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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Delmer, post: 239301, member: 8219&quot;]CONTEST IS CLOSED now. I&#039;ll post the results tomorrow.. Feel free to post estimates but they will not be considered for the prize.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The PRIZE is a Half roll of uncirculated 1969 S Cents!!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some interesting numismatic related history maybe to add to your knowledge.. You&#039;ll either find it interesting or you&#039;ll be mad you read it all.. sorry for the length.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got tickets to the Baltimore AR on the 16th. One of the things in the fine print says that COINS cannot be appraised.&nbsp; I know what my SC$ collection is worth (to me at least), and I wouldn&#039;t care to take any coin to have it appraised there or anywhere else even IF they did it.. but I thought someone here might be interested to see what I AM bringing.. since it&#039;s HF related and coin-like (metallic, releived).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be starting a CONTEST in the contests section, a &#039;guess the appraisel&#039; contest.. where I&#039;ll post pictures tonite or tomorrow.. I&#039;ve NEVER been able to find anything like this item anywhere.. there are NO photos of them anywhere on the entire internet.&nbsp; The photos in my contest will be the ONLY ones that exist I&#039;m pretty certain. There are SOME refference materials available at Brown university.. but that is quite a distance from me.&nbsp; I&#039;m hoping some random person looking at my contest has some resources or info that I do not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Background.. many of you may be already aware.. but anyway:</p><p><br /></p><p>There are at least a dozen metallic tokens, so-called dollars, medals, medallions and commemorative pins from the 1909 cellebration, I think everyone here should seek one of the SC$ for their collection. Those with less limited resources may be able to find one of the gold tokens given to foreign dignitaries and officials. In 2009 we will supposedly see the celebration return, hopefully many cool tokens and SC$, and reportedly the 4th of july cellebration in NYC we will see an increase in the number of fireworks barges from 2 to 17!&nbsp; Miss Hillary is on the comittee.</p><p><br /></p><p>My items are 2 individually framed bronze releifs, about 15&quot; high by 12&quot; wide.&nbsp; The bronze is almost a half inch thick and probably weighs 7 to 10 pounds each. Some will recognize ROINE or WEIL, the copyright holders/ artists.&nbsp; The pieces were made by the Gorham company.&nbsp; The images are very similar to the design on the HF SC$s... almost like this was the design made as a guide to the SC$ engravers.. but I completely doubt that.&nbsp; The same design was simply used for both the SC$ and these pieces. There is a &quot;Q&quot; number incused on back. Neither are signed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are they &quot;numismatic&quot; .. I&#039;m sure NOT by the definition.&nbsp; Still they&#039;re neeto, and maybe worth something.&nbsp; THey look like something that should be hanging in a town hall in Albany or something. (Gorham made the bronze Washington in the US Capitol rotunda, Americas cup, and the Stanley cup too I beleive)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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