The USS Constitution opens today

1630Boston

The USS Constitution opens today - for the first time since the pandemic.
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post your **old **coins to celebrate.
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https://youtu.be/QLKnZAgdmi8
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post your **old **coins to celebrate.

1630Boston

1630Boston

@ricko might like these 'Navy' facts
Five things you probably didn't know about Old Ironsides
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https://youtu.be/5pxFNWlV1i0

ricko

Great ship and thanks for the video/picture. I have a piece of the deck now and also a knife with the handle made out of the U.S.S. Constitution deck.... I was aboard the ship years ago, when my ship was in the Boston Yards for a short dry dock event. Cheers, RickO

USSID17

BillJones

The Constitution was launched in 1797. I have heard that a silver dollar was once nailed to the main mast. I have also ready that coins were discovered at the base of the mast when it was rehabed a some years ago.

jesbroken

Here's the other side I once had.
Jim

markelman1125

This my only 18th century coin

SiriusBlack

I've been to Boston once, for a week, and ended up going to see the Constitution 3 times in that week! I loved seeing her. The last time my friend and I got on the ferry thing to go that direction, and as we looked out the window, we saw the Constitution being towed passed us in the ocean! It was fun to see her away from the dock although it prevented my friend from getting to tour her.

Hydrant

I visited that ship when I was a teenager. Most surprising thing to me was how small the ship was and how short the sailors of that time must have been. Much of my early years were spent watching BIG battleships and carriers in San Diego Bay. I had to bend down while walking below deck on the Constitution to keep from hitting my head on overhead beams, etc. I bought an example of each coin in the gift shop. Still have them.

JBK

@SiriusBlack said:
The last time my friend and I got on the ferry thing to go that direction, and as we looked out the window, we saw the Constitution being towed passed us in the ocean!

That would have been the annual turnaround cruise. They alternate its berthing every year so it will weather evenly on both sides.

You can get tickets to be on the ship, but it is by lottery and I think Charlestown residents get priority. I tried a couple times but never got picked.

1630Boston

WAYNEAS

@ricko said:
Great ship and thanks for the video/picture. I have a piece of the deck now and also a knife with the handle made out of the U.S.S. Constitution deck.... I was aboard the ship years ago, when my ship was in the Boston Yards for a short dry dock event. Cheers, RickO

Nice
Wayne

JBK

I have been to visit a few times over the years. The gift shop always offers something that is made from the ship, using materials removed during periodic restorations.

Over the years there has been a huge variety of "made froms" such as copper medallions, wooden boxes, small pieces of furniture or lamps with pieces of wood inlaid, and a few things I own: wooden pen, a print of the ship on paper embedded with wood fragments, and small chunks of loose wood.

WAYNEAS

I was in the drydock just opposite OLD IRONSIDES in the early 70's.
They were renovating the destroyer that I was on. The USS FISKE DD-842.
I was bivouacked in the barracks along with the sailors who manned the Constitution.
Spent many hours touring her.
Wayne

johnny9434

@markelman1125 said:

This my only 18th century coin

nice and gold to, i like

Lazybones

kaz

coinbuf

I have not been to Beantown or toured old Ironsides but would enjoy it I'm sure.

dpoole

We lived in Boston for a year in 1956, and I got to see her then. There was a book in the Landmark series about Old Ironsides, that I devoured.

A modern commem honoring the USS Constitution would have been a thing of beauty, don't you agree?

Nysoto

Here is a recent purchase of a Moritz Furst engraving of a US Mint medal in honor of Captain William Bainbridge and the USS Constitution victory over HMS Java off the coast of Brazil in December, 1812. The Java's masts were shot off and rendered incapacitated, 9 Americans were killed and 57 British. Captain Bainbridge was involved with the medal design, showing the Java blown masts and tattered sails of the Constitution. Lt. Chads wrote to Sec. of Admiralty John Croker

"I cannot conclude this letter without expressing my grateful acknowledgement thus publicly for the generous treatment Captain Lambert and his Officers have experienced from our Gallant Enemy Commodore Bainbridge and his Officers. I have the honor to be."

The re-building of the US Navy to fight the Quasi-War, First Barbary War, and the War of 1812 was financed in part by revenue stamps engraved by Robert Scot while at the US Mint from the July 6, 1797 Act "An act of laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper." An example of a revenue stamp engraved by Scot:

tincup

I was able to pay a visit also. An awesome experience, though I did not have enough time allotted to also give appropriate time to the museum. You can sure feel the history when you are near that ship!

1northcoin

Cool. I remember seeing it in the harbor when we went to Boston to visit our son at Harvard.

BryceM

Great old ship. I’ve been on board a handful of times. Someone gave me a medal made from the copper cladding that was removed during a restoration. I’ll try to remember to bring it home from work and take a photo.

Omegaraptor

I think this variety was early in the emission sequence for 1797, so this one might have actually been struck in 1797, the year the Constitution was launched.

ElKevvo

Good post...We have taken our 2 kids up to Boston a couple of times and have toured the Constitution each visit. And they liked it! That says a lot in my book for the quality of the visit

K

SaorAlba

BryceM

As promised, here's the thing a nice patient gave me. It's "very rare" with 6000 struck by the USS Constitution Museum. In-hand, the color appears to be a bit more even, but the prooflike fields are clearly hairlined. 1.52" diameter and 20g, made from "copper sheathing removed from the hull … during restoration."