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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom Maringer, post: 179521, member: 7033&quot;]Okay... you guys are good. You got that last one pretty easy, so we&#039;ll try something quite a bit more difficult this time. The question is:&nbsp; On what date and year does the Upper Peninsula of Michigan secede and form it&#039;s own Republic of Superior? And... what day of the week will that be?</p><p><br /></p><p>Background: This question is related to the story in the science-fiction/adventure novel A SUPERIOR STATE OF AFFAIRS, by yours truly. There are a number of coin references in the story.</p><p><br /></p><p>The prize is pictured here... a bullion coin containing over one troy ounce of pure copper, with the words COPPER COUNTRY on obverse surrounding an image of the legendary miner Arne Harjaala (one of the main characters in the novel). His lamp and hat date the scene at around 1906. On reverse is an image of the modern shaft house of the Quincy #2 mine in Hancock Michigan. This is one of the few mine buildings of the region that still stands, and it is now a National Historic site complete with mine tours and a gift shop. The main action scenes in the novel take place around and within this mine. The legend on reverse says ONE COPPER in large letters, with text in small letters such that a more preceise reading would be &quot;contains ONE troy oz COPPER .997 pure&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was struck this year as the first in a series, to culminate in 2009 with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Douglas Houghton, the Michigan State geologist who first recognized the potential of the copper deposits of the Upper Peninsula.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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