Most Obscure US Coin Facts

This is a well known hoax. I'm amazed some people still believe it.

AS to West Virginia. A Loyalist government was set up in what is now West Virginia, and this government approved of the division of the state. Nice and legal. Underhanded, but legal.

 

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But you still have to agree that VA had left the Union because otherwise you would have to get permission for the division and WV becoming a state from both the WV loyalists AND he VA government.

 

They should fix WVa

 

This threads almost 5 now .

Jamaica Bay bay is located in both Brooklyn and Queens. It's surrounded by the eastern lower half of Brooklyn, part of Broad Channel (Queens) and Rockaway (Queens). Rockaway was originally considered the eastern end of Long Island, and even in 1936 when the coin was issued Rockaway still would have been considered Long Island.

 

since 1898 Rockaway was part of queens, and uninhabited accept for the base at the tip. I'm not sure if the boardwalk was up yet. In away event, the settlement that dated back to the 1600's, largely undocumented settlement prior to the Mayflower by French Walloons, and Dutch, was on Jamacia Bay along the Canarsie, and Mill Basin coast line. The bay itself wasn't really a bay, but more a large aquatic marshland, which has been entirely reshaped in modern times with a combination of land fill and dredging.

 

Perhaps this is the singular example of the Congress doing the will of the People. We all hate New York...

Just Kidding... I think...

 

That is very much like the Texas legend associated with joining the Union in 1845. The citizens of Texas voted to join by TREATY and presumed they had done so even up to the time I was in school. It turns out that the US Senate never passed the Treaty due to concerns there was no matching Free State to balance out interests.

This makes you wonder why they felt a need to secede in 1861. They didn't need to.

 

I'm certain that the value of the Scotch went up.

 

If the matter is brought to the UN I'm sure Mexico can claim Texas.

Ruben

 

Until a fairly recently, The United Staes Code said Spanish/Mexican pieces of 1/2, 1 and 2 reals were redeemable at 80% for stamps at any US post office.

 

Nope. That matter was settled on March 2, 1836 and never contested after the Battle of San Jacinto led to the capture of Santa Anna. The subsequent Mexican-American war of 1846 did include a dispute over the southern border of Texas. The Republic of Texas and later the State of Texas (maybe) and United States claimed the Rio Grande Riverand Mexico claimed the Nueces River.

 

Well, according to the latest UN trends, wars of agression aren't supposed to be considered eligible for trand transfer, so that Mexico can claim that Texas is an Occupied Territory, and there are now parties in Mexico, the Native American Movements, which would pursue that policy if they ever gain power

Just wait.

Ruben

 

Of course, extending that logic, the Wooly mammoths and Saber tooth Tigers also have a claim. We can't be HUMANist about these things. Our fellow mammals must be permitted their rights before the UN.

 

Not to interrupt, but I believe that BLANCH(E) SULLY is the model for the Seated Liberty coins.

“ Chief Engraver Christian Gobrecht's Seated Liberty coins enjoyed an unparalled run of 56 years 1837-1891. The original design was the work of Thomas Sully. Sully's painting of Washington at the Delaware (1819) show the general looking over his right shoulder, as does the seated Miss Liberty. Also, Miss Liberty herself bears a strong resemblence to Blanche Sully, the painter's daughter, in a work executed in 1834. Again, she is looking over her right shoulder. Sully's painting of a seated Liberty served as the model for Christian Gobrecht's dies.”
“How to Assemble a Dime Type Set,” The Numismatist, May 2002.

 

I've just read five years worth of threads in only a few minutes. Gosh darn, I'm getting all nostalgic.......

 

I though it was just lifted off the British coins with Britanica.

 

aren't we all

 

unknown lincoln token

Can anyone help identify this abe lincoln memorial token??? Has been in my family for as long as my mother can remember, what is it???

 

A very good read Ruben. Thanks and Happy Holiday's .

 

I haven't read the whole thread yet, but what of Vinland?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/17/us-science-map-america-idUSTRE56G58320090717

edit to add: Oh, I didn't read "permanent" to mean still surviving. I was thinking something other than a temporary shelter. Never mind.