Time to defend LucyBop..

LucyBop

From all those very bad Franklin Half bashers! Here is 2 of the main culprits!

Outhaul

Hmmm...let's see...a coin with a fat, bald, ugly old fart on it

Dog97

A coin with a guy that doesn't have enough sense to get in out of the rain and flies kites in lightning storms............

KlectorKid

No he was a very smart, fat, bald, ugly old fart.

MAULUMALL

Ya gotta keep showing the love Lucy.
Win em over w/kindness.






























If that don't work.........Well lets just say I know a guy who knows a guy....get it

Outhaul

I stand corrected, Kid

Gerry

Lucy - how come you're not watching the football games???

LucyBop

The list of culprits is growing..... Many are going to get sent to their rooms with no supper or Ebay for 1 week!

MrKelso

Ben Franklin's personal ideas about economy helped to shape our country's economy. We are lucky that they did because Franklin believed that the only true way to wealth was through hard work. This noble idea became the soul of the "American Dream," the idea that all people are created equal and each person has the same opportunity to achieve success.

Ben used his printing skills to print paper money, helping to establish the paper currency system in America. Today, we honor Ben's contribution to the economy every time we use a $100 bill: Ben's face appears on it.

I think he was a Good Guy. Mr.Franklin i Tip my Hat to you Sir.

MacCoin

LucyBop is doing a good job of defending herself. you go girl!

leothelyon

OK Lucybop,

I have a beautiful cherry red and orange with touches of sky blue on both sides. It's a 1961 proof, do you like franklin proofs, and it's raw without a mark. It also appears not to be FBL but I would grade it a MS67 for the colors and unmarked surfaces. I would sell it but I don't know what it's worth and I have no plans to certify it and there is no frost but very nice mirrors.

Leo

TheNumish

Franklin started the public library in Philadelphia and first fire department in the US. He invented the lightning rod and pot belly stove. He refused the patent on both of these inventions because he felt they were too important for him to profit on.

Having said that with all the great coins in the world why limit yourself to that fat, bald, old guy? If you've seen one deep cameo Franklin or full bell line you've seen them all!!!!

MAULUMALL

TheNumish
yu goin ta be sorrrryyyy when lucy gets back

FatMan

You bet I'll defend LucyBob - I'm 100% behind her, I like Frankies but not enough to collect them. What more can she ask for?

coppercoins

Nothing against Franklin himself, that's for sure...but the coin is one of the ugliest ever issued by the US mint. Other front runners are the Ike dollar and the Kennedy half. The first two mentioned have very little going for them in the obverse design - very bald, very little detail. The last is just plain cliche. No artistic merit for any of them.

I often wonder, if Kennedy hadn't been assasinated, how much longer would the Franklin half have survived before being replaced? Could there possibly have been a 2002 Franklin half?

LucyBop

Well, Lucy loves her little Bald, Ugly and Fat Frankies!!!!




Hopefully this thread put some humor in the day..........

Dog97

FatMan seys: You bet I'll defend LucyBob - I'm 100% behind her
heehe I bet you are!

CLASSICS

franklin? franklin ? franklin who? huh? is he new to the forum?

wayneherndon

I love Frankies too! Here's a pic of my favorite:

TheNumish

Lucy-
Why is it you only collect Franklins?

LucyBop

I also love Winged Libertys and mint state Roosies.... I have fledgling Registry sets for both of these.... But the Frankie, it was a big part of my childhood...... And its from the 1950s!!!!!

Dog97

Hey look at what wayneherndon posted, a Frankie star note!
Ben Franklin was cool, I remember from my school days he wanted to make Wild Turkey the national drink.

ldhair

Yea I think him and the queen used to have a few. I think they were doing more than that.

Clankeye

I'm with you, Lucy. But, this from a guy who has devoted a lot of his time to collecting Washington Carver commemoratives. To say that they are not our most beloved commemorative is an understatement. Up with Ben! Up with W.Carver!

I throw in my lot with the Princess of Bop. The rest of you are common scoundrels-- and don't know how to treat a lady!

Clankeye

Gilbert

Pardon me Miss LucyBop, for being so late - I just happened upon the thread, and with the other "goings-on" I was reluctant to open it; but I too collect Franklin Half dollars, among other things


and I think it is hardly in the spirit of a collector among collectors, that you should "put down" another collector's interests, so callously.

Old fart, bald ugly guy or what, it is U. S. Coin and found to be desirable AND collectible, and some of us find them as "collectible" as any other "coin" one may choose.

Coppercoins,

I took you as a collector among collectors. That "$hit" was cruel.


BTW, Lucy - O take it you were initially talking about Russ and CoinGuy?

tjkillian

Franklins are cool if nothing else it that the whole series was struck in 90% pure silver. Franklin himself was cool and really liked the ladies, someone after my own heart. As soon as I get a full set of flowing hair, draped bust and seated liberty half dollars, I'm going to start on those Franklins.

Tom

1956Quarter

I love'em, they are my all time favorite. In fact I'm putting a raw set of very carefully and frustraitingly cherry picked coins together myself. Now all I need are a few dealers to get in some truly nice coins more than once every two years and I am set.

Besides that, I'm a fat, bald, handsome wise old fart too, but I do draw the line at flying kites in thunderstorms.

ccrdragon

I'll defend Lucy and her right to collect the coins with the fat hairy SMART ugly guy on them - I just don't understand her
fascination with the coin!

SarasotaFrank

<< <i>Well, Lucy loves her little Bald, Ugly and Fat Frankies!!!! >>



Heck, I'm only 5-10"/182, but since when is that short and fat?

as for the ugly part, I only get ugly when sellers don't leave feedback, or when I've seen one too many pepperdoodles threads.

MacCoin

I like wayneherndon Franklin. but I hear old Ben didn't wear pants in France.

mbbiker

In honor of LucyBop i have changed my icon to a Frankie. (if they see enough of them they may start to like them)

paigowjohnny

I don't care much for Frankies, but I really like HepKitty's passion for them...that's what collecting is all about...

Outhaul

Coppercoins said "I often wonder, if Kennedy hadn't been assasinated, how much longer would the Franklin half have survived before being replaced? Could there possibly have been a 2002 Franklin half?"

I've often wondered the same thing. If history took a different turn, JFK was not killed, and the Franklin were replaced, who do you think would have been on the obverse?

Cheers,

Bob

pmh1nic

Probably the two most important people during the Revolutionary War period were Washington and Franklin; Washington on the battlefield and Franklin on the political front raising support and despairly need money/supplies for the war effort. Without them it's doubtful the patriots would have won the war.

The Franklin maybe lacking something ascetically (although monster toning helps ) but the honor was rightly due and given when his image was chosen for the Half Dollar. His contributions ranged from politics to science, philosophy, medicine, printing, oceanography, finance, the establishment of militias, postal service, Actually I think the change was premature and was strictly an emotional reaction do to the tragic death of President Kennedy (I was in my fifth grade class when I heard the news).

Since Kennedy has been honor for over twenty-five years I think it's time for a change. No, not back to Franklin (sorry LucyBop). My vote would go to one of the great unsung heros of the Revolutionary War period, our second President, John Adams.