The park preserves the largest tract of old growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States. The trees growing in its floodplain forest are some of the tallest in the eastern United States, forming one of the highest temperate deciduous forest canopies remaining in the world. The pa...
Over the years the United States Mint has issued a variety of coins to commemorate historical events and people. The first commemorative coins were issued in 1892 to commemorate the World's Columbian Exposition. Due to construction delays, the exposition did not open to 1893 and coins were produ...
Coins of United States of America – USA: Silver Isabella Quarter, 1893, World’s Columbian Exposition USD 322 Coins of Great Britain – Elizabeth II (1952- ): Copper-nickel Pattern Shilling and Florin, ND (1953) USD 500-600 Coins of Great Britain – George IV (1820-30): Silver Halfcro...
Barber, chief engraver of the Mint, who also designed the obverse of the Columbian half dollar. The American Journal of Numismatics in October 1893 reviewed the design: "Of its artistic merit, as of the harmony of which is reported to have prevailed at the meetings of the [Board of Lady...
and IN GOD WE TRUST were not present on the Missouri half dollars, the first instance of omission of all three mottos on a commemorative half dollar since the Columbian coins of 1892 and 1893. These mottos were also absent on the 1893 Isabella quarter and 1900 Lafayette dollar, nor did the...