Jackson’s Hermitage Collection
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Another thread cited an old mention of a collection of coins, medals, etc. that our 7th president had acquired and that it was housed at The Hermitage. Does anyone know if that collection is intact and available to the public? Has anyone seen it?
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It is not on display. It is still together and archived in their holdings. I’ve never asked but I would bet you could see the list of what’s in the collection.
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Weren’t you around when that collection was put together? Can you check if you still have an inventory list laying around?
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Im not THAT old…. I live about 10 mins from the Hermitage. I know it’s not on display but still in their holdings. They have archives you can request to view. I haven’t done it but I’m sure they have a list of what’s in the collection.
BHNC #248 … 140 and counting.
At the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia they have a display of Roosevelt dimes since he was the force behind the March of Dimes. It's not a coin collection but it is homage to the man behind the dime and the fund raising for the March of Dimes. When I visited there in the 1950s they had a "wishing well" and I threw all the change I had in there. I was there a few years ago and the wishing well is covered over. I wonder if they got all the money out before they closed it up. I remember looking down into it and there was a whole lot of coinage there.
They also have/had an elongated penny machine and somewhere around here I have quite of few of the ones I made there. Very interesting place.
I realize this is off topic from the original question. But, there are a lot of coins on display at various places. The Cyclorama at the Atlanta Zoo had a display of coinage from the Civil War period along with one of the locomotives from the great Locomotive Chase. They have since torn that building down and moved the Cyclorama to another site. Not sure what happened to all the museum pieces that used to be there.