Need Info Of This 1789-1797 Silver Coin i found on my oldgranpa vault alot of coins i thnik was his hobby when he was a kid he died at 86 years but one of those coins that im interesten in info or price aprox or what it ts are a silver coin with the george washington face on both sides of the coin and reads george washington united states and its dated 1789-1797 im not in this hobby but nedd info i like this foeum guys kepp going where can i look for more info of coins theres a lot of old dated coins here guys let me know
Greetings and Welcome to the forum. As to your Grandfather's collection I have no idea, it might be a Civil War Token, but that's just a guess. Can you post a picture or two? Take care Ben
Welcome aboard,dejavu74.It sounds like you have got a commemorative medal there.As it is in relation to George Washington,the 1st. President of America,it will be of interest to some of the U.S. members here. Can you please post some photos? Aidan.
im going to post picture tomorro in the afternoon here buddy and glad to be at this forum its intetresting and nice people here and like i said im a newbie at this hobby
You certainly have a commemorative medal, not a coin. A coin normally carries a denomination and some indicia of the government issuing it. Washington's portrait didn't become a design element of US coinage until 135 years after the second date on that piece, when the 1932 quarter was minted. Usually commemoratives either bear two dates related by a time span of 25, 50, 100, or some other significant round number of years, or the beginning and ending dates of some historical period. While both 1769 and 1797 are significant dates in relation to Washington, they don't have any generally recognized relationship to each other. 1797, of course, is the year he turned the presidency over to John Adams and gave his farewell address to the American people. In 1769 he was establishing himself as a Virginia plantation owner, and expanding his Mt. Vernon estate. He did foreshadow his involvement in the next decade's American Revolution by encouraging his fellow plantation owners to boycott British goods for political reasons, as a more peaceful method that - as he describes it in this correspondence - a resort to "A--ms". Perhaps the maker of that medal was treating his early political correspondence and his subsequent withdrawal from public life as marking a special period in his life.
ok guys soorry it reads 1789 not 1769 and here are the pic not in good shape but its what i found and whats that hole for?? pictures one second
Dejavu74,1789 is the year George Washington become the first President of America under the current Constitution. Aidan.
Those were a fantasy piece made in the late 60's early 70's and used as either a bangle for bracelets, or in the case of one clothing manufacturer as a zipper pull on a jacket.
