I collected coins when I was very, VERY young, and I've had a lot of fun with the state quarter thing. The folder is nearly up to date but I'm missing just a few from the Philadephia mint:
Keep your eyes open, regular readers. Thanks to all the bank tellers and HyVee clerks who have been patient with my requests for rolls.
It also seems someone has started an anti-dime movement - but the proprietor doesn't seem to hate dimes TOO much as readers are encouraged to "SEND ME YOUR DIMES TODAY!" Presumably to keep us safe from this menace.
As a good Democrat I shouldn't say this but I really like the old Mercury dime design better than the FDR dime. There was an irony that the reverse bore a Roman fasces design: throughout World War II, this US currency depicted the symbol of Mussolini's Fascist Party!
Not all space geeks were at Star Wars yesterday. I got the telescope out and enjoyed the real thing. The moon was right next to Jupiter and at a nice phase. The spectacular part of full moon is not a sky thing, it's an earth thing, seeing the ground all half-lit. Look at the full moon in a telescope and it's all washed out. But a few days short of full in a small telescope you have nice shadows and get a good sense of lunar landscape, a realization that it's a PLACE with mountains and valleys and plains and craters.
Also saw a direct overhead pass of our second largest satellite, the space station. If it's clear tomorrow night just after 8:30, Iowa City eyes get another good look. Details
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