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James Madison |
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United States |
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MODERN COMMEMORATIVES |
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S$1 1993 S JAMES MADISON |
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NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO |
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United States |
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S$1 1987 S Constitution Bicentennial |
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NGC PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO |
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United States |
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50C 2022 S Purple Heart First Releases |
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PCGS PF 70 UC |
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Geo. Washington commemorative |
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United States |
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50C 1982 S GEORGE WASHINGTON |
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NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO |
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United States |
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MODERN COMMEMORATIVES |
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50C 1993 S JAMES MADISON |
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PCGS PF 70 UC |
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United States |
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MODERN COMMEMORATIVES |
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50C 2022 D Purple Heart First Releases |
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NGC MS 70 |
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United States |
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SILVER COMMEMORATIVES |
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50C 1953 S WASHINGTON-CARVER |
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PCGS MS 66 |
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Owner Comments
Because of the scientific work of George Washington Carver into specifically peanuts, Suffolk, Virginia is known as the Peanut Capital of the World
https://www.virginia.org/blog/post/virginia-peanuts-history/
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BTW |
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United States |
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SILVER COMMEMORATIVES |
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50C 1951 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON |
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NGC MS 64 |
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Owner Comments
In 1901, Washington released his autobiography "Up From Slavery". In it, he recounts how he became free.
"The most distinct thing that I now recall in connection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rather long paper---the Emancipation Proclamation, I think. After the reading we were told that we were all free, and could go when and where we pleased. My mother, who was standing by my side, leaned over and kissed her children, while tears of joy ran down her cheeks. She explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying, but fearing that she would never live to see. (See https://archive.org/details/upfromslaveryan08washgoog/page/n52/mode/2up Pages 20-21)
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United States |
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50C 1950 S BOOKER T. WASHINGTON |
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NGC MS 66 |
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Owner Comments
Washington worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in West Virginia for several years to earn money. He made his way east to Hampton Institute now Hampton University in Hampton, VA, which was established to educate freedmen and their descendants, where he also worked to pay for his studies (See https://virginiahistory.org/learn/civil-rights-movement-virginia/hampton-institute-and-booker-t-washington)
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United States |
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50C 1946 S BOOKER T. WASHINGTON |
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NGC MS 66 |
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Owner Comments
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in April 1856 on the 207-acre farm of James Burroughs in Franklin County, Virginia. (See https://www.nps.gov/bowa/index.htm)
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Norfolk |
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United States |
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SILVER COMMEMORATIVES |
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50C 1936 NORFOLK |
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NGC MS 67 |
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Owner Comments
This coin though dated in 1936 was minted in 1937. Virginia is unique in that its cities function independently from the counties that surround them and have been since 1871. Virginia has 38 independent cities and 95 counties.
Norfolk itself has been part of a shire, part of a county, a town, a borough and a city. (See https://www.historicforrest.com/norfolkHistoricalSociety/highlights/04.html)
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United States |
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50C 1936 LYNCHBURG |
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PCGS MS 66 |
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Owner Comments
Carter Glass depicted on the coin is one of a few living people to be depicted on a coin minted by the federal government. (See https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/united-states/commemoratives/silver-commemoratives-1892-1954/19324/1936-lynchburg-50c-ms/?des=ms)
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United States |
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50C 1935 D BOONE |
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PCGS MS 66 |
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Owner Comments
Boone though born in Pennsylvania spent the majority of his life in Virginia and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates after going through the Cumberland Gap into what was still then Virginia but is now Eastern Kentucky. (See https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/boone-daniel-1734-1820/)
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United States |
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50C 1923 S MONROE |
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NGC MS 63 |
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R.E. Lee-Stone Mountain |
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United States |
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SILVER COMMEMORATIVES |
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50C 1925 STONE MOUNTAIN |
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NGC MS 66 |
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Owner Comments
One of two US-minted coins with Robert E. Lee on them; the other being the Antietam commemorative. Lee and his horse, Traveller, are buried in Lexington at Lee Chapel on the campus of Washington & Lee University where Lee served as President from 1865 to his death in 1870. (See https://columns.wlu.edu/statement-regarding-the-relocation-of-plaques-to-a-new-exhibit-in-university-chapel/?utm_source=ingeniux&utm_medium=embed)
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