The Oklahoma quarter is the 46th coin in the 50 State Quarters Program. The coin's reverse design features the State bird, the Scissortail Flycatcher. The bird is soaring above the State wildflower, the Indian Blanket, amid a field of similar wildflowers. Inscriptions on the reverse are "Oklahoma" and "1907," the year Oklahoma was admitted into the Union as the 46th state.
Characteristics
The obverse (heads) design features the familiar image of George Washington by John Flanagan, used on the quarter since 1932.
The reverse (tails) design features an image of the Scissortail Flycatcher soaring over the State wildflower, the Indian Blanket.
The 2011 Chickasaw National Recreation Area Quarter is the 10th coin in the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program.
The park is unique in that it was founded through the support of an Indian tribe, the Chickasaw Nation. Chickasaw National Recreation Area exists as a part of the national park system to provide for the protection of the area’s unique resources, springs, streams, lakes and other natural features; to protect and interpret its cultural history, historic landscapes and structures; to commemorate the Chickasaw Nation; and to provide for public education, appreciation and recreational use and enjoyment of those resources. It was originally established as a national site on July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 641).
Characteristics
The obverse (heads) design features the familiar image of George Washington by John Flanagan, used on the quarter since 1932. It has been restored to bring out subtle details and the beauty of the original.
The reverse (tails) image depicts the Lincoln Bridge, built of limestone and dedicated in 1909 to celebrate the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The bridge is the first constructed improvement in the national recreation area and a favorite scenic spot. Design candidates were developed in consultation with representatives of Chickasaw National Recreation Area.
James Dixon (1924-1997) was recruited into Platoon 382 of the United States Marine Corps on May 4, 1942, for the purpose of developing a new unbreakable verbal communications system to transmit intelligence and troop movements within the American military during World War II. The code Dixon and his fellow Marines developed revolutionized secret communications and is the only spoken military code never to be broken.
At the beginning of World War II, the United States military studied several Native American languages in an effort to develop a new unbreakable code for transmitting information and orders during wartime. Because at the time Navajo was still an unwritten language with very complex grammar and was not mutually intelligible with other closely related Native languages a program was launched to develop a new coded communication system using Navajo speakers. For this purpose, the United States Marine Corps enlisted twenty-nine Navajo men, mostly from the Fort Wingate, New Mexico, area on May 4, 1942, and organized them into Platoon 382, the Marine Corp's first all-Navajo platoon. Following boot camp, the platoon set to work developing and memorizing a unique military code using their Native language.
The Navajo recruits developed the code by taking words from their language and substituting them for specific types of aircraft, ships, vehicles and other equipment for which there was no Navajo word. For example, the names of different birds were used to describe different kinds of aircraft. Out of this was developed an initial code of 211 vocabulary terms, that expanded to 411 over the course of the war. A key feature of the Navajo Code Talkers was that they used a coded version of their own language. The code was so complex that other Navajo speakers not trained in the Navajo Code could not decipher messages being sent or received.
The code was only spoken and required intensive training for Navajo speakers to master. Once mastered, the code proved so successful that Code Talkers could successfully translate, transmit and re-translate a coded message in a matter of minutes whereas without using the Navajo Code, it could take a soldier hours to complete the same task.
Most Code Talkers were assigned in pairs to a military unit. During battle, one person would operate a portable radio while the second person would relay and receive messages in the Native language and translate them into English.
Code Talkers were used in every major operation involving the Marines in the Pacific theater of World War II. Their primary job was to transmit tactical information over telephone and radio. At the Battle of Iwo Jima, Major Howard Connor, 5th Marine Division signal officer, had six Navajo code talkers working around the clock during the first two days of the battle. These six men sent and received over 800 messages, without a single error. Connor later said, "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima."
Despite their heroic contributions during the war, Navajo Code Talkers' efforts were classified and the men forbidden from speaking about the Code or their specific duties during the war. Because the codes that they developed remained unbroken, the US military wanted to keep the program classified in case the code talkers were needed again in future wars. Finally in 1968 the program was declassified and the Code Talkers' contributions toward victory in World War II began to be appreciated.
Contributions of the Code Talkers were first officially acknowledged by President Ronald Reagan who gave the Code Talkers a Certificate of Recognition and declared August 14 "Navajo Code Talkers Day" in 1982. Then in 2000, President Bill Clinton signed a law awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the original 29 Code Talkers of Platoon 382 and President George W. Bush presented the medals to the four surviving Code Talkers and posthumously to the families of the twenty-five men already deceased at a ceremony held in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington in July 2001.
If a license plate can be exquisite then this is my choice. Arizona used copper to manufacture them during the depression to support Arizona mining. A license plate is pressed metal, not dissimilar to a coin, with buyers having like demands for originality, condition, and asthetics. One difference, in some years and states one must find two matching plates, that gives rarity to even a lesser-appreciated year. Values are influenced by non-collectors buying them for vintage vehicles, and the person who bought this pair didn’t blink at a one-thousand dollar plate for his 1933 black-on-copper Cadillac.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
Arizona Sales Tax token - Five mills
Copper, 22mm
Obverse: ARIZONA STATE TAX COMMISSION
Reverse: TO MAKE CHANGE FOR CORRECT SALES TAX PAYMENT, Large '5'
Scott Simpson a.k.a Nikita Karloff, The Russian Nightmare achieved the best gimmick in pro wrestling. Few knew that he was not Russian; even promoters and many other wrestlers did not know. He pulled it off for years
The sign is a billboard that appeared on highways in the Russian Republic after the Fairbanks negotiations—
“Alaska Ours”.
Scott Simpson a.k.a Nikita Karloff, The Russian Nightmare achieved the best gimmick in pro wrestling. Few knew that he was not Russian; even promoters and many other wrestlers did not know. He pulled it off for years
The sign is a billboard that appeared on highways in the Russian Republic after the Fairbanks negotiations—
“Alaska Ours”.
Comments
The Oklahoma quarter is the 46th coin in the 50 State Quarters Program. The coin's reverse design features the State bird, the Scissortail Flycatcher. The bird is soaring above the State wildflower, the Indian Blanket, amid a field of similar wildflowers. Inscriptions on the reverse are "Oklahoma" and "1907," the year Oklahoma was admitted into the Union as the 46th state.
Characteristics
The obverse (heads) design features the familiar image of George Washington by John Flanagan, used on the quarter since 1932.
The reverse (tails) design features an image of the Scissortail Flycatcher soaring over the State wildflower, the Indian Blanket.
The 2011 Chickasaw National Recreation Area Quarter is the 10th coin in the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program.
The park is unique in that it was founded through the support of an Indian tribe, the Chickasaw Nation. Chickasaw National Recreation Area exists as a part of the national park system to provide for the protection of the area’s unique resources, springs, streams, lakes and other natural features; to protect and interpret its cultural history, historic landscapes and structures; to commemorate the Chickasaw Nation; and to provide for public education, appreciation and recreational use and enjoyment of those resources. It was originally established as a national site on July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 641).
Characteristics
The obverse (heads) design features the familiar image of George Washington by John Flanagan, used on the quarter since 1932. It has been restored to bring out subtle details and the beauty of the original.
The reverse (tails) image depicts the Lincoln Bridge, built of limestone and dedicated in 1909 to celebrate the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The bridge is the first constructed improvement in the national recreation area and a favorite scenic spot. Design candidates were developed in consultation with representatives of Chickasaw National Recreation Area.
Thursday July 2.- New Mexico
Missile Park in White Sands.
Masonic Penny, Roswell, New Mexico
Bronze, 32 mm, 10.96 gm
"We had to let them attend the lodge meeting. They knew the Sign and the Grip".
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
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One of only eleven ‘value back’ bills known/recorded in NM.
Demi Morre is from roswell n.m
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A GOLD CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL PRESENTED TO MARINE CORPORAL JAMES DIXON, ONE OF THE ORIGINAL TWENTY-NINE WORLD WAR II NAVAJO CODE TALKERS,
2001.
https://www.bonhams.com/auction/32308/lot/32/a-gold-congressional-medal-presented-to-marine-corporal-james-dixon-one-of-the-original-twenty-nine-world-war-ii-navajo-code-talkers/
James Dixon (1924-1997) was recruited into Platoon 382 of the United States Marine Corps on May 4, 1942, for the purpose of developing a new unbreakable verbal communications system to transmit intelligence and troop movements within the American military during World War II. The code Dixon and his fellow Marines developed revolutionized secret communications and is the only spoken military code never to be broken.
At the beginning of World War II, the United States military studied several Native American languages in an effort to develop a new unbreakable code for transmitting information and orders during wartime. Because at the time Navajo was still an unwritten language with very complex grammar and was not mutually intelligible with other closely related Native languages a program was launched to develop a new coded communication system using Navajo speakers. For this purpose, the United States Marine Corps enlisted twenty-nine Navajo men, mostly from the Fort Wingate, New Mexico, area on May 4, 1942, and organized them into Platoon 382, the Marine Corp's first all-Navajo platoon. Following boot camp, the platoon set to work developing and memorizing a unique military code using their Native language.
The Navajo recruits developed the code by taking words from their language and substituting them for specific types of aircraft, ships, vehicles and other equipment for which there was no Navajo word. For example, the names of different birds were used to describe different kinds of aircraft. Out of this was developed an initial code of 211 vocabulary terms, that expanded to 411 over the course of the war. A key feature of the Navajo Code Talkers was that they used a coded version of their own language. The code was so complex that other Navajo speakers not trained in the Navajo Code could not decipher messages being sent or received.
The code was only spoken and required intensive training for Navajo speakers to master. Once mastered, the code proved so successful that Code Talkers could successfully translate, transmit and re-translate a coded message in a matter of minutes whereas without using the Navajo Code, it could take a soldier hours to complete the same task.
Most Code Talkers were assigned in pairs to a military unit. During battle, one person would operate a portable radio while the second person would relay and receive messages in the Native language and translate them into English.
Code Talkers were used in every major operation involving the Marines in the Pacific theater of World War II. Their primary job was to transmit tactical information over telephone and radio. At the Battle of Iwo Jima, Major Howard Connor, 5th Marine Division signal officer, had six Navajo code talkers working around the clock during the first two days of the battle. These six men sent and received over 800 messages, without a single error. Connor later said, "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima."
Despite their heroic contributions during the war, Navajo Code Talkers' efforts were classified and the men forbidden from speaking about the Code or their specific duties during the war. Because the codes that they developed remained unbroken, the US military wanted to keep the program classified in case the code talkers were needed again in future wars. Finally in 1968 the program was declassified and the Code Talkers' contributions toward victory in World War II began to be appreciated.
Contributions of the Code Talkers were first officially acknowledged by President Ronald Reagan who gave the Code Talkers a Certificate of Recognition and declared August 14 "Navajo Code Talkers Day" in 1982. Then in 2000, President Bill Clinton signed a law awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the original 29 Code Talkers of Platoon 382 and President George W. Bush presented the medals to the four surviving Code Talkers and posthumously to the families of the twenty-five men already deceased at a ceremony held in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington in July 2001.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker
She was in my sister’s class at Goddard High and dated her boyfriend’s best friend!
Friday July 3 - Arizona
If a license plate can be exquisite then this is my choice. Arizona used copper to manufacture them during the depression to support Arizona mining. A license plate is pressed metal, not dissimilar to a coin, with buyers having like demands for originality, condition, and asthetics. One difference, in some years and states one must find two matching plates, that gives rarity to even a lesser-appreciated year. Values are influenced by non-collectors buying them for vintage vehicles, and the person who bought this pair didn’t blink at a one-thousand dollar plate for his 1933 black-on-copper Cadillac.
cant forget this
Louisiana Purchase silver medal from 1904.
Oatman, AZ
Cool Springs, AZ
Seligman, AZ. Great coffee. Sipping on smoe right now.
"...Standing on the corner,..."
Have you slept in a "Wigwam"?
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Arizona Sales Tax token - Five mills
Copper, 22mm
Obverse: ARIZONA STATE TAX COMMISSION
Reverse: TO MAKE CHANGE FOR CORRECT SALES TAX PAYMENT, Large '5'
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
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Friday July 4 - Alaska
Enjoy the holiday!
Scott Simpson a.k.a Nikita Karloff, The Russian Nightmare achieved the best gimmick in pro wrestling. Few knew that he was not Russian; even promoters and many other wrestlers did not know. He pulled it off for years
The sign is a billboard that appeared on highways in the Russian Republic after the Fairbanks negotiations—
“Alaska Ours”.
I remembered him
Happy 250 America!
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Sunday July 5
Made it, thanks to you guys for the content.
Another thousand-dollar license plate.
Hawaii:
Steve
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
Thanks for running the thread!
Casual collector slowly building a collection....
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