US Coins on buildings
kranky
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Had lunch with a good friend today who works for a bank and he took me to their original HQ building where we admired the immensely high gilded ceilings along with the original marble and wood interior. It's essentially unchanged other than modernizing the electrical, plumbing and HVAC systems from when it was built in 1870.
And high above the main entrance is a familiar image.
And high above the main entrance is a familiar image.
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<< <i>Doesn't the world headquarters of Heritage have a coin on their building? >>
Yeah, I think it's either a high relief Saint or an Ultra High Relief. Probably the latter.
<< <i>Oooh, I am pretty sure I have been in that building and never noticed the 1870-S $3 above the front door.
Looks more like a type 3 gold dollar.
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<< <i>Oooh, I am pretty sure I have been in that building and never noticed the 1870-S $3 above the front door.
Looks more like a type 3 gold dollar.
It is what you want it to be.
It lasted a month or so until it pried itself up and walked away!
The name is LEE!
Lincoln's 10,000 Silver Dollar Bar.
Western Montana.
Flew right by this joint last week. I shot this pic on a previous foray into Big Sky Country.
Looks to be a traveling family of Vammers staring intently at the bar.
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
There is a bank building in Dover, NJ on Blackwell St. with both obverse and reverse images of the Standing Liberty Qtr.
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The First National Bank in Oshkosh, WI. That's an SLQ and a Walker (obverse and reverse of each) above the entrance.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
Once the headquarters of Citibank (when it was the First National City Bank of New York), the main entrance has an arch of stone carvings of coins. They're hard to identify in the picture, but the one at the bottom left is a Buffalo Nickel and, as I recall, all of the rest are world coins.
Also, as you're standing across the narrow street, looking at the main entrance, your back will be against the building that housed the New York Custom House (before they built that beaux arts palace on Bowling Green). Once you've taken in the coins on 20 Exchange Place, look to your left and you'll see, at about the third floor, the stone coins (including an ancient Greek "Owl") on the outside of the former Brown Brothers Harriman building at 59 Wall Street.
For those of you who are movie buffs, 20 Exchange Place was where the heist movie "The Inside Man" was filmed.
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In my wild days, there was a dance floor in a club that was completely laiden with BU Lincoln pennies covered with lucite. That was cool!