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Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln!!......Post a Lincoln!!

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Schatzy

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Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809.

 

President Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play entitled Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. This was the first Presidential assassination in American history.

 

The first formal observance of his birthday took place in 1866, the year after his assassination, when both houses of Congress gathered for a memorial address. While Lincoln's Birthday did not become a federal holiday like George Washington's, it did become a legal holiday in several states.

 

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Rich has two complete incredible sets on the PCGS registry.

 

I have looked at all of the sets in NGC registry and PCGS registry, there are sure some great looking lincolns out there!!

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Here's one that probably few of you have seen. It is a Rhode Island Civil War token, and it's a very rare one.

 

This Lincoln was used with a number of different reverse (obverse?) dies. The trouble is all of them are rare.

 

Some people don't think that this is Lincoln ... just some bearded man. But George and Melvin Fuld agreed that it was Lincoln and placed it among the Lincoln pieces in their Patriotic CWT book. Perhaps the "redeemed" part came after he was re-elected. Who knows? hm

 

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President Lincoln and his Generals. First from the left: Col Delos Sacket, Inspector Geneneral of the Army of the Potomac; 4th from left: General George Morrell, Division Commander in the 5th Corp; 6th from left: General George B. McClellan, Commander, Army of the Potomac; President Lincoln; 11th from left: General Henry Hunt, Chief of Artillery; 12th from left: General Fitz John Porter, Commander of the 5th Corps; 1st on the right: Capt George A. Custer, aide to General McClellan.

 

 

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PCGS 67 RB

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