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|    Snidely to All    |
|    Re: quarterly change    |
|    22 Jun 22 03:32:16    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              On Sunday, Linda Howard pointed out that ...       > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 6:32:23 PM UTC-5, Linda Howard wrote:       >> On Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 1:30:35 PM UTC-5, Snidely wrote:       >>> Questor wrote on 4/10/2021 :       >>>> 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.)       >>> I've only logged 3 of the 2020 quarters, and not many of those. (The       >>> Weir Farm coin sounds familiar, but it's not in the log). I also seem       >>> to be missing 2010's Yellowstone.       >>>> 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,       >>> In Pensacola this last weekend, I picked up two 2022 quarters, both the       >>> Sally Ride stamping and both with 'P' mint marks.       >>>> followed by a series celebrating the United States Semiquincentennial in       >>>> 2026, and then a series depicting youth sports (?!) from 2027 to 2030.       >>> I don't seem to have these yet.       >>> /dps       >>>       >>> --       >>> Who, me? And what lacuna?       >       > I think the Wilma Mankiller quarter just came out. She was a Native       > American activist and Chief of the Cherokee.              June 6th, it seems. That's the third in the series, and I haven't seen       one yet. Sally Ride is second, and I just picked up the lead-off Maya       Angelou (D this time).              /dps                     --        Maybe C282Y is simply one of the hangers-on, a groupie following a       future guitar god of the human genome: an allele with undiscovered       virtuosity, currently soloing in obscurity in Mom's garage.        Bradley Wertheim, theAtlantic.com, Jan 10 2013              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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