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captainrich
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 Posted 03/28/2025 08:33 am
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with the declining use of cash, there has been a big drop in the number of... children swallowing coins!
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captainrich
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Posted 03/14/2025 5:42 pm
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At least Collecting isn't the most unattractive hobby to women. 
BTW, I looked it up so you don't have to: LARPing is Live Action Role Playing.
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captainrich
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Posted 02/27/2025 8:46 pm
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The Pittsburgh Railways Co.
When the cost of fare tokens rose from two-for-fifteen cents to three-for-a-quarter in 1919, a woman named Mary Condon Barton was working for the Pittsburgh Railways Co. as an assistant ticket agent. The 16mm fare tokens used at the time were smaller than a dime and the company needed a replacement design.
Miss Barton was attending Carnegie Tech's School of Design at night and asked if she could submit a design for the new token. Carnegie Technical School was the same art school that Andy Warhol attended in the mid-1940's.
Barton diligently researched the designs of fare tokens being used in other U.S. cities before coming up with the streetcar design that was accepted by the Pittsburgh Railways Co. The company immediately ordered six million of the tokens from the James H. Matthews Co., a well-known Pittsburgh diesinker and manufacturer of grave markers.
The pictured token is a rare pattern design that does not include the common triangular cut-out in the center.
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captainrich
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United States
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Posted 02/11/2025 1:12 pm
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Hopefully, this isn't considered political. If so, feel free to remove it. It's about pennies, not politics (if that makes cents).
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captainrich
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United States
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Posted 01/23/2025 10:25 am
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And three people do it, three, can you imagine
Meanwhile, on the United State Mint's Facebook page:
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captainrich
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United States
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Posted 01/22/2025 3:42 pm
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The U.S. Mint sent me an email requesting that I complete a survey on which sports should be featured in its upcoming Youth Sports Quarters Program. At the end of the survey, it asked if there was a sport that should be included that wasn't on the list.
I immediately thought of cornhole. Hey, don't scoff, because pickleball and dodgeball were two of the fifty-some choices on the original list. 
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Coin World reports that the upcoming Roosevelt silver medal will have a matte finish, differentiating it from the proof finish in the 2013 Coin and Chronicles set. Kudos to the U.S. Mint.
