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Tædivm
This page was made possible by the combined
effort of diverse members of the
USNS
Unrecognised
States Numismatic Society
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2005
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USNS-TAE-C 001a
Year: 2005
Metal: copper-nickel-zinc
Condition: antiqued
Designer: C.D. Shiboleth
Mint: PMP
Mintage: 51 pcs.
Diameter: 25 mm
Denomination: ½ Gaap
Edge type: plain
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USNS-TAE-C 001b
Year: 2005
Metal: copper-nickel-zinc
(.064” thick flan)
Condition: antiqued
Designer: C.D. Shiboleth
Mint: PMP
Mintage: 1 pc. (unique)
Diameter: 25 mm
Denomination: ½ Gaap
Edge type: plain
Pre-release trial
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USNS-TAE-C 001c
Year: 2005
Metal: copper
Condition: antiqued
Designer: C.D. Shiboleth
Mint: PMP
Mintage: 21 pcs.
Diameter: 25 mm
Denomination: ½ Gaap
Edge type: plain
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USNS-TAE-C 001d
Year: 2005
Metal: copper (.064” thick flan)
Condition: antiqued
Designer: C.D. Shiboleth
Mint: PMP
Mintage: 1 pc. (unique)
Diameter: 25 mm
Denomination: ½ Gaap
Edge type: plain
Pre-release trial
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USNS-TAE-C 001e
Year: 2005
Metal: aluminium
Condition: antiqued
Designer: C.D. Shiboleth
Mint: PMP
Mintage: 3 pcs.
Diameter: 25 mm
Denomination: ½ Gaap
Edge type: plain
Pre-release trial
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USNS-TAE-C 001f
Year: 2005
Metal: brass
Condition: antiqued
Designer: C.D. Shiboleth
Mint: PMP
Mintage: 3 pcs.
Diameter: 25 mm
Denomination: ½ Gaap
Edge type: plain
Pre-release trial
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USNS-TAE-C 001g
Year: 2005
Metal: silver
Condition: antiqued, unholed
Designer: C.D. Shiboleth
Mint: PMP
Mintage: 3 pcs.
Diameter: 25 mm
Denomination: ½ Gaap
Edge type: plain
Pre-release trial
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USNS-TAE-C 001h
Year: 2005
Metal: silver
Condition: prooflike, unholed
Designer: C.D. Shiboleth
Mint: PMP
Mintage: 20 pcs.
Diameter: 25 mm
Denomination: ½ Gaap
Edge type: plain
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Tædivm
Visualise the clock, the hours of the day ticking away. Imagine the days of the week, the weeks in every year.
Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly following the same pattern, same
routine. Stagnation.
Imagine a lifetime,
your life.
Do you find
the life you’re leading really fulfilling, does it arouse your natural
intellectual curiosity? Or is it the comfort and safety of the known that
keeps you following the ticking of the clock? Do you make a difference?
Are you sure? Or do you recognise an internal feeling of existential boredom?
Take this feeling,
this boredom, this emptiness. This tedium. Hold it
tight; embrace it for all it’s worth! Think about it as a State of Mind.
Welcome to the Ultimate State of Tædivm.
And of course,
a befitting tribute to tedium… the inaugural coin.
A small coin,
plain edge, holed. That’s all. A coin full of compromises to the technical
& practical side of minting. A pitiful half-a-yawn, a mere ½ Gaap,
nothing more.
But remember to
look further… through the coin, through the hole; you might just see a rare
glimpse of all that’s beyond tedium, beyond tædivm.
© 2005, 2007 C.D. Shiboleth. Coin information and
scans courtesy of C.D. Shiboleth.. Layout thanks to
G. Cruickshank / USNS.
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