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Thank you Hondo, GLB, and Dearborn.
" Even a clock that's stopped is right twice a day. "
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Just for a change of scenery, I'm focusing my auction prep this week on a couple of British Oceania boxes, where I've found about 75 of the tradesman and merchant tokens that circulated in Australia and New Zealand in the mid-nineteenth century.
Shown here is the copper "Advance Australia" penny struck by W.J.Taylor, the London medallist. The emu and kangaroo featured on this token eventually grew up to become the official supporters on the coat of arms of the Commonwealth of Australia, which was awarded by King Edward VII in 1908. Interestingly, this 1860-ish token's reverse legend is also the motto that appears in a scroll below the arms on some of Australia's silver coinage well into the reign of Elizabeth II.Penny, circa 1860, Melbourne, Victoria, 33mm. Renniks 5, Andrews 571, KM Tn 282.1, R1.
"If everything seems to be under control, you're just not going fast enough."
--- Mario Andretti
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Nice acquisitions. Errers and Varietys.
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Oooh, I like that one, daltonista!
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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It doesn't say Penza. It says LENENERGO (Leningrad [region] + energy).
We're talking about the Northwest, after all. Penza isn't in Northwest Russia.
Cyrillic is not transmitted here.
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11/07/2025 05:40 am
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A horseman on a quadriga (not a Russian troika) is a typical symbol associated with energy. You can search for it. Kikimora is completely beyond the scope of commentary. Words fail me. Where are these quotes from? What nonsense.
Sorry. Got it. AI. That's certainly a problem.
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11/07/2025 06:26 am
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@WHC:
Thanks for your valuable input. Clearly "Grok" is unreliable. So it goes.
Is the information [ AI provided ] on the Artist / Mint incorrect also ? Is it accurate the facility was never built ?
As I mentioned on another post in the MACO thread, this one was included in an inexpensive auction lot. My inability to nail down the background details doesn't make it less interesting.
" Even a clock that's stopped is right twice a day. "
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11/07/2025 09:56 am
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The North-West Thermal Power Plant is operational.
I provided the link.
The North-West Thermal Power Plant (TPP) is the first new-generation power plant in Russia to utilize a highly efficient and environmentally friendly technology for generating both electricity and heat, operating on a combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) system. It is one of the most modern plants not only in Russia but also in all of Europe.
Medallier - Remir Vladimirovich Kharitonov (1931-2008).
Leningrad Mint.
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I wonder what Grok would have come up with for the Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) medals?
It's scary to imagine.
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11/07/2025 12:37 pm
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Thanks again, WHC. The link didn't work for me regardless the browser. Have a good day.
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This US Mint 3" bronze medal can be found in the ANA Archives here: https://money.pastperfectonline.com...813286493868My example came in an unopened plastic sleeve in what appeared to be be an original mint box. Upon closer examination, I can make out " IOCOCCA 79" on the back of RFK's neck. The obverse was sculpted by Michael Iacocca; the reverse by Edgar Z. Steever. The 1981 Annual Report of the Director of the Mint states the RFK bronze medals were first made available for public sale on June 22, 1981. This "List Medal" was produced from FY 1981-1984. Production totaled 11,685 medals; haven't been able to track down the year the USM stopped selling them.     A Congressional gold medal authorized by Public Law 95-560, November 1, 1978, shares the above design. The gold medal was presented to Ethel Kennedy and her family at a White House Rose Garden ceremony by President Reagan on June 5, 1981, thirteen years to the day RFK was killed. Senator Ted Kennedy's remarks that day included this passage: Quote:
There was at once an intensity and a gentleness in him that made him a unique spark of hope in a dark time. The violence that struck him down has threatened and touched so many others. The nation and the world have felt the pain so recently. Those of us who were with Robert Kennedy when he died in 1968 felt a special sense of relief this year, Mr. President, at your own recovery from the attack against you. The New York Times coverage of the event, published June 6, 1981, included this reporting by B. Drummond Ayres, Jr.-- Quote:
" If there was any sour note in the Rose Garden ceremony, it came when the President presented the 13-ounce gold Congressional medal. . .to Ethel Kennedy. "Mrs. Kennedy," Mr. Reagan said, "this medal has been waiting patiently to be presented."
The President apparently was referring to President Carter's failure to present the medal. It was struck last summer, according to officials at the United States Mint.
"We prodded the Carter people several times about it," Alan J. Goldman, deputy director of the mint, said after the ceremony, when informed of Mr. Reagan's remark. He added that medals seldom lay around longer than three months before being handed out." P. S. While researching the RFK medal history, I learned the US Mint "Medal List" number for John Wayne is 666. In FY 1980, 47,583 traditional 3" medals of "The Duke" were produced at the Philadelphia Mint. Edited by cptbilly
11/08/2025 5:55 pm
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