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1. The USS Constitution opens today

   

   

   Discussion by 1630Boston · May 21, 2021 6:12AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   The USS Constitution opens today - for the first time since the pandemic. . post your **old **coins to celebrate. . https://youtu.be/QLKnZAgdmi8 . . post your **old **coins to celebrate.

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   Comment by WAYNEAS · May 21, 2021 8:25AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   I was in the drydock just opposite OLD IRONSIDES in the early 70's. :) They were renovating the destroyer that I was on. The USS FISKE DD-842. I was bivouacked in the barracks along with the sailors who manned the Constitution. Spent many hours touring her. Wayne

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   Comment by dpoole · May 21, 2021 12:39PM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   We lived in Boston for a year in 1956, and I got to see her then. There was a book in the Landmark series about Old Ironsides, that I devoured. A modern commem honoring the USS Constitution would have been a thing of beauty, don't you agree?

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   Comment by BryceM · May 24, 2021 4:58PM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   As promised, here's the thing a nice patient gave me. It's "very rare" with 6000 struck by the USS Constitution Museum. In-hand, the color appears to be a bit more even, but the prooflike fields are clearly hairlined. 1.52" diameter and 20g, made from "copper sheathing removed from the hull … during restoration."

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   Comment by Nysoto · May 23, 2021 10:37AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   Here is a recent purchase of a Moritz Furst engraving of a US Mint medal in honor of Captain William Bainbridge and the USS Constitution victory over HMS Java off the coast of Brazil in December, 1812. The Java's masts were shot off and rendered incapacitated, 9 Americans were killed and 57 British. Captain Bainbridge was…

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   Comment by ElKevvo · May 24, 2021 5:16AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   Good post...We have taken our 2 kids up to Boston a couple of times and have toured the Constitution each visit. And they liked it! That says a lot in my book for the quality of the visit :) K

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   Comment by Omegaraptor · May 23, 2021 5:33PM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   I think this variety was early in the emission sequence for 1797, so this one might have actually been struck in 1797, the year the Constitution was launched.

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   Comment by tincup · May 23, 2021 11:08AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   I was able to pay a visit also. An awesome experience, though I did not have enough time allotted to also give appropriate time to the museum. You can sure feel the history when you are near that ship!

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   Comment by coinbuf · May 21, 2021 11:51AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   I have not been to Beantown or toured old Ironsides but would enjoy it I'm sure.