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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 1286460, member: 24633"]Greenie, as Lee said, each of the Classic Commems have many stories surrounding them, not only about their manufacture, but the historic significance as well. For example, the first settlement established in Maryland in 1631 was on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay on Kent Island and was known as Kent Fort. However, George Calvert, the 1st Lord Baltimore didn't petition the King of England for the Maryland grant until 1634, and it wasn't approved until 1635 after his death. I can only assume that the 1634 Maryland Tercentenary commem was dated based on the petitioin date for the grant. Cecil Calvert, who succeeded his father as the 2nd Lord Baltimore, inherited the grant. Neither George nor his son Cecil had ever set foot in the "New World", and Cecil remained in England, sending his younger brother Leonard to oversee the colony. It's interesting to note that Maryland has two counties named after Cecil Calvert (Cecil County and Calvert County), one for his wife, Anne Arundell (Anne Arundel County) and one for his son Charles (Charles County), but there is no county named for his younger brother, Leonard, despite the fact that he was the only member of the family who left England to oversee the colony. Chris[/QUOTE]