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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8173564, member: 20201&quot;]<b>Federal Brand Enterprises Inc.</b></p><p><b>Silver Thomas and Martha Jefferson Medal.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428110[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Deaconess Medical Arts Bldg is now located where the address on the envelope reads 4263 Pearl Rd Cleveland Ohio 44109. Since there is a zip code, the medal has to have been minted after 1963.</p><p>I have seen pamphlets for these that had St Petersburg Florida on them under Cleveland Ohio.</p><p>I&#039;ve found numerous listed all at once but of what was available, Jefferson was the only one that really interested me for the price.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428112[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I found a set of 36 of which Nixon was the last issue, inaugurated in 1969 without a second date for end of Presidency on the inserted holder. I have not found any later issues so I will date the set to 1969. It is quite possible this dates sometime from 1969 to 1974 since Nixon was re-elected in 1972 and resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974.</p><p>It could be as early as 1965 as some LBJ issues are the last in the sets with a space for the next president who has not been elected yet.</p><p>I have found some worthpoint listings that state these are .900 silver and 2,500 of each were minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are bronze sets out there with a reported mintage of 20,000.</p><p>My Jefferson medal has 2175 on the rather rough envelope as well as 2175 stamped incuse on the edge of the medal. I&#039;m dating it as 1969.</p><p>It is just a tad larger and thicker than a US Quarter at 25.65 mm.</p><p>There is the initials H over J below Jefferson&#039;s collar.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Odd that Jefferson is shown as &quot;First Lady&quot; since she was not while Jefferson was president.</b></p><p>She served as First Lady of Virginia during Thomas&#039; term as Governor from 1779 to 1781.</p><p>Martha Skelton Jefferson (Wayles) Born October 19 or 30, 1748 – Died September 6, 1782) was the wife of Thomas Jefferson.</p><p>She was a little over five feet tall, with a lithe figure, auburn hair, and hazel eyes. There are no surviving portraits of Martha Jefferson while she was alive.</p><p><br /></p><p>She played the harpsichord piano, while Thomas Jefferson played violins. It was said that Martha played very skilfully.</p><p>As Virginia&#039;s First Lady during the American Revolution, in response to a request from Martha Washington, Mrs. Jefferson led a drive among the women of Virginia to raise considerable funds and supplies for her state&#039;s militia in the Continental Army.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>She did not serve as First Lady of the United States because she died at the age of 33 in 1782, 19 years before Jefferson became President. </b></p><p>Martha died four months after the birth of her last child.</p><p>Of the six children born to Thomas and Martha, only two survived to adulthood, Martha and Mary.</p><p>Daughter Martha was the only one to live past age 25.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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