LordM, coin_nut, & Paddy54 giveaway, November 2017

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I am thankful for generous coin collectors. Especially those that hold contests where I am able to win extremely cool stuff. Hitler and Stalin are not Christian behavior role models or (or Hindu--Gandhi was pretty a pretty nice guy. I do not know that many Hindu but I am sure Hitler and Stalin were not Hindu.) Nevertheless people are interested in collecting symbols from their reign as leaders. I am not offended.

 

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I'm Thankful for the 28 years my Wife has stuck by my side-when she hasn't had too.... the medals are awesome looking.

 

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I am thankful for Thanksgiving itself. Such a simple and universal concept... Gratitude. Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on all we have to be grateful for, without the commercial trappings that seem to have overtaken other holidays.

Thank you for the contest @lordmarcovan and @coin_nut !

Can we see the other side of that Portuguese 20-reis coin?
(In hand would be even better)

 

I am thankful our friends let us borrow their generator since we have been with out power since Sunday and most likely will not get it back until this coming Saturday. (I didn't write entry post as I wanted to contribute, but don't want to be counted in the give away).

 

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I have read further down through your subsequent posts and after doing so with increasing alarm I have one small request - or plea, if you want to put it that way - for you: Please, please, please do not under any circumstances simply destroy and discard those two medals! By way of explanation for this seriously-and-earnestly meant/made request, please allow me to introduce myself as being both a lifelong numismatist (now age 70) and an at least equally enthusiastic, albeit amateur, historian. What originally sparked my avid interest in regard to world events and affairs in general and the history of Fascist Germany and Communist Russia in particular was the somewhat unique confluence of circumstances that I was fortunate enough to have been able to experience during the early years of my life. My Austrian mother and grandparents had existed under Hitler's yoke from the German Einmarsch and Anschluss in 1939 until the Liberation of Vienna by the Soviet Armed Forces in 1945. For all practical purposes my family had at this point effectively traded one dictatorship for another, as Vienna was positioned well inside the Soviet Occupation Zone of Austria, and as such was completely under Russian jurisdiction, otherwise more widely and popularly known as living behind the Iron Curtain. What saved my extended family from a possibly bleaker fate was the rather fortuitous fact that my father happened to be an American serviceman stationed in Vienna with the small representative U.S. Army contingent then present in the various officially-designated American "Districts" of the at least nominally quadripartite city. We - my family and all the other American, French and British personnel and their "camp followers" - did get the boot from Austria in 1955 as a condition for the Soviet Union giving up dominion of their section of the country. That being said, to this very day the living memory of a "The Third Man" vision of Vienna stays firmly imprinted in my mind. Which, I can only suppose but highly suspect, is why all of the history - including that of the major players - of that time is so very meaningful and important to me.

 

No, no and no. Please see my Entry Post. Thank you!

 

I second that, gratefully.

 

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I am thankful to live in the us and all the blessings that God has givin me.

 

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I’m so thankful for my wife of 46+ years. She’s had to put up with many of my “isms” and has hung right in there.

Although she has often winced when she sees a box or bubble-wrap envelope arrive in the mail, and truly does not see the point in collecting coins and currency, she lets me do my thing and trusts that I won’t take out a second mortgage to purchase the coins I only dream about.

Steve

 

No...second...mortgage!

 

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I am thankful for so many thing. Sometimes it is too hard to choose what I am most thankful for. But I think I will say that I am thankful for things that don't even really pertain to me but allow me a window to a world that would ordinarily be something I never could have imagined I would see in real time... Like the webcams set up for the eagles in Ft Myers, Fla. Because of that I actually got to watch an eaglet hatch and the bird grow up to be a fledgling...

 

Nice.

 

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I have many, Many, things to be thankful for… Family & Friends, to name a few.
But most of all, I am grateful for the life that God allows me to live today !!!

 

What a fierce, intimidating, scary kitty...not!

 

Hey, my name is copyrighted. (Not really, obviously, but it's always worth a try!)

 

Very good point about history. If we worried entirely about the ethics and/or morality of past leaders we would have to avoid coins depicting Julius Caesar, Mao, Alexander the Great, Henry VIII, and Andrew Jackson for that matter.

 

Entry Post: I'm thankful for my kind caring family, and also the generous members here who host giveaways such as this and send gifts to fellow collectors. Also @lordmarcovan thank you for this giveaway but please for the sake of numistics don't destroy those medals because people find them offensive, it's history not a statement.

Thanks,
Jacob