State Quarters

[musketman]

Question: What state quarters (so far) has a muzzleloader(s) on it?

The Massachusetts State Quarter is the first commemorative quarter of the new millennium and displays the only design to date determined by the children of the state. The "Minuteman" statue stands in tribute to the regular farmers and colonists that were prepared to drop everything at a moment's notice to take arms against the British.

The Minuteman Statue was dedicated Sept. 15, 1995. It was sculpted by Evangelos Frudakis and depicts a colonial minuteman taking up arms during the American Revolution.


The New Jersey quarter

The New Jersey quarter, the third coin in the 50 State Quarters

 

quote:Originally posted by musketman:
Question: What state quarters (so far) has a muzzleloader(s) on it?

So, I guess that would make the muzzleloader a .69 caliber Charleville musket...

Or am I wrong? Don't know. The Americans used left-over Brown Bess Muskets from the French and Indian War, Committee of Safety Muskets which were, I believe, modeled on the Brown Bess but made here, and Charlevilles. The French were actually shipping the .69 caliber Charlevilles over here surreptitiously, before they declared war on Britain, through a dummy company they set up.

I'm surprised the Commonwealth of Massachusetts didn't require the minute man to have a trigger lock on his musket - like they required on the original Committee of Safety Musket hanging in their legislature.

 

[musketman]

quote:Originally posted by Snake-Eye:
I'm surprised the Commonwealth of Massachusetts didn't require the minute man to have a trigger lock on his musketIf you look closly at the immage of the coin, you could see something bright and shiny around the trigger of the musket...

Could this be the trigger guard you spoke of?

And what if the Brittish attacked and the minute men couldn't find the keys? would that have changed the course of history?

If that caused the british to win, we'd all be speaking "ENGLISH" today...

 

[Stumpkiller]

NY's too.

It's a little known fact that the book in Lady Liberty's arm is hollowed out and has a cap-lock derringer in it.