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I saw a beaver today. Post a coin with a beaver on it.
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I saw a beaver while driving on a back road.I can only think of two coins that show a beaver.
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I'll let others post coins from Canada, US Commems (Albany) and Oregon Territory. We'll OK, one Oregon coin:
Were talking Jerry Matthers, right?
Steve
Edited to say "Oh yea them nickels to the north Aye"
rick
you should send that in, looks ms70 to me
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I'll let others post coins from Canada, US Commems (Albany) and Oregon Territory. We'll OK, one Oregon coin:
Thats one nice looking beaver!!!
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Gee Wally........I've never even seen an Oregon quarter !
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rick
you should send that in, looks ms70 to me
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Yup. And no hairlines.
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Nice beavers.
JH
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My current Oregon $5.
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I'd have purchased that in the BOX set
Was fishing in Alaska near a beaver pond. When my buddy flew in to pick me up, I grabbed my tackle box and off we went.
It wasn't until we got back to Fairbanks that I realized my Ruger .357 was missing.
2 weeks later we returned to the same spot. After a few minutes of looking around, I found the pistol in the beaver pond. Every last bit of the wood handle was chewed off and the leather holster missing.
That beaver must have thought it was a gourmet meal.
<< <i>I am always amazed at what the forum members are able to find and post. Perhaps we need something a bit more challenging, like a duckbill platypus. >>
I have found a couple of australian coins with a duckbill platypus on it while searching half dollar rolls.
<< <i>Broadstruck - your behavior is awe inspiring....
My current Oregon $5.
One of my favorite territorial designs.
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what i was thinking
<< <i>I am always amazed at what the forum members are able to find and post. Perhaps we need something a bit more challenging, like a duckbill platypus. >>
<< <i>I am always amazed at what the forum members are able to find and post. Perhaps we need something a bit more challenging, like a duckbill platypus. >>
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Beavers eating palm trees? Hmmmmmmm.....
With their ravenous appetite for trees, the beavers transformed the region from lush jungle to marshland in mere decades by chewing down every tree in sight.
Their job done, they soon migrated via rivers & streams north to their present locales. There, in the cooler environment, their metabolisms slowed to the point where they only cut down trees at a rate close enough to the sustainable re-growth rate, allowing northern forests to maintain an equilibrium.
This maintenance of such a delicate balance was further assisted by Canada's infamous "Beaver Control Act" of 1732, where a bounty of 1 "beaver" nickel per pelt was placed on the toothy mammals.
Otherwise, those of us in the North might have shared Florida's fate, and currently be living in a desert......
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<< <i>Contrary to common belief that they are indigenous to North America, Beavers were first introduced in the hemisphere by the Spanish Conquistadors into what used to be the Southern Florida tropical forest.
With their ravenous appetite for trees, the beavers transformed the region from lush jungle to marshland in mere decades by chewing down every tree in sight.
Their job done, they soon migrated via rivers & streams north to their present locales. There, in the cooler environment, their metabolisms slowed to the point where they only cut down trees at a rate close enough to the sustainable re-growth rate, allowing northern forests to maintain an equilibrium.
This maintenance of such a delicate balance was further assisted by Canada's infamous "Beaver Control Act" of 1732, where a bounty of 1 "beaver" nickel per pelt was placed on the toothy mammals.
Otherwise, those of us in the North might have shared Florida's fate, and currently be living in a desert......
Lately though many beavers are returning to their "roots," and migrating back to the south. Canadian officials are alarmed that the national symbol will have to be changed and some have gone as far as to call for beaver fences at many of the large river mouths to stop the outflow.
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Considering the beaver preceded the Paleo Indians arrival to North America by nearly 7 mill years, that's a pretty good story.
The first fossil records of beaver are 10 to 12 million years old in Germany, and they are thought to have migrated to North America across the Bering Strait. The oldest fossil record of beaver in North America are of two beaver teeth in Dayville, Oregon and are 7 million years old.[23]
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1754 Betts-389, one of the Franco-American jeton series, showing an industrious beaver.
Betts-429, the 1760 Montreal Taken medal, featuring the river god's pet beaver.
Betts-430, the 1760 Canada Subdued medal, depicting a creepy beaver.
Other medals: How about the membership medal of Canada's famed Beaver Club, founded in 1785 to honor men who had been off hunting beavers for more than a year? The one below belonged to the governor of the Hudson Bay Company.
Or Wyon's beautiful Upper Canada Preserved medal, struck after the War of 1812?
There are also plenty of FAKE (not real, modern, counterfeit) beaver effigies and medals that purport to be Indian trade silver ornaments. The vast majority (including ones sold by major auction houses) are modern concoctions, so don't get snookered. Things like this:
Sorry for the long post -- I've always liked beavers!
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
On a separate note, has anyone else noticed how SCARY most of the above depictions of beavers on the coins are? I'd like to think the current version on the Canadian nickel is the closest in accuracy, because many of the above renderings are truly FRIGHTENING!!
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