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First Spouse Gold $10 Proof Mary Todd Lincoln 2010-W
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Shipping will be USPS Registered Insured Signature Required for the protection of both buyer and seller. This coin contains a half ounce of .999 gold with a melt value more than $700.00.
This coin has never been out of the plastic container as shipped by the US Mint. It comes complete with the outer box packaging and the inside wooden box and felt liner and the Mint Certificate of Authenticity. The coin has not been graded but is easily PF69 and may well be PF70. The First Spouse Gold Coin obverses (head side) feature portraits of the first spouses, their names, the order and years of their term as first spouse, the year of minting or issuance, IN GOD WE TRUST and LIBERTY . Each coin has a unique reverse (tails) design featuring an image emblematic of that spouse's life and work, as well as the inscriptions THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA, E PLURIBUS UNUM, $10, 1/2 OZ. and .9999 FINE GOLD. The fourth of the First Spouse Proof coins released in 2010.Mary Todd Lincoln First Spouse Gold CoinFirst Lady, 1861–1865 Mary Todd Lincoln was born on December 13, 1818, in Lexington, Ky. It was here that she cultivated her love for politics. Later, in Springfield, Ill., she met Abraham Lincoln and they married in 1842. When her husband was first elected to Congress in 1847, Mary directed all her energy into helping advance his career and ultimately his bid for the presidency. After Lincoln became President in 1861, Mary served enthusiastically as his confidant and advisor. She hosted public receptions at the White House, which she called "handshake days," on which hundreds of people, including blacks, would crowd into the East Room to greet her and the President. She visited wounded Union soldiers, bringing them food, books and flowers and writing letters to relatives on their behalf. Just weeks after beginning his second term in March 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated by Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, and Mary later retired to Hyde Park, Ill. She spent several summers abroad with her surviving children and died peacefully in 1882. The coin's obverse (heads side), designed by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Phebe Hemphill, features a likeness of Mary Todd Lincoln with the inscriptions MARY TODD LINCOLN, IN GOD WE TRUST, LIBERTY, 2010, 16th and 1861-1865 . Reverse Design The reverse (tails), designed by Artistic Infusion Program Master Designer Joel Iskowitz, depicts Mary Todd Lincoln bringing wounded Union soldiers flowers and books. 
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