I just read an article on a bunch of quebec secessionists forcing the cancellation of a reinactment of the battle of the "Plains of Abraham" and realized that October was the sesquicentennial of John Brown's raid on Harper's ferry. this got me to thinking. As there were no commemorative coins for the Civil War Centennial (there was the ban or something like that), and there were a ton during the 75th anniversary (1934 and '35 had a whole bunch) why not lobby to have a modified reissue (in clad) for the issues from back then? They were pretty good designs, and the St Gaudens' 20 double eagle reissue is an excellent precident! Or should we just have the Lincoln coins from this year and forget the whole thing?
Why would you want the U.S Government to commemorate an event that today would be called treason - the destruction of the Union? Which, by the way, was the reason the war was fought in the first place.
I do seem to recall that the Civil War was indeed commemorated in 1995, on clad, silver and gold coinage. If that is not enough for you, the Neo-Confederates crank out tonnes of "Confederate" commemoratives by the bucketload all the time.
Commemorating the end of a tragic event is far different from commemorating its beginning, as you propose. Wow! I don't even know how to respond to that.
we celebrate Dec 7 and Celebrate doesn't always mean fun and holiday doesn't always mean vacation - at least on Yom Kipper
Because the mint is dead set on having ugly coins. If it doesn't have a dead president on it then they just don't want to make them. Yes the commemoratives are nice but everyday circulation coins need some serious help. As for civil war confederative coins well to the victor goes the writing of history, making of the rules and the spoils of war. No I am not a neo confederate blab blab etc I am just pointing out why it happens. Ice
Actually Ruben, I don't believe "celebrate" would be the correct term, rather, commemorate or remember would be more to the point. I for one do not celebrate swarms of Japanese fighters falling out of the sky and blowing thousands of Americans to Kingdom Come, but I do remember that day. Yom Kippur - what I remember about that is back in 1973 Egypt thought they would catch Israel with their pants down, and they were close - but Israel fought back heartily and sent them back into the Nile and even beyond! Their swift defeat of Egypt thwarted an invasion by the USSR, yes, they had paratroopers loaded up and ready to go when Egypt went down.
