Beautiful Griffin! I really think Medallic Art Co medals are great. You got some dandy silver ones.
Here's
Three Bronze High Relief Medals 1.25 in diameter.
Medallic Art 1961 President Abraham Lincoln( check out the silhouette profile from my lighting on the left of Lincolns face. Pretty accurate huh? )
This will make my 3rd of this series to make my own "Mount Rushmore" leaving Theodore Roosevelt to find yet in good quality and at a good price.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending a play at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Booth was a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland.
Learning that the President and Grant would be attending Ford's Theatre, Booth formulated a plan with co-conspirators to assassinate Lincoln and Grant at the theater, as well as Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward at their homes.
Without his main bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln left to attend the play Our American Cousin on April 14. At the last minute, Grant decided to go to New Jersey to visit his children instead of attending the play.
Lincoln's bodyguard, John Parker, left Ford's Theater during intermission to drink at the saloon next door.
The now unguarded President sat in his state box in the balcony. Seizing the opportunity, Booth crept up from behind and at about 10:13 pm, aimed at the back of Lincoln's head and fired at point-blank range, mortally wounding the President.
After being on the run for 12 days, Booth was tracked down and found on a farm in Virginia, some 70 miles south of Washington. After refusing to surrender to Union troops, Booth was killed by Sergeant Boston Corbett on April 26.
Medallic Art 1962 Benjamin Franklin
Franklin wrote in his autobiography:
... Sunday being my studying day, I never was without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.
Medallic Art 1964 President Andrew Jackson
"The Age of Jackson" shaped the national agenda and American politics.
Jackson's philosophy as President was similar to that of Jefferson, advocating Republican values held by the Revolutionary War generation. Jackson took a moral tone, with the belief that agrarian sympathies, and a limited view of states rights and the federal government, would produce less corruption.
He feared that monied and business interests would corrupt republican values.
Jackson believed in the ability of the people to "arrive at right conclusions."
They had the right not only to elect but to "instruct their agents & representatives."
Office holders should either obey the popular will or resign.
He rejected the view of a powerful and independent Supreme Court with binding decisions, arguing that the Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each or itself be guided by its own opinions of the Constitution. Jackson thought that Supreme Court justices should be made to stand for election. He called for term limits on presidents and the abolition of the Electoral College.
They all came with literature.
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