Commemerative+Coins

__ Commemorative Coins: __ Project by: Jesse Buff, Ethan Monk, and Garrett O'Leary
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa         Isabella Quarter     aaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaa      Columbian Half-Dollar ** B **ring home a souvenir from your visit to the World's Columbian Exposition. Bring home one of our commemorative coins like the columbian half-dollar and the Isabella quarter. The Columbian half-dollar features on the obverse, a potrait of Christopher Colombus surrounded by the words "United States of America" and "Columbian Half-Dollar." On the reverse it bears the image of the Santa Maria over two hemishpers surrounded by the year 1492 and the image is encircled by the words "World's Columbian Exposition Chicago."

The Isabella quarter shows on the obverse, a portrait of Queen Isabella of Spain surrounded by the words "United States of America" and features on the reverse, the image of a kneeling woman with symbols of women's industry bearing the words "Board of Lady Managers" and Columbian Quar.Dol."


 * __ Elongated Coins: __

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Simlar to the Commemerative coins, Elongated coins are another product of our trade here at the Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair. These elongated and flattened coins bear the title of Columbian exposition 1893. These can be made out of more then just pennies, but dimes and quarters may be used as well in creating an invaluable piece of history from the Columbian Exposition of 1893!

__**Purposes:**__ To commemerate the Great Columbian Exposition, the Chicago's World Fair, in a simple, affordable manner. These coins will do more then remind one of the World's Fair, but they will envoke memoirs of the incredible sights and sounds of Chicago in the summer of 1893.

Not only worth sentimental value, but in the future these coins will be worth far more then what they are now. People will jump at the chance to capture a peace of history, a piece of history from the Great Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair.

__**Bibliography:**__ http://www.coinfacts.com/commemoratives/half_dollar_commems/columbian_expo.htm http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Columbian_exposition_quarter_dollar_commemorative_reverse.jpg [|http://hn.bigchalk.com] http://www.coincommunity.com/commemorative_histories/columbian_exposition_half_dollar.asp [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exposition_quarter_dollar] http://www.coinfacts.com/commemoratives/half_dollar_commems/columbian_expo.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Columbian_exposition_quarter_dollar_commemorative_reverse.jpg

"The World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair of 1893" Norman Bolotin and Christine Laing