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B-1, NFC Coins, Designed by John Reich ***First year that the Capped Bust quarters are issued. Quarters are not issued again until 1818 due to a fire that devistates the US mint. ***The Battle of New Orleans puts an end to the "War of 1812" on January 8, 1815. Actually a treaty had already been signed, and the war was over before the battle began, but no one told the armies and they fought the battle anyway.***Napoleon escapes from Elba and returns to France. ***My ancestor Samuel Wolbert is born this year on New York frontier, he later marries Elizabeth, a Mohawk Indian.
B-8, Ebay purchase, crossed from Old White ANACS F12. Designed by John Reich. *** Repairs of the Mint building are finally complete after a fire decimates the mint buildings. Quarters are produced in 1815, then not again until 1818 because of this fire and subsequent renovation.** Franz Guber composes "Silent Night" on Dec. 24*** Convention of 1818 signed to create the U.S. Canada boarder along the 49th parallel***First Seminole war ends when Andrew Jackson takes Pensicola, Florida.***Congress limits the amount of stripes on the flag to 13, other states will be added as stars.***Illinois, state number twenty-one, joins the union as a free state.
B-2, Rare Coins of New Hampshire, June 2008, Designed by John Reich, Very nice example. ***McCulloch vs Maryland, The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Bank of the United States is constitutional.*** The United States House of Representatives agrees to the Tallmadge Amendment barring slaves from the new state of Missouri (the opening vote in a controversy that leads to the Missouri Compromise)** Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia.
B-1, JJ Teaparty, Nice colors, Designed by John Reich.***John Wright Oakes, landscape painter, is born.*** Joseph Smith, Jr. (Founder of the LDS Church.) receives his First Vision in the spring in Palmyra, New York*** After the sinking of the Essex (whaleship) of Nantucket by a whale the survivors were left floating in three small whaleboats. They eventually resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism to allow some to survive. *** Mount Rainier erupts over what is today Seattle. *** James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.*** Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos.
B-4, Heritage, Crossed over from an ANACS holder, Strong details for the grade, Designed by John Reich.***Catholics dedicate the first U.S. cathedral in Maryland, Moses Austin receives a large land grant from New Spain (Mexico) and and forms a settlement in "Texas."***U.S. abolishes land qualifications for the right to vote.*** The Santa Fe Trail is used by the first White American.
B-1, Purchased on Ebay, originally in a blue ANACS holder, one of two varities for the year, with the B2 variety being quite rare, Designed by John Reich.*** Hieroglyphs are deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone.*** The Graham Cracker is developed in Bound Brook, New Jersey by the Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham.*** Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States and General of the Civil was is born.*** Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine.
B-1, Ebay, Nice original example, Designed by John Reich.*** Trapper Jim Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake*** Lafayette visits the United States.*** None of the four candidates for U.S. President gain a majority of the electoral votes, so the election is thrown into the U.S. House of Representatives.*** The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson Bay Company. *** Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general is born.*** Mountain Man Jedediah Smith leads a group westward that becomes known as "The Oregon Trail."
B-3, Northeast Numismatics, Designed by John Reich.***Aluminium is discovered.*** The United States Postal Service started a dead letter office.*** After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.*** The Erie Canal opens, providing passage from Albany, New York to Buffalo and Lake Erie.*** The first roller skates are invented.***
B-4, NFC, Very nice example, designed by John Reich. Final year for the large diameter quarter. *** Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.*** Ányos Jedlik creates the world's first electric motor.*** Feral child: Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.*** Jules Verne and Leo Tolstoy are born. ***Artist Francisco De Goya dies. ***My ancestor Elizabeth Wolbert is born. She was a native of the Mohawk tribe and joins the family after being captured during a raid of one of the indian villages in western New York. She later marries Samuel Wolbert, her step brother! (a little strange I know.)
B-5, Eye Appealing Coins, August 2008, Designed by John Reich***Edgar Allan Poe publishes "Poems"*** Book of Mormon is published in large volume following original publication date in 1830. The LDS church is also oficially organized 1830. William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts.*** The Hunchback of Notre Dame is first published by Victor Hugo. *** Nat Turner's slave rebellion breaks out in Southampton County, Virginia. Nat Turner is later hanged for inciting the rebellion.*** Charles Darwin embarks on his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle.*** My ancestor William Henry McGrady is born.
Ex. Brian Greer. B-1 LDS with all the rust and clash marks that accompany it. White and charming (likely dipped.) Designed by William Kneass. *** Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established. *** Patent granted for 1st soda fountain *** John Deere makes 1st steel plow.*** "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg and sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215.*** New York Anti-Slavery Society organized.***
B-1, O/F in OF, nice and sharp. Designed by William Kneass. *** The Whig Party is officially named by United States Senator Henry Clay. *** The Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 15th century, is suppressed by royal decree.*** Ursuline Convent Riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston, MA. *** Thomas Davenport, the inventor of the first American DC electrical motor, installs his motor in a small model car, creating one of the first electric cars. *** The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina. *** John Wesley Powell, American explorer (Lake Powell.) My ancestor Abijah Dewitt Benedict is born in New York, later serves in the Union army and was taken prisoner. He served as a wagoneer or boatman.
B-5, Ebay, Very pleasing original example with lamination error on the reverse right side. Designed by John Reich.***An assassination is attempted against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol (the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States).*** The United States public debt contracts to $0 for the only time in history. *** Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun.*** The Great Fire of New York destroys 530 buildings, including the New York Stock Exchange. *** The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.*** The Treaty of New Echota is signed between the United States Government and members of the Cherokee Tribe.
B-2, Dick Osburn, Designed by John Reich. *** Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.*** The Battle of the Alamo ends; 182 Texans are slaughtered by about 5,000 Mexicans.*** The Territory of Wisconsin is created. *** Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads. *** Fort Parker massacre: Among those captured by Native Americans is 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker; she later gives birth to a son named Quanah, who becomes the last chief of the Comanche. *** Arkansas is the 25th state admitted into the United States of America.
B-4b JJTeaparty, designed by William Kneass. *** The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees. *** Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form. *** Michigan is the 26th state admitted to the United States of America. *** Louis Daguerre develops the daguerreotype. *** Michigan is the 26th state admitted to the United States of America.
B-4b JJTeaparty, designed by William Kneass. *** The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees. *** Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form. *** Michigan is the 26th state admitted to the United States of America. *** Louis Daguerre develops the daguerreotype. *** Michigan is the 26th state admitted to the United States of America.
B-1, JJ Teaparty, Designed by John Reich. *** Regular Atlantic steamship service begins with the SS Great Western. *** The Cherokee Tribe is forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears. *** Duke University is established in North Carolina. *** Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph. *** Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions. *** U.S. Mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes.) *** National Galley opens in London. ***Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor.