A Great Coin

[Aufisher]

Thought you all might like this coin. Disregard the California portion since they committed patricide.

 

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[1637]

thats just cool.
brad

 

[ltd063]

Where did you find that coin?

 

[Aufisher]

Came from my dad's lifetime collection. I had never seen one before!

 

[Aufisher]

1925 sorry the pics are blurry, might beyond any Dizzy help!

 

[arizau]

It is a California diamond jubilee half dollar...special commemorative coin struck for 75th anniversary of statehood. Google it if interested.

 

[Aufisher]

Some great info on Wikepedia

 

[Hawks88]

Awesome find congrats!

 

[RTD-Tech]

That's pretty cool...
I wonder if my old man still has his coins. Pretty sure he stopped collecting years ago...

 

[oneguy]

Yep....the Jubilee. Had one once in my collection when I was about 12yrs old. Traded some foreign junk coins for a Jubilee & an Indian head gold quarter eagle from a fiend whom only collected foreign coins. If I remember right the Jubilee may be worth a few sheckles over a lot of the commemoratives? You might wanna look it up....? Thanks for bringing back the memories..........

 

[63bkpkr]

Nice share, thank you! I'd never seen one before, that Cali bear is one weird looking beast.............63bkpkr

 

[Aufisher]

Yeah, can't remember ever seeing a grizzly bear in my neck of the woods recently! I heard they grew big and fat with no hibernation in the north bay area just a few hundred years ago!

 

[goldenmojo]

Yeah, can't remember ever seeing a grizzly bear in my neck of the woods recently! I heard they grew big and fat with no hibernation in the north bay area just a few hundred years ago!

Very nice coin Aufisher. It harkens back to a time when mining and miners were celebrated in this state. As for the Grizz in your area I read recently there were so many upstream of the rattlesnake bar area on the North Fork American the Nisenan avoided living there for awhile.

 

[arizau]

Just looked at a map of the original grizzly bear range in North America....All of Alaska, western half of Canada, a little more than half of the U.S. (only some territory east of the Mississippi) and tapering down into central Mexico. Reportedly, the last grizzly killed in Arizona was in the 1930's and Cali last legally hunted in 1922. Early Indians likely just defended themselves until they got firearms. Western settlement caused their decline (human and livestock safety concerns for the most part) along with that of wolves and mountain lions.

 

[Aufisher]

Thanks Arizau! I bet one of those critters could wreck your day! Probably eat a black bear for a snack! 2200 lbs is the largest on record in California.

 

[arizau]

Thanks Arizau! I bet one of those critters could wreck your day! Probably eat a black bear for a snack! 2200 lbs is the largest on record in California.

Must have eaten a lot of salmon and had natives for dessert or vice versa.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Very Cool Coin! I think I'm going to purchase one and have it incorporated into a bracelet!

 

[Aufisher]

We gotta see that one when your done Terry!

 

[mytimetoshine]

Very nice coin Aufisher. It harkens back to a time when mining and miners were celebrated in this state. As for the Grizz in your area I read recently there were so many upstream of the rattlesnake bar area on the North Fork American the Nisenan avoided living there for awhile.

I believe it. The samon run back in the day was probably something to behold. Salmon falls on the SF during the run would have been cool to see with Bear and tribe all competing for the catch!

 

[63bkpkr]

There's a large population of black bears along the North Fork though the fire of ~ 2008 burned a lot of their home territory. In the 70's a bear was dumped there with a light colored gene so a good number of them are now brown to blond. Some, males & females, are really large. The females that were dumped in there from other places have taught their cubs that humans offer free food and that its at the end of a string tied to a tree! Also, do not zip your tent closed, if they can not just walk in and out they will open it another way leaving you with a lot of patching to do if you want to use it down there on that trip..........63bkpkr

Also, Calif Griz, would meet the residents of Half Moon bay at their doors so the residents took to shooting them.

Way up the NFAR in the area near where Wabena Creek enters the NFAR the river bed is so porous that the river dries up for about a mile. The Bears have learned this and are there waiting for the event as they are able to catch the trout in the shallow pools. Kinda similar but different to Salmon runs. When I first saw the left overs I was wondering why the bears would be using boulders along the dry stream bed as an outhouse. I caught on late one year up there as I was walking over pools full of spawning trout just below Royal Gorge Falls.