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1819 25C B-2 Large 9 F12 PCGS #38957

B-2, Rare Coins of New Hampshire, June 2008, Designed by John Reich, Very nice example. ***McCulloch vs Maryland, The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Bank of the United States is constitutional.*** The United States House of Representatives agrees to the Tallmadge Amendment barring slaves from the new state of Missouri (the opening vote in a controversy that leads to the Missouri Compromise)** Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia.

1820 25C Large 0 VF20 PCGS #5329

B-1, JJ Teaparty, Nice colors, Designed by John Reich.***John Wright Oakes, landscape painter, is born.*** Joseph Smith, Jr. (Founder of the LDS Church.) receives his First Vision in the spring in Palmyra, New York*** After the sinking of the Essex (whaleship) of Nantucket by a whale the survivors were left floating in three small whaleboats. They eventually resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism to allow some to survive. *** Mount Rainier erupts over what is today Seattle. *** James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.*** Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos.

1824/2 25C VG8 PCGS #5335

B-1, Ebay, Nice original example, Designed by John Reich.*** Trapper Jim Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake*** Lafayette visits the United States.*** None of the four candidates for U.S. President gain a majority of the electoral votes, so the election is thrown into the U.S. House of Representatives.*** The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson Bay Company. *** Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general is born.*** Mountain Man Jedediah Smith leads a group westward that becomes known as "The Oregon Trail."

1828 25C F15 PCGS #5342

B-4, NFC, Very nice example, designed by John Reich. Final year for the large diameter quarter. *** Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.*** Ányos Jedlik creates the world's first electric motor.*** Feral child: Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.*** Jules Verne and Leo Tolstoy are born. ***Artist Francisco De Goya dies. ***My ancestor Elizabeth Wolbert is born. She was a native of the Mohawk tribe and joins the family after being captured during a raid of one of the indian villages in western New York. She later marries Samuel Wolbert, her step brother! (a little strange I know.)