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150th anniversary of the Gettyburg Address
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Post a coin or token with Lincoln or a Gettysburgh commemorative.
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And from the same year as the Address.
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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
Those are very cool.
And a medal with a younger Lincoln
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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.
<< <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.
See here
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.
Lance.
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!