Coins or Medals with Guns....

Let's see your coins or medals with guns on them. It could be a cannon or musket all the way to an AK-47. It doesn't matter as long as it shoots and is on a round coin or medal. What the heck, lets include paper-currency as well.

Here is one I'll start the thread out with. It's a Sterling Silver Medal commemorating the Battle of New Orleans, except the inscription on the rear confuses two different Colonel Jackson's. Can you figure it out?

If you're for or against the idea that guns should be added to a nation's pool of coins and currency then please add your comments as well. All civil comments are welcome.

Best Regards
Ben

 

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lol, Stonewall Jackson and Andrew Jackson are not the same person. That's unique.

 

General Andrew Jackson became our 7th president. The two thoughts that stand out in my mind about Andrew Jackson would be that he liked his toddies and that he had a parrot with a potty mouth.

Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson was a confederate general during the Civil War.

Lou

 

That is the wierdest funniest dumbest thing I've ever read on a medal. I just can't figure out how the south lost the Civil war.

 

The medal is correct.
"Like a stonewall" is just a slang term used to describe Andrew Jackson.
The same term was later applied to the Confederate general.

 

Hm no pictures?

Do these count?





And this I forgot

 

^^^ Yes, those are very nice examples. Thanks for posting them.

Ben

 

i got the West Point Commem, that has a few guns on it i think ... i am not at home so i cant post pics but it is alos posted here
http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/commemoratives/index.cfm?action=WestPoint

 

I'm not sure if the pictures will show, but I'll give it a try.
KM# 117 1976 2 Drachmai from Greece.

Lou

 

What about the U.S. Military Payment Certificate banknotes? Some of them depict soldiers with guns,as does the U.S.S.R. 1937 Chervonets banknotes.

The Swiss Shooting Festival coins also depicts rifles,as does the 1842 40 Batzen from Glarus.

Aidan.

 

Andrew Jackson as many know used bale of cottons to block the shot of the British but what is not well known is that at the Battle of New Orleans he had those bales painted with tar to make the British Musket the Brown Bess useless for body shots.

Post Script: The cotton merchants never ceased being crossed with Old Hickory for that miltary feat.

 

In history..Stonewall was only applied to Gen. Thomas Jackson. Whomever Made that coin was in error. Old hickory was a nickname for andrew Jackson. Because when he was indentured as a boy, a British officer slashed his face with a hickory switch. Not a saber as believed. did that dude hate the Brits or what!

 

Here are few Franklin mint medals which are part of a set of 200 medals issued to commemorate the Bi-centennial anniversary of US independence.

1778, Winter at Valley Forge


1779, John Paul Jones Great Naval Victory


1780, Washington joined by French Army at the Newport


Hope you like these. I have few more from the same set which I will upload little later.

Regards,
Ballabh Garg

 

Few more from the same set…..

1786 -> Shay’s Rebellion


1811 -> Battle of Tippecanoe against Indians


1815 -> Jackson repels British at New Orleans


1846 -> War declared between US and Mexico


1856 -> Slavery dispute brings violence at Kansas


1861 -> Civil War Opens


1863 -> The Tide turns at Gettysburg


Regards,
Ballabh Garg

 

And the last few from the same set…..

1878 -> Knights of Labor Emerge as National Union


1918 -> AEF in Europe


1921 -> America Honors her unknown soldiers


1944 -> D-Day


1950 -> US enters Korean War


1957 -> Rights of Blacks protected


1965 -> US becomes more involved in Vietnam War


Regards,
Ballabh Garg

 

how about the 1995s civil war half dollar, the 1993 half dollar,dollar and gold 5 dollar 50th anniversary of ww2, the 1991 dollar korean war memorial,the 1925 lexington-concord sesquicentenial half dollar,the 1936 elgin illinois centennial half dollar and to end my rant the 1934-1938 daniel boone half dollars

 

Here is a few of the medals and a pin back I have with guns on them

 

Hey, that medal from the USS Constellation is pretty neat.

 

Here are a few more. Sorry for the poor pics they are in plastic capsuls that are a little scratched up