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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 177055, member: 5719&quot;]This is an excuse to practice photographing coins as I have volunteered to make a presentation that will include some images to my local coin club.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you may know, our daughter Thalia Elizabeth likes to collect coins with Queen Elizabeth on them, coins from 2000 because that&#039;s the year she was born, and coins from 1900 because they are 100 years older than she is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I found a significant upgrade to her UK Victoria penny from 1900 to give her for Christmas:</p><p><img src="http://www.irwinsjournal.com/photos/c1900qv-obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.irwinsjournal.com/photos/c1900qv-rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then, a couple of nights ago, my wife and I watched the BBC/PBS documentary on Catherine the Great of Russia.&nbsp; That set me to some &quot;window shopping&quot; on eBay and also a search here in the archives (thanks for posting some images, folks!).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Last night, our coin club had its holiday auction and in that was a coin that was being sold for the benefit of the club.&nbsp; It&#039;s a one kopeck copper, not from Catherine II but from Empress Elizabeth and it&#039;s dated 1750.&nbsp; Well, there isn&#039;t just Queen Elizabeth, of course, and 1750 is 250 years older than Thalia Elizabeth.&nbsp; So I went ahead and bought it-- hey, it was for the club&#039;s coffers anyway.&nbsp;&nbsp; It calculates out to six cents per year older than she is. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; (And she&#039;s six, so wait, that&#039;s perfect!)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.irwinsjournal.com/photos/c1750ee-obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.irwinsjournal.com/photos/c1750ee-rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The photos are not that great and the coin is very worn, but it is &quot;history in her hand&quot; so to speak.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or it will be when I show it to her![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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