Lousy, good-for-nothing U.S. Mint

Why would we want to commemorate the War of 1812? We got our edited handed to us. The only guy doing anything was old hickery and for the most part he was busy slammin booze and challenging people to duels. Meanwhile the white house is practically burned to the ground. If it weren't for Napolean running amuck our independence would have been less than 40 years. Cheers to Canada though, they deserve an 1812 commem (I own one).

 

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You are correct. Poor choice of words on my part. I will reword my post.

 

And on that note now the OP can apologize to the US Mint. j/k

 

Stay tuned for next week's history lesson commemorating Bastille Day, when the people of France declared war against Louis XVI.

 

Right, except they are now issuing a plethora of coins and "coins" on that occasion. A silver dollar, a circulating $2 coin, to be followed by four quarters, maybe more ...

Christian

 

And what he did was put down an indian uprising. The thing he is best known for, The battle of New Orleans, took place after the war was already over.

 

When we as collectors are willing to pay others { congress} to do something for us that we should be doing for ourselves one or two things will surely happen.
#1 The service will become so high you will not be able to afford it.
#2 The service would be so sloppy you would not want it.
We collect these coins so why cant we have the say in what coins we would collect and would not the mint profit more if we were more involved in the coins we would like to have.

 

We do have a say in the matter. It's called "writing your congressmen", but sadly, it seems to be a thing of the past. When people get an epiphany nowdays, they start a chain email, or they post things on their Facebook page. Sadly, those things usually do not actually carry any weight in congress because nobody can tell for sure whose constituents are whose.

However, another sign of the times is the sad fact that most of the time when you write your congressmen, your letter is read and responded to by some aide or intern and is likely never read by its intended recipient. I've written many letters and received many responses. Most of the time they are very cordial, thanking me for my concern, etc. However, I've noticed that while the signature is always the same, the handwriting in the bodies of the letters varies wildly.

 

I show Treaty of Ghent as being signed December 24th 1814.

I guess it really come down to when do you consider a war to be over. When the documents are signed, when they are ratified, or when the peace is declared. Kind of like WWI. The armistice went into effect on Nov 11th 1918 and that is normally considered to be the end of the war, but the final declaration of peace did not come until late Nov 1921. Technically from Nov 18 to Nov 21 we were still at war, there was just a cease fire in place. (That is the reason why the 1921 peace dollar had such a low mintage. They wanted the coin commemorating the peace to come out in the same year that the peace was declared but it came so late in the year that they only had about four weeks to solicit designs, get approval, make models, dies and start striking coins. They didn't start production until Dec 28th, but they did get them made during the year peace was declared.)

 

The Constitution has never stopped a politician from doing exactly what they wanted. On RARE occasions (R8), other politicians will stop them.

 

There's a Fort McHenry quarter coming out next year.

 

And what if they did officially commemorate it?

We'd have yet another ugly coin from the United States Mint.

 

It was...but it wasn't ratified by both sides until February 1815.