BRING HONEST ABE TO PAN

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V25 2022 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 14, April 3, 2022, Article 16

Great coin shows and numismatic events don't happen by themselves. Numismatists and numismatic organizations must chip in and provide support. For a planned event at next month's PAN show, funds are being sought to cover the expenses to bring the superb Abraham Lincoln impersonator Dennis Boggs to town for the show. -Editor

We need your Support To raise the Funds needed to Engage Abe to be a part of The CIVIL WAR MONEY & MEMORABILIA SHOWCASE & other PAN Activities!

The Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists (PAN) and No Small Change (hosting the Civil War Money and Memorabilia Showcase) are teaming up to bring Honest Abe (a.k.a. Dennis Boggs of Tennessee) back to the upcoming PAN Coin Show – May 19 thru 21 – in Monroeville, PA. The Showcase will provide Abe with the platform to address all of the important ways in which money and minting changed to meet the unprecedented demand for the cash needed to pay for the exigencies of war.

In October of 2021, Abe Lincoln was interviewed by R.J. Lank about topics such as the approval of 3 new mints during the height of the War: Denver in '62, Carson City NV in '63 and little known The Dalles, Oregon in ‘64.

Organizers of the Civil War Showcase are working closely with PAN to raise an additional two thousand dollars – PAN will match every $2 in donations with its own $1 in matching funds. Contact either Becky Rush at cwshowcase@no-small-change.org or Pat McBride (PAN) pancoins@gmail.com for more details. (Also visit PAN's website at pancoins.org.) All contributions are tax-deductible. Sponsors are also being sought to support the Civil War Showcase and its mission. (No fundraising platform has been established yet for this event, so contact us!)

This rare coin at left – marked with 25 and the motto In God We Trust was thought to be – by some – a game piece or a pattern coin. Scholars have determined it was a celebratory coin (privately minted) – the 25 representing the number of states that voted for Lincoln in 1864. It is exceptionally unusual in that features In God We Trust which was authorized for US coinage in that same year.