Very  nice job, Richard!

The other side of PYW's gold coin:

I will show you the doubleducat from Austria that PWY just got. A 1642 archduke official restrike of course : the original would be a museum piece in MS65 condition.

Wouldn't you know it, they still haven't made it to Wyoming for distribution........yet!!!!!  Maybe next month when everyone else has them in their collections.

I think you forgot all those birds flying overhead............and they are protected!

It's kind of like Templar said; 'SHE WAS ONLY A WHISKEY MAKER, BUT HE LOVED HER STILL.'

I have extricated this from 'Wikipedia':
Sacagawea was born into an Agaidika (Salmon Eater) tribe of Lemhi Shoshone between Kenney Creek and Agency Creek about twenty minutes away from present-day Salmon in Lemhi County, Idaho. In 1800, when she was about twelve, she was kidnapped by a group of Minnetarees. She was taken as a captive to a Hidatsa village near present-day Washburn, North Dakota. At about thirteen years of age, Sacagawea was taken as a wife by Toussaint Charbonneau, a Quebecer trapper living in the village. He was reported to have purchased, or won Sacagawea while gambling.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived near the Hidatsa villages to spend the winter of 1804-1805. They interviewed several trappers who might be able to interpret and guide the expedition up the Missouri River in the springtime. They agreed to hire Charbonneau as an interpreter when they discovered his wife spoke Shoshone, as they knew they would need the help of Shoshone tribes at the headwaters of the Missouri.
In April 1804, the expedition left Fort Mandan and headed up the Missouri River in pirogues. They had to be poled against the current and sometimes pulled from the riverbanks. On May 14, 1805, Sacagawea rescued items that had fallen out of a capsized boat, including the journals and records of Lewis and Clark. By August 1805, the corps had located a Shoshone tribe and discovered that the tribe's chief was Scajawea's brother Cameahwait. The Shoshone agreed to barter horses to the group, and help them over the cold and barren Rocky Mountains. The trip was so hard that they were reduced to eating tallow candles to survive, Sacagawea helped to find and cook camas roots to help them regain their strength.
As the expedition approached the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific Coast, Sacagawea gave up her beaded belt to enable the captains to trade for a fur robe they wished to give to President Thomas Jefferson.
Clark's journal entry for November 20, 1805 reads: When the corps reached the Pacific Ocean, members of the expedition—including Sacagawea— voted on November 24 vote on the location for building their winter fort. In January, when a whale's carcass washed up onto the beach south of Fort Clatsop, Sacagawea insisted on her right to go see this "monstrous fish".
On the return trip, as they approached the Rocky Mountains, Clark recorded "The Indian woman informed me that she had been in this plain frequently and knew it well.... She said we would discover a gap in the mountains in our direction..." which is now Gibbons Pass. A week later, on July 13, Sacagawea advised Clark to cross into the Yellowstone River basin at what is now known as Bozeman Pass. This was later chosen as the optimal route for the Northern Pacific Railway to cross the continental divide.

This may change your mind on the subject.

Sir Templar;
All really great coin collection, and especially so because they are from a private mint. I noticed that on a couple of them, they make referrence to Lewis & Clark's expedition by the 'Corps of Discovery' as the government called it at the time. I was unaware that the Shawnee (Cherakee) had anything to do with the journey. My knowledge of the trip recalled the indian woman, married to a French trapper, that accompanied the expedition to the Pacific and back as far as North Dakota. Her name was Sacajawea and came from the Shoshone tribe located in the Rocky Mountains. They buried her a few miles west of Lander, Wyoming (or so the story goes withing the tribe itself). She acted as a interpreter and guide.
The question is: do you have any idea why they are using Lewis & Clark as a subject on their coins?

Brother Templar; My intention was nothing more than an attempt to correct your presentation of the topic (period)

Example; If I were to post a topic on a medal that Kia Automotive was about to strike, and these were to be available to anyone who purchased one of their cars. I might go on to talk about the great price and how little gasoline they use. All of which would be true....
So far so good, but then I post the following photo. Mind you they are both foreign and they are both autos.

Templar.......sorry to bust your bubble, but 'Ten Bears' isn't a Shawnee, but rather a great chief of the Northern Cheyenne tribe of Montana, Rosebud County. He looks nothing like a Shawnee.

Here are some pictures of the Shawnee people:

Not quite true mspec, as I had a glass or two of 'Canada Dry' just the other night, along with some JD to spice it up a might!

I am not aware of the day (12th) or the month (December) as having anything to do with  the date 2012. Were this comes in is because their calander ends in this year.  After that there is no more regestery of time, so the assumption is that it must end......

Can you count how many times this has happened in the past? Almost every time you turn around with some of the religions of the world..........or some cult that has sprang up to 'lead it's people'.......

Yes, XII=12 in most places. So it could be either April 12, 1957 or 4th of December, 1957
More than likely the date of the printing and issue of this bill.

Just a quick note to Nancy from Bill (longnine009) to let you know he received his medalions and thought they were very nice. This should help you stay up with your charting....I hope.

For the second day in a row, the skys darkened and the thunder and lightning flashed.  A great wind came up from the east and ushered in what I thought was the Dragon sent by Terry with the medal.
I'm not sure what happened along the way, except that the old dragon must have met his match as one of our smaller birds of brey flew in and deposited the coin on my front porch. It then grabbed one of the yearling calfs and flew off to the hills south of town. Got this  picture and guessed at the wing span....something like 11' 0"