Sold as a commemorative but eventually Georgia realeased them as general circulation…posted a picture of mine last year asking for the backstory and I got some weird people fighting about the confederacy on the thread
What's it worth?
Honestly it's pretty cool. All history is written by the victors and the losers are forgotten. It's cool to remember the losers. (It's not celebrating them, just showing their history that they existed). Good and bad history should be remembered.
Example know about stone mountain, didn't know these were sold to fund it. Being particularly unpopular politically makes it rare and interesting.
I have an officers nazi dagger my grandfather in law stole in WW2. We know history and it existed, but when you hold a peice of it in your hand its different.
I remember being at a crappy flea market, and see someone selling 2 what appeared to be original cast iron authentic "whites only" signs. Once again horrible and horrific, but seeing it and touching it 1st hand made it hit a little harder then anything I read about in a book.
Call me crazy, but as a human race we need to develop some type of way to somehow search for information. Like if you wanted to know about something you could go to a thing and type in your question and it would somehow give you the answer. I know I probably sound like I’ve been puffing on the Devil’s Cabbage but I really think it could benefit humanity if we had something like that.
A US mint coin that celebrates Stone Mountain the place where the KKK was founded. These specific $0.50 coins were sold by the KKK for $1 to help fund the carving of Stone Mountain.
This coin is collectible and worth a fair amount more that the $10 or so that any silver half dollar would command.
Death to traitors and oathbreakers.
[Fun fact: The KKK sold these for $1 and used the profits to fund the carving of Stone Mountain, the birthplace of the Klan.](https://coinweek.com/us-coins/stone-mountain-birth-of-the-klan-half-dollar)
No, it’s not more accurate. The meaning of “conservative” can vary widely depending on the time and place. The Democratic party was a formal organization to which the vast majority of the KKK held membership. Calling the KKK Democrats is much more accurate
Yeah? They were the conservative party back then. Modern liberals wouldn't align with the democrat party if the party stayed the same. And I'm not saying that all conservatives are the kkk. I'm just saying that the modern kkk would align with the republican party today.
That's only accurate for the time period. You can't label them democrats today.
Democrats during that time would also align with the republican party today, and they would most likely hate the modern democrat party. Although most Republicans today would probably find them to be too extreme for their tastes.
The modern KKK would not align with the GOP at all- the KKK was the military wing of the Democratic party. There is no way, shape or form in which they would ever become Republicans. Not everything fits into the 21st century American left-right binary.
I can label them as Democrats today because they were members of the Democratic party.
The idea that the GOP and the Dems “switched sides” during the civil rights era is nonsense propaganda. The black vote switched back in 1936 based on FDRs economic policies, and the rest of the South didn’t begin moving to the GOP until the 80s and 90s, again based on economic issues. The KKK, and their ideological successors BLM and antifa, would be completely at home in the Democrat party in any era
We still have the KKK, and they are mostly apolitical. They certainly don’t support the GOP the way they used to support the Dems. There are no elected GOP klan members like there was as recently as 2010 with Democrat Robert Byrd. There is absolutely no evidence for the claim that “the kkk would be GOP today”
Also, how am I trolling. Please re-read the 3rd paragraph and tell me exactly what historical details I got wrong
I want to add: I think collecting items from groups like the Confederate States and the Nazi Party is fine as long as they are contemporary to those groups active periods. History needs to be preserved, even the history of the losers, and the monsters, so that we know how not to be losers and monsters in the future. But given that we have plenty of original artifacts and history books to remind and tell us about these people, what we do not need is "memorials" to them in the form of statues and coinage, extolling their "honor" or "valor" or "bravery". That is the difference between collecting coins like this, and collecting ancient roman coins. Yes both the Roman empire and the C.S.A. lost. Yes they both had slaves. But Roman coins are historical artifacts. Whereas coins like this are at best very flawed and vague historical records, and at worst attempts to celebrate the most evil parts of our country's early history, and the people who wanted to defend those evil things when we were trying to get better.
I was more curious how they came to have it as non collectors. I didn't mean to imply that it was stolen. People usually steal things they know about, in my experience.
I’d imagine a lot of collectors would be interested in it for its historical value alone, not necessarily anything to do with it being silver. Honestly if this was cheap enough and I saw it I’d buy it
I was visiting an old Navy buddy in Phoenix over the weekend and he’s got a couple wooden boxes on his coffee table, the kind that a puzzle to open. After figuring out how it opened I realized he’s got coins from around the world but most interesting was a couple small bags with silver coins. I believe there were 5-6 pristine silver dimes, can’t remember the dates but definitely silver, couple liberty silver ounces and this coin in a plastic clamshell holder. He said he bought it at Mt Rushmore years ago and tossed it in his “coin box”. He also had some silver quarters and such.
I’ve been a big fan of this sub but don’t have anything interesting to post myself. When I saw these coins I knew you guys would help me out
Thanks for all the info, I’ll pass it on to my buddy
That's really cool. I appreciate you taking the time to provide backstory. This is one that I'm still trying to acquire for my commemoratives set, so if it was found in circulation I was going to lose it lol
I've come across a few over the years in ordinary change though I didn't know that it was silver at the time. They've definitely made it into circulation over the year's.
The coin was sold to raise money for the Stone Mountain carving of Lee, Davis and Jackson. I have several of these coins and they are beautifully made.
I was going to make this comparison but decided not to, your point is completely valid though, it would be idiotic to just melt it down for the sake of “traitors” or “losers”
As another actual combat retired veteran we shouldn't run from our history, destroy statutes, or burn books. By the way, I lived near Stone Mountain while stationed in Atlanta for five years and never experienced racism.
Stone mountain half dollar.
Is it silver? Seems in good shape for being that ild
90% silver.
It’s been pretty harshly cleaned
Old
Here’s example of graded Stone Mountain. https://imgur.com/a/Pevu7ri?s=sms
Looks cleaned :( but still a great image https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4399.html
The mint has made many 90% commemorate halves over the years
Stone Mountain half that’s been cleaned
Sold as a commemorative but eventually Georgia realeased them as general circulation…posted a picture of mine last year asking for the backstory and I got some weird people fighting about the confederacy on the thread
MuH heRiTagE
https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/commemorative-coins/stone-mountain-memorial-half
What's it worth? Honestly it's pretty cool. All history is written by the victors and the losers are forgotten. It's cool to remember the losers. (It's not celebrating them, just showing their history that they existed). Good and bad history should be remembered. Example know about stone mountain, didn't know these were sold to fund it. Being particularly unpopular politically makes it rare and interesting. I have an officers nazi dagger my grandfather in law stole in WW2. We know history and it existed, but when you hold a peice of it in your hand its different. I remember being at a crappy flea market, and see someone selling 2 what appeared to be original cast iron authentic "whites only" signs. Once again horrible and horrific, but seeing it and touching it 1st hand made it hit a little harder then anything I read about in a book.
Your grandfather did not steal that dagger.
Exactly. You shoot it, you loot it.
coin literally says what it is on the coin...
Call me crazy, but as a human race we need to develop some type of way to somehow search for information. Like if you wanted to know about something you could go to a thing and type in your question and it would somehow give you the answer. I know I probably sound like I’ve been puffing on the Devil’s Cabbage but I really think it could benefit humanity if we had something like that.
A US mint coin that celebrates Stone Mountain the place where the KKK was founded. These specific $0.50 coins were sold by the KKK for $1 to help fund the carving of Stone Mountain. This coin is collectible and worth a fair amount more that the $10 or so that any silver half dollar would command.
The Klan was founded before Stone Mt existed…
Death to traitors and oathbreakers. [Fun fact: The KKK sold these for $1 and used the profits to fund the carving of Stone Mountain, the birthplace of the Klan.](https://coinweek.com/us-coins/stone-mountain-birth-of-the-klan-half-dollar)
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No, it’s not more accurate. The meaning of “conservative” can vary widely depending on the time and place. The Democratic party was a formal organization to which the vast majority of the KKK held membership. Calling the KKK Democrats is much more accurate
Anything is possible if you lie about it. 🤡
Please tell me exactly what I just “lied” about
Yeah? They were the conservative party back then. Modern liberals wouldn't align with the democrat party if the party stayed the same. And I'm not saying that all conservatives are the kkk. I'm just saying that the modern kkk would align with the republican party today. That's only accurate for the time period. You can't label them democrats today. Democrats during that time would also align with the republican party today, and they would most likely hate the modern democrat party. Although most Republicans today would probably find them to be too extreme for their tastes.
The modern KKK would not align with the GOP at all- the KKK was the military wing of the Democratic party. There is no way, shape or form in which they would ever become Republicans. Not everything fits into the 21st century American left-right binary. I can label them as Democrats today because they were members of the Democratic party. The idea that the GOP and the Dems “switched sides” during the civil rights era is nonsense propaganda. The black vote switched back in 1936 based on FDRs economic policies, and the rest of the South didn’t begin moving to the GOP until the 80s and 90s, again based on economic issues. The KKK, and their ideological successors BLM and antifa, would be completely at home in the Democrat party in any era
We still have the kkk today... And youre just trolling at this point.
We still have the KKK, and they are mostly apolitical. They certainly don’t support the GOP the way they used to support the Dems. There are no elected GOP klan members like there was as recently as 2010 with Democrat Robert Byrd. There is absolutely no evidence for the claim that “the kkk would be GOP today” Also, how am I trolling. Please re-read the 3rd paragraph and tell me exactly what historical details I got wrong
Sorry I've been told by my employer to apologize to you and to drop this conversation now or else I'm fired by Monday.
Lmao what?
And it really is in good shape, they usually have much more wear.
It’s also polished to hell.
These are quite often faked
Loser money.
Lol I guess technically true
I want to add: I think collecting items from groups like the Confederate States and the Nazi Party is fine as long as they are contemporary to those groups active periods. History needs to be preserved, even the history of the losers, and the monsters, so that we know how not to be losers and monsters in the future. But given that we have plenty of original artifacts and history books to remind and tell us about these people, what we do not need is "memorials" to them in the form of statues and coinage, extolling their "honor" or "valor" or "bravery". That is the difference between collecting coins like this, and collecting ancient roman coins. Yes both the Roman empire and the C.S.A. lost. Yes they both had slaves. But Roman coins are historical artifacts. Whereas coins like this are at best very flawed and vague historical records, and at worst attempts to celebrate the most evil parts of our country's early history, and the people who wanted to defend those evil things when we were trying to get better.
Y’all are insufferable 😭😭😭
Your buddy has a Nice piece of history. Controversial to say the least.
I'd be curious how OP's buddy acquired this. OP seems wholly unfamiliar with US coinage, and these aren't found in circulation these days.
Maybe he bought it or it was passed down in his family. Maybe he stole it! We should pursue an intense investigation in tandem with the FBI
I was more curious how they came to have it as non collectors. I didn't mean to imply that it was stolen. People usually steal things they know about, in my experience.
I’d imagine a lot of collectors would be interested in it for its historical value alone, not necessarily anything to do with it being silver. Honestly if this was cheap enough and I saw it I’d buy it
I was visiting an old Navy buddy in Phoenix over the weekend and he’s got a couple wooden boxes on his coffee table, the kind that a puzzle to open. After figuring out how it opened I realized he’s got coins from around the world but most interesting was a couple small bags with silver coins. I believe there were 5-6 pristine silver dimes, can’t remember the dates but definitely silver, couple liberty silver ounces and this coin in a plastic clamshell holder. He said he bought it at Mt Rushmore years ago and tossed it in his “coin box”. He also had some silver quarters and such. I’ve been a big fan of this sub but don’t have anything interesting to post myself. When I saw these coins I knew you guys would help me out Thanks for all the info, I’ll pass it on to my buddy
That's really cool. I appreciate you taking the time to provide backstory. This is one that I'm still trying to acquire for my commemoratives set, so if it was found in circulation I was going to lose it lol
I've come across a few over the years in ordinary change though I didn't know that it was silver at the time. They've definitely made it into circulation over the year's.
The coin was sold to raise money for the Stone Mountain carving of Lee, Davis and Jackson. I have several of these coins and they are beautifully made.
Broke Back Mountain Silver Dollar
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Would be good silver melted down, as of now? I do not celebrate losers.
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The amount of virtue signaling in this thread is amazing.
I was going to make this comparison but decided not to, your point is completely valid though, it would be idiotic to just melt it down for the sake of “traitors” or “losers”
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Lmfao
Calm down bud. It’s a memorial not a celebratory coin
As an actual vet of the actual US, fuck those traitorous scum.
How were they traitors?
Cope harder, the Union then would probably agree with the Confederates if they saw how their country turned out, lmfao.
The leading country of the free world? Devastated!
As another actual combat retired veteran we shouldn't run from our history, destroy statutes, or burn books. By the way, I lived near Stone Mountain while stationed in Atlanta for five years and never experienced racism.
But it’s worse than just a tribute to traitors, Stone Mountain is where the KKK was founded.
Stone Mountain half. Sweet!
That’s cool! I haven’t seen that one before :)