I recently moved to Walkersville, MD and it took me weeks before being able to post imagines online. Not that I was great at updating the blog before, but having all the coins packed up in 10 different boxes tend to handicap organization process.
The biggest problem, after fishing out all the coins from various nooks and crannies, was getting Internet connection. My new apartment has a wireless network that only my laptop can connect to, my scanner has an outdated cable connection that only hooks up to my desktop, and I have no cross-over cable to connect my desktop to my laptop. Luckily, my buddy Suhail loaned me his USB to transfer the files. I scanned 20 coins from the San Diego Zoo and posted them up just now.
New ECs from San Diego Zoo San Diego, CA
I finally found a store that sells heavy duty, double row, 14 inch, 2×2 coin storage boxes (in red). It charges an arm and a leg for shipping, but who doesn’t nowadays. Check out Wizard Coin Supply
Hey! It’s been a while.
I’ve been preoccupied with moving for the past few weeks. Now I’m finally at my new location, yet all my coins are still boxed up 
Jennifer got me a set of ECs on her vacation in Ithaca, but I won’t be able to scan them in until I find the box which they’re packed into.
Updated some information on EC cleaning and location mapping. Feel free to comment if I posted any misinformation.
Take a look at David’s Google map members location. I just got listed 
I was reading a finance article on countries with the highest salaries. The US is on there, along with a mixture of European countries. The figure that stood out was the number of holidays - you go down the list and everyone has 20+ number of things to celebrate for, then you come to the United States which has 11… What I’m trying to say is that since we only have half as many holidays, we should party twice as hard on these scares occasions.
I’m spending most of the weekend driving, from Maryland to Michigan then back again, but I hope to get a few penny presses as well.
Planned Trip #1 - Potawatomi Zoo
The Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, IN has a new set of design that I’d like. The roadblock literally is with Notre Dame and its football schedule. No coin is worth that kind of traffic hassle.
Planned Trip #2 - Interstate 80/90 Travel Plazas
One of these days, I’ll get all the coins on this strip of highway. I’ve driven the interstate back and forth numerous times but can never remember which coins I own and which ones I’m still missing.
It sure is amazing that with so many online coin supplier, it is impossible to find a 14″ double row heavy duty red coin storage box. I use the red boxes for domestic and black ones for international. Apparently it’s a mistake since they only make the heavy duty ones in black now… I don’t like the regular duty ones, since they feel a bit flimsy.
So far, I found Coin Supply Express to have a good price on the boxes and JP’s Corner to have a good price on the 2×2s.
On one of my frequent trips between MI and MD, I took a detour to Cacapon Lodge at Cacapon Resort State Park.
It was Sunday night when I drove into Berkeley Springs, WV. I figured that since the machine was in a lodge, it must be open 24-7. The park actually closes at 10PM, and it was 9:30PM when I got to the gates. I have no doubt that it’s a beautiful park, but at night, the Cacapon was incredibly creepy. Past the gates, the road winds through a forest of trees. It reminded me of the scene where Snow White was running away from the evil stepmother.
The fun didn’t end when the pennies were pressed. When I got home, I realized that it was impossible to tell what the initials on the coins were.
If you look at a vertical coin, the initials look like “CZC”
If you look at a horizontal coin, the initials look like “UNU”
The jury’s not out on this one, but you can see for yourself here:
New ECs from Cacapon Resort Lodge Berkeley Springs, WV
Once in a while, I go through my “Box of Lost ECs,” trying to find where these coins were pressed so I can log them into the database.
I had this Bass Pro Shop EC for a long time, and I never thought I’d find where it was pressed. There are so many Bass Pro Shops all over the country, each of them having their own machine. It wasn’t until I perused through all the designs did I realize that many of the Bass Pro Shop ECs are unique. Of course, many locations have the logo design and some of the leaping deer or walking bear imagines overlap. But most shops have special imagines designed specifically for that location. For example, the Bossier City in Louisiana has a Mardi Gras design. I also learned from this search that my Cincinnati Bass Pro Shop ECs have been removed.
New EC from Ports of Call Santa Cruz, CA
New EC from Bass Pro Shop Springfield, MO
Since we’re on the topic (we’re always on the press penny topic), I’d like to share a recent punctuation discovery.
The apostrophe is only used to note possessives of nouns. Therefore, EC’s is not grammatically correct for noting multiple press pennies. I made many of these mistakes before I’ll leave them to note progress.
Next thing I want to find out is where the comma goes: before or after the parenthesis?
I’m looking up some of these coins from Israel and I don’t think I have the right location. For example, Google Map shows nothing of “Center of Town.” Even if there is a location by that name, and the coins were pressed from there, what type of place is it? Is it an attraction, an amusement park, a landmark, or just a retail store?
New EC’s from Center of Town Jerusalem, Israel
I feel so bad for not updating the site for such a long time I have piles of coins lying on my desk, just waiting to be scanned and I haven’t done anything for days.
Went snow shoeing with friends on MLK weekend. I thought there would be more coins around this area, since the Winter Olympics was held here twice, but we didn’t have time to look through all the shops.
New EC’s from High Peaks Gift Shop Lake Placid, NY
