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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1311428, member: 24274&quot;]Thanks for posting these, Ron -- and I also am glad to see someone new gain an interest in them! I&#039;ll add the companion card to Peace and Flag -- B238: &quot;Progress&quot;. These were both engraved by GFC Smillie for the BEP. Progress appears on the reverse of the 1901 U.S. Note, which is depicted on B88, the 1986 ANA Midwinter show souvenir card.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both &quot;Peace and Flag&quot; and &quot;Progress&quot; were from the Bureau&#039;s 2000 souvenir card series, which were all 9 x 6&quot;. Interestingly, that year the Bureau chose to call them simply intaglio vignettes. For some reason they decided to break from the tradition of commemorating a specific event, such as a stamp or coin show. So I suppose a discriminating collector could argue that they don&#039;t qualify as souvenir cards, since they aren&#039;t souvenirs of anything in particular. (I don&#039;t know anyone who takes that hard line.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But alas, the &quot;coin card&quot; is not recognized as a true souvenir card. Partly for the same reason -- it wasn&#039;t issued for a specific event. These cards and many others like them were created by various companies in the 1970s and &#039;80s, but not by the BEP or any of the banknote firms (another of the usual criteria for a souvenir card). I think Littleton Stamp Co. may have been among those that marketed these coin/stamp cards. They usually were touted as limited edition historical investments, but essentially both the stamp and coin were bought cheaply and mass marketed at a considerable profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not knocking the collectability of these -- they are nicely presented and contain some good background info. I also think you paid a reasonable retail price, probably less than what they originally sold for. But, speaking honestly, they were certainly not good investments when you consider the stamp is only worth face value and a common date VG Liberty nickel can be bought for about $1. Sadly, this kind of scheme soured a lot of potential collectors who felt cheated when they tried to resell these items. It really worked against generating goodwill among new collectors. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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