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Bedrock of the Community
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I never click on members, but I did yesterday and was shocked that moxking and Crazyb0 passed away.
I didn't know either of them well but I remember them unlike others who are listed as having made their last post before I came on this board in late 2016.
Moxking was always here helping everyone and sharing what he knew which was extensive. I remember that he collected year sets and he had completed many of them. He taught me that 1815 is the toughest year to find as only quarters and half dollars were minted in that final year of the War of 1812. That put pressure on bullion supplies due to the British blockade. I was wondering where mox was and now I know he is in a better place.
Crazyb0 was in short a little crazy as could be determined starting from his username. Sometimes I had difficulty processing some of the things he said and shared but behind it all, there was a person who loved coins and coin collecting like I did. He just did it his own way like I try to do. I also hope he is in a better place too.
Mox and Crazyb0 were part of our family here at CCF. A big thanks for everything they shared with me and this community. Their passing reminds me that I will also pass on some day as will all of my friends here. That makes me want to live every day as fully as possible, put away petty annoyances to the side, and live a life that makes the world a little better than I found it. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
Posted 11/19/2021 8:48 pm
