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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24840639, member: 26430&quot;]I haven&#039;t yet -- although I probably should while a few of the ones on my watchlist are still there. (By the time I started looking at them, all the remaining decent ones were very expensive, but there were still some acceptable $30-50 coins in my collecting areas last I checked.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I spent some time trying to figure out if he had any connection to John Quincy Adams (the 6th President, or John Adams the 2nd, or Charles Francis Adams, Minister to UK during the Civil War), since I have a couple from the Adams Collection -- and I try to collect by &quot;provenance clusters&quot; or networks where possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>The answer was yes, one of them (but I can&#039;t remember to whom at the moment) signed his commission or awarded a medal or appointed him to something I think?</p><p><br /></p><p>I love the old hand-written paper slips that come with some of the Admiral Turner coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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