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<p>[QUOTE="green18, post: 1432421, member: 10103"]What comes to mind when you think of Alabama? </p><p><br /></p><p>1) The last slave state to be admitted to the Union prior to the Missouri Compromise. </p><p>2) Beautiful gulf beaches. </p><p>3) A terrific college football team. </p><p>4) A rock group.</p><p>5) Red Stone arsenal.</p><p>6) None of the above.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you picked number 6 then you're probably a coin cuckoo like me. When I think 'bama I'm thinkin' Alabama Centennial Half Dollar. The obverse features conjoined busts of W.W. Bibb, the first governor of Alabama, and T.E. Kilby, the contemporary governor at the time of release. The 22 stars on the fields fore and aft of the busts signify the the admittance of the twenty second state to the union. The reverse features a marvelously spectacular eagle along with the state motto "Here we rest". The coin was designed by Laura Gardin Fraser, who many will recognize as the wife of James Earl Fraser, a sculpter of notable pursuits in other areas, but most notably, the Buffalo Nickel. It might be added that this coin displays, for the first time in US coin minting history, the depiction of a living person. Prior to this issue, everyone ever depicted on a coin struck by the US mint was of someone deceased, dead, and long gone. Behold my newest addition to my humble collection.......</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]175265.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="green18, post: 1432421, member: 10103"]What comes to mind when you think of Alabama? 1) The last slave state to be admitted to the Union prior to the Missouri Compromise. 2) Beautiful gulf beaches. 3) A terrific college football team. 4) A rock group. 5) Red Stone arsenal. 6) None of the above. If you picked number 6 then you're probably a coin cuckoo like me. When I think 'bama I'm thinkin' Alabama Centennial Half Dollar. The obverse features conjoined busts of W.W. Bibb, the first governor of Alabama, and T.E. Kilby, the contemporary governor at the time of release. The 22 stars on the fields fore and aft of the busts signify the the admittance of the twenty second state to the union. The reverse features a marvelously spectacular eagle along with the state motto "Here we rest". The coin was designed by Laura Gardin Fraser, who many will recognize as the wife of James Earl Fraser, a sculpter of notable pursuits in other areas, but most notably, the Buffalo Nickel. It might be added that this coin displays, for the first time in US coin minting history, the depiction of a living person. Prior to this issue, everyone ever depicted on a coin struck by the US mint was of someone deceased, dead, and long gone. Behold my newest addition to my humble collection....... [ATTACH]175265.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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