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  • bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 21, 2022 5:52PM


    I had 2 more I sold in GC Auction that were gold bean. The only beans I ever had.

    Ken
  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bearcave said:

    I had 2 more I sold in GC Auction that were gold bean. The only beans I ever had.

    Those look better than MS66 to me.

    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @david3142 said:
    I only own two slabbed Mercs, coincidentally, they are both 1940-S. Here’s the PCGS one:

    No one should have two 42-S'...gimmie, gimmie.

    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
  • charlesf20charlesf20 Posts: 383 ✭✭✭

    What is the object that the vine on the reverse of the dime is wrapped around?

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @charlesf20 said:
    What is the object that the vine on the reverse of the dime is wrapped around?

    Art

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @charlesf20 said:
    What is the object that the vine on the reverse of the dime is wrapped around?

    In Latin that is called a fasces. It is an old Roman item, that very high officials were given. The item was a bundle of sticks tied together that had a blade embedded in it. It works on the idea that a single stick (e.g. person) can be broken, but that a bunch of sticks (people) tied together (by a common outlook/ideology) are very powerful. It is a symbol that has been used by many Roman derived cultures (including the USA). It is the symbol that is the literal basis of fascism.

  • bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lablover said:

    @bearcave said:

    I had 2 more I sold in GC Auction that were gold bean. The only beans I ever had.

    Those look better than MS66 to me.

    I thought so. They are not full band but I think they are better than a 66.

    Ken
  • charlesf20charlesf20 Posts: 383 ✭✭✭

    @SkyMan said:

    @charlesf20 said:
    What is the object that the vine on the reverse of the dime is wrapped around?

    In Latin that is called a fasces. It is an old Roman item, that very high officials were given. The item was a bundle of sticks tied together that had a blade embedded in it. It works on the idea that a single stick (e.g. person) can be broken, but that a bunch of sticks (people) tied together (by a common outlook/ideology) are very powerful. It is a symbol that has been used by many Roman derived cultures (including the USA). It is the symbol that is the literal basis of fascism.

    Thank you.

  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @charlesf20 said:

    @SkyMan said:

    @charlesf20 said:
    What is the object that the vine on the reverse of the dime is wrapped around?

    In Latin that is called a fasces. It is an old Roman item, that very high officials were given. The item was a bundle of sticks tied together that had a blade embedded in it. It works on the idea that a single stick (e.g. person) can be broken, but that a bunch of sticks (people) tied together (by a common outlook/ideology) are very powerful. It is a symbol that has been used by many Roman derived cultures (including the USA). It is the symbol that is the literal basis of fascism.

    Thank you.

    A similar thought:

    "And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart."Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NASB)

    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here's a 1945 I just crossed at MS67+ for the set:

    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
  • Mr Lindy Mr Lindy Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1945 Centered Broadstrike on Type 1 Blank


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