From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10755 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, February 20 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10755 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Make your wife's eyes bulge ["ED Solution" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 14:15:14 +0100 From: "ED Solution" Subject: Make your wife's eyes bulge Make your wife's eyes bulge http://surveygoods.shop/0WzgWQJ4BJOkGQINc1QpqjyM0KSAiAZr-P8N4p4zanWScPwmpw http://surveygoods.shop/dDTM4Z9sP9UPoJUjVlIlCyua36FS3TEG2adSA5gJsmF7UseiPA e reverse features a badger, the Wisconsin state animal. Behind it are three arrows, symbolic of the conflict between settlers and the Black Hawk Indians, with an olive branch, marking the peace that paved the way for the establishment of the territory, or, as Anthony Swiatek and Walter Breen put it in their 1988 book on commemorative coins, "the massacre and expulsion of the Indians that made the area safe for white settlers". The name of the country, the coin's denomination, and the inscriptions required by law surround the pictorial design. Hawkins's initial H appears below the badger, which represents Wisconsin's early fur-trading days; both sides of the half dollar emphasize the natural resources of the state. Church & Co trademark.jpg According to Bowers "The design was not a favorite with collectors, and relatively little enthusiasm was ever shown for it." Taxay deemed the Wisconsin coin "one of our poorest issues". Cornelius Vermeule, an art historian who wrote a book on American coins and medals, disliked the Wisconsin half dollar and compared its design to that on a box of baking soda.? The coin of 1936 that marks the hundredth anniversary of Wisconsin's formation as a territory smacks of amateurism. The models were the work of an art student at the University of Wisconsin ... This half dollar of the United States is, as a work of art, little more than a high school medal of the dullest variety. As a ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10755 ***********************************************