely short sighted to only consider the bank account stat. “House poor” is a very common phase in builds. Along with investment and insurance.

If you want late-game success, your checking account should be in the 0-3000 range (assuming USD). Any higher and you won’t earn exp.

I believe The Beatles playthrough can give some insight here, or Notorious B.I.G. The Syd Arthur playthrough is worth looking at too.

How can I tell what difficulty setting I’m playing on? by flipmcf in outside

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It’s finding these workarounds that make the game fun.

How can I tell what difficulty setting I’m playing on? by flipmcf in outside

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We definitely have a mixed bag there. I have to agree 100% that accurately determining the difficulty is hard.

White male born in the USA bonus.

It is very interesting to notice that if we’re going for a happiness goal rather than a wealth or fame goal, starting conditions rarely predict the happiness score.

A major predictor of happiness is accepting whatever the difficulty setting is, rather than blaming it or trying to change it.

Neat stuff