Bicentennial/American Revolution Covers

I ran across these last night and thought I'd share them. I also found two coins in plastic display cases without the envelope/stamps/cancellations.

I've always been a sucker for American History...

Greg

I believe they are called PNC's (Philatelic Numismatic covers) although I could be wrong.

I never seen the nickles like that with that ribbon thingy on them. Really neat find you have there!

The coins are the size of half dollars. I'm not sure of the coins content (bronze maybe???)but I'm pretty sure they are nothing special. I think they are just a commemoration of an historical era.

Greg

I think you're right. I picked up this example back in the early 1970's when visiting the US Mint. As I recall they were bronze and they made them for all the US Presidents at a couple of bucks apiece in their souvenir shop.



Note the one I posted is using the same bust of George Washington but with a non-Bicentennial imprint around the border. I suspect that the US Mint merely printed more of these medallions as the Bicentennial neared as a profit making scheme.

I have 2 of these covers myself unfortunately the 1976 cover is missing it's coin as can be seen but the 1975 cover is complete. It's nice to see a picture of the complete '76 cover so I know now what the coin looked like.

There were actually 5 different medal-covers like this, 1972-76, and they were a U.S. Mint product, not privately made. When I start to sell off my Bicentennial collection next week, I'll be sure to offer several.

It seems incomprehensible to me that the Bicentennial is now 35+ years in the past. Where did the years go??

Now we have the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812 to think about.