150th anniversary of the Gettyburg Address

EagleEye

Post a coin or token with Lincoln or a Gettysburgh commemorative.

SaorAlba

Not a coin, but Lincoln - on a $10 bill issued during his lifetime:



And from the same year as the Address.

CoinZip

kimber45ACP

jmj3esq

BillJones

Where to start?

Here is a ferrotype, not a coin, but is from the 1864 Campaign.



Here is a rare Lincoln / merchant's token from the 1860 campaign. It is reported that only ten of these were struck. It's a little smaller than a dime.



And here is a rare Lincoln / Union League piece from the 1864 campaign and the die that was used to struck the obverse.



Lincoln die

kimber45ACP

Wow, Bill.
Those are very cool.

ricko

Very impressive Bill.... and that $10 note is amazing.... Cheers, RickO

AnkurJ

My favorite...



And a medal with a younger Lincoln

BillJones

Here is an example of the Lincoln medal that appears on the flyleaf of R.W. Julian's Medals of the United States Mint, The First Century 1792 - 1892. Julian describes it as "Representative of the beautiful medallic art produced by the Mint during its first century." That is ironic given the fact that Lincoln considered himself to be "ugly."




And here the medal by Victor D. Brenner that inspired the Lincoln cent.




The symbolism on the reverse of this piece is especially poignant. It depicts a lone eagle on a cliff with a turbulent sea below, which was the position Lincoln often faced during his presidency, with a rising sun behind the clouds well off in the distance.

GeorgeKellogg

It must have been a chilly day 150 years ago - caused Abe's teeth to chatter! The images are courtesy of PCGS CoinFacts.

erickso1

shylock

GeorgeKellogg

It's interesting to note that President Kennedy was assassinated three days after the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address, given by Abraham Lincoln, the first president to die from an assassin's bullet. I'm sure that JFK's death caused the 100th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address to be quickly forgotten.

BillJones

<< <i>It's interesting to note that President Kennedy was assassinated three days after the Centennial of the Gettysburg Address, given by Abraham Lincoln, the first president to die from an assassin's bullet. I'm sure that JFK's death caused the 100th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address to be quickly forgotten. >>



As a 14 year old back then I don't recall that anyone made anything about the 100th anniversary of the speach. Of couse back then I thought that he gave a couple days after the battle.

I am surprised that no one has posted this piece which features lines from the speech, the 2009 Lincoln commemorative dollar.

SmEagle1795

Not a coin but certainly relevant, Google has Lincoln's handwritten notes online in a virtual exhibit.

See here

EagleEye

Article about the 100th anniversary,

BillJones

Here is a bit of trivia concerning the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was not the main speaker for the day. That honor went to Edward Everett from Massachusetts who was a former Congressman, ambassador, president of Harvard, 1860 vice presidential running mate with John Bell and one of the most respected speakers of his day. In those days being long-winded was considered to be an element of a great speech and Everett spoke for two hours.

When it was Lincoln's turn the photographers had just set up their equipment when Lincoln finished his speech in a little over two minutes to smattering of applause. Reportedly Lincoln said, "That speech didn't scow (sp)" which in farmer's terms met that it didn't turn up the soil (appeal to the audience) very well.

Everett, however, wrote note to Lincoln which said in essence, "What you covered today the issues today in two minutes better than I covered them in two hours." Here is a ferrotype photo of Everett with his running mate John Bell from the 1860 presidential campaign.

lkeigwin

Love the trivia, Bill. I didn't know that.
Lance.

78saen

MICHAELDIXON

This is the medal for the Battlefield Coin Show™ September 20-21, 2014 in Gettysburg. We used Frank Vittor's portraits of a Union and Confederate Veteran from the Battle of Gettysburg commemorative on the obverse and the crossed flags from the time of the civil war on the reverse. The Union flag has 35 stars and includes the star for West Virginia. These arrived today, November 19, 2013, what a coincidence!