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<p>[QUOTE="Tom Maringer, post: 183523, member: 7033"]<b>Moving this thread to Politics and Religion...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Understood... I'll start a new thread at Politics and Religion on "Political Counterstamps". </p><p><br /></p><p>By the way... there are technical problems with putting "Support Our Troops" on a counterstamp... at least for this 2006 nickel. The amount of space available is small. In order to keep thge text large enough to be readable by most people without magnification there can be no more than an absolute maximum of five characters per word...four is better and three is best. Four words tops... three is better, two is best. So the major challenge is to devise a slogan that is sufficiently concise in order to fit the space! The second challenge of course is to make the slogan fit the context of the person depicted on the coin, as known to us by their collected writings. Be well! Tom[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Maringer, post: 183523, member: 7033"][b]Moving this thread to Politics and Religion...[/b] Understood... I'll start a new thread at Politics and Religion on "Political Counterstamps". By the way... there are technical problems with putting "Support Our Troops" on a counterstamp... at least for this 2006 nickel. The amount of space available is small. In order to keep thge text large enough to be readable by most people without magnification there can be no more than an absolute maximum of five characters per word...four is better and three is best. Four words tops... three is better, two is best. So the major challenge is to devise a slogan that is sufficiently concise in order to fit the space! The second challenge of course is to make the slogan fit the context of the person depicted on the coin, as known to us by their collected writings. Be well! Tom[/QUOTE]
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