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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
09/04/2017 9:35 pm
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The Chapman Brothers 1890 Thank you for the photo and the link. A good read, but it is easy to drift off into that photo. Something about these moments in time.  |
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What I see when I daydream...  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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John Kraljevitch has this interesting item for sale.  JEFFERSON PLANS TO PRINT AN EXPLICATION FOR THE COMITIA AMERICANA SERIES, REQUESTS A FRANKLIN MEDAL. Autograph Letter Signed, Thomas Jefferson to Augustin Dupre, February 23, 1789. One page with integral cover. 232 x 186 mm (9.375 x 7.375"). On laid paper with the watermark of Dutch papermaker J. Honig. In French, Jefferson (writing in the third person, as he often did) informs Dupre of his plan to print an explication (a descriptive explanation of devices and legends) on all the medals of the Comitia Americana series and asks Dupre to forward onto him a specimen of the medal he struck for Mr. Franklin (1784 Betts-619, with the Winged Angel reverse, or 1786 Betts-620, with a text reverse) along with an explication of the medal. Jefferson suggests he will be sending the explication "with the medals to the sovereigns of Europe." While medals are believed to have been distributed to many of Europe's crowned heads and major institutions of learning, and notes for an explication are in Jefferson's papers, no printed explication was ever executed -- like many of Jefferson's projects, there was no funding available for such an endeavor. Dupre almost certainly would have sent Jefferson an example of the 1786-dated Betts-620 medal in return to this letter. The boxed set of Comitia Americana medals presented by Jefferson to George Washington included a specimen of the Betts-620, as did the set that ended up in Vienna (now at the Kunsthistoriches Museum), so this was undoubtedly the medal that was included in Jefferson's sets given to the crowned heads. Even today, many silver strikings of Betts-620 survive in European institutions, while Betts-619 is impossibly rare in silver, with just a single specimen recorded. Jefferson and Adams both wrote on paper produced by the Dutch firm of J. Honig and Zoonen. The Dunlap broadsides, the first printed versions of the Declaration of Independence, were also printed on paper purchased from the firm. The watermark is easily seen at the bottom margin of this sheet. This letter is quoted in Adams and Bentley's Comitia Americana on page 179 (note 266), citing the version published in the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. The editors of the Papers cited this letter as "MS missing" and took the text from Loubat's A Medallic History of the United States of America, 1776-1876. Loubat saw this letter about 1876 when it was owned by Narcisse Dupre; it has not been seen or published since. While any letter by Jefferson, in the hand of Jefferson, regarding the Comitia Americana series is special, this letter is made all the more special by its focus on the medal for Franklin, who would pass away just over a year after this letter was penned. This letter bears the usual mailing folds and still retains a red wax seal, though its impression is indistinct. The phrase "les medailles aux souverains de l'Europe" has been gently underlined in pencil, and a few stray characters in pencil have been marked atop the letter (probably by Dupre). Some light wrinkles are present, an old stain opposite the wax seal is noted, but the visual impact is excellent. Overall, very fine or better. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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John Kraljevitch has this interesting item for sale. That is an interesting piece of history!  |
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 A 1795 Promissory Note for Robert Morris to receive $4,000. Morris, one of the wealthiest men in the colonies and the US, ended up in debtor's prison after a bold land speculative deal bankrupted him. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Robert Morris and the first U.S. Coin - the Quint.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
09/13/2017 12:28 am
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Very interesting. |
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Photo of construction of the San Francisco Mint in 1874.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Weighing gold at the U.S. Mint.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Steel bars used to make coin dies at the Denver Mint.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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1887 Carson City U.S. Mint Crate - looks like a replica.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
09/17/2017 8:11 pm
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