Green Bay Coin Jewelry

Due to increases in the price of gold and silver our prices will be going up. Over the next month prices will be going up throughout this site. I am reviewing the prices now and I have come to the conclusion that prices will need to go up as much as 20% or more for some items. If you are thinking about buying something on my site at the current prices you will need to do it soon.  I am sorry to need to do this but I cannot stay in business without the increases to cover my increasing costs.

I currently sell statehood jewelry in many forms of the jewelry I carry. I do not currently have pictures of all of the statehood jewelry. I do have sample pictures of each type of statehood jewelry I carry and I have them listed with those pictures. You can select your state from a drop down box in the sample product listing. The price is the same for all states.

I am currently working to fix this situation. In the near future I will have pictures posted of all of the state quarters. The sample product listings will still be there. I will have new categories for each type of statehood jewelry and product listings for all 50 states in each category with a picture of the coin for that state. You will be able to order the jewelry from either the drop down box in the sample product listing or in the listing for the individual states. If you have any questions about how this works please post your question here. There will be explanations in the new listings also. I apologize for any confusion this may cause. All of our products are handmade and most of them are not made until someone orders them.

I have had free shipping on my site from the beginning but only for the continental United States. I am now extending this offer worldwide. No minimum purchase is required to get free shipping. I am still working out the bugs for offering express shipping. If any one needs a package shipped quickly and is willing to pay the extra I can do it. I just haven’t figured out how to add it to my site yet. This type of shipping generally goes according to weight but jewelry weighs very little and messes up the shipping calculator. If anyone has any ideas on how to make this work for my site I am willing to listen. Just post your response here. I am also open to any other advice on how to make my site better for you. If you find anything on my site that does not work properly or could work better please let me know. Any constructive feedback would be welcomed.

This is only my second blog from greenbaycoinjewelry.com. In the first one I said I was going to start a series of blogs called coin stories. This is the first in that series. Earlier this month we as a nation celebrated the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. This was a great historical event, seeing a man (Neil Armstrong) walk on the moon for the very first time. I am writing about 2 coins that commemorate this event. The reverse sides of the Eisenhower and the Susan B. Anthony dollars both have the Apollo 11 mission insignia on them.

Everyone remembers hearing the words “the eagle has landed” and the Apollo 11 mission insignia represented this perfectly. Of course if the astronauts were wearing this patch it was designed first. This insignia was designed by astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module that orbited the moon. He didn’t even get to set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. had that privilege.

Michael Collins had wanted to design a simple patch that told the story without words. He didn’t put the names of the astronauts on the insignia because he wanted it to symbolize the efforts made by the entire team including those still planet-side, not just the astronauts that flew the mission. Of all the space mission insignias only 2 including this one were made without the astronauts names on them, the other was for Apollo 10.

The idea of the eagle was to represent the United States making a peaceful landing on the moon. “What better symbol – eagles landed, didn’t they?” (Quote by Michael Collins.) The eagle was found in a National Geographic book on birds and was chosen because it had its wings partially open and the talons out as it came in for a landing.

It was originally submitted with an olive branch in its beak and talons extended for a landing. This was rejected by the politicians in Washington because they felt that the extended talons looked too warlike. To fix this the olive branch was moved from the beak to the talons. Michael Collins was never real comfortable with this because as a pilot he didn’t like anything interfering with the landing gear.

My name is Richard Case and this is my first attempt at writing a blog. I am also very new to running a website. In July of 2008 I started a new website called greenbaycoinjewelry.com. I sell jewelry that have real world coins mounted in them. This is not my first website. My earlier sites were a learning experience. All of them failed for different reasons but I learned things from each of them. I am still learning from my mistakes and my site is improving as I learn. In the coming months I will be adding new products and modifying the listings of old ones.

The purpose of this blog will be to keep you up to date on expected changes, sales, and updates. I will also be writing blogs that I will call “Coin Stories”. I have been researching many of the coins used in the jewelry I sell. I have used this research to improve the information I give in my product names and descriptions. During this research I have found a lot of information about some of these coins that I did not use in my descriptions. Some of the coins had good stories behind them. I will be telling these stories in my blog. This will in some cases include why that particular design was selected, who designed it, and the history behind it. Some of the coins represent very important items or events in the history of the country that minted it. Since I will be researching this information for each blog I will be including a list of sources at the end of each of the “Coin Story” blogs.

I hope you will read and enjoy these blogs as much as I will in writing them. If you find any mistakes on my site or in my blogs or have information that can improve them please let me know. As I said at the beginning of this blog I am new to running a website and to writing a blog. Please bear with me during the growing pains. I will use any input I can get to improve on both.