A "Thank You" to All !
RWB
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Research and writing for the series of three books known as Renaissance of American Coinage began in 1999 as a short article about the Peace dollar. I guess it got out of control because it ended up as nearly 1,000 pages of detailed numismatic exploration.
From beginnings in 1905 through the next two decades our great nation, for one brief and glorious period, boasted the most creative, artistic and expressive coinage in the world. Visiting citizens of other nations held not history in their hands, but the present America – strong, proud, free, confident. It is a collective ideal many long to recapture, yet is as elusive as morning mist.
During the eight years it has taken to research, edit, write and rewrite, and publish these volumes, I have benefited from the generous assistance and thoughtful suggestions from a great many collectors and professional numismatists who post on this message forum. Some of these contributors are noted in the published books, others chose to be anonymous. Others may not have realized that their questions, comments and ideas expressed on these pages have been a wonderful source of inspiration, reflection, and sometimes redirection for this writer. Each of you in your own way has helped to search through thousands of musty documents to create what, I hope, will become a long-term guide to the rebirth of art on American coin.
To all who contribute to these forums now and in the past, a deeply appreciative “THANK YOU!” for your support, encouragement, assistance and thoughtfulness.
Roger W. Burdette
From beginnings in 1905 through the next two decades our great nation, for one brief and glorious period, boasted the most creative, artistic and expressive coinage in the world. Visiting citizens of other nations held not history in their hands, but the present America – strong, proud, free, confident. It is a collective ideal many long to recapture, yet is as elusive as morning mist.
During the eight years it has taken to research, edit, write and rewrite, and publish these volumes, I have benefited from the generous assistance and thoughtful suggestions from a great many collectors and professional numismatists who post on this message forum. Some of these contributors are noted in the published books, others chose to be anonymous. Others may not have realized that their questions, comments and ideas expressed on these pages have been a wonderful source of inspiration, reflection, and sometimes redirection for this writer. Each of you in your own way has helped to search through thousands of musty documents to create what, I hope, will become a long-term guide to the rebirth of art on American coin.
To all who contribute to these forums now and in the past, a deeply appreciative “THANK YOU!” for your support, encouragement, assistance and thoughtfulness.
Roger W. Burdette
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You should send a complementary copy to the mint director. Todays coinage can't hold a candle to the designs you referenced.
THANK YOU for all the hours upon hours of research you've done. You have uncovered so much information about the history of our country's coins.
I know you enjoyed doing it and have enabled everyone who reads you books the same enjoyment!
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You should send a complementary copy to the mint director. Todays coinage can't hold a candle to the designs you referenced. >>
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
Jim