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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blue_oxen, post: 670014, member: 19714&quot;]Lol I&#039;m from that small town so I know I&#039;m sharp as a knife. Anyways everything was going way over priced. I got a 1909 D I think might be an S penny to fill a hole in my collection. i would barely call it a G and had to pay 3 bucks for it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Things like a set of 1943 P D S circulated Penny&#039;s where selling for $20 to give you a ruff idea how much people where paying for things.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did get this for $1 its neat and only took me half the day to find out what it is . Well kinda. if anyone has anymore info on this i would love to have it.</p><p><img src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/coinpix/coinfront.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/coinpix/coinback.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">[&quot;Department of the TREASURY NEWS&quot; banner, with &quot;The Department of the Treasury 1789&quot; seal on right and &quot;U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE; WASH., D.C. 20229 - 202-964-2475&quot; on 2nd line.] </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">FOR RELEASE UPON RECEIPT</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">May 20, 1974 </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">FOURTH MEDAL IN U.S. CUSTOMS SERIES</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">HONORS WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, CUSTOMHOUSE </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">The fourth in a series of medals commemorating historic customhouses in the United States has been struck by the Treasury Department&#039;s Bureau of the Mint in collaboration with the U.S. Customs Service. </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">The medal features the U.S. Customhouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, locally known as West Virginia Independence Hall. It will be presented to officials of the West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation, Inc., during a U.S. Customs Service bicentennial ceremony on May 23, 1974. </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">The Wheeling Customhouse is depicted on the obverse side and the seal of the U.S. Customs Service is on the reverse of the 1-5/16-inch miniature bronze medal. It was designed by Philip E. Fowler of the Philadelphia Mint. </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">The medal will be sold locally by the West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation, Inc. It will be available at the customhouse following the 2 p.m. presentation ceremony, and at all banks in Wheeling. </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">The medal, along with three earlier ones in the series which depict Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Boston, and San Francisco Customhouses, are available at the Bureau of the Mint&#039;s exhibit and sales areas in Philadlphia, Denver, San Francisco, and at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., for 50 cents. They may be ordered by mail through the San Francisco Mint, 55 Mint Street, San Francisco, California 94175 for 60 cents each. A 3-inch bronze medal of the Georgetown Customhouse is also available in the Mint&#039;s sales and exhibit areas for $5.00, and through the mail for $5.25. </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">Taken from <a href="http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:hYcG7v7jJRUJ:www.usmint.gov/historianscorner/index.cfm%3Faction%3DDocDL%26doc%3Dpr467.doc+medal+in+us+customs+series&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:hYcG7v7jJRUJ:www.usmint.gov/historianscorner/index.cfm%3Faction%3DDocDL%26doc%3Dpr467.doc+medal+in+us+customs+series&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us" rel="nofollow">http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cach...t=clnk&amp;gl=us</a></span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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