The Classics #48: 1946 Iowa Centennial

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• jmski52 Posts: 23,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2008 10:32PM

  "Our Liberties We Prize, and Our Rights We Will Maintain."
  
  GO HAWKS!

  Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally
  
  I knew it would happen.

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• Preussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭

  March 30, 2008 12:04AM

  Another great commem thread; thanks, LeeG. -Preussen
  
  

  "Illegitimis non carborundum" -General Joseph Stilwell. See my auctions

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• JimK Posts: 605

  March 30, 2008 12:06AM

  Outstanding!
  
  

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• lcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 30, 2008 12:58AM

  thanks for the lesson, well done.
  
  

  LCoopie = Les

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• richardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭

  March 30, 2008 1:04AM

  Another Great Post Lee. Thanks. Here's mine...
  
  
  

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• mrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭

  March 30, 2008 2:08AM

  

  Coin's for sale/trade.
  
  
  Tom Pilitowski
  US Rare Coin Investments
  800-624-1870

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• DRUNNER Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 30, 2008 2:24AM

  Lee . . .My parents got one of the originals in 1946. Living in Villisca, IA and they were able to get it at the Nodaway Valley National Bank. We had it rattling around in the safety deposit box with the important papers for 35 years until I took it out and put the (now AU) coin in a 2x2 when I started to get interested in coins. The main one in my commem set is a PCGS 67 bought raw, but nothing compares to the original the family got.
  
  Drunner

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 30, 2008 2:27AM

  Thanks for another entertaining and informative installment Lee... Cheers, RickO

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• dizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭

  March 30, 2008 2:28AM

  Hey Lee, as always...

  ...There's always time for coin collecting.

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• RWB Posts: 8,082 ✭

  March 30, 2008 5:17AM

  Another excellent post!
  Have to disagree on the design, though. To me it is one of the most cluttered, boring commemorative designs. It is exceeded in fundamental “ugly” only by the Washington-Carver, Booker T. Washington, York County, and South Carolina halves.

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• jmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭

  March 30, 2008 7:47AM

  Thanks. Lee:
  
  

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• LeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭

  March 30, 2008 8:14AM

  
  
  << <i>Lee . . .My parents got one of the originals in 1946. Living in Villisca, IA and they were able to get it at the Nodaway Valley National Bank. We had it rattling around in the safety deposit box with the important papers for 35 years until I took it out and put the (now AU) coin in a 2x2 when I started to get interested in coins. The main one in my commem set is a PCGS 67 bought raw, but nothing compares to the original the family got.
  
  Drunner >>
  
  
  Thanks for adding your life exerience here!!
  
  
  
  
  << <i>Another excellent post!
  Have to disagree on the design, though. To me it is one of the most cluttered, boring commemorative designs. It is exceeded in fundamental “ugly” only by the Washington-Carver, Booker T. Washington, York County, and South Carolina halves. >>
  
  
  Thanks RWB! I agree with you on the design. That's why these are relatively cheap, even at the 67 level.

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• mozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭

  March 30, 2008 2:16PM

  Thanks Lee. My specimen,
  
  
  
  

  I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.

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