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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8175302, member: 20201"]1969 Transcontinental Railroad Heraldic Art Medal.925 silver 33mmso-called half dollar [ATTACH=full]1428604[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1428605[/ATTACH] Following the daring riders from the Pony Express and the construction of the transcontinental telegraph line in the late 1860s, two ferociously competing railroad lines, the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad, one building westward and the other eastward, opened up new territory to eager settlers. [ATTACH=full]1428606[/ATTACH] The railroad opened for through traffic on May 10, 1869 when Central Pacific Railroad President Leland Stanford ceremonially drove the gold "Last Spike", often referred to as the "Golden Spike" with a silver hammer at Promontory Summit where Central Pacific's No. 60 "The Jupiter" Union and Pacific's No. 119 met in Box Elder County, Utah. [ATTACH=full]1428609[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1428610[/ATTACH] The coast-to-coast railroad connection revolutionized the settlement and economy of the American West. It brought the western states and territories into alignment with the northern Union states and made transporting passengers and goods coast-to-coast considerably quicker and less expensive. "Heraldic Art Medals", were produced by Robert McNamara in his garage in Cleveland, Ohio between 1959 and 1978.I think I have collected 41 different issues of these not counting duplicates. [ATTACH=full]1428622[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]