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   Snidely to All   
   Re: 2023 Second Half Quarterly Report   
   31 Dec 23 16:32:33   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Snidely was thinking very hard :   
   > On Sunday or thereabouts, Boron Elgar declared ...   
   >> On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:20:57 -0800, Snidely    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Our intrepid data logger last posted an update on quarters in 2022, as the   
   >>> Prominent American Women began circulating his way.  A mid-year report was   
   >>> planned for 2023, but is still mooted but tabled.   
   >>>   
   >>> Like many of you, OIDL tends to wave plastic ever more often these days,,   
   >>> and the apartment laundry uses bluetooth, but in the 2nd Half of 2023,   
   >>> managed to acquire $9.75 worth of quarters.  Within that, $2.25 represents   
   >>> 2022 and 2023 issues, with 3 visages from each year.  To wit:   
   >>>   
   >>> 2022 Nina Otero-Warren  d  1   
   >>> 2022 Sally Ride         dd 2   
   >>> 2022 Wilma Mankiller    d  1   
   >>> 2023 Bessie Coleman     dd 2   
   >>> 2023 Edith Kanakaole    dd 2   
   >>> 2023 Maria Tallchief    d  1   
   >>>   
   >>> For the rest, the good ol' eagle had 6 spots from 5 years, Blue Ridge   
   >>> Parkway showed up 3 times, George's boatride twice, and 12 of the park   
   >>> series and 7 states tolled in at 1 each.  Maya Angelou was hiding after an   
   >>> appearance in August of 2022.   
   >>>   
   >>> That's as far as my numismatic nerdiness goes at the moment, and I'm even   
   >>> less serious about stamp collecting, so you are free to return to tracking   
   >>> stars and artists born before your 50th birthday.   
   >>>   
   >>> /dps   
   >>   
   >> That is a great collection of Lady-Quarters.   
   >   
   > Gotta catch them all!   
   >   
   > But I plan on saving 2 samples each and keeping them   
      
   Damn.  I actually thought about how to word that, and flubbed badly.   
   The catches beyond the samples are what "them" is supposed to mean.   
   > and the parks cireculating.   
   >   
   > /dps   
      
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