http://blog.adamnash.com/2007/11/11/dolley-madison-first-spouse-coin-available-at-1200pm-est-on-november-19th-2007/ The personal blog of Adam Nash Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.adamnash.com/2007/11/11/dolley-madison-first-spouse-coin-available-at-1200pm-est-on-november-19th-2007/#comment-19575 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:22:29 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/dolley-madison-first-spouse-coin-available-at-1200pm-est-on-november-19th-2007/#comment-19575 [...] What I haven’t mentioned so far in the presidential coinage is that these grand gentlemen aren’t the only ones being commemorated in coin — the Presidential Spouse (no doubt, anticipating a male ‘first lady’ in the future) coins series commemorates the first ladies in a 1/2oz of gold. Brideless Jefferson loses out, his $10 compatriot being a generic ‘liberty’, but Mrs’ Washington, Adams, and Madison get ten times the face value of their better-known spouses. Dolley Madison, James’ wife, will be released next week on the 19th. [...]

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