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leeg

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  1. On 9/13/2021 at 6:57 PM, VKurtB said:

    Domestic relations attorneys seem to last more than 500 years and are far more vicious. As for the possible commemorative, didn’t the 1924 half dollar cover it adequately?

    In my book project it doesn't. The chapter around the coin is just that, around the coin. The chapter following is around the Celebration. You must not have read my chapter around the coin.

    Thanks for the question.

  2. I continue with:

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    Courtesy of The Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary, by Antonia H. Froendt, p. 64.

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    Athore, son of the Timucuan king Saturiwa, showing Laudonnière the monument placed by Ribault. Wikipedia.

    Three of his children, Isaac, Henry and Rachel, the last of whom married Jean Mousnier de la Montagne, were among the earliest European inhabitants of New York. In an article in the New York Evening Post of September 19, 1922, Mr. Robert de Forest says that Jesse de Forest’s autograph petition of July 21, 1621, is still extant and that it is signed by 56 men, most of them heads of families, the whole number comprising 227 men, women and children. It was presented to the British Ambassador at The Hague. Sir Dudley Carlton, and transmitted to the British State Secretary.

  3. On 7/30/2021 at 5:03 PM, Jason Abshier said:

    I was unaware they made a box for the ol’school fatty holders ? I myself have several of old NGC fatty holders I keep each one wrapped in a plastic bag inside a plastic storage bin with silica gel … I have a wood shop with tablesaw and router and planer and jointer and stuff like that in my garage I haven’t gotten around to making a custom wooden slab box for my old fatties . I have few nice pieces of black walnut and few Pennsylvania wild cherry limber that would make a nice looking box for a display 

    Hi Jason,

      I know they used to but I haven't been able to find one. hm

  4. On 7/29/2021 at 12:09 PM, Quintus Arrius said:

    @leeg  Firstly, thanks for shelving that intimidating avatar.  Now, where was I? Oh yeah, the same way they recently changed Verrazzano's name by correcting the spelling, regardless the cost, the city of Cleveland can best honor Moses Cleaveland by correcting the spelling of his name.  Nice coin!

    P.S.  I have some thoughts on mispronunciations, but that's another issue for another time and place.

    Thanks on the kind words on my NEWP. It's an NGC MS-63, huh? Very few folks know about the spelling issue. I agree that errors of this type should be fixed.

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    A 3-1/2 x 6” mailing envelope—also with embossing from a half dollar-size coin. The envelope is postmarked Aug 13 / 11 PM 1924 Madison Sq. Sta. New York. Attached is a cancelled horizontal strip of two 1924 one-cent Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary stamps with *selvage at right having having plate number 15756. 

    *Selvage (noun), an edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it from unraveling.

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    George T. Morgan

        George T. Morgan Bio.: Born in Birmingham, England, Morgan studied in England, and worked for many years as a die engraver at Messrs. J.S. & A.B. Wyon. Morgan came to the United States from England in 1876 and was hired as an assistant engraver at the Mint in October of that year under William Barber. He figured very prominently in the production of pattern coins from 1877 onward. Morgan designed several varieties of 1877 half dollars, the 1879 ‘Schoolgirl’ dollar, and the 1882 ‘Shield Earring’ coins. Eventually, Morgan took the role of seventh Chief Engraver following the death of Charles E. Barber in February 1917. Morgan is most famous for designing the Morgan dollar, one of many namesakes, as well as the never-released $100 Gold Union coin.8

    8 Wikipedia.

     

    Congressional Authorization Act 

    [PUBLIC—NO. 440—67TH CONGRESS.] 

    [S. 4468] 

    An Act To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the settling of New Netherland, the Middle States, in 1624, by Walloons, French and Belgian Huguenots, under the Dutch West India Company.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the settling of New Netherland, the Middle States, in 1624, by Walloons, French and Belgian Huguenots, under the Dutch West India Company, there shall be coined at the mints of the United States silver 50-cent pieces to the number of three hundred thousand, such 50-cent pieces to be of the standard troy weight, composition, diameter, device, and design as shall be fixed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, which said 50-cent pieces shall be legal tender in any payment to the amount of their face value.

    SEC. 2. That all laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver coins of the United States and the coining or the striking of the same, regulating and guarding the process of coinage, providing for the purchase of material and for the transportation, distribution, and redemption of the coins, for the prevention of debasement or counterfeiting, for security of the coin, or for any other purposes, whether said laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable, apply to the coinage herein authorized: Provided, That the United States shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies and other preparations for this coinage.

    SEC. 3. That the coins herein authorized shall be issued only upon the request of the Fifth National Bank of New York, and upon payment of the par value of such coins by such bank to the United States Treasury.

    I hope some of you have enjoyed this chapter.  The End.