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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3524135, member: 57463&quot;]<font face="Georgia"></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">I agree completely. It is my own primary interest, as I said. And this book does have interesting historical details in support of the overall narrative. But it is not about the Black Death, or even the death of Abraham Lincoln. Still, I found enough here to keep my interest as I read.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia">Well, it is a pretty coin from an interesting era, regardless of the putative &quot;risk&quot; in owning one. </font></p><p><b><font face="Georgia">In 1869: </font></b></p><p><font face="Georgia">January 1 – Sigma Nu, the first anti-hazing honor/social fraternity, is founded, at Virginia Military Institute.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">January 20 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the first woman to testify before the United States Congress.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">April 6 – The American Museum of Natural History is founded in New York City.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">May 6 – Purdue University is founded in West Lafayette, Indiana.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">May 10 – The &quot;golden spike&quot; is driven marking the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in Promontory, Utah.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">June 1 – The Cincinnati Red Stockings open the baseball season as the first fully professional baseball team. Thomas Edison is granted his first patent for the Electric Vote Recorder.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">September 24 – Black Friday: The Fisk-Gould Scandal causes a financial panic in the United States.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">November 6 – The first intercollegiate game of American football is played: Rutgers University defeats Princeton University 6–4 in a college football game.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">December 10 The Wyoming territorial legislature gives women the right to vote, one of the first such laws in the world.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869_in_the_United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869_in_the_United_States</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice coin. In many ways, very similar to a Proof Shield Nickel... different time, different place, same idea for them, same passions for us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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