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So Byron, that's a 917 without MFI? That's pretty cool!

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Thirty years ago working at my new job in a chemical plant a contractor from Oregon asked me if I'd ever seen shrooms coming out of cow patties. I had told him I was a runner and ran in many of the huge ranchlands surrounding our town. I said no why? He was like dude if you do, those things will rock your world. Kept an eye out and low and freeking behold yesterday I spot several different cases. Google. Inconclusive. I asked an old doper buddy and he said dude at your age do you want to take a chance of killing yourself. Me? Not really.

After congress apporved the measure in 1792, the US began minting coins.

The first coins to reach the general population were the copper half cent and one cent coins of 1793. The one cent coins were dubbed "large cents" because they contained exactly twice as much copper as the smaller half cent (in those years, a half cent could actually buy something).

The following year, 1794, the first silver issues were released: the five cent half disme (today spelled "dime"), the half dollar, and the silver dollar. Dismes and quarters were first issued in 1796. Gold coins arrived on the scene in 1795, in the form of the ten dollar gold eagle and the five dollar gold half eagle. Quarter eagles, valued at two and one-half dollars, were introduced in 1796.

And the rest is history.

Here is an example of a 1795 Draped Bust Silver Dollar I picked up recently. Very nice indeed.

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Amarillo, TX on 9/22 - who knew celebrities stayed at the Fairfield?
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Bored at the Sofitel Heathrow, went up to the terminal with a camera at sunset
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Bikes love flowers!
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She was a chemical engineer before she was a metallurgist so I had to let her take this job...
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I kinda like this one. More experimenting with Lightroom and Nik Silver Efex.

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I was in Germany last week for business, and had a chance to travel around the outskits of Stuttgart a little.

Tübingen, Germany. Shot on a bridge with a simple 4 mega pix digital camera - no tripod - just braced the camera on the bridge:

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Yes - I did visit the Porsche Museum - more pics to come...

-Z

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Nerd graffiti on my hike yesterday

If I don't answer your call, this is why..

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