Belly Button

Since yesterday morning Henry has shown two bits of progress. The first is we witnessed him repeatedly hit a toy above him for the first time. There wasn't much agility being displayed, but it was impressive. Second his belly button appeared.

At the bank I had some good fortune. The coin counting machine jammed and when the manager cleaned it he let me keep what was in the internal rejection bin. In it was two Ike dollars (one being gold plated), one bent quarter, two bent dimes, one penny, a French franc, a Jokers token, and a Theodore Roosevelt medal. The medal is about the size of a half dollar.



The back of the medal says:

THEODORE ROOSEVELT BORN OCT. 27, 1858 YOUNGEST MAN TO BECOME PRESIDENT; ORGANIZED THE "ROUGH RIDERS"; FIRST AMERICAN TO BE AWARDED NOBEL PEACE PRIZE DIED JAN. 6, 1919.

Later when I got home I did a little coin roll hunting.

160 quarters, 100 dimes, and 40 nickels produced three Canadian quarters and one Canadian dime. One of the Canadian quarters was one I needed for my album, 1983. It has been quite a while since I've found one for my album in rolls. It is relatively scarce as only 13 million were minted. The other modern Canadian quarters I need, besides a few recent ones, are:

1973 Large Beads (10,000)
1992 Newfoundland (11,405,000) *need upgrade
1992 Manitoba (11,349,000)
1992 Yukon (10,388,000) *need upgrade
2001 (8,415,000)
2003P Royal Diademed (15,905,090)

I also searched 2,450 pennies. They produced nine Wheats, twenty-four Canadians, and three Taiwan 1 Yuan. The Wheats were:

1939, 1944(2), 1946, 1948, 1953D, 1956, 1956D, 1958

Found: 6 pennies (at Sovereign Bank), 1 dime (at Sovereign Bank)