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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8240194, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1976 Washington Paine</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>New Rochelle</b></font></p><p>Bicentennial City Commemorative Medal</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450293[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1450294[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A .999 Fine Silver New Rochelle Bicentennial city commemorative medal. </p><p>Featuring Washington and Paine on obverse and reverse has Washington centered during a battle. </p><p>Marked on edge &quot;Medallic Art Co. Danbury CT </p><p>.999 fine silver. Weight 2.645 oz</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Two quotes appear on the obverse by Thomas Paine</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>&quot;These are the times that try men&#039;s souls&quot;</i></b></p><p>and</p><p><b><i>&quot;The Constitution is the guide which I can never abandon&quot;</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Reading about Thomas Paine teaches one about the fruits of resentment. </p><p>He was known as &quot;The Father of the American Revolution&quot; and one of &quot;The Founding Fathers of the United States&quot;. </p><p>He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, <b>Common Sense</b> and <b>The American Crisis</b> and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Paine was an enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution, and was granted honorary French citizenship alongside prominent contemporaries such as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and others.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was arrested in France and criticized Washington, who was his life-long friend, for conspiracy and for letting him sit in jail.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, he had no friends but death, nowhere to be buried, except under a walnut tree on his farm. </p><p><br /></p><p>His body was dug up by William Cobbett and his bones were transported with him back to England with the intention to give Paine a heroic reburial on his native soil, but this never came to pass. </p><p><br /></p><p>The bones were still among Cobbett&#039;s effects when he died over twenty years later, but were later lost. </p><p>There is no confirmed story about what happened to them after that, although various people have claimed throughout the years to own parts of Paine&#039;s remains, such as his skull and right hand.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The death mask of Thomas Paine</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1450295[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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