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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;claygump, post: 1124641, member: 29689&quot;]Got four today. These are the two with pics. </p><p>Lynchburg MS66</p><p>[ATTACH]113711.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Wisconsin MS65</p><p>[ATTACH]113712.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>I&#039;ve heard people bash the Wisconsin but I like the design. Reminds me of baking soda. </p><p>And badgers are just cool. </p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>[FONT=arial, helvetica]<font size="2">Cornelius Vermeule, writing in 1971, was no admirer of the coin:1 </font>[/FONT]</i></p><p><br /></p><ul> <li><i>[FONT=arial, helvetica]<font size="2">&quot;Like the Old&nbsp; Spanish Trail, the coin of 1936 that marks the hundredth anniversary of&nbsp; Wisconsin&#039;s formation as a territory smacks of amateurism. The models&nbsp; were the work of an art student at the University of Wisconsin... This&nbsp; half dollar of the United States is, as a work of art, little more than a&nbsp; high school medal of the dullest variety. As a visual experience, it&nbsp; ranks with some of the worst local-society or small-occasion medals&nbsp; which have a timelessness if only in the mediocre level of their art.&quot; </font>[/FONT]</i></li> </ul> </p></blockquote><p>The other two are a Arkansas MS66 and a Vancouver MS66. </p><p>I guess the kids will have to settle for community college. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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