I have 49 uncirculated collectible quarters, 48 covering Washington DC and the US territories (8 of each) and 1 of the Arizona Hot Springs. A coin book with the start of a Canadian collection (about a $1 worth?), and a baggy of a variety of foreign coins. This is the last of dad's coin collection.
Thinking $20 for everything.
Bob
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Coins for sale
Coins for sale
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this dang platform if you write too long, go check footnotes and then try to post - nada!.... wrote up a whole article on your ARKANSAS coin as it was the first release in the America the Beautiful series [2010]. The reason why a HSNP coin was issued before, say Yosemite, is that it was the first natural land-based resource afforded federal government protection on April 20, 1832 known as Hot Springs Reserve by Andrew Jackson. It is considered the first unit of the national park system and was changed over to Hot Springs National Park in 1921.
Also - before there was a shovel in the ground to create Las Vegas - let that sink in - you went to Hot Springs to drink gamble and party. It was run by the Chicago mafia and prohibition never set foot there (Carrie Nation was dared). It ran pretty wild until the 60s when the southern Baptist convention got a hold of the state government and began to enforce some law and order. Much of the major leagues trained there because of the therapeutic bathhouses set up by the NPS (varying architectural styles) of which the Buckstaff is still an operation offering the original method set out for bathing regime. The Fordyce is now a national park visitor center and was where my grandfather worked for decades as a masseur (they were not then known as "therapists"). A colossus general hospital was built in 1882, the first of its kind to serve both Army and Navy, still stands above the park but its unoccupied state is a sad thing to see (I grew up on its grounds when it was a state medical rehab rehabilitation center and my father worked there). The small city of Hot Springs completely surrounds the 9 acres of HSNP, and its main street, Central Avenue, covers over Hot Springs Creek… Which used to provide thermal energy for heating and making electricity.
If you like that Mountain Valley water by the bottle, that spring is just a hop outside the city limits; but in the downtown core there are several large multi-pipe hot water fountains where people still queue up with their 5 gallon jugs and get their mineral water.
Hot Springs is also home to Oaklawn Park thoroughbred racetrack [since 1904] and its derby is an esteemed prequalifier for the Kentucky Derby.
The Arkansas State coin features a diamond because you can go to Murfreesboro and there's a state park where you pay a nominal fee and can keep any diamond you find using hand tools ( and people do)!... Quartz crystal galore too and all that supervolcano magma boiling jazz too. *oh, no outdoor springs there to get into (which is what started the started need for protections because there are 43 springs! And early settlers just couldn't share'em, booted out the indigenous, kept burning down each other's bath huts and other money grubbing ventures and all that tired yada yada)... very reasonable and rational plans have all gotten shot down by various conservative minded folk who just can't whatever about therapeutic bathing, bodies and the like. You know the sad refrain on that.
Neat coin ya got there. Not worth much but a whole lotta history ~ 95 cents worth.
Also - before there was a shovel in the ground to create Las Vegas - let that sink in - you went to Hot Springs to drink gamble and party. It was run by the Chicago mafia and prohibition never set foot there (Carrie Nation was dared). It ran pretty wild until the 60s when the southern Baptist convention got a hold of the state government and began to enforce some law and order. Much of the major leagues trained there because of the therapeutic bathhouses set up by the NPS (varying architectural styles) of which the Buckstaff is still an operation offering the original method set out for bathing regime. The Fordyce is now a national park visitor center and was where my grandfather worked for decades as a masseur (they were not then known as "therapists"). A colossus general hospital was built in 1882, the first of its kind to serve both Army and Navy, still stands above the park but its unoccupied state is a sad thing to see (I grew up on its grounds when it was a state medical rehab rehabilitation center and my father worked there). The small city of Hot Springs completely surrounds the 9 acres of HSNP, and its main street, Central Avenue, covers over Hot Springs Creek… Which used to provide thermal energy for heating and making electricity.
If you like that Mountain Valley water by the bottle, that spring is just a hop outside the city limits; but in the downtown core there are several large multi-pipe hot water fountains where people still queue up with their 5 gallon jugs and get their mineral water.
Hot Springs is also home to Oaklawn Park thoroughbred racetrack [since 1904] and its derby is an esteemed prequalifier for the Kentucky Derby.
The Arkansas State coin features a diamond because you can go to Murfreesboro and there's a state park where you pay a nominal fee and can keep any diamond you find using hand tools ( and people do)!... Quartz crystal galore too and all that supervolcano magma boiling jazz too. *oh, no outdoor springs there to get into (which is what started the started need for protections because there are 43 springs! And early settlers just couldn't share'em, booted out the indigenous, kept burning down each other's bath huts and other money grubbing ventures and all that tired yada yada)... very reasonable and rational plans have all gotten shot down by various conservative minded folk who just can't whatever about therapeutic bathing, bodies and the like. You know the sad refrain on that.
Neat coin ya got there. Not worth much but a whole lotta history ~ 95 cents worth.