Scott's Hail to the PF70 Chiefs
2011 S RUTHERFORD B HAYES


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Set Details
Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: DOLLARS - PRESIDENTS, PROOF
Item Description: $1 2011 S RUTHERFORD HAYES EARLY RELEASES
Grade: NGC PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO EARLY RELEASES
Owner: SPHansen
 
Winning Set: Scott's Hail to the PF70 Chiefs
Date Added: 8/22/2011
Research: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

The election of 1876 was a circus, reminiscent of the battle between George Bush and Al Gore in 2000. The count from several states was in dispute, and months of recounts kept the country guessing as to who would be president. In the end, the Democrats dropped their resistance to the Republican Rutherford B Hayes, and he became President. Serving from 1877 through 1881, one of Hayes first actions was to remove the military protection from the Southern captials, allowing the Democrats to take control of the South. This tarnished Hayes name, it being suspected that he had made a backroom deal with the Democrats. He was given the nickname Ruther-Fraud Hayes, and would not serve a second term. His wife, Lucy Hayes, was known as Lemonaide Lucy because she banned liquor from the Executive Mansion. Hayes would start a campaign to reform the very corrupt civil service system, the mantle of which would be passed on to his successor. Hayes thought he was the best President since John Quincy Adams, with the execption of Abraham Lincoln.

Obverse Designer: Don Everhart
Reverse Designer: Don Everhart
Release Date: August 18, 2011
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Numismatic Highlights
- 1878 Liberty Seated Twenty Cent Piece final year
- 1878 Liberty Head Morgan Silver Dollar
- 1879 Appointed Mint Director Horatio Chapin Burchard

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