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@M4Madness said:

@DNADave said:

@M4Madness said:
@DNADave

I've probably picked up every snake I've ever seen in my life. My earliest recollection was an Eastern Hognosed snake in 1978 when I was 10 years old. I caught (and released) this beauty in my yard 10 years ago in 2014:

That’s a nice one ! I always catch and release them too. One of the pics above is a copperhead (can only see the belly). I Caught a lot of flak for catching and letting that one go.

Believe it or not, copperheads are plentiful here in Indiana (and a few timber rattlers), but strangely enough, I've never encountered a venomous snake in the wild. And I'm in the woods a lot deer hunting every Fall.

When I was 12 years old, we lived in a rural area of Oklahoma and I was bitten by an adult Copperhead that was in the grass but it blended in so well, I didn't even see it and stepped on the darned thing. It must have been a dry or semi dry bite because I only got mildly ill from it. I felt like I had the flu for several days. About a year later, I had a curious pimple-like thing develop on my lower left shin. It erupted during a bath and a snake fang came out of it!!! That Copperhead had broken it's fang off in my leg and I didn't even know it! I kept that fang for years. I have no idea where it is today though. One of the weirdest things I can recall happening to me. I still have a divot in my shin to this day from where the fang came out of my leg.


Dwayne

A similar token sold on eBay.ca has a description "Col. C.B. 'Burt' Cosgrove: Cosgrove made his first solo flight at the age of 15 in a Curtiss 'Jenny' (JN-4D) bi-plane that he had assembled himself. While still in his early twenties, he went on to become the first director of the Tucson airport, where he worked with Col. Charles Lindbergh setting up the nation's first transcontinental airline route. After beginning active duty with the U.S. Air Corps in the mid-1930's, Cosgrove piloted the the experimental B-17 bomber and worked with General 'Gene' Eubank to organize the famed 19th Bombardment Group which trained at Albuquerque's Kirtland Field." -- That was apparently lifted from https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/col-c-b-burt-cosgrove-jr

This page has more information on him from around that time but no mention of "Cosgrove Airways": https://dmairfield.org/Collections/Cosgrove Collection/Airplanes/index.html. It feels like a tongue-in-cheek thing rather than a legitimate business. I didn't find much else.

Wayne

It'd been whizzed, but for $3 I wasn't saying no.

@HillbillyCollector said:
An early Christmas present, courtesy of @justindan and @johnny010.
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@justindan has a great eye for nice coins. Glad this 52-O ended up in your esteemed collection.

My grandmother got me started with my first coin album, the quintessential Whitman blue folder for Lincoln cents, and I've been going at it off and on ever since - six decades and counting. Canadian coins are my current passion, along with Barber half dollars.

Over the years I wore a lot of hats - Storekeeper 1st Class, USCG (1978-1982), managed, supervised and operated ice arenas and recreational facilities nearly for two decades, HR director and, to cap it all off, assistant mailman at a small liberal arts college before packing it in three years ago. Yes Virginia, I did get to drive the Zamboni...

These days my long-time squeeze of two decades and I are enjoying our golden years along with our two cats Mia and Bandit. I don't own any guns but I do seek out and shoot birds with my camera. I get to drive to the FUN Show and haven't missed one since we moved to Florida over a decade ago. I've been a forum member for a long time now, though I am not a prolific contributor by any means. It's been a real treat reading about my fellow collectors from all walks of life

Bananaquit

Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Groove-billed Ani

This Morning's Sunrise Lit Sky

First chopmarked Trade Dollar I ever acquired. At first, I just wanted one example, but now...