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Face value Coin Obverse design Reverse design Composition Mintage Available Obverse Reverse 50¢ Grant Memorial half dollar (no star) Ulysses S. Grant: Birthplace of Ulysses S. Grant 90% Ag, 10% Cu Authorized: 250,000 (max) Uncirculated: 95,055 (P) [7] 1922 50¢ Grant Memorial half dollar (star) Ulysses S. Grant, star between AMERICA and GRANT
English: DESCRIPTION (from the medal's page on the Missouri Historical Society website): "This gold medal given to Charles A. Lindbergh by Raymond Orteig and presented by Colonel Walter Scott on June 16, 1927 during a dinner at the Hotel Breevort in New York City. The medal was accompanied by a scroll and check for $25,000.
During the spring and summer of 1927, 40 pilots attempted various long-distance over-ocean flights, leading to 21 deaths during the attempts. For example, seven people died in August 1927 in the Orteig Prize-inspired $25,000 Dole Air Race to fly from San Francisco to Hawaii. [8] 1927 saw a number of aviation firsts and new records.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, author, and military officer. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles (5,800 km), flying alone for 33.5 hours in the first solo transatlantic flight.
1927 $20 United States Duckor Heritage Auctions: January 2014 $1,997,500 1792 Silver Center J-1 Pattern United States Norweb Heritage Auctions: August 2014 $1,980,000 1874 Bickford $10 Pattern PR-65+ United States Simpson Heritage Auctions January 2022 $1,897,500 1927 $20 United States Morse Heritage Auctions: November 2005 $1,880,000 1804
On History Channel's hit show "Pawn Stars," a man came in to sell a 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle $20 gold coin. The coins are extremely rare, and some of them have sold for more than $1 million ...
The following mint marks indicate which mint the coin was made at (parentheses indicate a lack of a ... 1927 (P) 11,912,000 D 976,000 S 396,000 1928 (P) 6,336,000 D ...
Within a year of his flight, a quarter of Americans (an estimated thirty million) personally saw Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis. Over the remainder of 1927 applications for pilot's licenses in the U.S. tripled, the number of licensed aircraft quadrupled, and U.S. Airline passengers grew between 1926 and 1929 by 3,000% from 5,782 to 173,405.