Belay Off,
If I can inspire people to become more interested in the subjects of the Carson City Mint and its coins, it makes the effort I put forth worth it. I appreciate your expressions of how my article on the 1873-CC Without Arrows dime moved you.
You wrote:
...when I read your novelette on the King of Carson City coins.
Just for clarification, a novelette is defined as being a short novel, a short work of fiction. Although the story of the 1873-CC
Without Arrows dime at times might seem like a fictional tale, it is a true story. What I wrote about it is, as far as I can ascertain, factual. Perhaps a better word to describe my article might be monograph; which defines a work of non-fiction, a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject.
It has been my pleasure to contribute the final article (and the preceding three articles) to the COTW project. I want to thank you Belay Off for keeping this project on course over the past two years and three months, and I want to congratulate the other participants who hung in there until the end (and even those who had pieces of the project along the way).
Rusty
