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What coins would you like to use where and when...

Hello

I have not started a thread in a while it seems. This one is about application.
What coins would you like to spend when they were active and where/why?
I would like to use a Walker and a Washington, 75 cents, to enter the 1939 New York World's Fair. I'd use two Buffs for the LIRR train ride in. I'd need another 25C for a guidebook and a pocketful of Mercs for all the souvenirs, though some cost as much as $2.00! If you knew what to do when you could eat free - Hienz, Swift Premium, Wonderbread, Mayflower...all samples.
Dinner I would splurge in the Aviation Bar and Grill. A Washington and a Merc for a beverage, ham, dressing, mashed potato's, string beans, a dinner roll, desert and coffee.
Why? I guess I'd like a change.
What/where/when would you like to spend?
Eric

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<< <i>I would use 4 Barber Halves to buy the Columbian Exposition Half Dollar and Isabella Quarter. Though the Barber Half would have also been new at the time, so knowing myself I would have probably ended up saving those and used older Seated Halves. >>
Good answer!
Eric
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<< <i>I'd like to be a technician sneaking a Mercury aboard Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft before launch. >>
HAH! I should have seen that coming - great answer! It is fantaSY - surprised you didn't place yourself as Gus himself! Personally, I think my heart would reach more then the 300 beats per minute that ..Crippen's did during the first launch of the shuttle (Crippen? I just remember the heart rate!)
Best wishes,
Eric
<< <i>Id like to spend a merc dime to buy a candy bar back in the day >>
In my day candy bars were a nickel. Same as the cost for a big dill pickle from the barrel. A 5-stick pack of Wrigley's gum was also a nickel. Buffalo or Jefferson, they were both common in the 60's.
A dime would get you the latest DC comic. I wish i'd saved them.
Lance.
I passed on a few mint-state examples to instead acquire VF coins, loving the fact that they circulated at the games.
This coin is from the 112th Olympics: (in 332 BC)
And this one is from the 93rd Olympics: (in 408 BC)
<< <i>I'd love to have spent coins at the ancient Olympics. They were held in Elis, Olympia and all foreign money had to be exchanged for the local currency, giving the province a bit of profit as well to pay for the games. Everything from food to lodging was paid for with the specially-minted coinage made just for the games.
I passed on a few mint-state examples to instead acquire VF coins, loving the fact that they circulated at the games.
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That is very cool! I just visited Olympia about 2 months ago, it is very interesting place to see.
Partner @Gold Hill Coin

<< <i>Id like to spend a merc dime to buy a candy bar back in the day >>
I'm sure I'm not the only one reading who is old enough to have done that
Those of us who grew up in the fifties or earlier also spent real silver dollars now and then.
Eric
Liking the gold for coffee thing...fill those pockets with the change
Steve
<< <i>I'd love to have spent coins at the ancient Olympics. They were held in Elis, Olympia and all foreign money had to be exchanged for the local currency, giving the province a bit of profit as well to pay for the games. Everything from food to lodging was paid for with the specially-minted coinage made just for the games.
I passed on a few mint-state examples to instead acquire VF coins, loving the fact that they circulated at the games.
This coin is from the 112th Olympics: (in 332 BC)
And this one is from the 93rd Olympics: (in 408 BC)
One of the best answers in my opinion! Obviously, seriously cool coinage!!!!
And beautiful. I fully agree with the logic of the circulated example. Less $ more bang certainly! And to me also, more desirable. Please, I see the eagle on the front of the second, and what a startling rendering, but what is the Obverse?
Eric
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One of the best answers in my opinion! Obviously, seriously cool coinage!!!!
And beautiful. I fully agree with the logic of the circulated example. Less $ more bang certainly! And to me also, more desirable. Please, I see the eagle on the front of the second, and what a startling rendering, but what is the Obverse? >>
Thanks! Zeus was the patron god of Olympia and therefore the Olympic coinage features him and his iconography. The reverse of the second coin is a thunderbolt, thrown by Zeus. The Greeks had a creative interpretation of what thunder looked like, giving it wings and making it rather stylized.
The Eagle was Zeus' animal, always by his side, and eventually, this mythology was widespread enough to not need to show Zeus at all; his eagle along was sufficient to honor him.
Perhaps also of interest is that the obverse of the first coin is modeled after the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, a massive, four-storey tall statue which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (although it unfortunately didn't survive).
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One of the best answers in my opinion! Obviously, seriously cool coinage!!!!
And beautiful. I fully agree with the logic of the circulated example. Less $ more bang certainly! And to me also, more desirable. Please, I see the eagle on the front of the second, and what a startling rendering, but what is the Obverse? >>
Thanks! Zeus was the patron god of Olympia and therefore the Olympic coinage features him and his iconography. The reverse of the second coin is a thunderbolt, thrown by Zeus. The Greeks had a creative interpretation of what thunder looked like, giving it wings and making it rather stylized.
The Eagle was Zeus' animal, always by his side, and eventually, this mythology was widespread enough to not need to show Zeus at all; his eagle along was sufficient to honor him.
Perhaps also of interest is that the obverse of the first coin is modeled after the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, a massive, four-storey tall statue which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (although it unfortunately didn't survive). >>
Thanks! I know Zuess well, just did not recognize. He is part of one of my paintings with his cup boy Ganymede but I represent him with a constellation of embedded gems in a field of lapis and roasted ivory on copper. Great coin!
Eric
<< <i>Taking a roadtrip and buying gas for a quarter per gallon would have been nice
ill second that one big time.
(For reference, my son is only 12 now.)