You have no idea how much older it makes me feel to have a young pup like you refer to yourself as an old geezer. Where does that leave me? Just because I collect Sesquicentennial medals (yes, I obey Abler's Fourth Law of Collecting, and I do collect more than one thing) and therefore know the meaning of Sesquicentennial does not make me, let alone you, an old geezer!

Doesn't everyone commemorate quasquibiduodecentennial anniversaries?

Quasquicentennial = 125th year
duodecennial = 12th anniversary
bi = 2
125 + (2*12) = 149

Ron: "I'd like to go back with a complete list of winning lottery numbers (then I'd start going to coin auctions)! Can you spell Croesus?"

Me: "State lotteries weren't quite invented yet, either. Betting on horse races and ballgames would work, but win too many times and the mob'll put you in cement overshoes before you could buy too many coins..."

Ron: "Spoil sport! Okay, one result sheet from a prior day at the track will work well enough. One big win would finance one big coin auction, assuming that the time machine lets me bring back a briefcase full of coins."

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:NEW BOOK: ABRAHAM LINCOLN: BEYOND THE AMERICAN ICON(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n43a05.html)