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SOM#009, Herbert Adams, Oh What Are the Prizes We Perish to Win - To the First Little Shiner We Caught with a Pin, 1934
[b]From the collection of John Birks[/b]

[i]Numbers Issued:  1,207 Bronze, 100 Silver[/i]

This is part of Adams’ medallic translation of the two lines from Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem, "Song of a Piece of Eight", "Oh what are the prizes we perish to win. To the first little 'shiner' we caught with a pin."
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SOM#009, Herbert Adams, Oh What Are the Prizes We Perish to Win - To the First Little Shiner We Caught with a Pin, 1934

From the collection of John Birks

Numbers Issued: 1,207 Bronze, 100 Silver

This is part of Adams’ medallic translation of the two lines from Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem, "Song of a Piece of Eight", "Oh what are the prizes we perish to win. To the first little 'shiner' we caught with a pin."

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