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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 943886, member: 24633&quot;]The 1969 set is my favorite because the obverse is a restrike of Augustin Dupre&#039;s <b><i>Libertas Americana</i></b>. It&#039;s the one that got me interested in the short set in the first place.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><u><b>To make a long story longer</b></u>!</p><p>In 2005, when I was still a relative newcomer to the NGC forums, I spotted this set on eBay and posted it on NGC explaining how much I liked it and wanted to win the auction. I placed what I thought would be a pretty high bid of $150, but I lost to a sniper at $152.50. It turned out that the winning bidder was one of our esteemed members at NGC, and when the other members learned of this, they started blasting him for it. Despite my disappointment at losing, I came to his defense and stated that he obviously wanted it more than me. As a result, we became very good friends. As it happened, one of the other members alerted me to another set that surfaced on eBay the very next week. This time, I wasn&#039;t going to let it slip away, so I placed a bid of $250, and won it for a mere $48.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, I started researching the set and met a fellow who not only collected ANA medals, but he also had a fairly complete list of all of them along with the mintages for each year which he e-mailed to me. Looking it over, I noticed that the years 1969-1982 were the only years for which the 3-medal sets were issued. And, that is how I got started.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now that I have put everyone to sleep, here is the 1969 set again. Which border, if any, do you prefer? Eventually, I will photograph all 14 sets in a similar fashion.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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