Back from a nice Hawaii vacation
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Took a nice 10 day vacation to Oahu and Kauai and left work and the coins behind. I didn't even make the trek in Honolulu to any coin shops. There's just too much to do outside there!
Besides the tall grass that needed mowing, this was also waiting, a reasonably well struck 1943-S Walker, graded PCGS MS-66:
Besides the tall grass that needed mowing, this was also waiting, a reasonably well struck 1943-S Walker, graded PCGS MS-66:
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Nice Walker! I hear the lawn is calling you out...or is that the neighbors with pitchforks?
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Congratulations.
That is a very nice example at the 66 level. Nice obverse fields and sun, nice head, nice right arm, some detail on branch hand, no major noise.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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(Kauai's Napali Coast)
(Filming of a roof top chase scene to be seen in the first episode of this year's Season Seven Hawaii Five-0 to be aired on September 23, 2016.
Pictured seated for makeup and standing with gun is Detective Steve McGarrett's stunt double.)
Walkers are nice, but you have to share some of your travel photos as well. Here are views from my visit earlier this summer to Kauai and Oahu - since there were no nice coins waiting for me in my mailbox when I returned. Hopefully the first will bring back pleasant memories and with regard to the Oahu TV set photos, they will hopefully afford you an opportunity to relive your Hawaii vacation by tuning in to this season's filmed in Hawaii shows with their multiple featured Hawaii settings.
(Kauai's Napali Coast)
(Filming of a roof top chase scene to be seen in the first episode of this year's Season Seven Hawaii Five-0 to be aired on September 23, 2016.
Pictured seated for make-up and standing with gun is Detective Steve McGarrett's stunt double.)
And to keep this coin related - here is my photo I took of the famous Hawaii Five-0 Coin from the original series when it was being displayed at an ANA coin show in Portland, Oregon.
Here is the scoop on the Hawaii Five-O nickel from Wikipedia:
"While the Eliasberg specimen is the best preserved of the five coins, the Olsen specimen is almost certainly the most famous. It has been graded Proof-64 by both PCGS and NGC, and was featured on an episode of Hawaii Five-O ("The $100,000 Nickel," aired on December 11, 1973).[9] It was also briefly owned by King Farouk of Egypt.[6]
When Newman and Johnson broke up the set of five coins, the Olsen specimen was sold first to James Kelly and then to Fred Olsen. The latter sold the coin to Farouk, but his name has remained attached to it in numismatic circles ever since. In 1972, it was sold to World Wide Coin Investments for US$100,000, thus inspiring its title appearance in Hawaii Five-O the following year. Its price doubled to US$200,000 when it was resold to Superior Galleries in 1978. It has been resold on several occasions since then, fetching US$3,000,000 in a private treaty sale from California collector Dwight Manley to Bruce Morelan and Legend Numismatics in June 2004. Legend sold the coin to Blanchard and Co. in 2005, who sold it to a private collector, and more recently for US$3,737,500 by Heritage Auctions in January 2010.[10][11] The latest owner's name has not been disclosed."
Hawaii is more overrated than...well I don't know....say stickers.
Yeah, stickers will do.