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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8324938, member: 20201"]1976 Mark Twain100th Anniversary of Tom SawyerBronze Proof 1.5 inchesFranklin Mint Medal ( mintage 980 ) [ATTACH=full]1475099[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1475100[/ATTACH] I have read both The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, even as an adult.I have a matching pair of vintage copies. I love the river and I would have gotten along well with those kids. Aunt Polly's Fence Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents.There was no lack of material, boys happened along every little while.They came to jeer, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair, and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with - and so on, and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. [ATTACH=full]1475101[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]