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Quote:Why Does The Franklin half dollar Have Such A Small Eagle? To make room for the Liberty Bell. The eagle is there because it is required to be there by law. Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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As I understand Franklin's history, he lobbied against adoption of the eagle as the national symbol. He advocated for the turkey. He was, after all, a very pragmatic thinker.
Kevin
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It also nicely balances the motto on the other side of the bell.
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Pillar of the Community
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Because there is a big bell in the way. Next question?
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As I understand Franklin's history, he lobbied against adoption of the eagle as the national symbol. He advocated for the turkey. He was, after all, a very pragmatic thinker. This is an inaccurate myth. Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Makes me think of all those random-minor-island NCLT "coins" that have a tiny bust of Elizabeth II in some random place because they're supposed to have one even if it messes up the design. That's a neat eagle, though. And I kind of wonder if I could ever get a Franklin half with a sufficiently good strike that the bell lettering is legible... |
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@commems,
Apparently, you've spent more time and effort studying the life of Benjamin Franklin than have I. Apparently, you've drawn greater knowledge than I. This may be so.
Share, please, just a bit of your license to claim superior knowledge and, of course, add your certification that my knowledge is but mythological.
All on CCF face an opportunity grow from exposure to your superior instruction and your protection from my mythology, should you condescend to stoop to an offer of sufficient clarity.
Kevin
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12/19/2020 8:02 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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My understanding is that he (somewhat) advocated for the turkey rather than the eagle, but didn't actively lobby for it. And the comment in question might well have been sarcastic. (Though I could hardly deny that a turkey can look pretty darn majestic if it's pictured well.) Eagles are definitely way overused as national symbols, though (and this was probably even more true in Franklin's time). Never really understood it. Fun fact: a bald eagle is not a true eagle but a sea eagle. (In Russian, this isn't even the same word.) |
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a turkey can look pretty darn majestic if it's pictured well I never knew what that was supposed to be. Learned something new |
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Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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Why not have a large eagle in the background and the bell in the left foreground, similarly to the 75'-76' Eisenhower Commem Dollar (meaning, the eagle would have been where the moon is in the E Dollar),
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Jbuck I think you had a typo. You accidently spelled normal people as " Franklin half Haters"  |
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Normal is subjective.  |
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Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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