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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8215711, member: 20201&quot;]<b><font size="6">1967 Boston Tea Party</font></b></p><p><b>National Commemorative Society</b></p><p><b>Franklin Mint</b></p><p><b>Sterling Silver Medal</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1442115[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1442116[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This Proof Boston Tea Party Silver Medal was designed and commissioned by the National Commemorative Society and struck by the Franklin Mint of 0.925 Sterling Silver and possesses an actual silver weight of 0.77885 Troy ounces.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as Indians, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor.</p><p>The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. The Tea Party became an iconic event of American history, and since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442117[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>John Adams and many other Americans considered tea drinking to be unpatriotic following the Boston Tea Party. Tea drinking declined during and after the Revolution, resulting in a shift to coffee as the preferred hot drink.</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I have two of these</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442118[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442119[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>My 1954 Topps Scoop</b></p><p><b>No 28 Boston Tea Party</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442126[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1442128[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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