1870-CC 25c Carson City Coin of the Week -Aug 22, 2010

Garryn,

Yes, the coin is in my "Rians' Bequeath Carson City Coin Collection" I bought it on June 5, 2008 from Southgate Coins.

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Carsonite,

Thanks for the complementary review Mr. Editor! To be honest, I should not have attempted this kind of article for my coin of the week posting given my work schedule. As you can tell, I simply did not have enough time to carefully proof the writing. When re-reading it today, I easily found a half dozen obvious mistakes and several poorly chosen words or phrases. I think I finally hit the "submit" button around 2 am Sunday night only to get back up at 6 am to deal with my own business work load.

Regardless, I enjoyed the challenge of writing about this rarity and would have liked to receive your REAL editing/writing analysis...though neither of us have the time for such an indulgence this week.

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Drummer,

Glad you enjoyed the Holmes and Watson episode. Not quite as suspenseful as "Hounds of the Baskervilles". I hope you didn't mind being dragged into the opening.

There was a ton more to say and several interesting tangents that I simply could not fit in. Ultimately, I cut out about 40% off the first draft.

See ya Friday.

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Great Stuff Belay Off. I have learned so much from you guys. I know in the past Belay that you asked for an article for Coin of the Week from me and after reading and re reading I am a little bit gun shy. However I may take you up on the offer and see what I could do. I am ready for an assignment. I know for sure that I would need help for posting pictures but i feel I could work around that.

Loosechange

The water is warm, dive in !

Loosechange,

Keep in mind that none of us who write these short articles are anything more than enthusiastic C4OA members. With the exception of a few articles in Curry's Chronicle, none of us have written for publications previousy...we're all pretty green still!

I'll get in touch with you to discuss this further off-board.

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