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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8245795, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1937 POCAHONTAS COAL</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Bronze Medal</b></font></p><p><b>1.25 in. diam</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452094[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452095[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This Bronze medal also celebrates the 100 year founding of Mercer County W. VA. 1837-1937, Which is near the border of Northern Virginia.</p><p>It measures 1.25 inches in diameter. On the obverse, Pocahontas is standing in front of coal hopper railroad cars. It shows a side view of the larger-than-life Pocahontas statue, which is one of the favorite attractions of Jamestown Island in VA.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452096[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finished in 1913, her hands are worn a bright copper color because so many visitors have held them while posing for photos. A reproduction of the statue was given to the British people by the governor of Virginia to adorn Pocahontas’ burial grounds at St. George&#039;s Church in Gravesend, England.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the reverse, The Art Deco-styled Mercer County Court House at Princeton, West Virginia, in the Bluestone Region of southern West Virginia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pocahontas was a Powhatan Native American woman, born around 1595, known for her involvement with English colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she saved the life of Englishman John Smith, by placing her head upon his own at the moment of his execution.</p><p>Pocahontas later married John Rolfe, and they were among the ancestors of many of the First Families of Virginia. She changed her name to Rebecca Rolfe and died while visiting England in 1617 in her very early twenties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pocahontas is a town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. It was named for Chief Powhatan&#039;s daughter, Pocahontas, who lived in the 17th-century Jamestown Settlement.</p><p>Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County/McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia.</p><p>In a later time, this would be just a few hills east of the Hatfield and McCoy&#039;s feuding grounds.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the availability and fame of high-quality Pocahontas bituminous coal increased, economic forces took over. Coal operators and their employees settled dozens of towns in southern West Virginia, and in the next few years, as coal demand swelled, some of them amassed fortunes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The countryside was soon sprinkled with tipples, coke ovens, houses for workers, company stores and churches. In the four decades before the Crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression, these coal towns flourished.</p><p><br /></p><p>One example was the small community of Bramwell, West Virginia, which in its heyday boasted the highest per capita concentration of millionaires in the country.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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