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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;green18, post: 1422898, member: 10103&quot;]I find many coins fascinating, and many times more, the people who some of them commemorate.&nbsp; The Daniel Boone Bicentennial commemorative is one of particular interest to me because of my love for the history regarding the time that Daniel lived.&nbsp; The coin itself was minted over a period of 5 years (1934-1938) and struck at all three mints (Denver, San Francisco, Philadelphia) except for the first year of issue where it was solely struck by the Philadelphia Mint.&nbsp; It commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth (1734) of this extraordinary explorer, soldier and frontiersman.&nbsp; The coin was designed by Augustus Lukeman and bears the artists conception of Boone in a profile portrait on the obverse.&nbsp; The reverse depicts the standing figures of both Boone and Chief Blackfish of the Shawnee Native American tribe.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Boone was instrumental in blazing the Wilderness trail through the Cumberland Gap of the Appalachian Mountains and into the Kentucky wilderness, helping to expand colonial America into the western regions.&nbsp; He founded the settlement of Boonesboro (present day central Kentucky) in1775.&nbsp; With the out break of the American Revolution the British, under the command of Lt. Governor (Canada) Henry Hamilton began to incite the Ohio country native American tribes to attack colonial interests in both the Ohio country and the Kentucky regions.&nbsp; Soon colonials were abandoning the region and only a stalwart few were left to defend the forts and settlements.&nbsp; So vicious were the attacks that the remaining defenders were bottled up in their fortifications for weeks on end.&nbsp; Sooner or later one has to venture out to replenish food supplies and preservatives to make the rations last longer.&nbsp; Salt was the preservative of choice in that day so, in January 1778 Boone led a party of 30 men to the salt springs on Licking River.&nbsp; In February the expedition was surprised by a superior force of Chilicothe Shawnee led by Chief Blackfish.&nbsp; Boone, realizing the futility of his situation, convinced his men to surrender and avoid a massacre. He also convince Blackfish not to attack the now weakened Boonesboro until spring.&nbsp; The party of captured souls was taken back to the Shawnee towns where some of the captives were adopted by families who had lost members in battle.&nbsp; It was an accepted custom of tribes to do this sort of thing and quite common at the time.&nbsp; Boone himself was adopted by Chief Blackfish.&nbsp; When, in June, Boone learned of Blackfish&#039;s intentions of redoubling his efforts of attack on Boonesboro, he eluded his captors and made it back to the settlement in time to alert the garrison.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below, please find a 1936 addition to my fledgling collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]173459.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]173460.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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