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This could be fun and a learning experience
I’ll start. 1854. The Kansas- Nebraska Act was enacted by Stephen A. Douglas. This piece of legislation probably was the single biggest impetus for sparking the Civil War
Walker Proof Digital Album
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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...just dropping in...today, on the 18th, I skyrocketed my old-school Cleveland 60• (solid beryllium copper head) 109 yards onto the green and then nailed a 20 footer for bird
...my pops followed Payne in 92’ at the Olympic Club and he was using that club so he bought one shortly afterward...it ended up in my bag 20 years ago and I wouldn’t trade her for anything!
Ivy Mike was the code name for the first test of a hydrogen bomb. It exploded on 11/1/52 on the Enewetak Atoll with an explosive force of 10.4 megatons. Putting things in perspective, that's over 500 times more powerful than the bomb that leveled Hiroshima just 7 years before. Humanity for the first time could truly end itself...
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Texas Independence 1836 - I will be having dinner on Riverwalk tonite (Las Canarias, highly recommended when you visit San Antone) and then we will pay homage to the Alamo!!
My favorite flag, actually the flag that flew over the Battle of Gonzales in 1835. From http://www.texasflagpark.com: When the Mexican authorities demanded the return of a cannon loaned to the colonists of Gonzales in 1831, the citizens denied the request. In late September of 1835, Mexico dispatched 100 dragoons to retrieve the cannon. As the town fortified against the approaching attack, Cynthia Burns and Evaline DeWitt painted a flag on white cotton cloth, depicting the cannon, the lone star of Texas and “Come and Take It,” a clear challenge to the Mexicans. This is also referred to as “The Old Cannon Flag.” The Battle of Gonzales was quick as the First Shots Fired in the Texas Revolution resonated and the Texans were victorious.
From Wikipedia: The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing the Texian defenders. Wikipedia
Dates: Feb 23, 1836 – Mar 6, 1836
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Where several were claimed to have been spent.....
At Pearson Field Herbert J. Campbell, president of the Centennial Corporation, presents the first commemorative half-dollar to Mayor N. E. Allen for transmittal to President Coolidge. Lieut. Oakley G. Kelley is seen between them with a cigarette in hand. A part of his plane flew the first 500 coins from the San Francisco mint can be seen in the left background. The one-day round trip flight took ten hours and 55 minutes, a record. Courtesy FORT VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY; Affiliated with Oregon Historical Society and Washington State Historical Society, Volume XVI 1975.
Great thread!
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Coins and history.... marvelous combination. I will come back to this thread... got to work later...Cheers, RickO
In 1842, Texas was invaded by Mexico and martial law was declared.
The Fascinating Story of the Texas Archives War of 1842
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fascinating-story-texas-archives-war-1842-180970470/
Democracy in America ........... Amazing times ahead for this great nation.
Wow! Very nice photograph.
Happy Friday Mark! Nice to have you back.
Love this idea!
Looks like we didn't take heed of this message given our trade deficit.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/United-States-1933-Franklin-D-Roosevelt-March-4-1933-Inauguration-Cover-Patriot-/254043136600
Here's an interesting map. Compare New Jersey to California and Texas!
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-horsepower-map-of-the-united-states
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
You could have at least taken a quarter from your pocket to image with your post.
New Hope Railroad #40 and 2- Lincoln cents it ran over on Dec. 27th 2017. One is a 2017P Cent.
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"Broken Sword PEACE"
Upon the passage of Pittman Act in 1918; US Mint to strike millions of silvers to began 1921 using the Morgan dollar design.
Numismatist began to lobby the Mint to memorialize the Peace follow WWI.
Although they failed to get Congress to pass a bill requiring the design they were able to persuade government official to take action. The Peace dollar was finally approved by Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellow in Dec 1921.
Peace was first struck on Dec 28th 1921, just over a million were coined bearing a 1921 date.
NY sculptor Anthony de Francisci was granted $1500 prize for the winning design using a depiction of his wife as Peace Liberty
1922 library photo of Theresa de Francisci
*wikipedia & public articles
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The public believed the announced design which included a broken sword, was illustrative of defeat, and the mint hastily acted to remove the Sword to _"appeace"_ some.
Anthony de Francisci's original design depicted the eagle on a broken sword versus his final design.
DCarr 1918 Broken Sword Peace token and 1921 Peace
Fast forward .....
The Mint should've gone with the Broken Sword design
WWI
WWII
The great depression, a very dark and bleak time for many Americans, no work to be found and bread lines so long seeming almost endless. A time that most of (if any of) us here did not experience first hand, however like myself I'm sure that many have heard stories form grandparents or great grandparents. But the coinage of the time was so much more beautiful.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
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There was a baby born in this year in a small town named Geneseo, Kansas.
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He spent his life building concrete grain elevators, many after they had exploded due to grain dust ignition.
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He built grain elevators all across the Midwest in small towns like Gothenburg, NE, Destrahan, LA, Ada, OK, and Atmore, AL.
Just one man's story. I call him Pop.
1787 (later called the Constitutional) Convention took place in Independence Hall in Philadelphia from May to September 1787. The convention was called to address several issues raised by the Articles of Confederation and draft a revision, although during the Convention it became clear that most delegates wanted to come up with a new plan of government. The Constitution of the United States was the result.
Although much more could be written about it by smarter people than me on these boards, the numismatic connection is that under the Articles both the states and the federal government could issue money. There were various problems with this, so that under the Constitution the framers decided that only the Congress could coin money and regulate its value, and the states were specifically denied the right to coin money.
Imagine how it would have looked with every state coining their own money? How about New York daalders, Massachusetts shillings, Florida Reales and Escudos, Lousiana Ecus, etc?
(Although in some ways maybe it would have looked like the State Quarter program?!)
My current "Box of 20"
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the California Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000 (compared with the pre-1848 figure of less than 1,000). A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush, which peaked in 1852.
Charles III Album
Charles III Portrait Set
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Charles IV Portrait Set
1900 turn of the century. Shot of NYC
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
First glass-plate photograph credited to Sir John Herschel who is also credited with the term photography. Still exists.
Guess the year. -)
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
Syracuse (modern day Sicily) decadrachm, 400 BC. There were no photos at the time - this was the media (and fixed stuff like statues, frescoes, etc.).
Maria Callas, 1958. Timeless art, originating from Greece (born in NYC, though!).
(I was trying to think of a modern Greek goddess, without it being Jennifer Anniston).
Fountain of Arethusa, modern times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_Arethusa
Well this is really a medal not a coin but....
I will copy and paste from a post I made on the COINZIP forum cause it is just easier to do this
Here is a 19th century restrike of a 1590 Pope Sixtus V medal. It is dated 1590 (AN VI) and is a really nice high relief piece.
The obverse shows Pope Sixtus V in high relief while the reverse shows a beautiful rendition of The two horses of the Quirinal, with the fountain between. Let me give a real quick explanation.
The Quirinale hill used to be called Montecavallo (Horse Hill) due to the presence of the large marble statues of the Dioscuri twins and their horses. The twins are the great horseman Castor and the formidable boxer Pollux, sons of Leda and Zeus and brothers of Helen of Troy.
Here is what the scene looked like back in 1590.
Then..let me quote this:
"Domenico Fontana had the statutes restored and dragged to the center of the piazza; he then turned them to the right and placed his fountain right below them. In 1782, Pope Pio VI Braschi decided to refurbish the piazza. The statues were separated, turned around one more time to form a 90 degree angle. One of the two obelisks that belonged to Emperor Cesare Augusto's mausoleum was erected between the statues. The old fountain was removed and was never seen again."
Leading to a picture of the statue in the Plaza today...
ParadiseFound, those are very iconic images. A good friend of mine is a grand-daughter of one of the soldiers in the Iwo Jima flag picture! Each of those soldiers were humble gentlemen, risking their lives for our freedom!!
The theatre of the "Pacific Battle" ....... my great grandparents talked about often
*interesting medal (not mine)
A part of his plane flew the first 500 coins from the San Francisco mint can be seen in the left background.
What part of his plane flew the coins?
I would think it would take ALL of the plane to fly?
Probably true based on the weight:
The San Francisco Mint struck 50,000 Vancouver’s, plus 28 assay coins on August 1, 1925. On the same day, 1,378 pounds of these coins were shipped by air to Vancouver by Lt. Oakley G. Kelly, U.S.A, flight commander of the Vancouver Pearson Field Barracks.
Women vote for the first time.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
Battle Of Antietam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam
Moon landing. Coin photo from PCGS coin facts
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
My sister-in-law's grandmother was of age when women were first allowed to vote, and cast her votes that first year. She passed away at the age of 106, having voted in EVERY election since that historic first vote!
Great thread!
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"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
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Carry on my wayward son
On June 26, Congress amends the Fair Labor Standards Act, further limiting the workweek to 40 hours. A few months later, on October 24, the law goes into effect.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
This is all great stuff!!
The one thing about being a coin collector you get to be a historian too!!
Love it!!
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Painting as we know it, of Nipper listening to his masters voice is completed. Painted first with a cylinder phonograph, the painting was modified to a disc player.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
Government orders citizens to turn in gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
Jesse James is killed
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......