Do you know of any former US Presidents that collected coins???
Newcomp103
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I have watched many documentaries and have not heard mention of any having the hobby...are you aware of any?
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very good question! did you google it?
ford eh?
Most of the recent Presidents, such as Clinton, have collected some big coin since leaving office.
<< <i>John Quincy Adams collected coins.
Most of the recent Presidents, such as Clinton, have collected some big coin since leaving office. >>
Sure would have been easier doing a US Type set when JQ Adams was in office.....
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from little school kids and the poor, to pay for their "Defense Fund".
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Treasury Secretary Morgenthau collected commemorative half dollars and encouraged his children to collect coins.
John Tyler visited the US Mint on June 10, 1843. After seeing the returned 1834/5 presentation set in the Mint Collection, he subsequently ordered two complete sets of coins (including gold) made that year.
He kept one of them (stolen last year at the FUN show) and gave the other to his children's governess, Octavia McMurray. Her set was later auctioned by Ed Frossard in 1880; the buyer being Richard Winsor.
Coiner Franklin Peale even made a special medal to commemorate this event.
President James Polk visited the US Mint as well in 1847, but it is not recorded that he bought or ordered anything.
Many of Jefferson's medals remain at Monticello, including a couple that are on display.
Washington owned a small cabinet of medals, including the gold Washington Before Boston awarded him by Congress and the set of silver Comitia Americanas that Jefferson brought him from France. Martha was fond of showing his medals to visitors to Mount Vernon, including a Polish nobleman who visited in the 1790s and wrote of seeing his gold medal "of 100 ducat size," i.e. the Washington Before Boston.
Madison was given a set of pewter cliche Comitia Americana medals by Jefferson.
Andrew Jackson is said to have owned a small number of coins, including a Gobrecht dollar.
Few of these guys can be called collectors, though, as most simply had some souvenirs from their time in office and gifts from friends. To my knowledge, only Jefferson and JQA went out of their way to acquire coins and medals as collectors. Teddy R's knowledge and appreciation of coins ranked high (then again, he was an award-winning historian), and RWB noted his "cabinet of curiosities" that went along with his wide-ranging intellectual curiosity.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
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<< <i>Part of President Eisenhower's coin collection was on display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History. >>
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Yep--Ike is said to have picked up a number of copper
pieces -- to his credit pretty cheap, given the circumstances-- while in Great Britian in WWII.
The only coins shown currently (outside the "Castle" -NGC display) are a few gold
pieces at Air and Space where they show stuff during Nat. History Building remodeling.
<< <i>John Quincy Adams collected coins. >>
Thats a collection I'd like to have now.
You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.
coins to the American Numismatic Collection, Washington, DC.