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Lincoln was Shot 150 Years Ago Today!
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He was shot on April 14, 1865 but declared dead on the morning of April 15, 1865.
Post something that might commemorate him, be about/related to him in some way,
something Civil War Related maybe....etc.
As a side note, this is also the 155Th Anniversary of the Pony Express...some of us
believe that we still do business with them.
Here is a coin I used to own.
Here is one I still have raw that was pulled from circulation in the early 1980s from my Father's change.
Post something that might commemorate him, be about/related to him in some way,
something Civil War Related maybe....etc.
As a side note, this is also the 155Th Anniversary of the Pony Express...some of us
believe that we still do business with them.
Here is a coin I used to own.
Here is one I still have raw that was pulled from circulation in the early 1980s from my Father's change.
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Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
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<< <i>My circ Lincoln Commem:
i always liked the circulated ones better for some reason. they look neat
Link for the story below:
AROUND 8:30 P.M., the Lincoln party of four made its way up the staircase from the foyer of Ford’s Theatre to the dress circle. The audience was already engrossed in the evening’s performance of the comedy Our American Cousin, but with the gaslights in all likelihood burning bright (dimming the house became customary in American theaters only a generation later) most people in the orchestra seats would have had no trouble catching the Lincolns’ entrance. Once they appeared, spectators rose to their feet in applause, actors on stage joined in the welcome, and the orchestra launched into “Hail to the Chief.” Seated in his wicker chair in the dress circle, Charles Leale, a twenty-three-year-old army surgeon, noted the presidential couple smiling and bowing as they proceeded to their stage-left box.
When the play resumed, Lincoln’s good spirits persisted, for the actors were freely adding humorous lines, for his benefit, to an already funny play. To one character’s expressed desire to “escape the draft” of cool air, another answered that she needn’t worry: the “draft has just been abolished,” as the morning papers on April 14 had announced (referring to the military draft). Treasury Department employee John Deering got a straight-on view of the presidential party from his stage-right seat in the dress circle, and he noticed the “broad smile on Uncle Abraham’s face.” Actors and audience members were all keeping up the weeklong spirit of levity, and Lincoln was enjoying the party.
Shortly after 10:15 p.m., during the second scene of the third act of Our American Cousin, Deering heard what sounded like a gunshot. Later he claimed that upon hearing the report of the weapon, he sensed a gunman might have attacked the president. If so, he outclassed the rest of the audience in quick mental work. Hardly anyone realized initially that Lincoln might have been assaulted, and many did not register the sharp sound as gunfire. Virtually everyone in 1865 thought about assassination in the abstract, but few were prepared for it as a real prospect. Lincoln had attended Ford’s and Grover’s Theatres on many occasions with no apparent risk, and no security detail.
Grudgingly, after several moments of confusion, the audience began accepting the idea of an assassination unfolding in their midst. Yet, after Booth had launched the lead ball from his derringer muzzle-loader into the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head, rendering him instantly and per- manently unconscious; and after Booth had slashed the Lincolns’ guest Major Rathbone in the upper arm with a long blade, causing blood to spurt all over the box as Rathbone kept trying to subdue the assailant; and after Mary had let out an anguished scream; and after Booth had vaulted over the balustrade of the box, falling ten or twelve feet to the stage below and shouting “sic semper tyrannis”—many in the audience still could not take in what had happened. Witnessing Booth’s awkward landing on the boards, Edwin Bates, a New England businessman sit- ting in the front row of the orchestra underneath the presidential box, assumed at first that Booth had crashed onto the stage because someone had shot at him.
<< <i>My circ Lincoln Commem:
Honestly that coin has more appeal than a lot of AU-BU coins out there. The toning is definitely original.
<< <i>Honestly that coin has more appeal than a lot of AU-BU coins out there. The toning is definitely original. >>
Thanks for the great comments. I do love this coin. It's an eBay purchase from a few years ago and now resides in my uncompleted 7070 album.
Borne by Loving Hands, by Carl Bersch, was painted in 1865. It depicts Abraham Lincoln–who has been shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth–being moved from Ford’s Theater to the Petersen’s boarding house across the street.
Carl Bersch (1834-1914) was a commercial artist who lived in a boarding house on 10th St. at the time of the Lincoln Assassination and witnessed the unconscious and mortally wounded President Lincoln being carried into the Peterson Boarding House across the street from the theater. He painted this from memory soon after.
This picture was deemed to morbid to be hung in a government museum. In the 1970s, the painting was moved to hang in Ford’s Theater. But, after some time, it was again deemed to morbid to be shown, and was moved–possibly forever–to a storage room.
The assassination error.
<< <i>I was going to post this tomorrow, but I see we already have 3 threads on the tropic
Borne by Loving Hands, by Carl Bersch, was painted in 1865. It depicts Abraham Lincoln–who has been shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth–being moved from Ford’s Theater to the Petersen’s boarding house across the street.
Carl Bersch (1834-1914) was a commercial artist who lived in a boarding house on 10th St. at the time of the Lincoln Assassination and witnessed the unconscious and mortally wounded President Lincoln being carried into the Peterson Boarding House across the street from the theater. He painted this from memory soon after.
This picture was deemed to morbid to be hung in a government museum. In the 1970s, the painting was moved to hang in Ford’s Theater. But, after some time, it was again deemed to morbid to be shown, and was moved–possibly forever–to a storage room.
Cool!
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
The late die state of this obverse is listed as a separate Fuld variety. I'll post the other one if there is interest.
This variety is always flatly struck
Many of these have been ruined with solder on the reverse. It is my theory that a large number of these tokens were mounted to be worn as morning pins. This brass example shows traces of silvering.
A Lincoln - Johnson token ... There are two minor varieties of this obverse. I'll post the other one if people are interested.
This is not listed as a Civil War token although it looks like one becasue it is dated 1860. It is a little smaller than a cent. The claim is that there about 10 of these known.
I have a lot more, but my fingers are getting tired.
<< <i>Some Lincoln Civil War tokens ...
This is not listed as a Civil War token although it looks like one becasue it is dated 1860. It is a little smaller than a cent. The claim is that there about 10 of these known.
I have a lot more, but my fingers are getting tired.
Get some caffeine and post away. What is the metal for the last one? Brass/Gold/Unknown?
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
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Neat, what coin was used? Reverse?
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
<< <i>I was going to post this tomorrow, but I see we already have 3 threads on the tropic
Borne by Loving Hands, by Carl Bersch, was painted in 1865. It depicts Abraham Lincoln–who has been shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth–being moved from Ford’s Theater to the Petersen’s boarding house across the street.
Carl Bersch (1834-1914) was a commercial artist who lived in a boarding house on 10th St. at the time of the Lincoln Assassination and witnessed the unconscious and mortally wounded President Lincoln being carried into the Peterson Boarding House across the street from the theater. He painted this from memory soon after.
This picture was deemed to morbid to be hung in a government museum. In the 1970s, the painting was moved to hang in Ford’s Theater. But, after some time, it was again deemed to morbid to be shown, and was moved–possibly forever–to a storage room.
Morbid or not it was a depiction(albeit by one person) of the aftermath of the event that reflects the chaos of that time. Never saw this pix before. Thanks for the post. Curious to learn that there was no security detail on watch with Lincoln considering the times.
<< <i>Curious to learn that there was no security detail on watch with Lincoln considering the times. >>
There was! The idiot went down stairs for a drink at the bar.
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
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<< <i>Some Lincoln Civil War tokens ...
This is not listed as a Civil War token although it looks like one becasue it is dated 1860. It is a little smaller than a cent. The claim is that there about 10 of these known.
I have a lot more, but my fingers are getting tired.
Get some caffeine and post away. What is the metal for the last one? Brass/Gold/Unknown? >>
This is a bright brass token.