Name coins that were made because of historic happenings in the United States...

Dennis88

I can come up with a few. Anyone can add more?

Double Eagle - California Gold Rush
Morgan Dollar - Comstock Lode
$3 indian princess - 3C stamps, current standard letter rate back than.

Dennis

mgoodm3

hairy heads

keets

1943 Steel Cents, 1944 Shell Case Lincoln Cents and 1942-1945 Jefferson Nickels. no need for an explanation!!!

Longacre

All the commemoratives, although one could argue that some classic silver commems really didn't commemorate anything of historical significance. Some are downright inaccurate.

Barndog

Peace Dollar may qualify here.

Longacre

<< <i>1943 Steel Cents, 1944 Shell Case Lincoln Cents and 1942-1945 Jefferson Nickels. no need for an explanation!!! >>




Ahhhh, Mr. Keets. I will be posting a thread shortly about the "myth" of the silver Jefferson nickels. The thread is in the hopper, awaiting to be posted.

RYK

$3 indian princess - 3C stamps, current standard letter rate back than.

Numismatic urban legend.

Dahlonega and Charlotte Mints were built to handle gold mined in the southern Appalachians (Trail of Tears, Andrew Jackson, Winfield Scott, etc.)

aballein

semi-interesting fact about the Comstock Lode..in todays rates it produced 5 Billion dollars worth of silver..thats alot of morgans

DickyBetz

3c Silver was created to solve a coin shortage in the early 1850's and also to make it easier to purchase the 3c stamps.

Julian

Roosevelt dimes, Kennedy halves, and Ike dollars were all done immediately after the death of the named President.

mrcommem

shirohniichan

<< <i>3c Silver was created to solve a coin shortage in the early 1850's and also to make it easier to purchase the 3c stamps. >>



When trime were first introduced, the letter rate was 5 cents (this is a fortunate side effect of being a recovering stamp collector).

I looked into legislation regarding coins and read somewhere that the trimes were introduced to redeem Spanish colonial coins in circulation at the time.

mrcommem

The gold dollar- The California gold rush

messydesk

In general, you could say that anything with a CC mintmark is due to the discovery of the Comstock Lode and anything with an S mintmark is due to the California gold rush.

Smoker

> $3 indian princess - 3C stamps, current standard letter rate back than. <

For rolls of 100?

TAClough

Surprised that no one had mentioned the Lincoln cent or Washington Quarter.

keets

are deaths and commemoration on coinage really historic happenings?? coming from that logic, every U.S Coin is the result of a historic happening.

ziggy29

Two cent piece, three cent nickel and Shield nickel -- all introduced at least partially in response to a coin shortage caused by widespread hoarding of gold and silver during and immediately after the Civil War.

VicDaewoo

1776-1976 Washington count as being made or changed for the occasion?

ziggy29

<< <i>1776-1976 Washington count as being made or changed for the occasion? >>

Depends on whether or not you're talking about something created in direct and relatively immediate response to an event, or whether we're talking about changes due to commemoration of a past event.

shirohniichan

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<< <i>1776-1976 Washington count as being made or changed for the occasion? >>

Depends on whether or not you're talking about something created in direct and relatively immediate response to an event, or whether we're talking about changes due to commemoration of a past event. >>



How about the slabbed Bicentennial coins with signed certs?

Is the marketing hype in order to make obscene profits on common coins a historic happening?

cladking

All coins are historic virtually by definition. They not only define the age
and people who made it but are defined by it. This applies to other artifacs
as well but perhaps none so aptly as coins.

itsnotjustme

The Ike dollar also celebrated our landing on the moon.

All the olympic commems... the 1984 Olympics really brought in modern commems. I know we had the 82 Washington, but the olympics were big time.

Writersblock

<< <i>When trime were first introduced, the letter rate was 5 cents (this is a fortunate side effect of being a recovering stamp collector). >>


The Act of March 3rd 1851 which authorized the trime was the same act that reduced the postage rate to 3 cents. The Act went into effect and the rates dropped on June 30 1851, and that was probably when the trimes were first released as well.

BigDaddyz

confederate half dollar

shirohniichan

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<< <i>When trime were first introduced, the letter rate was 5 cents (this is a fortunate side effect of being a recovering stamp collector). >>


The Act of March 3rd 1851 which authorized the trime was the same act that reduced the postage rate to 3 cents. The Act went into effect and the rates dropped on June 30 1851, and that was probably when the trimes were first released as well. >>



I think the rate reduction may have been influenced by the release of the coin, and not the other way around.

The Senate bill (S 230) from 1850 that eventually led to the production of the trime begins as follows:

Committee: Committee on Finance ~ Committee on Finance
May 13, 1850

Agreeably to notice, Mr. Dickinson asked and obtained leave to bring in the following bill; which was read twice, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. A Bill Authorizing the coinage of a cent piece, composed of silver and copper; the coinage of a three cent piece; and to secure the re-coinage of the small Spanish and other foreign currencies.

Subsequent to that, a House bill (HR 351) was introduced, as follows:

Committee: Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads
January 20, 1851

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. An Act To reduce and modify the rates of postage in the United States, and to provide for the coinage of a three cent piece.

thisnamztaken

SBA Dollar = designed primarily as a politically correct, bone-throw to women because of the "historically" huge amount of feminist pressure being applied to politicians at that time.

BobaFett72

Kennedy Halves
Peace Dollars
Susan B. Horseface
every single commem