ANACS MS-65 Stone Mountain Half Dollar

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  1. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    Wondering what the symbolic expression is on the sculpture. It wasn’t carried over from the coin…

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  3. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Here are a couple of photos my late father in law took of the carving in the early 1960s.

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    Here's what it looks like today.

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    And here is my coin, which is a PCGS MS-65.

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  4. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Oh, sorry. I thought you had been referring to the coin, not the monument. I forgot about the final poses on the monument, and how they differ from the motif on the coin.
     
  5. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    He's like the will of the whisp in that 2nd to last depiction, John. Had he not been cut down at Chancellorsville the outcome of the conflict may have been different. His poor equipped troops would have followed him to hell......
     
  6. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    And I'm just the student of military conflict and tactics, with no attention to political affiliation......
     
  7. MichaelDixon

    MichaelDixon Member

    Beautiful Coin!
     
  8. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    I disagree with the Southern cause which was to perpetuate and expand slavery. I also understand the pride the southern people have in their culture. They can understand the flaws, and still have pride in the people they view as heroes.

    The United States was a very different country prior to the Civil War. The North was right to oppose the spread of slavery and call for an end to it. At the same time, many northerners were less than racially tolerant.
     
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  9. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    At all times and in all places, saints have been in short supply.
     
  10. H8_modern

    H8_modern Attracted to small round-ish art

    Not sure if these have anything to do with the original design but they’re contemporary

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  11. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

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