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Bedrock of the Community
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As always I am amazed at the interesting information you post on commemorative coins.  I know I would love to have a Nikola Tesla commemorative. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very interesting post, thanks for sharing!
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice writeup commems!
I must agree GR. A Tesla coin would be great. So many tantalizing designs I can think of.
What about an Alexander Fleming coin? The design would just be an open window lol
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added names Fulton for the steam ship and Whitney for the cotton gin what about Colt as and is it too early for Steve Jobs?
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Wow ... many thanks indeed commems for another fabulous 'what-if' thread ... these will indeed make a great appendix for the upcoming book.  Best - David |
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I would suggest Enrico Fermi.
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Pillar of the Community
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Did anyone get my open window joke? I thought it was quite funny but could be too esoteric.
For the bio-medical science coin I'd say Dr. Robert Jarvik
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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Did anyone get my open window joke? I thought it was quite funny but could be too esoteric. @Cascade: Didn't get it the first time through, but as soon as I looked up Fleming and saw the word "penicillin" I had a good chuckle remembering his story from my college days. Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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The USPS took up some slack in 2005 with stamps that honored four American scientists: geneticist Barbara McClintock, mathematician John von Neumann, physicist Richard Feynman, and thermodynamicist Josiah Willard Gibbs. That still leaves so many! Besides the names mentioned so far, I'd like to see Linus Pauling and Harold Urey.
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Pillar of the Community
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I have read before that Einstein is so popular that multiple nations count him as one of their own. He is on their currency and stamps - Germany, Switzerland, USA, Israel, and maybe more.
He would definitely be a popular choice for a coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Another great "What If" post, commems. Sorry I'm late to the party but I've been traveling or would have commented sooner. Quote:
I know I would love to have a Nikola Tesla commemorative.  Quote:
[Einstein] would definitely be a popular choice for a coin. How about Sagan? Not "old" enough? |
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I would definitely buy a Sagan coin. A more personal connection, being that our lifetimes have overlapped.
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I, too, would be a buyer of a Carl Sagan coin. As an avid reader of his works and listener of his lecturers, I think it'd be great to see his coin sold with a copy of Cosmos included. A Carl Sagan Coin and Chronicles set essentially.
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I like the idea.  |
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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I'm not sure I would put Sagan at the top of my list of scientists worthy of a US coin. I'm not trying to disparage him in any way, he definitely accomplished much in his field, but I think there are other scientists that have more fundamentally changed our daily lives. I would put them ahead of Sagan for a commemorative coin.
Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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