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Silk cloth apparently. How big a parcel is 80,000 dollars worth of cloth?
(looks up cost of silk on Alibaba, does a rough calculation, comes up with a silly figure)
Well that’s 3.5 miles of cloth; gotta be somewhere…
If you take a gander at Terhorst’s activities his philosophy seems to boil down to a) live cheap b) live anywhere but the USA c) keep moving. He seems to have survived the economic boil-down in Argentina, and left Chiang Mai before the political situation got nasty, so he’s got that going for him! 🙂
Seen photos of a couple of cars done that way- one with pre-decimal pennies and the other with cents.
Just had a knock at my door- opened it to find a gentleman with a white beard holding some 2021 calendars. So… Father Time’s early this year! I expect he’s had enough of 2020 as well.
Interesting- looks like it can handle different denominations of coins, as it compares against a sample. Here in the UK the copper coinage went to copper-plated steel, so coin hoarders just use a magnet.
Would you go crazy with the sound of plink plink plink plink for hours on end, absolutely!
I was wondering how the seller sorts the copper pennies from the zinc ones- turns out they make slightly different sounds when they’re dropped on a hard surface. If that’s the method they use, they probably also have a sideline in ASMR videos, made in the soundproofed cellar their spouse has made them live in.
I tried training myself on the old beat-up violins that regularly appeared at the local auction house, i.e. looking at them at the viewing and then trying to correlate the realised prices with the different characteristics. Then I saw a violin bow fetch £1,000, and that took me down a whole other rabbit hole. I still don’t know nuffink, but I have the impression violin appraisal might be easier than guitar appraisal, so long as you use a tape measure. The difference between full-size, 7/8 and 3/4 is in half-inches, but the price differential is bigger!
$2.40 divided by 169=1.42 cents. That’s an estimate based on a guess at the scrap price taking into account the 95% purity of the coin.
That’s good! eBay ought to get that guy who tracked down where the Utah monolith is- he’d find the parcel!
The UK government prohibits the melting of any coin “which is, or has been, current in the United Kingdom after 16th May 1969 (on that day, Parliament approved the Decimal Currency Act).” The currency went decimal on 15 February 1971, so that ruling covers every British coin except groats, angels, nobles, farthings, half-farthings, quarter-farthings and anything them Romans left behind. Bizarrely the ruling doesn’t seem to cover gold sovereigns, because although they’re minted every year they’re not legal tender.
Scrap copper. British “copper” coins moved from bronze to copper-plated steel back in 1992, and there was the same rush to hoard the older coins, using a magnet to weed out the steel ones.
Pure copper price is about $3.30 now, I don’t know what the scrappers pay in the US, but in the UK it’s about $2.50 a pound for 98% pure copper. So assuming you’d get paid $2.40 for your 95% copper coins there’s a margin of 65 to 70 cents.
11/27/2020 at 4:14 am in reply to: Little painted heads in wood frames. What the heck are these? #83742At least it’s not one of Henry VIII’s wives. That would be creepy. 🙂
They’re 95% copper and 5% zinc. Weight 0.11 ounce, allowing for wear 10 cents to an ounce, you need roughly 169 cents to get a pound of copper.
A friend has the ‘safe place’ arrangement- leave parcels in the porch. Delivery instructions are printed on the label to that effect. Which wouldn’t be the case with your parcel. I suppose she could ask Hermes to ask who ever delivered the parcel to go fetch it back.
If it’s by a wall, the circular hole’s probably where a cast iron downpipe from the guttering used to be. The building’s likely a semi-detached house or a bungalow.
Yeah, the Finnish buyer opened a case, but the funds weren’t with-held. Hope it gets sorted- it’ll be pretty unlikely for the Hermes delivery person to leave the parcel on a doorstep, they either keep it and leave a card, or try a next-door neighbour. I take in parcels for mine. It may be that your customer lives in a multi-occupancy house and someone else in the house has it.
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