The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 16, April 14, 2002, Article 10

ONE FATT CALFE

  Several folks responded with correct answers to last week's
  quiz question.

  Brad Karoleff  writes: "One Fatt Calfe -- New Rochelle
  Commemorative Half Dollar, not the featured dish at the
  ANA hospitality suite!

  John Merz writes: "I attended high school in New Rochelle,
  New York.  The book ?One Fatt Calfe? by Amy Skipton
  is an historical account of the 250th anniversary celebrations
  in 1938 surrounding the founding of New Rochelle, N.Y.,
  named after the city of La Rochelle, France.  The Huguenots
  who settled New Rochelle paid 1625 pounds for the land,
  plus ?one fatt calfe?  each year thereafter.

  I obtained my copy of the book from Remy Bourne auction
  #10 in October 1999.  The 250th anniversary celebration
  also included the minting of the New Rochelle commemorative
  half dollar.  In addition to the coin,  I have a bronze ?guest ?
  badge (from Anthony Swiatek) used for display at the
  celebration functions.  I also have a commemorative medal
  (also from Anthony) presented to the Westchester County
  Coin Club by the 250th Anniversary Committee in recognition
  of club sponsorship of the New Rochelle half dollar.

  I returned to New Rochelle in May 2001 for the 50th reunion
  of the high school class of 1951, and was horrified to discover
  that all of my former classmates were old men!"

  Dick Johnson writes: "One Fatt Calfe was, of course, on the
  New Rochelle New York Commemorative Half Dollar (Breen
  7562).  The author was Amy Skipton, whose husband was the
  chairman of the commemorative coin project.

   I bought the remainders of this book. Don't remember the
  date or the number but it was less than twelve, which I sold
  one by one over a period of years. But there is an interesting
  update to this story of the coin's sculptor, Gertrude Lathrop.

  [See below for Dick's note on sculptor Lathrop.  Here is
   a web page with some more information on the half dollar:
   http://www.coinsite.com/content/Commemoratives/NewRochelle.asp
  - Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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