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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2275747, member: 76181&quot;]I was running through the gallery the other day and stumbled across a medal that I instantly recognized. It looked like something I bought at the US Mint in Washington DC circa 1973 as kid. That and a cotton bag full of fresh mint pennies. The pennies are long gone but I dug around and found my medal safely stored <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />(less it&#039;s plastic dome display) in a box in the basement. This medal was the first thing I ever bought with my money that was related to collecting. My father was in the Navy in the Pacific in WWII and it is probably why I gravitated to it in the souvenir shop that day. I remember handing over a fist full of cash for it.....probably less than $10.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reflecting upon it, <i>I realized that this is what set the hook so long ago</i>. John Paul sat on my desk as a kid, in my dorm in college and in my many apartments. A house and kids put it/him into storage. And not long after the medal went into storage, after another internet stumble, I began collecting ancients. </p><p><br /></p><p>It has pretty much no monetary value, but it will now go in the Abafil, next to its&#039; better bred kin.....it is the Genesis Item (yup coining a term here...look a pun &quot;coining&quot;)&nbsp; <i>All else in the collection exists because of this medal.</i> Not a coin, not paper currency, not a token, but a Medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bored on a Monday afternoon?</p><p>Tired of the work calls?</p><p>The Sports jock colleagues groaning on about missed or made field goals?</p><p>Politics got you down?</p><p>Significant other not appreciating your hobby?</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, join the dozens (sorry, not billions) of other collectors that share your unique perspective on life (you collect what????)&nbsp; and post your Genesis Item here. Distract yourself in a healthy way........<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie53" alt=":hungover:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie41" alt=":depressed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie68" alt=":nurse:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Help start a thread that will know no boundaries as to item classification, a thread that recognizes no collecting category, imagine all the people, living life in peace...</p><p><br /></p><p>You may say that I &#039;m a dreamer <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie17" alt=":astronaut:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, but I&#039;m not the only one........<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Genesis Item.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]454048[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>US Mint 1973 Comitia Americana Re-strike</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Medal awarded to Captain John Paul Jones for the naval battle between the U.S. frigate </b><i><b>Bonhomme Richard</b></i><b> and the British frigate </b><i><b>Serapis</b></i><b>.&nbsp; </b>The original was engraved by Augustine Dupre, and struck in gold.</p><p>Obverse: The bust of Captain Jones, facing right. Latin inscription reads: The American Congress to John Paul Jones, Commander of the fleet.</p><p>Reverse: The <i>Bonhomme Richard</i> on fire with her crew boarding the severely damaged <i>Serapis</i>.&nbsp; The <i>Alliance</i>, consort of the <i>Richard</i>, stands off to the left beyond two sailors in the water clinging to a spar.&nbsp; Latin inscription reads: The Enemy&#039;s Ships Captured or Put to Flight (above), at Scotland&#039;s shore, 23 September 1779 (below).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Is it just me or did someone just whisper &quot;<i>Rosebud....</i>&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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