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Civil War Souvenir Medallions

MINT GRADE Civil War Souvenir U.S. State & National Parks & America The Beautiful Quarters mounted in .925 sterling silver bezel amulet with sterling silver wide bail loop, for easy hanging from any silver chain.

I normally do not provide a chain, because everyone likes a different style and weight of chain, so the pendants are priced to sell without a chain, at $39.95, which is a profit to you of about $30 per item, and it adds up, fast, at a street fair or farmer’s market booth, where you’re also selling hot sauces and cold drinks.

These are Civil War Souvenirs — generally Civil War RELICS are expensive and hard to find. Although a souvenir is not a relic, the price differential makes the acquisition easy.

  • John Brown’s Fort — Harper’s Ferry

  • Vicksburg U.S.S. Cairo — “Ironclad” Civil War Gunboat

  • Gettysburg — Cemetery Ridge

  • Lincoln — Illinois State Quarter

All of these coins are very scarce and valuable at MS-66 or better, and while you’re collecting these ultra-saleable Civil War Souvenir Commemorative Medallions — aka “U.S. Quarters” — you’re on the lookout for The Big One, which could drop any minute.

Of course, if you’re NOT “in-motion” doing intensive coin-search, guess what? You’ll never hit anything, unless you’re turning coins.

Okay, so what’s the secret of finding GREAT quarters? The secret of the U.S. pictorial quarters is, “If the Face is Perfect, the Back Will Be, Too!” — meaning, look carefully at the face. If there’s a single mar of any kind, reject the coin, no matter what, UNLESS IT’S A MINT-ERROR coin, in which case, you might not care about the coin’s condition.

Revolutionary War Souvenir Medallions

Now, how about the Revolutionary War? Fair enough, we ought to be able to find a number of Revolutionary War souvenir quarters in there somewhere:

  • “Saratoga” — General Burgoyne’s Surrender at the battlefield.

  • “Minute Man” — Massachusetts State Quarter

  • “Live Free or Die” — Old Man of the Mountain Rock Formation, New Hampshire.

  • “Washington Crossing the Delaware”

  • “Caesar Rodney’s Midnight Ride” — Commemorates the 1776 Signing of Declaration of Independence — his was the deciding vote.

  • Fort Moultrie — Sgt. William Jasper returns regimental flag while under British attack.

War of 1812 Souvenir Medallion

  • Fort McHenry — “Rockets’ Red Glare, Bombs Bursting in Air” Medallion.

Oh, there’s more, much more, that you can glean from the U.S. quarters that aren’t The Big One, but they must be MS-66 or better, or you can’t do much with them, and that means learning how to SEE a coin, and that can’t be acquired — you need to learn it from someone.

I’ll get plenty of comments on that little blockbuster, but it’s the truth. If you hope to be an effective and RICH coin-hunter, you’ll need a teacher.

I’m training some teachers right now. If you’d like to be one, be sure to let me know sooner rather than later.

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