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1872, it was an interesting year!!

keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Great men and a woman known to us all today, the year was 1872.

Samuel Morse dies at the age of 81.-----He, of course, is best known for the invention of the Morse Code.
William Seward dies at the age of 72.-----Seward's Folly is what he left us, better known as Alaska.
Horace Greely dies at the age of 61.-----Go west, young man!!!

..........and not to forget the fairer sex, Susan B. Anthony is arrested on November 5th with a group of women for attempting to vote in the presidential election. What a nerve she had!!!!!!!!

Al H.image

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I'm sad because I don't have an 1872 coin to post. i've got the date surrounded.
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  • RELLARELLA Posts: 961 ✭✭✭
    I've always liked the year from a numismatic perspective, with a host of scarce to rare circulation strike examples in nearly every denomination.

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    RELLA
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    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,240 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,376 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting events in 1872. Thanks for the reminder. Was going to post a picture but can't seem to do it tonight! imageimage



    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,668 ✭✭✭✭✭
    where's robgetty and some of his great 1872 coins????
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,376 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Will try again.....one of my former favorite coins in MS66RB.

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    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,376 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Another favorite, the 1872 PCGS 64R, with the shallow N reverse, S10. Reverse varieties are slowly becoming more popular and may be considered part of a "complete" set some day........at least I doimageimage

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    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is my donation to the 1872 parade


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  • RotatedRainbowsRotatedRainbows Posts: 2,085 ✭✭
    The only 1872 Proof cent known to exist with Medallic Alignment.

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    what beautiful examples of coinage from the year. i hadn't realized just how many important issues came from that year until my own post made me start to think about it!! i had just kind of centered on the personalities and put up the half-dime.

    there was also some interisting political manuevering going on. my reckoning is that it took the country a few years to allow the war memory to fade before they got along with business as usual!! at the Republican convention, Negroe delegates were allowed for the first time. at the Democratic convention, they were unable to find an agreeable mainstream candidate so they chose the Liberal Republican candidate, Horace Greeley who i mentioned in the opening post as having died some short months later.
    in a rather odd coincidence relative to current happenings, the Congress enjoyed a majority in both houses. Negroes also were elected to office for the first time in history.

    on a more pastoral note, on March 1st of 1872, President Grant signed into law an act passed by Congress which eventually became our first National Park which we all know as Yellowstone!!! a few days later he appointed a commission to examine plans for a project in Columbia which would eventually move a distance to Panama and become the Canal we have today.

    what an era to be alive in, social progress, economic and industrial advances on the cusp of national policy and beautiful coins!! ost them pictures.

    al h.image

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