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Bedrock of the Community
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Poll Question
Who's buying the Presidential Silver Medals?
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"Yes but I'm only going to buy select medals."
I want a "complete" set, but I doubt I will buy the ones that I already have in the six C&C sets that have them. Then there is one I will not buy at all. Ever.
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Bedrock of the Community
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At this time I am not going to buy any. I'm happy with the medals I have within the C&C sets, although I can see where a CAPS album with all of these together would look fantastic. Rather than individual medals I wish they had just made C&C sets for all the presidents, but I understand the demand probably would not have justified it. But can you imagine what an entire shelf of 40+ C&C sets would have looked like?! Quote:
Then there is one I will not buy at all. Ever. I hear you. Millard Fillmore was such a jerk. Friggin' Whigs.  (everyone, relax, this was obviously a joke... I meant no offense to any Millard Fillmore fans nor Whigs out there... please drive through...) |
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Pillar of the Community
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None for me either. Even if there were any that I liked well enough to put in my collection, it would have to be aesthetically stunning. Even then, I'd probably rather have a privately minted silver round with a political statement more to my liking.
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Rather than individual medals I wish they had just made C&C sets for all the presidents, but I understand the demand probably would not have justified it. But can you imagine what an entire shelf of 40+ C&C sets would have looked like?! Yes!  I would loved to complete that set of sets. It might have broke my budget for ten years, but I still would have liked it. I would like it even more if they were more like the 2013 Teddy set than the 2014~2016 sets, but I digress. Quote:
I hear you. Millard Fillmore was such a jerk. Not the jerk to which I refer. This jerk is still creating methane above ground. That is all I will say and ask no more.  |
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
United States
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I haven't rushed to order yet, but I likely will begin my collection of the series in the coming weeks.
Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Pillar of the Community
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I will spend my allowance on coins, so I will pass :)
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Pillar of the Community
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Sorry...lame but no mintage limit...not gonna get any Note: I originally said "no purchase" but the site changed it to "no purch ASE"...? Edited by Foxwoods Man
08/21/2018 3:37 pm
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I haven't rushed to order yet, but I likely will begin my collection of the series in the coming weeks. Same here. No limits means no hurry. I will probably add them to my ATB circulating set order at the end of the year to make shipping cost worthwhile. |
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Quote:Note: I originally said "no purchase" but the site changed it to "no purch ASE"...? Yup. Have to have a period or a CR/LF after purchase. |
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United States
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Probably knot, still working on the 5oz ATB's. |
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Yup. Have to have a period or a CR/LF after purchase. Ahhhh...thanks...but what's a CR/LF? Edited by Foxwoods Man
08/21/2018 4:41 pm
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Carriage Return (go back to the start of the line) + Line Feed (go down to the next line). Old school teletype talk.  In other words, press enter to start a new line.  They are embedded control characters and affect what the auto replace filters see when looking for things to hotlink. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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CR/LF predates teletype, actually, and originates from the purely mechanical typewriter of yore. The carriage is the "upper deck" of an old school typewriter, which holds the paper and travels across the printing mechanism as you press the keys.
In old-fashioned typewriters, every time you press a key, an arm with a letter die on it strikes the paper on a platen (roller) through an ink-filled ribbon. That impact leaves ink on the paper and advances the carriage to the left one notch so you can type another character not on top of the last one. After 80 or so characters (or whatever you have the margin set for), the carriage can't move any further, so one has to manually move (return) the carriage all the way to the left. Thus the CR (Carriage Return). The Line Feed (LF) usually happened automatically in the same action as the CR but could be done manually as well. The LF advanced the paper one row so that the typewriter keys/arms would strike below the previous row of text.
One of those mostly irrelevant things these days but it's interesting to know the background and how some technology jargon artifacts stick with us today (à la the floppy disk save icon).
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CR/LF predates teletype... The mechanics, sure, but I do not think the initialism would have been used before information systems came to being. Right or wrong and for what it is worth, I learned it from my earliest computing days working with dot matrix printers, which had a mechanical print mechanism not unlike a typewriter and required the CR and LF to print text documents correctly. Just be glad I did not say something like CHR$(10)+CHR$(13) instead. Quote:
(à la the floppy disk save icon). I showed my nephew a 3.5 inch (not-so) floppy disk and blew his mind. He never knew where the icon came from. Then I showed him some 5 inch and 8 inch (true) floppy disks. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote:Just be glad I did not say something like CHR$(10)+CHR$(13) instead. Some of us would still have gotten it, tragically... Anyway, it seems that a majority of us will be passing on these, at least if the poll is to be believed. Not sure a sample size of 27 is adequate. |
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Posted 08/20/2018 11:03 pm
