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The final sheet is titled simply "Christopher Columbus" and its single stamp is accompanied by text that cites the 500th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage and the upcoming 100th anniversary of the first commemorative United States Stamps. In all four countries, these sheets were offered for sale only between May 22 and September 27, 1992. [13]
The Columbian half dollar is a coin issued by the Bureau of the Mint in 1892 and 1893. The first traditional United States commemorative coin, it was issued both to raise funds for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and to mark the quadricentennial of the first voyage to the Americas of Christopher Columbus, whose portrait it bears.
A letter written by Christopher Columbus on February 15, 1493, is the first known document announcing the completion of his first voyage across the Atlantic, which set out in 1492 and reached the Americas. The letter was ostensibly written by Columbus himself, aboard the caravel Niña, on the return leg of his voyage. [2]
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906. (ed., Different version available) Young, Alexander Bell Filson, Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery; a Narrative, with a Note on the Navigation of Columbus's First Voyage by the Earl of Dunraven, v. 2.
An 1886 O Morgan silver dollar in average condition is also only worth $35, but one in mint condition could be worth around $140,000, according to CoinTrackers.com. 20. 1896 O Morgan Silver Dollar ...
The 5-cent stamp paid for a letter weighing less than 1/2 ounce and traveling up to 300 miles, the 10-cent stamp for deliveries to locations greater than 300 miles, or, twice the weight deliverable for the 5-cent stamp. Each stamp was hand engraved in what is believed to be steel, and laid out in sheets of 200 stamps.
Price: $420,000 Sold: 2009 Hong Kong businessman Hoffman Ma bought the glove Jackson wore in 1983 when he did his first moonwalk during the "Motown 25" television special. A similar glove used ...
The Regular Issues of 1922–1931 were a series of 27 U.S. postage stamps issued for general everyday use by the U.S. Post Office. Unlike the definitives previously in use, which presented only a Washington or Franklin image, each of these definitive stamps depicted a different president or other subject, with Washington and Franklin each confined to a single denomination.