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But I don't remember seeing a single Bison while I was there. Not sure but I'm thinking back in the 70's the herds were just about killed off. Only in recent years (10/20) the herds have been protected and have come back. Edited by USSID18
04/20/2018 10:11 am
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Pretty common to see them in Yellowstone since 2000. Even moreso on the flats in Grand Teton park.
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IN the spirit of teamwork, here are a couple of my photos to complement CoinCollector2012's coins from yesterday: Quote:
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04/19/2018 9:30 pm
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Le Mont St. Michel, on a 1993 20 franc coin, and a 2017 photo:   Edited by tdziemia
04/19/2018 11:12 pm
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The Colosseum (my photo but not my coin):   |
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Just to be a little different..  And the picture:  Edited by tdziemia
04/19/2018 10:24 pm
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I go by Stone Mountain frequently, and have visited it probably a dozen times.    I have visited Philadelphia  and the Liberty Bell  and the Statue of Liberty  |
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A couple from Barbados: Morgan Lewis Sugar Windmill (25 cents):   The Shell Fountain in Bridgetown (Silver Proof $5):   |
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Very nice, NumisRob. Excellent! Some great photos everyone. The statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial I remember as huge. (As a child, everything seems big, but the statue is over 30' tall). We might see pictures of the Brandenburg Gate or the Arc de Triomphe. I wonder if any former Apollo astronauts are Coin Community members and might show us pictures of the moon as shown on the Eisenhower dollar? Naw. What are the chances?  |
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These have been mentioned, so I thought I'd jump in! Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany:   Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England:   |
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Thanks, NumisRob, for those pics above. Please tell us when you visited those places and your impressions if you don't mind.
I need to start making plans to visit England. And Germany. I was born near Bitburg, Germany (at the US Air Force base where my parents were living), and I want to visit again.
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If I make it to Stonehenge, I"ll have to get one of those coins!
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Please tell us when you visited those places and your impressions if you don't mind. I've been to Berlin twice. The first time was in 1991, less than a year after Reunification. Quite a bit of the Wall was still standing, and the Brandenburg Gate stood virtually marooned in a desolate area where all the buildings had been razed to the ground - it had stood in the No Man's Land between East and West Berlin. The division between the two halves of the city was still very obvious and the Eastern part was very shabby once you got away from Unter Den Linden. When I returned to Berlin in 2010 it was barely recognisable - so many new buildings, old ones restored and smartened up, and only small fragments of the Wall left, deliberately preserved. The Brandenburg Gate is now once more in the heart of a flourishing commercial district. I've been to Stonehenge numerous times. In my work with a holiday and cruise company I occasionally even get to take tour buses there. I first remember going there aged about 10 with my parents and was amazed by the size of the stones and the history of the place. In those days anyone could just walk up to the stones and touch them, but now that's only possible at certain times by special appointment - most visitors just see the stones from a path that goes around the outside. I would definitely recommend a visit: Salisbury Plain is a very special place and there is now a new information centre that definitely enhances the visitor experience! |
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Here's another one - Isle of Man 5p and the Great Wheel at Laxey. The Wheel was built in the 19th century to drain water from local lead mines, but is now a tourist attraction. I visited the Isle of Man in May last year and took the photo from an electric train on the Snaefell Mountain Railway.   |
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