Coins with trees on them are cool!

mdwoods · October 18, 2003 4:25AM

Here is one of mine.

kieferscoins · October 18, 2003 4:27AM

I like the bridge more myself than the tree, but it sure is an awesome coin. MS-67?

Cameron Kiefer

Aethelred · October 18, 2003 4:31AM

I also like tree coins!

mdwoods · October 18, 2003 4:39AM

I like the bridge more myself than the tree, but it sure is an awesome coin. MS-67?

Right on the mark dude. The bridge is very cool. When you tilt the coin at different angles the 3-D effect of the bridge is
very neat. The designer did a fantastic job on the coin.

coinrookie · October 18, 2003 4:55AM

That reverse is one of the nicest on all the classic commens. That one also has really nice toning and luster.

Steve

XpipedreamR · October 18, 2003 4:56AM

My favorite tree coin (and favorite commemorative, maybe) is the Connecticut half. I have one with this funky greenish-yellow original toning that really brings out the relief. The branches and oversized leaves going every which way are wild! It almost looks like some animated fairy tale cartoon tree that that will start chucking acorns at you if you look at it the wrong way.

TheNumish · October 18, 2003 4:57AM

That bridge is right off the Appalacian Trail in Maryland. I've camped there before. Very pretty place.

Nice coin Woodie!!!

dpoole · October 18, 2003 5:01AM

Wonderful detail on that coin. That IS a great design!

mdwoods · October 18, 2003 5:21AM

That bridge is right off the Appalacian Trail in Maryland. I've camped there before. Very pretty place.

The bridge shown is at the Antietam battlefield. Their are many bridges in the area with the same design. I think it was a German family that built
them. I saw a few like it. I am not sure how many there are. However, they are built well and have lasted a long time.

I'm pretty sure the tree on the right is a Sycamore.

LucyBop · October 18, 2003 5:24AM

anybody got a Axe?

TheNumish · October 18, 2003 5:28AM

Lucy for that comment you get a POW right in the Frankie!!!!!!!!!!!!

mdwoods · October 18, 2003 5:57AM

anybody got a Axe?

The tree still stands, it was a youngster at the time of the battle. Photos from the time of the battle show it to be about 3 or 4 inches in diameter.
It's a good sized tree today. Of course I haven't been there in 15 years probably. Like Gettysburg, you get an eerie feeling when you tour the Antietam
battleground. It remains today much as it was back then.

FC57Coins · October 18, 2003 6:27AM

Very nice coin Woody! Woody - trees - get it!

Beautiful toning too

Louis · October 18, 2003 6:28AM

Mark, here's another one with a tree.

Shamika · October 18, 2003 6:37AM

I LOVE TREE COINS!!!!!

And I thought I was the only one.

mdwoods · October 18, 2003 8:50AM

And I thought I was the only one.

There are a few others too. But I don't recommend that anyone else collect tree coins. It's very boring.

keets · October 18, 2003 10:07AM

if i'm not mistaken, there's a scene early in "The Last Of The Mohicans" with a beautiful shot of a carriage crossing that bridge.

al h.

BigE · October 19, 2003 8:13AM

Axe?

---------------------------BigE

ksteelheader · October 19, 2003 8:16AM

Hey Mark, Coins with trees on them are cool, but I'd like to find some of them trees with coins on them!!! My kids used to believe that they existed....

.....Ken

mintluster · October 19, 2003 8:16AM

The charter Oak on the CT Comm. looks great as well.

MRK · October 19, 2003 9:40AM

The 3-D effect of the bridge is awesome! Excellent photo as well.

Coins with trees on them are cool!

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