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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8208401, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>Big Lucky Nickel</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Buffalo Bill&#039;s Grave</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Lookout Mountain Colorado</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1439314[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1439315[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On January 10th 1917, Buffalo Bill died while visiting his sister’s home in Denver. According to his wife Louisa it was his choice that he be buried on Lookout Mountain overlooking Denver and the Plains.</p><p>On June 3, 1917, Buffalo Bill was buried on Lookout Mountain, a promontory with spectacular views of both the mountains and plains, places where he had spent the happiest times of his life.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buffalo Bill&#039;s wife Louisa was buried next to her husband four years later. That year, 1921, the Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum was opened.</p><p>Millions of persons have visited Buffalo Bill’s grave in the years since 1917. It is one of the top visitor attractions in Denver and Colorado.</p><p><br /></p><p>A postcard</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1439340[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>1930&#039;s Long&#039;s Peak</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Big Lucky Nickel </b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1439318[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1439319[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,259-foot fourteener is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness near the Town of Estes Park, Colorado, United States. Longs Peak is the northmost &quot;fourteener&quot; and is one of 53 Colorado summits with at least 14,000 feet of elevation and at least 300 feet of topographic prominence.</p><p>It is the highest point in Boulder County and Rocky Mountain National Park.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mountain was named in honor of explorer Stephen Harriman Long and is featured on the Colorado state quarter.</p><p>The peak is named for Major Stephen Long, who is said to be the first to spot the great mountains on behalf of the U.S. Government on June 30, 1820.</p><p>The first recorded ascent was in August 23, 1868 by the surveying party of John Wesley Powell via the south side.</p><p>Addie Alexander was the first woman to summit Longs Peak in 1871.</p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>1930s Lucky Penny</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Home Sweet Home</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1439326[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1439327[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m such a sucker for these big souvenir pennies and nickels if they are a bit uncommon and in nice condition.</p><p>I wish there was a website for collectors of these so that we could identify them further.</p><p>Anyway, here&#039;s a new one that I have not seen very often and certainly not in this good of shape.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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