Rabone

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Great link - thanks for posting.

Age, age, age wins again. Voted.

Boy this one was hard to decide on. Love the Lion, but the Thaler overall is nicer.

This vote is an example of beauty over age! Voted.

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Now hard to compair those two given the years seperating them. This is an age over beauty vote. Voted.

Does anyone besides me find placing a chicken with a foot raised next to a naked male angel with a foot kinda raised on a gold piece, well, a bit odd? Voted!

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Voted! Wow Tiffi, I did not realize you already had one of those notes. Well, more is better.

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Wow, what a great piece. Excellent teaching tool. Has just enough detail remaining that you can ID it, but that is it. Great piece to have to teach young numismatists coin grading. "Now this example here is the baseline, you can only go up from here..."

Ack! My eyes!

Did you happen to purchase this coin from a fellow CP member, who snagged it off eBay? Sure looks like a coin I remember someone else posting about their proud purchase. If it isn't the same coin, you two need to get together because you have consecutive strikes.

I do the same thing, only I use Excel for my template. I built it so that it will bring up to 20 2x2's at a time. I am able to leave a little room between each so I can leave the boarder line when I cut them apart. That way each insert looks the same, and the information is always in the same corner. Love consistancy. Good to see great minds think alike!

Rabone grabs his dictionary... Luddite trucheons... Luddite trucheons... Luddite...

JDen- According to what I have read, from current articles to statistical books, while each group who had a commemorative coin made in their honor thought their commemorative would sell all the authorized strikes, in actuality they did not. Many moderns went back to the melting rooms. Modern commemoratives have been restricted to 500,000 strikes, but Treasury Secretary is allowed to increase the total number, which John Snow did for the U.S. Marine Commem. He increased the total number from 500,000 to 600,000.

As long as they were not medical! Nothing good about getting medical bills.

I plan on buying this coin in several of the sets it is being offered in. I believe this does have the potential of being the first to actually sell all 600,000 authorized strikes.

The U.S. Mint is about to start taking order for the Marine Corps Commem. Will it be the first modern commem to actually sell out by selling all 600,000 authorized strikes? Second, if you said yes that it would sell out, do you plan on purchasing any of the 4 different types of issues on this commem? The Proof, the Uncirculated, the Uncirculated Coin/Stamp combination, and finally the American Legacy Collection which contains Proof versions of the Marine Corps commem, the Chief Justice John Marshall commem, and all 10 circulating coins.

1632 is my oldest. I probably would not go much older than that, when the coins start to look more like thin punched tokens than something hammered or pressed. So, according to MY definition, I am a modern collector.

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