c_q, actually there were a handful of Classic Commemoratives issued between 1925-1936 that contained the word “ Sesquicentennial”. 16 letters Vs 13. I may be wrong, however I think that is the longest word used on US Mint coinage? The link below is to the ANA websites Classic Commemoratives page, if anyones interested.

https://www.money.org/commemorative-coins/

Haven’t kept up with hsn much. I know he’s been there like 30 years or so, kinda remember him when I was younger, but recently found him after looking for harder to get coins from the mint during pandemic. I will say I got a couple of coins from there, don’t recall which ones exactly, think the emergency release ase 2021 and advance release, or lost issue (found in urinal in basement of cleopatras tomb behind a false wall only to be release as special label from mint, I could be wrong, might have been a hidden pocket in the shroud of Turin previously undiscovered despite so many test and xrays done on it). And I think the mint dude signature (Hatfield or Mccoy or something like that) for the last and first edition of ase. Based on price at the time or unable to find elsewhere, it wasn’t that big of a markup or risk. But the fentanyl he’s selling now (killing the coin market) is way overpriced and his pitch sounds like a biden campaign speech done in a canyon (echo…repetition). And now the mint has gone just as nuts. The markup is unbelievable, and oddly ebay had many pre-orders graded 70 for maybe $15 over mint price, which isn’t bad considering cost and hassle for me to try to get coin graded and risk a 69 or lower. Other than subscription (which seems to be well over the number of collectors now) I see no point of the mint. Unless you like original gubmint packaging. But even that you can order online for a few bucks. Mike probably dumpster diving behind the grading companies and snatching all the OGP not yet hit by Starbucks coffee and uneaten lunches. Then sling em on ebay. Wonder why they don’t grade the box, I see they grade some certificates. Maybe seal them in red oak box with exclusive label sealing it shut on the side and a viewing window on top and bottom of the box. I think the way to go now is bullion, bars and old foreign coins. Or loot the titanic.

But the real money would be to get a trailer, put a few diesel generators on it and a fuel cell, park near the tesla and other charging stations use your generator to charge their cars seeing as how most charging stations don’t work or out of order. Give em the mike. Tell wm no other charger within a 100 mile radius operable, and electricity is sold out everywhere. There is lightning in a bottle available at the pawn shop, but you have to pay credit card fee and deposit, plus a premium and shipping charges. Offer a $10 discount and 5 flex pay if they apply for your exclusive MCN (mobile charging network) card.

I would love marketing job. Maybe a white version of BET, we can call it snowflake. Make a conservative Gatorade and call it Jesus juice. Bring back models that weigh less than 400 pounds and under the age of 80 (sorry Martha stewart and vietcong Hanoi jane). And have a political hour where the talking heads dint use political correct terms (have a boomer gen x and gen y as anchors) and have em report using terns they were brought up with. And set up a fundraising site for the marginalized, similar to GoFundMe, except call it GoFugYourself. We can even get sponsored by the makers of Jesus juice sister company MineOrA Tea and brewing company. Maybe even get a beer company and shoe company to pitch in. Bud Light & the Loafers. I somehow doubt SNL steals any of this comedic gold.

Dazed,

Why the hell aren’t you producing commercials for tv? That would absolutely be a hit if any of the ball-less heads of media ran it. I wouldn’t have to FF my dvr when watching a program and it would certainly make the SB more lively. Payton has been a sell out since he left the U. of Tennessee. There is absolutely nothing he won’t endorse as long as it gets his big head on tv, and puts money in his pockets. He would probably endorse meth and throw bags of meth to the bar patrons if it was legal in all states like it is in California. I think he might be the replacement for Magic Mike, he’s getting close to retirement, after all. Speaking of Magic Mike, I saw on a HSN show that he’s selling the six Morgan/Peace dollars from 2023, all in ANACS 70 fdoi, for just $1599.99. How many sets are you planning on buying? I’m beginning to think Magic Mike is working for or advising the mints director, as he’s now selling a 1 oz. Ag bar for $49.99…can we just say $50 (plus $4 shipping.) That premium over spot, currently around $22.80/oz., looks familiar to me.

Right after CW I mean relatively speaking. 20 years is a single generation, and as we see even 8 to 9 generations later things are slow moving, but a better comparison would be from civil rights to now, which would be gen x, milennials, Gen z and gen alpha. Which is to say even with all this technology it is slow moving still. So, by the same measure, 20 years is right after.

“Black people were not allowed at the public school in Diamond Grove. George decided to go to a school for black children 10 miles (16 km) south, in Neosho. When he reached the town, he found the school closed for the night. He slept in a nearby barn. By his own account, the next morning he met a kind woman, Mariah Watkins, from whom he wished to rent a room. When he identified himself as “Carver’s George”, as he had done his whole life, she replied that from now on his name was “George Carver”. George liked Mariah Watkins and her words, “You must learn all you can, then go back out into the world and give your learning back to the people”, made a great impression on him.[11]

At age 13, because he wanted to attend the academy there, he moved to the home of another foster family, in Fort Scott, Kansas. After witnessing the killing of a black man by a group of white people, Carver left the city. He attended a series of schools before earning his diploma at Minneapolis High School in Minneapolis, Kansas.”

Wikipedia.

Moses carver took in George and his wife and raised them as their own kids after Bently found him. Then it said white woman loved his dedication to learn and took him in, then wanted to attend an academy so got a new foster. Then beat feet to get degree at white college. I didn’t see where he was turned from the Kansas school due to race, the quote indicated he witnessed black dude being killed. Irony is he wouldn’t move to Chicago or Baltimore or Atlanta in modern times, unless he just left because a white did it and not black on black.

Booker showed preference by giving larger salary and 2 rooms. And also in the wiki said that the ones with 1 room and less money and equipment weren’t happy about it. Naturally, feeling slighted they tried everything to get hin fired or quit. Doubted his work, called his integrity into question.

“Carver designed a mobile classroom to take education out to farmers. He called it a “Jesup wagon” after the New York financier and philanthropist Morris Ketchum Jesup, who provided funding to support the program.[24]

To recruit Carver to Tuskegee, Washington gave him an above average salary and two rooms for his personal use, although both concessions were resented by some other faculty. Because he had earned a master’s in a scientific field from a “white” institution, some faculty perceived him as arrogant.[25] Unmarried faculty members normally had to share rooms, with two to a room, in the spartan early days of the institute.

One of Carver’s duties was to administer the Agricultural Experiment Station farms. He had to manage the production and sale of farm products to generate revenue for the institute. He soon proved to be a poor administrator and clashed with other faculty members, especially George Ruffin Bridgeforth.[26] In 1900, Carver complained that the physical work and the letter-writing required were too much.[27]

In 1904, an Institute committee reported that Carver’s reports on yields from the poultry yard were exaggerated, and Washington confronted Carver about the issue. Carver replied in writing, “Now to be branded as a liar and party to such hellish deception it is more than I can bear, and if your committee feel that I have willfully lied or [was] party to such lies as were told my resignation is at your disposal.”[28] During Washington’s last five years at Tuskegee, Carver submitted or threatened his resignation several times: when the administration reorganized the agriculture programs,[29] when he disliked a teaching assignment,[30] to manage an experiment station elsewhere,[31] and when he did not get summer teaching assignments in 1913–14.[32][33] In each case, Washington smoothed things over.”

And yes booker was a control freak and shorted him out of equipment. Buy yet suddenly.

“In 1911, Carver complained that his laboratory had not received the equipment which Washington had promised 11 months before. He also complained about Institute committee meetings.[34] Washington praised Carver in his 1911 memoir, My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience.[35] Washington called Carver “one of the most thoroughly scientific men of the Negro race with whom I am acquainted”.[36] After Washington died in 1915, his successor made fewer demands on Carver for administrative tasks.”

Seems our info parallels each other and perhaps we misunderstand what the other intends to says. Sometimes I get ahead of myself as well. So the part about the mother buying back maybe wasn’t worded right. I think they said the father died and no idea what happened to the mother after the raiders came in. But it said the couple that bought George parents raised him and wife.

Again, 20 years after CW I also compare to the 12 years it took to get America it’s government after the declaration of independence. And that almost failed. And it wasn’t til Andrew Jackson before we got banking really, although he wanted to get rid of the fed. If memory recalls. Though Templars and Italy came up with loans and keeping track and credit system, Jackson is the father of modern banking in America. Details are fuzzy and I don’t feel like more research tonight or fact finding. But the goal of my posts have always been to provoke thought, trust but verify, think for one’s self, and try encourage learning. I learned a lot. You corrected some of the things that I may have scrambled. So we did good. And, it was on topic with the coin. I knew him for peanuts only, now more about him. But still won’t buy the coin.

George Carver never ran away. The eventual fate of his mother after he was born is unknown.

When George Carver he was a week old, he, his sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas. George’s brother, James, was rushed to safety from the kidnappers. The kidnappers sold the trio in Kentucky. Moses Carver, his former owner and adopted father, hired John Bentley to find them, but he found only the infant George. Moses negotiated with the raiders to gain the boy’s return and rewarded Bentley. 

The $300.00 loan he received was in 1888, 16 years after the Civil War ended, not right after the war ended. The bank was in Kansas,
carver was in his 20s.

Carver did go to college at a Black institution. Carver applied to several colleges before being accepted at Highland University in Highland, Kansas. When he arrived, they refused to let him attend because of his race.He then enrolled at Iowa State in 1891. He was the first Black student there.

Booker Washington did not give him preferrential treatment when Carver was on the faculty at Tuskegee Institute. Because of his fame, Washington, to entice him to join the faculty, gave him an above average salary and two rooms for his personal use. Both concessions were resented by some other faculty, but Carver wad not. In fact, Washington was always rather severe to him, writing:

When it comes to the organization of classes, the ability required to secure a properly organized and large school or section of a school, you are wanting in ability. When it comes to the matter of practical farm managing which will secure definite, practical, financial results, you are wanting again in ability. 

So I guess Missouri gets credit for his birth despite him not living there long and his accomplishments have nothing to do with the state. Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Alabama yes. Missouri… no

I also am intrigued to know how his mother bought them back. Only to be fostered later. So what happened? Ran away, mother die? Pull a tom and huck and went adventuring?

I don’t know. Sure seems like a lot of opportunity, education, loans, jobs, special high schools and universities so soon removed from the slave era. Especially for someone so young. But explains why they had a black wall street too. Sounds to me like in less than one generation wealth could be had. Enough to build universities and their own cities and neighborhoods. To buy and own property to build those areas. And get permits and permission from the local, state government to build them. Sounds like the AI surge of its day. But that’s the significance of the passage of time, so when you think about it, there’s a great significance to the passage of time. Kamala the border czar said that. Even with just a small amount of passage of time we can see that time passing can be significant if you give it significant time to pass.

New numbers should post today. For some reason late at night and not early like usual. Then again, many of the coin news articles are releasing later or skipping days.

Only black people can be sell outs. But from what I see, the coins never will. Will these be melted? Scrapped? Also begs the question, if such low response to tubman coin in limited number, imagine the mass printed tubman $20 bill. The foundations that pushed for the bill change also pushed for the coin series. Kinda seems similar to all the outrage to rename the redskins and now the Indians wanting the name changed back. Well. Until time reveals the answer, I’ll just have to hold my breath for the black Einstein movie since Oppenheimer did so well. We already had the Australian version (Yahoo Serious, talk about a product placement name if ever there was one, other than Russell Wilson; both football manufacturers)

I wonder if there will be an NFL commercial for it. Should be plenty of open slots since the car companies pulled out and many other annual advertisers have passed. Probably due to the NFL pushing bud light so hard. Payton and Emmitt sold out.

Now I think Modelo should do a parody commercial. Start off by showing the Clydesdale with a single tear, then pan back and reveal the dalmatian also single tear. Then talk about how fresh it is, contrast it to the cold rockies concept for coors (think iced coffee in reverse) for that fresh warm brew. Then pan back further and you can see the horse and dog with cow milking like apparatus attached to them. Pan further and you can see it is filling up bottles and a whole herd of horses and dogs. With the horses branded Bud and dogs branded bud light. Show the famous neon sign, The King of Beers. Then in a throwback, have Louie the lizard try to get a moth flying by it and hitting the bottom of the B, electrocuting himself (itself, themself, or whatever) and damaging the sign. So now it says the King of Peers (people peeing, not like you) then have a huge fat frog jump in (another throwback) saying it lives Louie, and Louie says it wouldn’t work, but the frog says sure it will, I identify as a lizard, call me Lizzo. And then Louie sheds a single tear and says, I love you man. Another throw back. Bam, ad of the year

They never put commemorative on a coin before?

What did Saturn 1 to 4 look like? Been a while since I been to Huntsville so can’t remember. Or the air museum in Newport News. As long as they don’t use titan the ship should do fine. But. All the rocketry were the brainchild of von Braun and his team of Germans. So since they got automatic citizenship, like these illegals coming today, (kidding, not kidding, sad, but true, kinda…) it would be credited to Alabama, the smartest state. It has 4 As in it. While Florida has an A D and F. But I would think Roman candles and fireworks came first, so thanks Rome and China. If America existed then, no doubt we woulda figured out gunpowder, then again, potash is mostly in Russia and China, so maybe not. And from my recollection, Francis Scott Keye mentioned rockets well before von Braun.

How in the world could you come up with a plethora of uses for peanuts but fail to realise peanut butter, a staple food of our youth. and not to pair it with chocolate is just disgraceful. Of course, he didn’t have a Vitamix in those days, so maybe we’ll give him some slack.

I thought the tubman series would’ve been SOLD OUT by now. I figured all the descendants of those slaves she saved and rescued would buy at least one of each, if not more, out of appreciation for her amazing heroism. Apparently I was mistaken. who knew! As I am neither a descendant of slaves or ever owned slaves, I just don’t care about tubman and certainly wouldn’t pay the premiums this mint charges for those items. Signed certificate or not.