CELEBRATING 200 YEARS OF AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT
Located across the road from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. stands one of the world's supreme tributes to person erudition: the Library of Congress. Starting in 1800 by a congressional act and with $5,000 to acquire books for the use of Congress, the Library of Congress, "America's Library," celebrated its bicentennial on April 24, 2000.
The unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress compose the world's most comprehensive release of being creativity. Its three enormous structures, the Jefferson, Adams, and Madison Buildings, surround 119 million matter, plus sound recordings, films, manuscripts, photographs, musical scores, 18 million books, and much more.
President Thomas Jefferson played an essential task in the Library's development. An eager pupil and lifetime collector of books, he sold his private annals of 6,487 books to Congress for $23,950 after the British burned the new Capitol and Library in 1814. With that hold, the Library of Congress began collecting according to Jefferson's belief that there was "no topic to which a Member of Congress may not have juncture to refer."
Today, the Library of Congress has far outgrown its early part as the files for America's legislature. As "America's Library," the Library of Congress is the main annals of our country and the world, with an extraordinary collection of materials in many formats and more than 460 languages. Every year, millions of Americans use its 21 reading quarters or access its American Memory Web locate of unique manuscripts, photographs, films, sound recordings, maps, and more. Millions more tour its magnificently restored 1897 Thomas Jefferson Building during their stopover to Washington and take gain of the opportunity to see the Library's riches featured in exhibitions located near the Great Hall.
The United States Mint fashioned The Library of Congress Commemorative Coin Program to pride the Library of Congress Bicentennial.
Both the bimetallic and silver commemorative coins are a spectacular first for the new century and the millennium - the first commemorative coins honoring the records, and the ten-cash coin is the first gold and platinum bimetallic coin struck by the United States Mint.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each coin was authorized to be donated to the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board to help carrying educational programs, and other activities of the Library of Congress.
These two sculptors planned coins/engravers of the U.S. Mint. Thomas D. Rogers, Jr., planned the facade of the silver cash and the overturn of the bimetallic coin. John Mercanti planned the silver opposite and bimetallic frontage. The designs of the coins are emblematic of the Library of Congress.
DESCRIPTION
The bimetallic coin the stylish architecture inspired drawing of the Library's Jefferson Building. The outer circle is stamped from an area of gold, then a reliable nucleus of platinum is placed within the cartel. Then, the gold band and platinum substance are simultaneously stamped forming an annular drip where the two precious metals converge. The obverse depicts the hand of Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom, raising the torch of wisdom away the ground of the Thomas Jefferson Building. The coin's opposite is obvious with the Library of Congress seal delimited by a laurel circlet, symbolizing its citizen accomplishment.
Coin Information Provided Courtesy The United States Mint.
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