Memento Of Stone Mountain

i was searching for a piece of correspondence and found this card that Cgrotha sent me some time ago...it will be a souvineer of our trip to Georgia !

Great Card Phil

Thanks for sharing it with us.

Dianne

Mt. Rushmore of the South

Post card from the 1920's

I have this card too. Notice that the original design was MUCH larger and grander than the final result - which is impressive, but nothing like what was originally imagined.

I have a silver half dollar with the stone mountain on it. I'll scan it when I get home. Off to the mall!

If I may digress into coins for a moment, here is a reprise of the Stone Mountain commemorative half dollar, of which one million were ultimately MELTED, and more unsold examples dumped into circulation.

The whole exercise was a sordid, shabby undertaking with charges of fraud, lawsuits, work stoppage for 30 years, and a much-diminished end product. Extremely interesting article courtesy of NGC, the second-largest third-party (coin) grader!

http://www.ngccoin.com/NGCCoinExplo...CoinID=19378

Here you go Phil as I promised!
Stone Mountain memorial fund raising silver half dollar. The state of Georgia sold these to raise money to complete Stone Mountain Memorial. That's what my Grandfather told me anyway..

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