New Daniel Carr Creation.... $20 Gold Piece!

[scottishmoney]

Commemorating the sesquicentennial of Colorado:



Nice, very very nice. 

[edix]

That image looks familiar, I saw it last summer:

[CoinCrusader42]

We drive past several times a year.

Have been to the top via tram.  Great view.

Nice medal.

 

[Eringobraugh]

Any of you RICH guys care to buy me one....I really would appreciate it

[TwoShadows]

Well we have at least one thing in common. That gog-wheel train is one of the neatest rides I have ever taken. And it gives you some idea what UP can really be like!!!

[edix]

This is likely Colorado Springs as seen from the Pikes Peak Cog Railway (taken by a fellow local club member of mine):

[AdamL]

I remember taking that train up to the top. It was pretty cool. It was really cloudy though, which was unfortunate because the view from the peak wasn't  very good at all. It was interesting to be above the clouds though. I remember being able to see the mountain on the way to it, for well over an hour before we actually got there.

[CoinCrusader42]

I first saw Pike's Peak from Fowler (CO) when I started teaching.  When Pike went through that flat region, and saw the peak, he thought it would be a day's march or so.  Took him a lot longer.

Once he reached the base, he proclaimed that nobody would ever ascend to the top.  Well, we proved that was wrong.

Pike's Peak is not the highest mountain in Colorado, nor is it the most scenic.  Famous mainly because of Zebulon Pike.

There's a good road to the top, and the "Pike's Peak Hill Climb" is well known to race enthusiasts.

There's a tourist lift on Monarch Pass (over the Continental Divide).  At the top one can look east and see Pike's Peak, and look west and see Mt. Uncompaghre.  Mt. Uncompaghre is not too far from where I live, and two of our three kids have climbed to the top.  It is roughly the same elevation as Pike's Peak.

That's all I'm going to write about Pike's Peak.  It's on the eastern side of Colorado, and we live on the much more scenic western side of the Continental Divide.

And, I will give OldDan credit.  Wyoming has the most beautiful mountains (Grand Tetons) that I've ever seen.

 

[Templar]

my dad was in the air force and we were moved to alaska in the mid 1950's--now that is a place of beautiful scenery and mountains you will never forget---odd that a state as large as Alaska is,its state flower is one of the smallest--the "forget me not"---if you ever see the state you will forget it not!--your servant--the templar

[Goose]

Alaska? Ahhhh, the memories.......snaring a black bear, raiding a R R powder shed and blowing up just about anything in some small mountains, not seeing a car or bus in over 3 months, killing all radio reception (except military) in the town of 50 we were in whenever we wanted to, and all of this before Alaska became a state.....

[scottishmoney]

The funny thing about this thread, the coin is lovely, in gold, and I want one.  But all everybody else talks about is Pike's Peak etc.  Just a humourous thing, how threads weave into other discussions.

[TwoShadows]

Another F+ for staying on topic but an A+ for adding educational value in a coin thread! Never know what one will get when opening a thread here!
The view Edix shows is indeed a view from Pikes Peak if my feeble mind remembers correctly. I will say I never met a mountain I didn't like!
And, UkrainiChetire why don't you be a sport and buy two of those gold coins! One for yourself and one for me! I also never met a gold coin I didn't like!!!

[Paint Your Wagon]

I must say I have several goldcoins of which I do NOT like the obverse . In principal I hate dead or live kings or queens on coins
I will make an exception for Napoleon I and III and Maria Luiga Contessa di Parma and the young Vicky backshield .
I have a very long queing list of people who want to help me get rid of the ugly coins  but since they are in a bankvault I do not have to look at the ugly side 

As mountains go I have been with a little train to the lac d'Atouste in France (smalwidth railway train ) and I have been thru the mountains in Switzerland dozens of time and used cog weel trains in Switzerland that went up like at a 30 % angle .
One time I went to the top of a mountain by road in the Swisse Italian region and I had the very first of the 3 series of BMW and the car barely made it to the top because the fuel injection pump was not up to the job at the rarefied air and 12% angle plus incline .

After several vacations at the lago mayore I used a car train which goes from Switzerland to Italy under the mountain . You drive your car on the train and can rest for a few hours . I was in Venice when the San Marco plaza was 4 inches under water and I loved Rimini beach . Ah that spledid Italian food . The most simple was Gnocci . ( Some kind of delicious baked dough stuff )

I think I am off topic though . My friend Frank says he did not hear of Carr and he retired as a coindealer some 5 years ago and he likes the medal . But unfortunately medals only go 80% of melt here in Europe so I will pass on the medal and pursue the last 3 or 4 pieces I want before the big gold bang .