A wandering Pilgrim
pursuitofliberty
Posts: 7,432 ✭✭✭✭✭
Chasing Miss Liberty isn't my only passion. Occasionally I get the itch for something else, esoteric or otherwise. Call it the wandering eye ... or maybe it's wanderlust.
In fact, some who really know me at times have called me a wanderer. And sometimes when I go places I don't know, just so I can explore, I feel like a Pilgrim.
Yeah. A Pilgrim. That's it.
Picked this up ?? two months ago. Still working on photos skills again, and this was a good challenge before it goes to the box.
Show yours, or any coin that has made you wander. 
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
7
Comments
And here I thought you were going to post a picture of John Wayne...
U.S. Type Set
MS 67.
Tougher 1921 date:
https://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/42396/35572498/Pilg_Holder.jpg
https://images.pcgs.com/TrueView/35572498_Medium.jpg
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
Funny you should mention a Pilgrim.
I got into collecting about a decade ago after a playing around a bit with the hobby as a youngster. For some reason I have a dislike for most anything "made for collectors." I don't collect proof coins and always looked at commemorative coins as a waste of time.
So I have this relative on my mom's side that is a reasonably famous artist. He did a bunch of stuff around Boston including the Paul Revere statue on the Freedom Trail. I had no idea he did any coins. Then I found out he did precisely one...... the Pilgrim. Well, at that point I wandered off...... and had to buy one.
I was able to find a nice 1920 years ago from Mark Feld, then a 1921, then upgraded, then upgraded again, and then branched out into a few other commems....... you can see where this is going.
Now, I have finished my "Box of 20 favorite Commems" and the darn set just keeps expanding. It was a pretty severe wander.
Here's the designer of the Pilgrim, my 1st cousin, 4 times removed Cyrus Dallin in his studio outside of Boston.
Laughed and smiled at the wandering tale ... really think the history of your connection with the designer is some amazing and pretty cool stuff (great coincidence, if there is such a thing) ... and love ... LOVE ... your coin.
Years ago I was given a Pilgrim by my paternal grandmother, who had descended through the Americas at east back to 1732. It was a worn and gray example (an EF/AU), but it was special to me because she had heard I had this affliction, and wanted me to have it. And although she said she was not entirely sure how it came into her possession (she couldn't remember - a young suitor other than my grandfather she wondered), she remembered she found it in a drawer a few years later and then had decided to keep it through the Depression. It ended up in her Jewelry box. I tend to believe it might have been another suitor she was found of, but didn't want to divulge too much.
Unfortunately I don't have it anymore due to some nefarious beings. However, when I saw this one, it seemed to have a similar color and it spoke to me, for multiple different reasons (although this one is not an EF/AU, so it really isn't the same). I have a couple other Commemorative's too, although I have never been much of a Commem' man, per se.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
I wonder what book he is clutching?
Commems and Early Type
My guess would be a bible.
huh .....
I do not have a Pilgrim coin, however, my wanderings have been extensive - fourteen countries and all fifty states. And, I am not done yet...
Cheers, RickO
A road atlas?
Sad to say, there will be no Pilgrim silver coin this year for the 400th anniversary, unless @dcarr steps in.
Hey Pilgrim, you are in my top five classic commem faves for design. I have liked these since I was an ankle biter during the Bicentennial.
If you look at the size of the book and it's bindings, it looks like a Captain's Log, which probably would also have included maps and information about where he was going, with the hard written updates he had observed, and an account of the journey. That was common then, and for some of us, in a somewhat different fashion, still common today.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Alas, it is a bible:
Approved by Congress on May 12, 1920 and issued to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims.
The only difference between the 1920 year and the 1921 year is the date added to the obverse on the 1921 coin.
Design:
Obverse: Half-length portrait of Governor Bradford to left, wearing conical hat, and carrying Bible under left arm; in filed back of head, in small letters: IN GOD / WE TRUST Above, around border, in larger letters: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Below, around lower border: PILGRIM HALF DOLLAR Under elbow, a small incused D for Dallin.
Reverse: The Mayflower sailing to left; around upper border: PILGRIM TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION, and at lower left border: 1620 - 1920.
Alas, it is a bible:
Approved by Congress on May 12, 1920 and issued to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims.
The only difference between the 1920 year and the 1921 year is the date added to the obverse on the 1921 coin.
Design:
Obverse: Half-length portrait of Governor Bradford to left, wearing conical hat, and carrying Bible under left arm; in filed back of head, in small letters: IN GOD / WE TRUST Above, around border, in larger letters: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Below, around lower border: PILGRIM HALF DOLLAR Under elbow, a small incused D for Dallin.
Reverse: The Mayflower sailing to left; around upper border: PILGRIM TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION, and at lower left border: 1620 - 1920.
oops