Landmarks on coins: post your coin... and a picture of the actual landmark it portrays!

lordmarcovan

BillJones' thread about the Jamestown Church bell tower made me think of this.

I've been to Stone Mountain here in Georgia, but don't have any personal pictures of it.

Somebody posted some Monticello pictures a while back.

Mount Rushmore... the Lincoln Memorial... the Liberty Bell... you get the idea. There are all sorts of things around the country that have been on coins.

Got pictures of a coin-featured landmark in your area?

I'm sure it could make an interesting thread, with the location pictures shown alongside a coin portraying the same thing.

keets

HighRelief

BillJones

This image of Jefferson was hanging in an upstairs hall at Monticello, but the guide did not mention it, and you could not take pictures. If you do go to Monticello, there are two tours. There is the general downstairs tour that is available to everyone and a behind the scenes tour that most be reserved in advance. You could get that tour that tour on the day you arrive, but to be sure you do get on one, you need to make arrangements in advance.

TwoSides2aCoin

Mount Rushmore is the only one I can think of, however I can see that Homestead Home on the new National Park Quarter from Beatrice, Nebraska in my head. Have driven past it a hundreds times or more in the past.

DAM

Edited to add... Don't know if this counts as a landmark, but it's the best I've got. hahaha

I've got a cottage on Echo Lake in Ontario. On the lake there's a small island that Robert-Ralph Carmichael used for the reverse of the Canadian dollar (Loonie).

When Mr. Carmichael designed the reverse, the cottage (seen in my picture) had not yet been built.

BillJones

Artist William Marks Simpson moved the tree, which is labeled as "the last living witness to the battle," from the right to the left.

messydesk

Now that I think of it, I do, but I'm not sure how many. Lincoln memorial, Lincoln birthplace, Liberty Bell (Sesqui commem, Franklin 50c), Balboa Park in San Diego (San Diego commem), Pioneer memorial (Elgin commem), Monticello, Mount Vernon (1982 Washington commem), Minuteman statue (Lexington/Concord commem) come to mind, but probably not precisely matching the view on the coin. Probably have some that match the state quarters and ATB quarters, too. I wonder how many U.S. coins could have their designs photographed in the real world today.

lordmarcovan

Great stuff! Keep 'em coming!

Echo Lake and the Loonie dollar works for me, though it would've been even more perfect if there had been a loon paddling by in the photo! What a beautiful place!

I think Keets' Monticello pix were the ones I remembered.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Probably have some that match the state quarters and ATB quarters, too. I wonder how many U.S. coins could have their designs photographed in the real world today. >>

Not the NH state quarter, from what I've heard.

oih82w8

Mount Rushmore is the only place that I have been that is on a coin...that I can think of.

asheland

Cool thread!

BillJones

Opposite angle but ...

AUandAG

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Too bad the coin has the wrong date on it (Feb 11, 1870)

Actual date was Feb 3rd.

bob

mrdq

great thread, thanks for sharing

BillJones

Old Swedes Church, Wilmington, Delaware. It appears on the Delaware Commemorative Half Dollar. A tree and a big bush has grown up in front of the profile of the building since them.

johnny9434

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Artist William Marks Simpson moved the tree, which is labeled as "the last living witness to the battle," from the right to the left.

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way cool and moving. just saying is all

lordmarcovan

OK, so forget about strictly personal snapshots of the landmarks. Google the site photo(s) associated with your coin if you need to.

With that, I can post one of mine.



Monument to the Battle of the Nations

SmEagle1795

My favorite coin landmark which still stands is none other than the Colosseum in Rome.



This coin was minted by Titus to commemorate the completion of the Colosseum and was handed out by him to the first ever attendees at the first games held there. It is one of six available to private collectors, and about a dozen are impounded permanently in museum collections. This is the only surviving contemporary depiction of the Colosseum in any medium as it stood when first built. The obverse die continued to be used after the death of Titus but the legends were changed - the later coins are more common than this original type but don't carry the historic weight I was looking for.

Shown on the left is the huge, conical fountain named the Meta Sudans and on the right, the famous Baths of Titus. You can see tiers of spectators within and a central arch which represents the Imperial Box, all shown from a bird's-eye view, with small statues in each of the outer-facing arches. The reverse is of Titus on a curule chair, sitting on top of the globe, bringing peace with an olive branch by being victorious over their enemies (shown as captured arms). The Colosseum side is rendered in quite high relief. My pictures aren't perfect but it is simply stunning how the engraver was able to depict the massive structure.

I have a longer post about the historical information on my website: Inaugural Games at the Colosseum

TopographicOceans

Great thread and pictures.
Somebody went on vacation awhile ago and posted a lot of pictures with images on bills. Maybe they'll chime in too.

Bullsitter

lordmarcovan

Man, Bullsitter, that picture is such a close match that I'd swear they engraved the coin based on the photo! Even the shape of the lava plumes going in the air... ?

lordmarcovan

Yeah, I know. That's a little bit of a stretch. The USS Monitor sank in December of 1862, so the "Our Little Monitor" on the 1863 Civil War token is more of a generic depiction of that class of ship rather than the original Monitor itself.

OK, and while we're at it and I'm stretching a little bit...



(Mayflower II replica)

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Great thread and pictures.
Somebody went on vacation awhile ago and posted a lot of pictures with images on bills. Maybe they'll chime in too. >>

Good idea. I posted an invitation link on the currency forum.

Tookybandit

Cool thread!!

ricko

Great thread with great pictures. I never took many (hardly any) pictures in all my travels... not sure why. Cheers, RickO

element159

Colorado state quarter.


View of Longs Peak (14000 peak, the highest in Rocky Mountain National Park) from Bear Lake.

lordmarcovan

Just rediscovered this thread while searching for something else, so I thought I'd bring it back up into the sunlight for a little while.

Christos

lordmarcovan

Christos- neat! Where is that?

Twobitcollector

Twobitcollector

BillJones

The Jamestown Memorial Church from the $5 commemorative coin.

ricko

Great picture/coin Christos.... Cheers, RickO

TopographicOceans

Twobitcollector

TopographicOceans

coinsarefun

Red Lion Inn. It is still open. Although it was closed for sometime to do many repairs.






This is a link to The Red Lion Inn website










Google image of street












Another street scene from Google












Google Map.....















The next 2 pictures are from Red Lion Inn website













This is inside the courtyard....as you can see on the token reverse shows a gate to enter and in the pictures. This is what is inside.

lordmarcovan

Love it.



Keep 'em comin', y'all.



I love those historical "then and now" photos, too. This is kind of like that.

asheland

Cool thread!

WillieBoyd2

Egyptian Magic Coin







Egyptian Pyramids (Photo from 1987 visit)







Egyptian Sphinx (Photo from 1987 visit)

JRocco

Then



Now

TopographicOceans

In the interest of full disclosure, I really wasn't on the moon.