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The Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar was an American fifty-cent piece struck in 1925 at the Philadelphia Mint. Its main purpose was to raise money on behalf of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association for the Stone Mountain Memorial near Atlanta, Georgia .
1925 50¢ Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar: Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson: Eagle perched on a mountain crag; inscription to the bravery of the soldiers of the South 90% Ag, 10% Cu Authorized: 5,000,000 (max) Uncirculated: 2,314,709 (P) [15] 1925 50¢ California Diamond Jubilee half dollar: A Forty-Niner panning for ...
The pair of life-sized bronze nude statues of male and female athletes atop Olympic Gateway in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Eagle Ag 90%, Cu 10% Uncirculated: 217,954 P 116,675 D 116,675 S Proof: 1,801,210 S 1984 $10: 1984 Summer Olympics eagle [4] Olympic torch runners Eagle clutching an olive branch in its right claw and arrows in its ...
In 1925, a commemorative 50-cent coin was released that showed Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Money raised from the sale of the coins was combined with money raised by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Association in order to fund the carving of a Confederate monument at Stone Mountain. [6]
The submarine was decommissioned in 1995. During World War II, the Navy named a Liberty ship the SS T.J. Jackson in his honor. The U.S. M36 tank destroyer was nicknamed Jackson after him by British forces in World War II. "Stonewall" Jackson appeared on the CSA $500 bill (7th Issue, February 17, 1864) and on the 1925 Stone Mountain Memorial ...
The Stone Mountain Park officially opened on April 14, 1965 – 100 years to the day after Lincoln's assassination. [10] Site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (the Second Clan), on the top of the mountain, with cross burning, in 1915. Stone Mountain was the location of an annual Labor Day cross-burning ceremony for the next 50 years. [11] In ...
The Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia is set to be removed this week, officials said. Arlington National Cemetery spokesperson Kerry Meeker told CNN in an email ...
The original version of the bill, introduced in the House of Representatives on February 16, 1925 by Pennsylvania Congressman George P. Darrow and in the Senate by that state's George W. Pepper, called for a $1.50 gold coin for the 150th anniversary, for commemorative half dollars, and for a $1 bill honoring the Declaration of Independence.