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| 1880 S Morgan |
United States
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$1 1880 S
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1880 S NGC MS63
Part of My Heritage Set and dedicated to my Maternal Great Grandmother Kawena Ah Chong Kaulili born 23 Aug 1880 in Kalehua, Puna, Kingdom of Hawaii died May 1955 Kaloa, Kauai, Hawaii
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| 1881 S Morgan |
United States
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$1 1881 S
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NGC MS 63
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1881 S MS63
Part of My Heritage Set and dedicated to my Paternal Great Grandmother Francisca Vieira Kinney born Apr 1881 in Ginetas, San Miguel, Azores, Portugal died 14 Sep 1915 in Honomu, Hawaii. Frances boarded the british ship Vapor Hansa that arrived in Hilo in 1917 with her family when she was just 2 years old. They were part of the great Portugese migration to the United States at the time. Many left the Azores and immigrated to New York, Boston and Brazil to find a better life for their families.
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| 1883 O Morgan |
United States
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$1 1883 O
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1883 O MS63
Part of My Heritage Set
Dedicated to my ancestor William Ansel Kinney born Honolulu, Hawaii October 16, 1860. His father was William Kinney was born April 15, 1832 in Chebogue, Nova Scotia. His uncle Joseph Robbins Kinney (1839–1919) was a member of the Canadian House of Commons. His father came to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1850s and married his mother Caroline Dailey (died March 25, 1897) on July 6, 1857. Kinney attended Punahou School 1874–1877 and worked as a clerk in a law office. He graduated from law school at the University of Michigan in 1883. He married Alice Vaughan McBryde on August 16, 1893 in Honolulu. In 1887 he was elected to the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a representative from Hawaii Island. During the summer of 1887, he helped draft the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii, called the Bayonet Constitution because King Kalakaua was forced to sign it. In 1887 he became partners with William Owen Smith and Lorrin A. Thurston. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah about 1891 and practiced law there. After the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, he was met by some of his former partners, including Thurston, as they visited the United States to lobby for annexation in February. After Queen Liliuokalani was arrested in January 1895 following the failed 1895 rebellion against the Republic of Hawaii, Kinney was selected as Judge Advocate with honorary rank of Captain; to prosecute her in a military trial in her former throne room at Iolani Palace She was convicted of misprision of treason. On March 7 he traveled to San Francisco to press charges against the people accused of shipping arms to the rebels. On May 5, 1897 he was selected for another commission to lobby for annexation to the US. In August 1900 he sued a newspaper editor for libel. In May 1901 he was sentenced to prison for contempt of court, but pardoned by Sanford B. Dole. His partnership was then called Kinney, McClanahan and Cooper, including Henry Ernest Cooper who had chaired the Committee of Safety in 1893 and E. B. McClanahan. At least one of their cases, Territory of Hawaii vs. Cotton Brothers & Company of 1904 went to the United States Supreme Court. By 1906 the firm replaced Cooper with S. H. Derby. In June 1909 he represented the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association in a conflict during a strike by Japanese workers. Despite his role in her trial, on November 1909 Kinney served as an attorney for deposed Queen Liliuokalani in a United States Court of Claims case Liliuokalani vs The United States. The case claimed that the Queen was due compensation for the taking of the crown lands of the kingdom. In the decision known as 45 Ct. Cl. 418 (1910), the case was dismissed on May 16, 1910. The issue continues to be controversial, known as the ceded lands issue.
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| 1887 P Morgan |
United States
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$1 1887
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NGC MS 63
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1887 P MS63
Part of My Heritage Set and dedicated to ancestor William Ansel Kinney.
In 1887 Kinney was elected to legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom representing the island of Hawaii. That summer he helped draft the so called, The Bayonet Constitution, that King Kalakaua was forced to sign the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The new government included both of Kinneys law partners William Owen Smith, the Attorney General, and new cabinet member Lorrin A. Thurston.
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| 1890 P Morgan |
United States
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$1 1890
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NGC MS 63
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1890 P MS63
15.1
Part of My Heritage Set
Dedicated to my Paternal 3x Great Grandfather William Kinney born 2 Sep 1809, Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada died 20 Aug 1890. He had a membership application with the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution 1889-1970. His Son William Kinney born 1832-1915, arrived 1845 residing in Maine, Massachusettes, New Hampshire and Vermont, United States. His son was born William Ansel Kinney in 1860 in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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| 1897 S Morgan |
United States
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$1 1897 S
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NGC MS 63
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1897 S MS63
6.2
Part of My Heritage Set
Dedicated to William Ansel Kinney
On 5 May 1897 Kinney was selected to a commission to travel to Washington, D.C., with Lorrin A. Thurston to lobby for the annexation of Hawaii. There they met with Secretary of State, John Sherman and along with New Hampshire lawyer Francis March Hatch signed the Treaty of Annexation on 16 June 1897 and on 9 Sept 1897 it was unanimously adopted by the Senate of the Republic of Hawaii. President William McKinley signed it into law on 7 July 1898.
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| 1900 O Morgan |
United States
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$1 1900 O
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NGC MS 64
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1900 O MS64
40.5
Part of My Heritage Set and dedicates the marriage of my Paternal Great Grandfather Kihapiilani W. Kinney born Dec 1870, died 2 Nov 1953 to my Paternal Great Grandmother Francisca Vierra born 1881, died 14 Sep 1915 in Hanalei, Kauai, Territory of Hawaii in 1900.
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| 1904 O Morgan |
United States
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$1 1904 O
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NGC MS 64
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1904 O MS64
Part of My Heritage Set
William Ansel Kinney was a gradute of University of Michigans 1883 School of Law, in 1904 his law practice, then called Kinney, McClanahan and Cooper had at least one case, the Territory of Hawaii vs Cotton Brothers and Company, heard before the United States Supreme Court.
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| PILGRIM |
United States
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50C 1920 PILGRIM
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NGC MS 63
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1920 MS63 Pilgrim Tercentenary
The 1920 Pilgrim Tercentenary silver half dollar commemorates the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower at Plymouth in 1620. This was the first commemorative minted in multiple years and it was hoped the increased mintage would help defray cost associated with many of the celebrations planned around Plymouth and Boston at the time. After much hype sales lagged and many 1920 coins were melted to produce the 1921 coins. Many coins of both dates remained unsold and were eventually returned setting the mintage of the 1920 issue at 152,000 and the 1921 at 20,000.
The obverse representation of Bradford supposedly holding his bible would be the only such representation of a bible on an American coin and most experts believe it represents his journal "Of Plymouth Plantation" which today is considered by many scholars as one of the seminal literary works in American history. The Journal was taken from the Old South Meeting House in Boston during the Revolutionary War back to England by a British soldier and lost for a time until it was rediscovered in the library of the Bishop of London and after petitioning the church for many years it was finally returned to Massachusetts in 1897. William Bradford served the Plymouth Colony as the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th Governor from 1621 to 1657 and is credited with being the first civil authority in the new world to designate a day of thanksgiving we know today as Thanksgiving Day. He is also reported as being among the first group of volunteers to go ashore to help locate a permanent site for the settlement which they named Plymouth in honor of the last place they left in England. Tragically during that first winter when returning to the ship from a trip ashore he found that his wife Dorothy May had fallen over board and drowned.
The reverse exhibits toning under the ship that seems to animate the heavy sea around the Mayflower creating a wonderful effect. William Bradford had set sail from Holland with the Separatists aboard the Speedwell and when meeting the Mayflower at sea she was leaking badly and it was felt could not make the journey. So the Speedwell's passengers moved to the Mayflower and joined the 50 colonists many indentured to the investors as Merchant Adventurers recruited to help establish the new settlement in Virginia. The Mayflower originally had negotiated permission to settle the northern part of the Colony of Virginia but after several attempts to sail south they were driven north by storm to the hook at Cape Cod.
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| OREGON |
United States
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50C 1926 OREGON TRAIL
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NGC MS 64
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1926 Oregon MS64
The Oregon Trail Memorial Association, Inc. of New York petitioned Congress to authorize the minting of the Oregon Commemorative half dollar to fund the placement of monuments along the trail. During a sporadic run 14 coins would be produced from the Philadelphia, San Francisco and the Denver mints between 1926 and 1939. Congress authorized that no more than 6 million be minted and by 1939 after the remaining unsold coins were returned and melted the combined mintage for the entire series was set at 202,928 with the 1926 Philadelphia issue accounting for 47,955 coins.
The reverse design depicting the oxen drawn Conestoga wagon was originally thought to be the obverse by the engravers James Earle Fraser and wife Laura G. Fraser. James Earle Fraser is credited with the obverse design of this coin and of the legendary Buffalo Nickel while his wife gained notoriety for her designs of the 1922 Grant commemoratives.
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| STATEHOOD |
United States
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50C 1959
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NGC PF 67
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1959 PF67
Mintage: 1,149,291
Part of My Heritage Set
Hawaii Statehood, 21 Aug 1959
The Admission Act, formally An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union
(Pub. L. No. 86-3, enacted 1959-03-18) is a statute enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower which dissolved the Territory of Hawaii and established the State of Hawaii as the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. Hawaii remains the most recent state to join the United States. In 1946, Hawaii was placed on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. America transmitted annual reports on Hawaii to the United Nations Secretary General from 1946 until September 1959. By a letter of September 17, 1959, after a statehood vote in Hawaii with 94% approval, the United States notified the U.N. Secretary General that Hawaii had become a State of the Union in August 1959 and that the United States would thereafter cease to transmit information to the United Nations. The United Nations accepted this notification and removed Hawaii from the list of non-self-governing territories, recognizing the Statehood of Hawaii.
On July 7, 1898 the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States by a joint resolution of Congress. In this letter deposed Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii protests the U.S. assertion of ownership without due process or just compensation.
RG 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives
The House of Representatives of the United States:
I, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, named heir apparent on the 10th of May, 1877, and proclaimed Queen of the Hawaiian Islands on the 29th day of January, 1891, do hereby, earnestly and respectfully protest against the assertion of ownership by the United States of America of the so-called Hawaiian Crown Lands amounting to about one million acres and which are my property, and I especially protest against such assertion of ownership as a taking of property without the process of law and without just or other compensation.
Therefore, supplementing my protest of June 17, 1897, I call upon the President and the National Legislature and People of the United States to do justice in this matter and the restore to me this property, the enjoyment of which is being withheld from me by your Government under what must be a misapprehension of my right and title.
Done at Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, this 19th day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight.
Liliuokalani
Witness: J Douglas
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| W.W.II |
United States
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50C 1991-1995 P World War II Anniversary
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NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO
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1991-1995 P PF69UC
World War II
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| WOMEN VETERANS |
United States
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S$1 1994 W WOMEN VETERANS MEMORIAL
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NGC MS 69
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1994 W MS69
Women Veterans
Mintage: 89,860
Part of My Heritage Set
Dedicated to "Momma Doc" as we called her, with love and respect, she was my Grandfathers partner for the last decade of his life. She was a Veteran of Patton's Army and served in Italy as one of his head nurses and she was one hell of a Lady
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| CIVIL WAR |
United States
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S$1 1995 P CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS
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NGC MS 69
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1995 P Civil War
Mintage: 45,866
Part of My Heritage Set
Dedicated to my ancestors who served during the Civil War with the Union and the Confederacy as the obverse of the coin shows one soldier giving comfort to another soldier of the other side.
My research has found links to US Grant and Jefferson Davis along with many others that I continue to identify from officers and enlisted men on both sides. They came from the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Massachusetts, Florida and New York.
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| LEIF ERICSON |
United States
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S$1 2000 P LEIF ERICSON MILLENNIUM
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2000 P PF68
Leif Ericson
Mintage: 144,748
Part of My Heritage Set
Dedicated to my Scandinavian heritage.
My genetic ethnicity ties me to Scandinavia which includes the present day nations of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The Vikings were feared by the coastal towns of medieval Europe as seaborne raiders and violent pillagers. They were also well-travelled merchants and ambitious explorers that raided the Mediterranean coast of Africa. They settled areas as far south as the Black Sea and traded with the Byzantine Empire. It was a Norse sailor named Leif Ericson who is credited with being the first European to travel to North America 500 years before Columbus.
The rise of the Viking culture spread Scandinavian ancestry throughout Europe. Their earliest coastal voyages took them to Scotland, northeastern England and established the settlement of Dublin, Ireland. As their power grew the Vikings spread farther along the Volga River to the coast of France and Spain. But perhaps their most famous accomplishments were the oceanic voyages across the Atlantic establishing villages in Iceland and Greenland and exploring the northern coast of Canada. Few of the early Scandinavian settlers are thought to have survived in the Americas however Iceland remains a society rooted in Scandinavian language and culture.
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| MARINES |
United States
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S$1 2005 P MARINE CORPS ANNIVERSARY
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2005 P MS69
Marines
Mintage: 49,671
Part of My Heritage Set
This coin is dedicated to all the Marines in my family of which there are too many to list here. But for my Step Father who served 2 tours in Vietnam, my Uncle who served in Korea, my cousins who served in Iraq and are serving in Afghanistan and to all those who served this country.
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| Ben Franklin
The Scientist |
United States
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S$1 2006 P BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SCIENTIST
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NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO
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2006 P PF69 UC
Ben Franklin The Scientist
Mintage: 142,000
Part of My Heritage Set
I dedicate this coin and particularly for the reverse of the coin to our ancestors the Craig family of Westmorland County, Pennsylvania, circa 1730-1775.For ancestor Lt. Samuel Craig who carried the first revolutionary war flag west of the Allegany’s known as the Proctor Flag of Westmorland County, Pennsylvania. The device of the flag and the coin is a snake, in coin cut into pieces and in the flag, coiled ready to strike. The symbolism of the snake in reovlutionary America embodied the resolve and willingness of the colonist to fight for their american identity.
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| JAMESTOWN |
United States
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S$1 2007 P JAMESTOWN ANNIVERSARY
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NGC MS 70
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2007 P MS70
Jamestown
Mintage: 79,801
Part of My Heritage Set this coin celebrates the 400th Anniversary of the founding of Jamestown and is dedicated to my ancestor Stephen Hopkins survivor of Jamestown and also a traveler onboard the Mayflower and signer of the Mayflower Compact. He died in Plymouth Colony around 1644 and there is some evidence that Hopkins who arrived on the Mayflower was the same man of that name who had arrived in Virginia in 1609 aboard the new flagship of the Virginia Company the Sea Venture. The ship was on its way to the Jamestown Colony in Virginia with much needed supplies when it was deliberately driven onto the reefs of Bermuda to prevent its floundering during a severe storm. All 150 of the passengers and crew and a dog survived the shipwreck and lived off the wildlife they found on the island and supplies salvaged from their wrecked ship.
While stranded on Bermuda Hopkins along with several others attempted to start a mutiny against the governor they being displeased with his policies. Hopkins was sentenced to death after his plan was discovered but was eventually set free after protesting the ruin of his wife and children. It was said so penitent he was and complained so much alleging the ruin of his wife and children in his trespass that it wrought in the hearts of all the better sorts of the company and the sentence was commuted. The ships longboat was fitted with a mast and a few men were sent to Jamestown for help but were never seen or heard of again. Hopkins and the remaining survivors spent nine months on Bermuda building two smaller ships the Deliverance and Patience constructed from Bermuda cedar and materials salvaged from the Sea Venture. He and the other castaways eventually made their way to Jamestown where Hopkins appears to have stayed for some years before returning to England.
The story of the Sea Venture shipwreck and Hopkins mutiny is said to be the inspiration for The Tempest by William Shakespeare. The play relates the story of a shipwrecked group stranded on an enchanted island. Shakespeare added the character of a drunken bottler with delusions of grandeur who he named Stephano. Hopkins learned of this play upon his return to England and stated quote to have provided some of the fabric for Shakespeares vision of The Tempest and to appear in the play even in the absurd disguise as Stephano is in itself is a kind of immortality unquote. He served as an aide to Captain Miles Standish and later served as assistant to the Governor of the Plymouth Colony. The Wampanoag Treaty of 1621 made with the Indians was done in Hopkins home at Plymouth. He helped draw up the colonies Bill of Rights which is viewed as one of chief accomplishments of the Plymouth Colony in 1636. There were only two other men who had been to the New World so his knowledge and experience was important and he was respected for his previous experience with Indians and was elected ambassador for native relations. He set up a trading post with the Indians for furs. During that time he ran a store where he also sold alcohol which was frowned upon by the Pilgrims. He also built and owned the first wharf in Plymouth Colony and in 1638 built a house at Yarmouth on Cape Cod before returning to Plymouth Colony a year later leaving the home to his son Giles.
This dedication was complied with information taken for Wikipedia and various Stephen Hopkins descendant websites and my own families genealogy research.
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| DISABLED VETERANS |
United States
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S$1 2010 W DISABLED VETERANS
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NGC PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO
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2010 P PF70UC Disabled Veterans
Part of My Heritage Set
Dedicated to my Mother who served the interest of Disabled Veterans for all her working life with the Vetran's Administration all over this country. I know this because she dragged us everywhere she went. I have been to or lived in every Marine Corp Air Station and VA Medical Center between Hawaii and South Carolina or it seems as if I have.
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| U.S. ARMY |
United States
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S$1 2011 P UNITED STATES ARMY EARLY RELEASES
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NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO
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2011 P PF69UC
US Army
Early Releases
Part of My Heritage Set
Dedicated to all the members of the family that served in the US Army, for my service in the 70's, for my father who served in Europe during the 1950's and for my uncles who served in Korea and Vietnam, for all those ancestors that served in States Malitia from Virginia, Massachusettes during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, all of which have my utmost love, respect and admiration.
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| WAMPANOAG TREATY |
United States
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$1 2011 S SACAGAWEA WAMPANOAG TREATY EARLY RELEASES
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NGC PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO
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2011 S PF70UC
Early Releases
Sacagawea
Wampanoag Treaty
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| STAR SPANGLED BANNER |
United States
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S$1 2012 P STAR SPANGLED BANNER EARLY RELEASES
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NGC PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO
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2012 P PF70UC
Star Spangled Banner
Early Releases
Part of My Heritage Set
Dedicated to ancestors who are entered in US Revolutionary War Rolls or are US Son's of the American Revolution Members.
US Revolutionay War Rolls:
Nickerson, Shields, Carter, Robbins, Price, Plummer
US Son's of the American Revolution Membership:
Kinney, Williams, Stelham, Robbins, Raymond, Stevens, Cushman, Harlow, Crocker,Tilley, Dunham, Hamblin, Howland, Hopkins, Durkee, Fisk, Hubbard, Scruggs, Rayment, Barker, Groves, Abbott, Hibbert, Barker, Abbot, Chandler, Kinne, Ring,
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