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A Major Award!

CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,984 ✭✭✭✭✭

I am happy and pleased to announce that I will receive the ANA’s “Lifetime Achievement Award” in Pittsburgh. If I live that long.

Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Way to go!! I knew you had it in you! B)

    Ken
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    SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,984 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats.

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations! :)

    All glory is fleeting.
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    cardinalcardinal Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats! That is certainly a Major Award!👍🎉🎉🎉🎉

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway....Congratulations... What an honor....Hope to see some pictures. Cheers, RickO

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    GoBustGoBust Posts: 605 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good for you!

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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well deserved, congratulations!

    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
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    happycollectinghappycollecting Posts: 264 ✭✭✭✭

    Congrats!

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    tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations, wish I could witness the event in person.

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

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    OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations. Hopefully I'll have a chance to congratulate you in person at Pittsburgh

    Member of the ANA since 1982
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    ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 1, 2020 8:32AM

    Congratulations!

    You are certainly a major contributor to the hobby and you deserve it!

    I follow Elder medals and your catalog is the gold standard!

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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So well deserved, congrats!!!

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    jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats!!

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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,243 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 1, 2020 9:34AM

    Outstanding!!!
    Congratulations Tom.
    Here's hoping Pittsburgh can host us coin nuts this summer.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

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    MgarmyMgarmy Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is awesome!!!

    100% positive transactions with SurfinxHI, bigole, 1madman, collectorcoins, proofmorgan, Luke Marshall, silver pop, golden egg, point five zero,coin22lover, alohagary, blaircountycoin,joebb21

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    CCDollarCCDollar Posts: 771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice...!

    CC

    Nickel Triumph...My Led Zepps
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    CCDollarCCDollar Posts: 771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Congratulations, here you go ...

    I received one of those for Christmas quite a while ago...it sits proudly in my den. Take care...

    CC

    Nickel Triumph...My Led Zepps
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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What's an Awardway? ;):p

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    1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,156 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats, :)

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 24,529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's great! Congrats! :)

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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    details, please. it would be nice to be present when you receive it!! B)

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    dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,750 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats. Hope to be at the show this summer and be able to attend the ceremony.

    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
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    TomBTomB Posts: 23,054 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations!

    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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    bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,359 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations! :)

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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well deserved Tom! So happy for you

    mark

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    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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    bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

    .........................

    Ken
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    ironmanl63ironmanl63 Posts: 1,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats! By the way what does a Henway?

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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,642 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats Tom.

    theknowitalltroll;
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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ironmanl63 said:
    Congrats! By the way what does a Henway?

    About 2 pounds

    m

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    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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    ironmanl63ironmanl63 Posts: 1,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:

    @ironmanl63 said:
    Congrats! By the way what does a Henway?

    About 2 pounds

    m

    I am easily amused. That cracked me up.

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    BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well deserved Tom!

    By the way, I always wondered:

    Do you drive a Delorey-An?

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
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    goldengolden Posts: 10,478 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations.

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    BestGermanBestGerman Posts: 76 ✭✭✭

    Tom, that is exceptional news. You have, in fact, contributed so much to numismatics and enriched all of our lives. Congratulations!

    Ron Guth, Chief Investigator
    The Numismatic Detective Agency

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    RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,627 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations, Tom, for a very well-deserved award!

    Hope to congratulate you in person at ANA!

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

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    CaptainBluntCaptainBlunt Posts: 211 ✭✭✭

    Great news Tom always enjoyed our
    correspondence Well deserved!

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    kazkaz Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations on the good news! Thanks for all your contributions to numismatics.

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    JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations!!

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    astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats and well-deserved, Tom.

    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
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    fishteethfishteeth Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats. Well deserved. I have learned so much from your post and writings

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    NicNic Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome. Well deserved. Applause!

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,103 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't think that this is an April Fools joke...congratulations @CaptHenway

    oih82w8 = Oh I Hate To Wait _defectus patientia_aka...Dr. Defecto - Curator of RMO's

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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am easily amused. That cracked me up.

    do you mean you had never heard that one before?? I think my cousin told it to me about 1965. he told me another, said that he was gonna get a new car, he called it a Rolls Can-ardly. when I asked what that was he said "its a car that rolls down one hill and Can-ardly get up the next." :p

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    VeepVeep Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations! “Lifetime” is certainly accurate. Thanks for having enriched our hobby!

    "Let me tell ya Bud, you can buy junk anytime!"
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    CWT1863CWT1863 Posts: 316 ✭✭✭✭

    Congrats!

    ANA-LM, CWTS-LM, NBS, TAMS, ANS

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    RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's some good news fore a change. Congratulations on this prestigious award! Well deserved!

    "Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet."
    Louis Armstrong
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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:
    I am happy and pleased to announce that I will receive the ANA’s “Lifetime Achievement Award” in Pittsburgh. If I live that long.

    That Award was going to be for me as my April Fool's Day joke but you beat me.

    Congratulations. :)

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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fabulous! I wish I could be there to see that and meet you!

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2, 2020 9:01AM

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Congratulations, here you go ...

    “It’s pronounced ‘frah-gee-lee!’ “

    Edited to add: And thanks for getting the reference!

    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,043 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations!! Very nice work.

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