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Memento Of Stone Mountain

 
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Posted 02/19/2011   7:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add philb to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
i was searching for a piece of correspondence and found this card that Cgrotha sent me some time ago...it will be a souvineer of our trip to Georgia !

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Posted 02/20/2011   07:39 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Dianne Earl to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Great Card Phil

Thanks for sharing it with us.

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Posted 11/02/2012   07:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add electroplater to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Post card from the 1920's

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I have this card too. Notice that the original design was MUCH larger and grander than the final result - which is impressive, but nothing like what was originally imagined.
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Posted 11/02/2012   09:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add I_Love_Stamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have a silver half dollar with the stone mountain on it. I'll scan it when I get home. Off to the mall!
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Posted 11/02/2012   10:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add doug2222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
If I may digress into coins for a moment, here is a reprise of the Stone Mountain commemorative half dollar, of which one million were ultimately MELTED, and more unsold examples dumped into circulation.

The whole exercise was a sordid, shabby undertaking with charges of fraud, lawsuits, work stoppage for 30 years, and a much-diminished end product. Extremely interesting article courtesy of NGC, the second-largest third-party (coin) grader!

http://www.ngccoin.com/NGCCoinExplo...CoinID=19378
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Posted 11/04/2012   06:13 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add I_Love_Stamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here you go Phil as I promised!
Stone Mountain memorial fund raising silver half dollar. The state of Georgia sold these to raise money to complete Stone Mountain Memorial. That's what my Grandfather told me anyway..

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