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
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is looking forward to a great new year.
As a Christmas gift to myself, I went out and bid on a few coins. In the end, everything I won are foriegn coins. There are a few from Budapest and a group from Israel. I’m looking foward to getting them in the mail and I’ll scan them in as soon as I do!
I used to purchase or trade for the Disney holiday nickels every year, but now I’m not sure who to turn to for these coins anymore
I’m starting to rescan old images to match the new 150% standards. I don’t think it makes too much of a difference though…
I’ve completed through Arizona.
I’m starting to think that I should take 150% size of images instead of limiting them to 100 pixel width. I’ve started to do this from coin #3299. If it works well, I’ll back track and rescan the past imagines.
Also, I’m starting to look for online coin suppliers. I have 7 boxes double row boxes for my US coins and they are overflowing Here’s a site (Brent-Krueger) that sells the boxes that I use. If you find a better price for these boxes during your searches, please let me know. Thanks!
My hard drive failed last month and I had to reformat a new one. In the process I lost my beloved Photoshop. I had an authentic copy but I lost the CD, so the new quest was on for searching a similar freeware.
The two that I found were:
I bought a lot of EC’s on eBay and it turned out that I have most of the coins already
Many of them are from Six Flags Marine World, which are now retired, and I put them under my trade list.
Please email me if you are interested in a trade! admin @ gatherec dot com (with no spaces)
