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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4713175, member: 10461"]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Ghana: silver 5-cedis of Elizabeth II (.999 fine); African Leopard commemorative, 2017</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/KjaOi2hsGJ1Qr82hYIWN" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/KjaOi2hsGJ1Qr82hYIWN" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/lpnZZTbSvy4AiIV3Im5K_Ghana-leopard-gradient.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">PCGS certification pending, August 2020.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">...</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">So that's it for this update.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Summary of the August 7, 2020 update:</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">There were <span style="color: #ff0000"><b>0</b> <b>departures</b></span> and <b><span style="color: #00b359">34 arrivals</span> </b>since last time. We have a net gain of 34 coins, bringing the collection to <b>81 coins</b> in total.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">That makes this the biggest-ever expansion in this collection, which has now more than <i>quadrupled</i> in size since mid-2016, when I decided to abandon the "Box of 20" concept and let it grow.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">During my nearly four-month layoff due to the Coronavirus pandemic this spring, I found myself in the strange but not unpleasant position of having more discretionary income to spend on the hobby, thanks to temporary unemployment benefits and stimulus checks. During the hiatus, I was serendipitously making more<i> laid off</i> than I would have, had I been working! </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">So I paid off my bills, saved a tiny bit, and splurged the rest on coins. It was actually a pleasant little interlude for me, though perhaps I shouldn't talk too much about that, considering the tribulations other folks have been suffering. I definitely have been fortunate so far this year, and count my blessings in that regard.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">While unemployed, I also tried to make a dent in the years-long backlog of creating writeups for my coins. I did make <i>some</i> progress on that front, but as of this writing, that Herculean task remains only about halfway done. If you click on the coin pictures above (at least in the first half of the collection), you'll be directed to each coin's individual discussion thread and opinion poll. But only up to the late 1800s or so. That's as far as I have gotten so far on the writeups, which remain a work in progress.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4713175, member: 10461"][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][B]Ghana: silver 5-cedis of Elizabeth II (.999 fine); African Leopard commemorative, 2017[/B] [URL='https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/KjaOi2hsGJ1Qr82hYIWN'][IMG]https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/lpnZZTbSvy4AiIV3Im5K_Ghana-leopard-gradient.png[/IMG][/URL] PCGS certification pending, August 2020. ... So that's it for this update. [B]Summary of the August 7, 2020 update:[/B] There were [COLOR=#ff0000][B]0[/B] [B]departures[/B][/COLOR] and [B][COLOR=#00b359]34 arrivals[/COLOR] [/B]since last time. We have a net gain of 34 coins, bringing the collection to [B]81 coins[/B] in total. That makes this the biggest-ever expansion in this collection, which has now more than [I]quadrupled[/I] in size since mid-2016, when I decided to abandon the "Box of 20" concept and let it grow. During my nearly four-month layoff due to the Coronavirus pandemic this spring, I found myself in the strange but not unpleasant position of having more discretionary income to spend on the hobby, thanks to temporary unemployment benefits and stimulus checks. During the hiatus, I was serendipitously making more[I] laid off[/I] than I would have, had I been working! So I paid off my bills, saved a tiny bit, and splurged the rest on coins. It was actually a pleasant little interlude for me, though perhaps I shouldn't talk too much about that, considering the tribulations other folks have been suffering. I definitely have been fortunate so far this year, and count my blessings in that regard. While unemployed, I also tried to make a dent in the years-long backlog of creating writeups for my coins. I did make [I]some[/I] progress on that front, but as of this writing, that Herculean task remains only about halfway done. If you click on the coin pictures above (at least in the first half of the collection), you'll be directed to each coin's individual discussion thread and opinion poll. But only up to the late 1800s or so. That's as far as I have gotten so far on the writeups, which remain a work in progress.[/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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