No Drapery PCGS VF25 CAC1838 Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph First coinage is struck at the New Orleans mint Iowa Territory is created. At the time of its founding, Iowa Territory encompassed parts of modern-day Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, as well as all of Iowa ___________________________ Arrows and Rays PCGS VF351853 U.S. signs a treaty to buy approximately 29,600 square miles of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest Levi Strauss & Co.is founded in San Francisco, California Washington Territory is created from a portion of the Oregon Territory north of the lower Columbia River. At its largest extent, it also included the entirety of modern Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming ___________________________ No Motto, Arrows at Date NGC VF35 CAC1854 The first class of the United States Naval Academy graduates at Annapolis, Maryland Waterbury, Connecticut brass manufacturer Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Company create the department (and later independent company) Waterbury Clock Company. It becomes the predecessor of modern-day Timex Group USA, manufacturer of timepieces ___________________________ No Motto PCGS XF401856 Dallas, Texas is incorporated as a city Georgia becomes first state to regulate railroads The first rail train to pass over the mighty Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois makes its journey across a newly completed bridge between the two rail centers ___________________________ With Motto, Arrows at Date PCGS VF201873 Coors Brewing Company begins crafting beer in Golden, Colorado P.T. Barnum's circus, The Greatest Show on Earth, debuts Central Park is completed in New York City ___________________________ With Motto NGC XF45 CAC1877 The first permanent outdoor telephone wire is completed, stretching a distance of three miles Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound, widely considered Edison's first great invention
Yes, it's always fun to complete a segment of a type set like this. That is what I did at times when I was working on my set.
What a nice collection you've put together. Each coin is a beauty in its own right. You should be proud.
Thanks, I enjoyed it. Was really tempted to get a couple AU pieces in the more affordable types, but I wanted to keep it as consistent as I could... I did go for the 1877 for something different but still mid-grade.
I'm fond of that '38 but the perfect black-and-white contrast on that '73 is what struck me the most. That one's an attention-grabber. I see you've "avatarized" the big newp.
Speaking of Seated quarters, your latest castoff landed in my mailbox this morning and will be included in my next Eclectic Box update.
Am I a bad Coloradoan if I dont drink Coors? I basically live in the Napa Valley of beer. Coors to the south, Budweiser to the north, and about a thousand craft breweries all around.
Drink what you want. Me, I choose not to drink. I've never tasted a beer and I'll go to my grave that way.
