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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 6645228, member: 57463&quot;]I disagree.</p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree. I bought 100 of the Annie Jump Cannon coins and 100 of the Hubble Space Telescope dollars to give out at astronomy club star parties when we have them again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any collector of ancients will tell you that coins are history. There are kings who are unknown except for an inscription on a coin. You have no idea what the future will bring. And you have no inkling about how rare and valuable a coin will be to someone living on Titan or working in the Oort Cloud. Even in our time on this board, we have had someone come by and ask why Harry Truman was put on the dime.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Moreover, I have written for the ANA about the Peace Dollar and the Walking Liberty Half, two coins that were dismissed in their time as unworthy. The Peace Dollar was disliked for the girl&#039;s open mouth. Is she a telephone operator? Does she have catarrh? Are those the sun&#039;s rays or captured German bayonets? Nothing is as crude as the word PEACE stamped on a rock. And how to you pronounce &quot;trvst&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>We forget the past too easily. The Peace Dollar was ANA initiative from 1918-1921 until it was launched at the last minute. Researching that article, I found a blurb about the Peace Dollar from like 1961 in which the writer (as an aside) could not understand why the 1918 convention was cancelled because &quot;apparently some people had the flu.&quot; These coins are fine. They serve a purpose. They will sell. In fact, I wanted the Denver Hubble Telescopes, but they were gone, so I took Philadelphia. The coins sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>All coins - all automobiles, all potato chips -- sell to different people for different reasons. I mentioned in a related topic (<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/american-innovation-dollar-annie-jump-cannon.376569/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/american-innovation-dollar-annie-jump-cannon.376569/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/american-innovation-dollar-annie-jump-cannon.376569/</a>) that I found out about the coins, while looking for images of Annie Jump Cannon that were not already common. Cannon I knew because I have a new interest in astronomy and have not done much with numismatics for over a year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael E. Marotta, BS, MA.</p><p>Editor</p><p>Historical Astronomy Division</p><p>American Astronomical Society[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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