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A New $20 Silver Piece?

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 Posted 02/17/2007  09:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add crystalk64 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Okay D.Carr, take off the Eagle, and add a Bobwhite Quail! The quail has fed thousands since the beginning of this country and the poor little guy doesn't get any respect! Anything that is smaller than your thumb and up and running in a matter of hours after hatching, out in the wild, and surviving, deserves our attention!!! And then, after that, we can eliminate all the Presidential coins in favor of U.S. wildlife and the MINT can make a fortune off of the new issues and the wildlife coins will ALL be politically correct as none of them can vote nor register as Publicans or Dumpocrats!
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 Posted 02/17/2007  9:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TSmith3510 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
One thing that would be pretty cool about $20 coins.. you could be down to pocket change and still have $100 bucks on you. It's all about change.

I vote for Ronald Reagan (yes, another dead President) on the obverse, DC skyline on the reverse. BTW, who is Tesla?
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 Posted 02/17/2007  10:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add madman12000 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
One of the most brilliant minds of the 19th-20 century. Worked for Thomas Edison for years, invented the Tesla coil, as well as discovered how to generate accellerated current, instead of direct current, so that you could transport electricty over great distances without a loss in current strength and intensity. Also liked to make fantastic claims about stuff he's "invented," like an earthquake generator.

But I'd vote for a coin series with great scientists from America - Einstein, Oppenheimer, Edison, Tesla, Curie, etc...
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 Posted 02/18/2007  12:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dcarr to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nikola Tesla is the one who really invented the radio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

PS: I'm currently working on making this:
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 Posted 02/19/2007  03:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bogie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I Like it and I'm a big Tesla fan both the man Wizard of the west & the 80's rock band
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 Posted 02/19/2007  7:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gary Burke to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Boy, I'm going way back in remembering this, and could be wrong.

I remember taking extention classes in the 1970's which dealt with Coloradoans of note, as well as people who accomplished significant things in Colorado.

Seems to me that many of Tesla's discoveries were made in Colorado Springs. And, more significant to me personally - I seem to remember that Telluride, Colorado was the first community in the United States (maybe the world?) to be wired for electricity - thanks to Tesla. Telluride is a mountain community, only about 50 miles from where we live.

Back to the topic. A $20 silver coin would be great. Unfortunately, for reasons already stated, it won't happen.

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02/19/2007 7:40 pm
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 Posted 02/19/2007  8:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dcarr to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I never heard that about Telluride. But here is an article about Tesla's Colorado Springs years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola...rado_Springs
There is a story about how he drained every single Joule of energy the city's power station could deliver and made lightning shoot 150 feet into the sky.
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 Posted 02/19/2007  8:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That Tesla coin is breathtaking.
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