My 2023 Clad Proof Set
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4/27/2026
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The image to the left is an artist's illustration of the second best story of 2023 according to Smithsonian Magazine. Meilan Solly, Senior Story Editor for the Magazine picked this as the second best story of the year and this is what she had to say:
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Some three million years ago, petite penguins roamed what is now New Zealand, living in roughly the same area inhabited by their modern-day descendants, known as korora. Scientists identified the extinct birds, called Wilson’s little penguins or Eudyptula wilsonae, by studying two fossilized skulls found on New Zealand’s North Island.
“Because researchers only have the extinct animals’ skulls—and not their complete skeletons—they aren’t entirely sure how big the Wilson’s little penguins would have been,” wrote Smithsonian contributor Sarah Kuta in July. “But they suspect the birds may have been similar in size to today’s little penguins, which weigh about two pounds and stand roughly 13.5 inches tall.” (At the other end of the spectrum, the same team recently unearthed the bones of a 340-pound penguin that lived in the oceans around New Zealand approximately 57 million years ago.)
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This is a heart warming little tale. It also reminds of this set. The Lincoln penny is now extinct, and the Kennedy Half Dollar and Sacagawea dollars no longer circulate, and pretty much religated to us collectors. To find the skulls of long extinct penguins who were probably pretty cute is a feathered version of what happened to our beloved penny this year.
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