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Goodbye Spaghetti Hair? WARNING: An OLY semi-rant.
I was given my first "Hot Springs" Quarter yesterday at an Elongated
Coin Meet on 5 June in Rockville, Indiana. The piece was a 2010-D and the collector who gave it to me obtained it at the distribution/ inaugural ceremony for the new coin which I seem to think was held in Little Rock some weeks back. What interested me the most was that the Bust of Washington on the obverse seems to have been re-sculpted a bit. The hair on Washington's head had more of a "sculpted" effect and the "spaghetti lines" representing hair that had crept into the bust/head in the last twenty or thirty years were all gone. Washington's neck was also improved in a way that seems slightly more "sculpted". The new effect was pleasing, if real. I hesitate on this point, because the coin given to me might have been slightly understruck or lightly struck. I need another specimen or two for comparison. The elongated coin meet was very pleasant, there were twenty-five to thirty attendees. Many collectors swapping coins on a one-for-one and maybe a grand total of $150 or $200 in cash changed hands between all participants. A career Army guy who spent the entire year of 2007 in Iraq gave me a nice specimen of the only elongated coin ever made in that country, he stated a total of 130 pieces were "rolled" by hand with primitive equipment on the bumper of an armored vehicle. There were NO POS dealers flying into the Rockville International Airport for a two or three hour sweep of the bourse floor. No head-case dealers who were not actually in attendance having their names paged over the speaker system at our meeting. Happily, I think only three of the attendees could have told you what a third-party grading service is. Actually, the meeting was held in a Methodist church meeting hall -it had good air conditioning and above average kitchen facilities. Our hosts Brad Ream and Kay Harpole served up a nice taco dinner, gratis. Rockville, the prototypical "Hoosier" town, has a nice old-fashioned dime store and most attendees went over there at some point during the course of the day. I myself bought a large brown hook rug, a "Moo-box" AND a gallon of refill for my bingo markers. I had not seen it until yesterday, but there was a short article in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic Magazine on "Uncommon Cents", a brief history of elongated coins. The article was illustrated with nine elongated coins from 1893 to date. Coin number nine was a coin designed and rolled by yours truly about four years ago. I believe that I owe Ray Dillard some hearty thanks for that "hat-tip". oly |
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Goodbye Spaghetti Hair? WARNING: An OLY semi-rant.
oly wrote:
I was given my first "Hot Springs" Quarter yesterday at an Elongated Coin Meet on 5 June in Rockville, Indiana. The piece was a 2010-D and the collector who gave it to me obtained it at the distribution/ inaugural ceremony for the new coin which I seem to think was held in Little Rock some weeks back. What interested me the most was that the Bust of Washington on the obverse seems to have been re-sculpted a bit. The hair on Washington's head had more of a "sculpted" effect and the "spaghetti lines" representing hair that had crept into the bust/head in the last twenty or thirty years were all gone. Washington's neck was also improved in a way that seems slightly more "sculpted". The new effect was pleasing, if real. I hesitate on this point, because the coin given to me might have been slightly understruck or lightly struck. I need another specimen or two for comparison. The elongated coin meet was very pleasant, there were twenty-five to thirty attendees. Many collectors swapping coins on a one-for-one and maybe a grand total of $150 or $200 in cash changed hands between all participants. A career Army guy who spent the entire year of 2007 in Iraq gave me a nice specimen of the only elongated coin ever made in that country, he stated a total of 130 pieces were "rolled" by hand with primitive equipment on the bumper of an armored vehicle. There were NO POS dealers flying into the Rockville International Airport for a two or three hour sweep of the bourse floor. No head-case dealers who were not actually in attendance having their names paged over the speaker system at our meeting. Happily, I think only three of the attendees could have told you what a third-party grading service is. Actually, the meeting was held in a Methodist church meeting hall -it had good air conditioning and above average kitchen facilities. Our hosts Brad Ream and Kay Harpole served up a nice taco dinner, gratis. Rockville, the prototypical "Hoosier" town, has a nice old-fashioned dime store and most attendees went over there at some point during the course of the day. I myself bought a large brown hook rug, a "Moo-box" AND a gallon of refill for my bingo markers. I had not seen it until yesterday, but there was a short article in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic Magazine on "Uncommon Cents", a brief history of elongated coins. The article was illustrated with nine elongated coins from 1893 to date. Coin number nine was a coin designed and rolled by yours truly about four years ago. I believe that I owe Ray Dillard some hearty thanks for that "hat-tip". Well, mon vieux, you sent me a-scurrying to that NG article! Sometimes I don't read my mags as thoroughly as I should, and I had missed that article. Ya done good, but they should have given you and the other artists credit. In other news, I remember that the advance pub on the new quarter series included a notice that Washington had been yet again re-designed to get rid of that ghastly spaghetti hair. I just got my HS quarters from a dealer last week, and GW's "do" is much more dignified. Easy on the Jarvis, hold the Brylcreem. James the Sleek-Headed and Such As Sleep o' Nights |
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Goodbye Spaghetti Hair? WARNING: An OLY semi-rant.
On Jun 6, 8:37*pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
oly wrote: I was given my first "Hot Springs" Quarter yesterday at an Elongated Coin Meet on 5 June in Rockville, Indiana. *The piece was a 2010-D and the collector who gave it to me obtained it at the distribution/ inaugural ceremony for the new coin which I seem to think was held in Little Rock some weeks back. What interested me the most was that the Bust of Washington on the obverse seems to have been re-sculpted a bit. *The hair on Washington's head had more of a "sculpted" effect and the "spaghetti lines" representing hair that had crept into the bust/head in the last twenty or thirty years were all gone. *Washington's neck was also improved in a way that seems slightly more "sculpted". *The new effect was pleasing, if real. *I hesitate on this point, because the coin given to me might have been slightly understruck or lightly struck. *I need another specimen or two for comparison. The elongated coin meet was very pleasant, there were twenty-five to thirty attendees. *Many collectors swapping coins on a one-for-one and maybe a grand total of $150 or $200 in cash changed hands between all participants. *A career Army guy who spent the entire year of 2007 in Iraq gave me a nice specimen of the only elongated coin ever made in that country, he stated a total of 130 pieces were "rolled" by hand with primitive equipment on the bumper of an armored vehicle. *There were NO POS dealers flying into the Rockville International Airport for a two or three hour sweep of the bourse floor. *No head-case dealers who were not actually in attendance having their names paged over the speaker system at our meeting. *Happily, I think only three of the attendees could have told you what a third-party grading service is. *Actually, the meeting was held in a Methodist church meeting hall -it had good air conditioning and above average kitchen facilities. *Our hosts Brad Ream and Kay Harpole served up a nice taco dinner, gratis. *Rockville, the prototypical "Hoosier" town, has a nice old-fashioned dime store and most attendees went over there at some point during the course of the day. *I myself bought a large brown hook rug, a "Moo-box" AND a gallon of refill for my bingo markers. I had not seen it until yesterday, but there was a short article in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic Magazine on "Uncommon Cents", a brief history of elongated coins. *The article was illustrated with nine elongated coins from 1893 to date. *Coin number nine was a coin designed and rolled by yours truly about four years ago. *I believe that I owe Ray Dillard some hearty thanks for that "hat-tip". Well, mon vieux, you sent me a-scurrying to that NG article! *Sometimes I don't read my mags as thoroughly as I should, and I had missed that article. Ya done good, but they should have given you and the other artists credit.. In other news, I remember that the advance pub on the new quarter series included a notice that Washington had been yet again re-designed to get rid of that ghastly spaghetti hair. *I just got my HS quarters from a dealer last week, and GW's "do" is much more dignified. *Easy on the Jarvis, hold the Brylcreem. James the Sleek-Headed and Such As Sleep o' Nights- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - My dad used Vitalis and Brylcreem and still has, at age 80, a head of very full - if very white - hair. I did not use such products and probably over-did it with the portable hand hair dryer too. You have seen (or cannot see) the result. If the improvement in the hair is indeed intentional, the Mint's engraving department did a very very nice job. The coin looks more like it did in the early 1960s. I would like to have one of the Hindenburg elongated cents shown in that article. Wonderfully well-done. Of course, I would like to have an original "Pike", but then, sinners in hell want ice water too. oly |
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