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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jaytant, post: 348313, member: 6902&quot;]I&#039;ll put up my 1st entry right now! No thinking required for this one, i was waiting for a place to rant about this <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />... </p><p>1936 Elgin Illinois Commem. This has got to be one of the most pointless issues in the history of the numismatic world (my apologies to all resident of Elgin, IL). </p><p>The points:</p><p>1) Founded in 1835 apparently... the commem missed by 1 year (1936)... 101st anniversary celebrations anyone? </p><p>2) From what I read, the money from the coin was meant to build a statue for the celebrations, also from what I have read, it was completed a few months AFTER the celebrations were over.</p><p>3) They minted 25000 coins for a city that today holds about 100,000 people... divide by 4, means we have one coin per family today! I have no idea what the population was in 1936 but I strongly doubt it was even close to 6 figures (which can give atleast a&nbsp; little justification for some of the other commems of 1936)... On the bright side, most people know Elgin, IL only due to this coin...</p><p>4) The only time I was looking at info regarding this coin, I never saw the womans&#039;s face... Till today I still havent seen the womans face on the coin (the 3rd statue)...is it the 3rd sighting of the faceless monster of Lake Michigan? No jokes, she looks like a ghost. </p><p>5) And the obverse! The man pictured is obviously a mutant crocodile. Nothing else can explain the chin which someone once told me was either a beard or problematic acne. </p><p>6) The date at the bottom shows 1673-1936. This is 263 years... The question is what happened in 1673? Is it something important enough to celebrate the 263rd anniversary of it?</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all it has a poor design, shows nothing about the city except for something that was ABOUT to be constructed, has random dates on the coin, was badly struck and has pretty much no justification for being made in the 1st place.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another point of interest... Elgin became a city in 1854 according to Wikipedia, so I assume it was founded in 1835. So they celebrate the founding. Fine. Bridgeport was founded in ???? and was incorporated in 1836. So they celebrated their incorporation in 1936. So if you can celebrate your founding, incorporation and 263rd anniversaries for towns of populations less than 50000, I can come up with 8 coins to commemorate events this year for Barberton, OH (a suburb of Akron, OH which is almost a suburb of Cleveland,OH) I&#039;m off now to get this approved from congress....</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I found out just now that it was Illinios that was explored in 1673... still funny to put that on the coin...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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