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there's refer on the previous page?  |
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Nice additions!  Errers and Varietys.
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Here's another medal from the Hall for Great Americans series - Samuel Morse. The American inventor and painter (b. 1791; d. 1872) developed a long-distance electric telegraph in the late 1830s (rudimentary, short-distance telegraphs existed at the time) and the "dots and dashes" transmission code that bears his name - Morse Code; the code was developed in conjunction with Alfred Vail. (Painting, especially the painting of portraits, was Morse's first career.)   Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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great coins Commems and Billy!
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Nice additions, commems, cptbilly, and yarm!
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Dipping into the well of Hall of Fame for Great Americans medals, here's one for Peter Cooper. Cooper (b. 1791; d. 1883), was an American inventor who is most remembered - invention wise - for his development of the first successful; steam-powered locomotive in America - for the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad in 1830. It was a demonstration engine vs. being a regular-service locomotive. The engine was nicknamed the "Tom Thumb" because of its small size, but was strong enough to pull a passenger car with B&O Directors (~40) on a demonstration run between Baltimore and Ellicot Mills (present-day Ellicot City) . (Fun Fact: Cooper created a gelatin food product that later developed into Jell-O (R) brand of fruit-flavored gelatin desserts.) The medal's reverse design does not highlight Cooper's industrial inventions/enhancements; it focuses on Cooper's philanthropic efforts and the creation of his Cooper Institute/Union - a tuition-free school in New York open to students of all social, ethnic and religious backgrounds.   For more about the B&O Railroad and the "Tom Thumb" locomotive, see: - 1927 B & O Railroad CentennialCollecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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very nice medal Commems - that rock feature on the reverse - what is its name? (if any)
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Great add, commems!
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Switching to coins vs. medals... Here's an example of the 1951-54 George Washington Carver - Booker T. Washington Memorial Half Dollar. Carver may not have invented the peanut, sweet potato or pecan but he developed hundreds of uses/products for them: 325 for peanuts, 118 for sweet potatoes, 75 for pecans and many others. (Before you ask: Carver did not invent peanut butter.) He also created a mobile classroom/laboratory that was used to explore soil chemistry and teach farmers how best to grow crops such as peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybean and pecans. It is called a Jesup Agricultural Wagon; the wagon is named after Morris Jesup, the New York banker who provided funding to Carver for the wagon's development and construction.   Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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that rock feature on the reverse - what is its name? My understanding is that the rock feature is an unnamed/artist-imagined cliff/rock formation. Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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ah, ok, thanks Commems (I'm from the NY/NJ area and didn't recognize it, hence the question..  Nice new coin display and nice short write up of it. |
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Very nice, commems! Nice write up as well.
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