This is just a beautifully designed coin...
dizzyfoxx
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I prefer a little toning
, but this coin even in a nice lustrous white is so pretty because it has such an eye-appealing design. Would you say even to non-commem collectors, that this is one of the more popular commem issues?
Very cool coin design!!!
, but this coin even in a nice lustrous white is so pretty because it has such an eye-appealing design. Would you say even to non-commem collectors, that this is one of the more popular commem issues?Very cool coin design!!!
...There's always time for coin collecting. 
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It underlines that the Civil War was a war of "brother against brother."
Clankeye
<< <i>Part of the obverse design that is very interesting, is that the two soldiers, representing the North and the South, have almost identical faces. Different hats, different facial hair.
It underlines that the Civil War was a war of "brother against brother."
Clankeye >>
In the Chickamauga Battlefield, there are hundreds of markers that tell the story of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. Yet there is one particular marker that reminds us of one of the darkest periods in American history. It is a monument that marks the spot where Confederate General Benjamin H. Helm was mortally wounded. The marker reads:
Benjamin H. Helm
Brig. Gen. C.S.A.
Breckinridge’s Division
Mortally wounded here about
10:00 A.M. Sept.20th, 1863
The significance of that one marker among hundreds, is that Confederate General Helm was the brother-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln. It reminds of a time in our history when a country was divided. State fought against state; family against family; brother against brother, and friend against friend. One of the great tragedies of the Civil War was the division it created between families. But an even greater tragedy is the division you often find among the family God. It is not unusual to hear of brother fighting against brother, sister against sister, a part of the family fighting against another part of the family.
We read in Psalm 133:1, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" Unity is good but division is grievous. Unity is pleasant but division is painful. How sad it is when instead of majoring in communion, many are muddled in contention. Instead of bearing one another’s burdens we are often burdened with one another’s battles.
We are often like two porcupines that were huddled together to keep warm but their quills poked each and kept them apart. They needed each other, but they kept needling each other.
During the war, we find brother against brother. We have scenes filled with hatred and contempt. One brother despises another brother and will be satisfied with nothing less than the destruction and death of that brother.
The Pinnacle linked coin does not do it for me, either too much toning, or too little. Looks ordinary for MS66.
TorinoCobra71
Benjamin H. Helm
Brig. Gen. C.S.A.
Breckinridge’s Division
Mortally wounded here about
10:00 A.M. Sept.20th, 1863>>
It was the dumbest war we ever fought, Americans killing Americans..........
TorinoCobra71
edited: to add an image
although not a knock-out, I kinda like this one. But then again, it's mine so I might be somewhat biased.
Differences of a religious, political, racial or philisophical nature that were
not resolvable by peaceful means. In the case of America, the Founding Fathers could
not resolve the issue of slavery without destroying the the Nation at its birth. The various
comprimises such as the Missouri comprimise merely delayed the eventual
resolve by force of arms. It was not so much the slavery issue as the question of strong States Rights
versus a strong Federal Government. Certainly the nascent trade unions and working class in the North were
against slavery as it would hold down wages for free working people.
A terrible War that was in the making for 85 years. A war that resolved for all time that we were to have a
stong Federal form of Government and we were to be a united Nation , not half slave and half free. The truly
unfortunate fact is that the South was moving to the conclusion that slavery was wrong as well as uneconomical.
In time, that issue would probably worked itself out, but the great issue of strong central authority vrs a strong States
autonomy could only be resolved thu war.
Camelot
<< <i>The Gettysburg is a real All-American commem. >>
This is one reason commems interest me. And it gets to the heart of my particular interest/obsession with the Carver/Washington commems.
To think of the trajectory of our county--from the Civil War times to the 1940's-50 when the Carvers and Bookers first appeared. We had fought a bloody war over slavery, and the division of race in our country was still remarkable.
When the Carver commem came out--there hadn't been a Rosa Parks yet. There really wasn't a civil rights movement like that would later rise up in the late 50's early 60's.
That's one reason the coins--that they exist at all and in the time they did--really fascinate me. And I consider them to be "All- American commems." Even if they are supposedly honoring two men in particular, rather than an event or region as a whole.
Clankeye