The Bicentennial Commemorative Medals

from 1973, 1974, 1975 & 1976

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for $40.00 each
Or As A Set
for $120.00
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      Each sterling silver commemorative medal is housed in a nice black display case and has a brochure describing the obverse and reverse, as well as historic information.

1973 Medal
Obverse: Samuel Adams & Patrick Henry
Reverse: Committees of Correspondence
      Samuel Adams & Patrick Henrywere instrumental in articulating and keeping alive the spirit of liberty during the low ebb in the protest movement following the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766.
      Throughout 1773 a surge in the organization of Committeess of Correspondence lent solidarity and sustenance to the resistance by American colonial patriots to British Imperial policies.

1974 Medal
Obverse: John Adams
Reverse: The First Continental Congress
      John Adams (1735-1826) was a Boston lawyer who became a prominent leader of the cause for independence, and the second president of the United States. Adams was elected to the First Continental Congress and served in each succeeding congress until the end of 1777.
      The First Continental Congress was created because of the acts of an exasperated British ministry imposed upon the American Colonies, a series of punitive measures known as the "Intolerable" or "Coercive Acts," in retaliation for the "Boston Tea Party" and other overt acts of colonial resistance.

1975 Medal
Obverse: Paul Revere
Reverse: Lexington and Concord
      Paul Revere was a master silversmith of colonial Boston, where he earned prominence in the Sons of Liberty with his characteristic steadiness and reliability. His greatest fame stems from his duties as a courier Committees of Correspondence.
      The events of April 19, 1775 at Lexington and Concord violently transformed the struggle for the rights of Englishmen into a war for the independence of America.

1976 Medal
Obverse: Thomas Jefferson
Reverse: Declaration of Independence
      Thomas Jefferson was one of the most remarkable men under whose statesmanship American independence came into being.
      On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia a resolution declaring that " these United States are and of right to be, free and Independent." Thus the Declaration of Independence.



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