Post Your Coin(S) Depicting An Explorer

Beautiful!

very nice Commems!!

In 1620, William Bradford was among the group of Mayflower immigrants who explored (what would come to be known as) Provincetown Harbor looking for a permanent settlement site. Present-day Plymouth Bay was eventually located and chosen as the site for settlement.

Nice example, commems!

I purposely saved this one 'til the end of my run of classic-era US commemorative coin "Explorers" because it fits the theme only if you "stretch" the definition a bit. I'm speaking of the 1935 Old Spanish Trail Quatercentennial (400th Anniversary) Half Dollar.

The coin was issued to mark the 400th anniversary of the expedition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca through the American Southwest, but this is a misrepresentation of history. Alvar Nunez was definitely an explorer, but the coin's depiction of his travels via the map on the reverse is noticeably inaccurate. (If you'd like to learn more about the historical issues of this coin, check out: 1935 Old Spanish Trail - Redux.)

The obverse of the coin depicts the skull of a cow rather than a portrait of Nunez. The English translation of "Cabeza de Vaca" is "Cow's Head." The coin plays off of the "Cabeza de Vaca" honorary family name and presents a cow's head/skull (a graphic element commonly associated with the arid American Southwest). The explorer's name is seen on the obverse, below the skull.

excellent commemorative commem!

I was holding off on posting this one until I posted my Index over in the US Commemorative Coin forum with a challenge to name the missing coin. Now that the challenge has been met...

Frontiersman Daniel Boone's first appearance on a US commemorative coin took place on the 1921 Missouri Statehood Centennial Half Dollar - see above for his appearance on the 1934-38 Daniel Boone Birth Bicentennial Half Dollar. On the Missouri coin, he appears on the obverse as well as the reverse.

Boone lived in present-day Missouri for the last 20 or so years of his life (1799-1820).

He didn't do much frontier exploring in Missouri as he was given a large tract of land (850 acres) by the Spanish (owners of the area at the time) and spent much of his time there.