"Over the whole of his presidency, Kennedy averaged a 70.1 percent approval rating, comfortably the highest of any post-World War II president. By comparison, the average for all presidents between 1938 and 2012 is 54 percent." Although... "Kennedy started the year still enjoying the post-Cuban missile crisis bounce, but the numbers had started to slip. By September, his approval rating had slid to the mid-50s, the lowest of his presidency. A small rebound of 2 points in the following months did not establish a strong pattern. Significantly, the disapproval rating climbed steadily throughout the year, which might have posted an intensifying problem had Kennedy lived to contest the 1964 presidential election." -- https://historyinpieces.com/researc...oval-ratings
Looks like he might have had some difficulty going into a second term so still, who knows? Considering the half dollar's decline in active use in commerce, it might be more (or less) likely to get a design change away from Franklin by now.
I'm going through my type set of $50s; seven of them are giving the "This item cannot be found" message on the PMG site, including this one from scanning the QR code: https://www.pmgnotes.com/certlookup...5490-005/30/
I've seen the question come up occasionally for PCGS, but seven is about half the set. My $1 educational note (Fr 225) and $5 silver certificate (Fr 267) have the same problem. Is this normal for PMG?
Quote: one needs to turn to three or four different pages to get all of the information for a particular issue
True, but if you're looking at the series as a whole (as in another thread here where someone wanted pictures of all of the modern gold commemoratives), this layout is pretty handy and it's a more condensed presentation so less paper/fewer pages overall.
Grabbed from YouTube, 41:01 minutes in. Awfully blurry, but there it is.
From the transcript, it's a 1916-S Standing Liberty quarter, worth $111,000, "only two of them like it in the world". Scene starts around 39:35 minutes.
Quote: Are we looking at the same thing? Sales tax often makes for odd totals, and that link gives an example of what the customer *must* be charged (NJ's choice of wording). As described at that link, the law requires the amount to be rounded to the nearest cent.
It doesn't say "must be charged", it says "must collect". That page is also a simple example for the public, not the text of any legislation. The information on that page pretty much applies to every state that collects sales tax, in practice.
That's about the calculation of sales tax, not the total amount of payment in general, and the federal bill doesn't require rounding if payment is made by means other than legal tender.
I have a few of these -- 1's from each of the states except Florida, and a 5 from Nevada. The art is quite nice but the concept feels gimmicky. I've been on the fence about continuing for a long time. The OCD side of me wants to keep going and at least get the 1 from Florida; the completist side wants to get them all. But I'm skeptical of the future market and the premium is way high even for the smaller denominations.
Combined with the occasional trouble logging in, I'm thinking something is up with the cookies. Try clearing them, hard refresh, and log in again, see if that helps.
Unless it's CAC, the PCGS price guide is often higher than the actual/eventual sale price. This particular coin may be an exception, but grain of salt.
I thought I had finished my $50/Grant type set. I totally forgot about this red seal, thinking it was outside my budget (like the Fr.831 blue seal). I have a short list of other notes I want ($5 Indian, $10 bison, $2 educational) but those look comparably priced to the red seal in acceptable grades so I might have to revisit.
Otherwise, it's back to more affordable Confederate currency.
Quote: Superman's original motto was truth justice and the American way...
False. The earliest version, as seen in the Fleischer cartoons, was simply "Truth and justice". "The American Way" was added for the radio shows during WWII, later for the George Reeves TV show during the Cold War, and not used again until the 1978 movie. There are lots of variants of the phrase, this is just the most well-known, and it always seems to bend based on the perceived culture/needs at the time. -- https://www.supermanhomepage.com/th...stice-motto/
"Hope and strength" seems new (despite "Hope" being the meaning behind the "S" in the 2013 movie) and most references I'm finding for that phrase are closer to personal reflections of what the character symbolizes now.
Posted 05/18/2025 5:00 pm
