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   Snidely to All   
   Re: quarterly change   
   15 Apr 21 09:59:05   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, Snidely pointed out that ...   
   > Questor explained :   
   >   
   >> I got my first 2021 quarter yesterday -- The Tuskegee Airmen.  It's the   
   >> last   
   >> coin in the "America the Beautiful" (national parks) series.  (Still   
   >> waiting for my first 2021 penny.)   
   >   
   > You are way ahead of me.   
      
   But I'm making progress ... I got 2 Tuskegee Airman in the first week   
   of April.  From the same register, so probably fresh out of the roll.   
      
   >> For the rest of 2021, quarters will be minted with the familiar Flanagan   
   >> design that had been used since 1932, although the reverse will be General   
   >> Washington crossing Delaware River.   
   >>   
   >> From 2022 to 2025 will be a series commemorating Prominent American Women,   
   >> followed by a series celebrating the United States Semiquincentennial in   
   >> 2026, and then a series depicting youth sports (?!) from 2027 to 2030.   
   >   
   > Thanks for the heads-up.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   "This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away be excitement,   
   but ask calmly, how does this person feel about in in his cooler   
   moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on   
   top of him?"   
     _Roughing It_, Mark Twain.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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