A Collection Of What We Love In Numismatic History

Excellent post.

Today ... April 9
is the anniversary of General Lee surrendering to General Grant.
I have a couple medals reflecting that time in History.

On 9th April, 1865, General Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army of North Virginia, surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, the leader of the Union Army, at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

Joseph Renier's medal, commissioned by the Civil War Centennial Commission, memorializes the four years of hostilities between North and South one hundred years before. It depicts Confederate general Robert E. Lee, who surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, also shown here, at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in 1865.
"Let Us Have Peace"
became Grant's presidential campaign slogan in 1868.
At Appomattox, Lee released his officers and soldiers, bidding them return home with "a consciousness of duty faithfully performed."
They were allowed to keep their horses.

Excellent post, TNG.

Thanks

A pair of dies used to mint Bechtler gold coins in North Carolina.

Dies used to mint 1876 Carson City half dollars, now defaced.

Apparently some dies were found buried in the ground outside the Carson City Mint building, now the Nevada State Museum. This one was likely one of those.

From the 11/26/17 post by numismsticstudent


This just rocked my world. Always having referred to this issue as the Standing Liberty quarter, I never noticed that she is in fact depicted in the act of walking toward the viewer. A 50+ year old misconception corrected, thank you very much!