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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   
      
      
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    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   
      
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