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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brett_in_Sacto, post: 2330470, member: 71510&quot;]Twain&#039;s other opinion on the coin text...&nbsp; ?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Collectors are gonna collect, and haters are gonna hate.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not a collector of this coin.&nbsp; Sorry, it just does not represent Clemens in any way for me, nor the views and period of history he represents.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it should have been minted (at least first) in silver...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>LETTER FROM MARK TWAIN</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Carson City, November 7, 1863</p><p><br /></p><p>EDS. ENTERPRISE: This has been a busy week - a notable and a historical week - and the only one which has yet passed over this region, perhaps, whose deeds will make any important stir in the outside world. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some dozens of people in America have heard of Nevada Territory (which they vaguely understand to be in Virginia City, though they have no definite idea as to where Virginia City is) as the place which sends silver bricks to the Sanitary fund; and some other dozens have heard of Washoe, without exactly knowing whether the name refers to the Northwest passage or to the source of the Nile - but when it is shouted abroad through the land that a new star has risen on the flag - a new State born to the Union - then the nation will wake up for a moment and ask who we are and where we came from. </p><p><br /></p><p>They will also ascertain that the new acquisition is called Nevada; they will find out its place on the map, and always recollect afterwards, in a general way, that it is in North America; they will see at a glance that Nevada is not in Virginia City and be surprised at it; they will behold that neither is it in California, and will be unable to comprehend it; they will learn that our soil is alkali flats and our shrubbery sage-brush, and be as wise as they were before; their mouths will water over statistics of our silver bricks, and verily they will believe that God createth silver in that form. </p><p><br /></p><p>This week&#039;s work is the first step toward giving the world a knowledge of Nevada, and it is a giant stride, too, for it will provoke earnest inquiry. Immigration will follow, and wild-cat advance. </p><p><br /></p><p>(Complete letter and other writings found here)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.twainquotes.com/18631107t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.twainquotes.com/18631107t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.twainquotes.com/18631107t.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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