I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas (western or eastern), Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year, Kwanza, etc.....

Be happy , smile and .... love your passion of life !

The bottom line is : we are all here, on this forum, for one reason only - our love in numismatics. Let it be continued !

Happy Holidays , everyone !

The Oldman

To make it a more numismatic festival, here are some Russian coins that kind of relate to the Xmas, Christanity or winter related.

Here are some of my random picks:
















And as a final joke: Gagarin the Penguin



Happy Xmas!

My best wishes too!

Happy holidays everyone!



gxseries,

First two are silver rounds (not coins).

"Gagarin-the-Penguin" is copying enormous size monument in Moscow. Gagarin looks to be flying to the stars at the high speed, just the same as Supermen does in American movies.

But I like your imagination, never heard about "Gagarin-the-Penguin". Never heard about "Supermen-the-Pinguin" too.

WCO

is that jesus? He sure does look pissed off

Merry Xmas and happy holidays!
Best wishes from Russia to all of you!

Happy Holidays! S Nastupaushim!

And don't forget "Winter Solstice" (it was yesterday)...


Thank you, Oldman!
My best wishes for a happy holiday season go to everyone here, too.

Happy Holidays Coinpeople!
"Craciun Fericit!" from Romania

This has been another great year, plenty of new knowledgeable people here! Thank you all for making this forum what it is now, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

http://www.coolthingstolookat.com/2006/12/...mas-from-cttla/

Merry Christmas everyone. Very nice thread.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

This is a very impressive forum with many extremely knowledgeable participants.

Thanks everyone ! As our favorite BEATLES said...LET IT BE !

Oops, forgot to include the topic as coins and medals.

I actually did see the Gagarin Monument back in Moscow and that was during winter ironically. If I am not mistaken, I heard that joke of Gagarin the Penguin while I was a student in Moscow State University.

As well as before I left Russia for good during December, I did pay a last visit to the Metro line especially Vorobyovy Gory. I think that was on the 26 or 27 Dec in 2002 that I visited and there were balloons etc to celebrate it's opening. (opened on the 16?)

All I remember was when I left Russia, temperatures appearently dropped to -35C. The Moscow winter must have hated me so much