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General: ELLEN GOULD/GOLD/QUEEN OF SABA WHITE FREEMASONRY THE WISE MEN/APOLLO 11/SATURN 5
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Did You Know About the Relics of the Three Wise Men?
When I was in college, I journeyed to Cologne, Germany and visited the city’s glorious cathedral. I was a Protestant at the time, but I remember being amazed that people had been building this cathedral for so many centuries. It is one of the greatest Gothic churches of all time.
St Peter and St Mary Cathedral in Cologne, Germany
A tour guide informed me that the bodies of the three Wise Men were enshrined inside. I wasn’t much impressed by the remains of dead people, but this was something that perked my interest – the earthly remains of “we three kings of orient are.” It was perhaps my first investigation into one of those things that Protestants find icky: relics.
According to legend, the bodies of Gaspar, Balthasar, and Melchior (the traditional names of the Wise Men) were discovered by Saint Helena during her pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The fourteenth century account by John of Hildesheim entitled History of the Three Kings explains how Queen Saint Helen brought the mummies of the Magi to Constantinople.
After she had found the bodies of Melchior, Balthazar, and Gaspar, Queen Helen put them into one chest and ornamented it with great riches, and she brought them into Constantinople.
Later, the three mummies were transferred from Constantinople to Milan. The city of Milan was once known for its festive observance of the feast of Epiphany, and the presence of the three Wise Men’s relics in that city may be the context and origin for this ancient custom. The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick moved the mummified Magi one last time to Cologne in AD 1164 where they rest till this day. If you get to Germany, be sure to check it out.
 Photo of the golden casket of the three Wise Men
Are the bones of three Wise Men really in Germany? God only knows…but I like to think so. And remember: Wise Men still seek Jesus.
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CLEOPHAS/LEO/LEONARDO DA VINCI/LEON DE LA TRIBU DE JUDA/DAVID
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FRANKINCENSE/FATIMA/POPE FRANCIS/FRANCE/DA VINCI CODE/FREEMASONRY

And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. (Matthew 2:11, ESV)
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El centurión Longino entre las cruces de Cristo y los dos ladrones, 1539
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New International VersionIt is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
New Living TranslationHarmony is as refreshing as the dew from Mount Hermon that falls on the mountains of Zion. And there the LORD has pronounced his blessing, even life everlasting.
English Standard VersionIt is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Berean Standard BibleIt is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
King James BibleAs the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
New King James VersionIt is like the dew of Hermon, Descending upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD commanded the blessing— Life forevermore.
New American Standard BibleIt is like the dew of Hermon Coming down upon the mountains of Zion; For the LORD commanded the blessing there—life forever.
NASB 1995It is like the dew of Hermon Coming down upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD commanded the blessing— life forever.
NASB 1977It is like the dew of Hermon, Coming down upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD commanded the blessing—life forever.
Legacy Standard BibleIt is like the dew of Hermon Coming down upon the mountains of Zion; For there, Yahweh commanded the blessing—life forever.
Amplified BibleIt is like the dew of [Mount] Hermon Coming down on the hills of Zion; For there the LORD has commanded the blessing: life forevermore.
Christian Standard BibleIt is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has appointed the blessing — life forevermore.
Holman Christian Standard BibleIt is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has appointed the blessing— life forevermore.
American Standard VersionLike the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the mountains of Zion: For there Jehovah commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore.
Contemporary English VersionIt is like the dew from Mount Hermon, falling on Zion's mountains, where the LORD has promised to bless his people with life forevermore.
English Revised VersionLike the dew of Hermon, that cometh down upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
GOD'S WORD® TranslationIt is like dew on [Mount] Hermon, dew which comes down on Zion's mountains. That is where the LORD promised the blessing of eternal life.
Good News TranslationIt is like the dew on Mount Hermon, falling on the hills of Zion. That is where the LORD has promised his blessing--life that never ends.
International Standard VersionIt is like the dew of Hermon falling on Zion's mountains. For there the LORD commanded his blessing— life everlasting.
Majority Standard BibleIt is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
NET BibleIt is like the dew of Hermon, which flows down upon the hills of Zion. Indeed that is where the LORD has decreed a blessing will be available--eternal life.
New Heart English Biblelike the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there the LORD gives the blessing, even life forevermore.
Webster's Bible TranslationAs the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for ever.
World English Biblelike the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard VersionAs dew of Hermon—That comes down on hills of Zion, "" For there YHWH commanded the blessing—Life for all time!
Young's Literal TranslationAs dew of Hermon -- That cometh down on hills of Zion, For there Jehovah commanded the blessing -- Life unto the age!
Smith's Literal TranslationAs the dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion: for there Jehovah commanded the blessing, life even forever.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bibleas the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For there the Lord hath commandeth blessing, and life for evermore.
Catholic Public Domain VersionIt is like the dew of Hermon, which descended from mount Zion. For in that place, the Lord has commanded a blessing, and life, even unto eternity.
New American BibleLike dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion. There the LORD has decreed a blessing, life for evermore!
New Revised Standard VersionIt is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD ordained his blessing, life forevermore.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa BibleLike the dew of Hermon that falls upon the mount of Zion; for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Peshitta Holy Bible TranslatedLike the dew of Hermon that descends upon the mountain of Zion, because there LORD JEHOVAH commanded the blessing and the Life unto eternity.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917Like the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD commanded the blessing, Even life for ever.
Brenton Septuagint TranslationAs the dew of Aermon, that comes down on the mountains of Sion: for there, the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for ever.
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La sonda espacial con destino a Saturno pone a prueba la teoría de Einstein
Concepto artístico del experimento de relatividad general.
Un experimento realizado por científicos italianos con datos de la nave espacial Cassini de la NASA, actualmente en camino a Saturno, confirma la teoría de la relatividad general de Einstein con una precisión 50 veces mayor que las mediciones anteriores.
Los resultados aparecen en la edición del 25 de septiembre de la revista Nature. Forman parte de una colaboración científica entre la NASA y la Agencia Espacial Italiana. El experimento tuvo lugar en el verano de 2002, cuando la nave espacial y la Tierra se encontraban en lados opuestos del Sol, separados por una distancia de más de mil millones de kilómetros (aproximadamente 621 millones de millas).
Los investigadores observaron el cambio de frecuencia de las ondas de radio que se transmitían desde y hacia la nave espacial a medida que pasaban cerca del Sol. Midieron con precisión el cambio en el tiempo de ida y vuelta de la señal de radio a medida que viajaba cerca del Sol. El tiempo de ida y vuelta es el tiempo que tarda la señal transmitida desde la estación de la Red del Espacio Profundo en Goldstone, California, hasta la nave espacial en el otro lado del Sol y de regreso viajando a la velocidad de la luz.
"La importancia científica de estos resultados es la confirmación de la teoría de la relatividad general y la concordancia con las formulaciones de Einstein con una precisión experimental sin precedentes", dijo Sami Asmar, director del Radio Science Group, que adquirió los datos para este experimento en el Laboratorio de Propulsión a Chorro de la NASA en Pasadena, California. "La importancia tecnológica del experimento es la capacidad de superar el duro entorno solar mediante enlaces de radio".
Los investigadores midieron en qué medida la gravedad del Sol curvaba un rayo electromagnético, en este caso la señal de radio transmitida por la nave espacial y recibida por las estaciones terrestres.
Según la teoría de la relatividad general, un objeto masivo como el Sol hace que el espacio-tiempo se curve, y un haz de ondas de radio (o luz) que pasa por el Sol tiene que viajar más lejos debido a la curvatura. La distancia adicional que recorren las ondas de radio desde Cassini pasando por el Sol hasta la Tierra retrasa su llegada; la magnitud del retraso proporciona una prueba sensible de las predicciones de la teoría de Einstein. Aunque se esperan desviaciones de la relatividad general en algunos modelos cosmológicos, no se encontró ninguna en este experimento.
Las pruebas de la relatividad general tienen importantes implicaciones cosmológicas. La cuestión no es si la relatividad general es verdadera o falsa, sino a partir de qué nivel de precisión deja de describir la gravedad de forma realista.
Pruebas anteriores de la relatividad general confirmaron la predicción de Einstein con una precisión de una parte por mil. Esta precisión se logró en 1979 utilizando las sondas Viking en Marte. El experimento Cassini la confirmó con una precisión de 20 partes por millón. La clave de esta mejora ha sido la adopción de nuevas tecnologías en las telecomunicaciones espaciales.
El experimento no se hubiera podido realizar con este nivel de precisión en el pasado debido al ruido en el enlace de radio introducido por la corona solar. Con el experimento Cassini, este obstáculo se superó equipando el sistema de comunicación de la nave espacial con múltiples enlaces en diferentes frecuencias. Esta nueva capacidad en la nave espacial Cassini y en la antena de 34 metros (112 pies) de diámetro en Goldstone, permitió a los científicos eliminar los efectos del plasma interplanetario y solar de los datos de radio. Además, el ruido de la atmósfera de la Tierra se redujo considerablemente mediante un equipo especial instalado en el complejo Goldstone. Estos avances tecnológicos desarrollados para la misión Cassini han llevado a precisiones sin precedentes en las mediciones de velocidad, lo que beneficia a futuros experimentos científicos, así como a la navegación en el espacio profundo.
Los experimentos son parte de una serie de experimentos de radiociencia planificados para la fase de crucero de la misión, incluida la búsqueda de ondas gravitacionales de baja frecuencia.
Cassini comenzará a orbitar Saturno el 1 de julio de 2004 y liberará su sonda Huygens unos seis meses después para descender a través de la espesa atmósfera de la luna Titán.
Cassini-Huygens es una misión cooperativa de la NASA, la Agencia Espacial Europea y la Agencia Espacial Italiana. El JPL, una división de Caltech, administra la misión para la Oficina de Ciencias Espaciales de la NASA en Washington, DC. Los autores del artículo de Nature, "Una nueva prueba de la relatividad general con la misión espacial Cassini", son el Dr. Bruno Bertotti de la Universidad de Pavía, Italia; el Dr. Luciano Iess de la Universidad de Roma "La Sapienza", Italia; y el Dr. Paolo Tortora de la Universidad de Bolonia, Italia.
https://solarsystem-nasa-gov.translate.goog/news/12249/saturn-bound-spacecraft-tests-einsteins-theory/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=sc |
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GEODESY - PART II
The great circle alignment from Giza to Alexandria has an azimuth of 51.85° north of due west from Giza (the same angle as the slope of the Great Pyramid). Extended beyond Alexandria, this great circle also crosses over Delphi, Rollright and Newgrange, as well as the city of London.

Map image © VectorGlobe
The azimuth of a great circle alignment from Dendera to Paris is also 51.85° north of due west.

Map image - Roger Hedin
Dendera was dedicated to Isis/Sirius. The ancient Egyptian year began on the date of the heliacal rising of Sirius in mid July. The helical rising of Sirius heralded the annual inundation of the Nile that was essential to the welfare of ancient Egypt. The axis of the temple of Isis at Dendera was aligned 20° south of due east, pointing directly at the rising point of Sirius from the latitude of Dendera.
Robert Bauval describes a number of connections between Isis/Sirius and Paris in Talisman (2004). Isis is shown riding on a boat in many ancient Egyptian drawings and carvings. At the direction of Napoleon, Sirius and a statue of Isis were added to the coat of arms for Paris shown below.

During the French revolution, a statue of Isis known as the Fountain of Regeneration was constructed on the former site of the Bastille. The engraving below commemorated this statue.

Fountain of Regeneration Engraving
The Elysian Fields is described as a place of eternal salvation in the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Named after the Elysian Fields, the Champs Elysees is the main axis of Paris. The names Elysian and Elysees both suggest an association with Isis. The photograph below is facing southeast. The Arc de Triumphe is visible in the background. Beyond the Arc de Triumphe is the Louvre. The azimuth of the Champs Elysees is 26° south of due east, pointing directly at the rising point of Sirius/Isis from the latitude of Paris.

The termination point of the Champs Elysees to the northwest is the Grande Arche, in the foreground of the picture above. The axis of the Grande Arche is offset 6.33° south of the axis of the Champs Elysees. With an azimuth of just over 32° south of due east, the azimuth of the axis of the Grande Arche is the same as the azimuth of the great circle alignment from Paris to Dendera.
The Grande Arche is a nearly perfect cube with a height of 110 meters, a width of 108 meters and a depth of 112 meters. It is often described as a cube with side lengths of 110 meters. This is equal to 210 ancient Egyptian cubits:
110/210 = .5238
.5238 meters is a precise measure of the ancient Egyptian cubit, equating to 20.6222 inches, well within the ± .005 inches in Petrie's 20.62 inch measure of the ancient Egyptian cubit. Instead of the usual comparisons between the cubit and the meter of .52375/1 or .524/1, the best comparative measure may be the simple fraction of 11/21 that is suggested by the Grande Arche.

Image © Insecula.com
The sides of the Grande Arche are divided into 5 x 5 large panels and within each large panel are 7 x 7 smaller panels. Side lengths of 110 meters suggest lengths of 22 meters for the sides of the large panels with lengths of 22/7 meters for the sides of the smaller panels. The fraction 22/7 equals 3.1428, an accurate expression of π that is also found in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid. Side lengths of 210 cubits in the Grande Arche suggest lengths of 42 cubits for the sides of the large panels and 6 cubits for the sides of the smaller panels. This also shows that the relationship between the meter and the cubit is 6/π, using the measure of 22/7 for π:
21/11 = 6/π
22/7 x 21/11 = 6

The northern pyramid at Dashur, known as the Red Pyramid, was the first true (smooth sided) pyramid built in Egypt and it was the last pyramid built prior to construction of the Great Pyramid. The baselengths of the Red Pyramid are 420 cubits (220 meters) long, 20x multiples of 21/11.

Image by Jon Bodsworth
One of the oldest stone circles in England is at Rollright. The diameter of the Rollright circle is 31.4 meters, an accurate expression of π times 10 meters. Given the 6/π relationship between the meter and the cubit, the diameter of the Rollright circle is also 60 ancient Egyptian cubits.

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Episode 134
n 1854 a slab of marble donated by Pope Pius IX arrived in Washington, D.C. He had it engraved “A Roma Americae,” or “From Rome to America,” as a sign of goodwill. He had sent it over to be included in the Washington Monument, which was then under construction. Many foreign governments had sent similar contributions to honor America’s first president. The Know Nothings, however, had no intention of allowing a gift from the Pope to be included in the Washington Monument. They were certain the stone was a sign of darker intentions by the Pope. So on March 9, 1854, under cover of darkness, a group of these anti-Catholics broke into the yard, stole the stone, and after damaging it with hammers they dropped it in the Potomac River. No one was ever credibly accused of the crime, despite reward offers and a public outcry. Many years later, however, after a tip, the stone was discovered… only to disappear again. But today, there is a stone from the Pope in the Washington Monument, this one was provided by Pope John Paul II in 1982.
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Risen in Egypt Galactic Underworld & Pentachronometry
by Goro (goroadachi.com) February 13, 2011


In this article I want to quickly and conclusively show that there was an unmistakable esoteric undercurrent flowing through the Egyptian Revolution January 25-February 11, 2011... revealed through "pentachronometry" or a pentagrammic temporal rhythm underlying key world events...

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[From Feb 7 post]

Two back-to-back Egyptian bulls-eyes - impressive and surreal... except unlike before it didn't necessarily have that "in your face" clarity in terms of continuing the predominant multicontextual theme of the season, "Lucifer-Venus-Phoenix rising out of the Underworld" aka "Morning Star". It was all there, of course. You had to know where, when and how to focus your attention and start digging for the treasure... the Hall of Records.
Mayan Galactic Underworld
Why Egypt and why now? It was "written in the stars." In particular... Venus aka the "Morning Star" aka "Lucifer" (original meaning) all about being pentagrammic...

Nothing says "Out of the Underworld" like the Morning Star rising over the horizon, evoking Lucifer escaping chthonic prison - a narrative amplified during the Egyptian Revolution (Jan 25-Feb 11, 2011)...
 [Above graphic first posted on February 1st, full 10 days before Egyptian Revolution ended on Feb 11.]
...as Venus made its way across the Milky Way near the Galactic Center immersed in what is called the "Dark Rift," a series of overlapping black "clouds" running through a significant portion of the Milky Way. The Maya considered it the "road to Xibalba," their underworld (popularly thought integral to the Mayan calendar ominously counting down to "2012").
Venus in the Dark Rift = Lucifer in/rising from the Underworld
Ophiuchus was also there accompanying Venus in the abyss, adding an extra layer of "prophetic" meaning...
The Serpent Holder
The obscure constellation few knew how to pronounce - Ophiuchus - went viral out of nowhere mid-January 2011, becoming an overnight sensation...
 [Video] Jan 14 'New' zodiac signs cause instant identity crises Jan 14 New Zodiac Leaves Many Seeing Stars Jan 15 Ophiuchus: suggestion of 13th sign becomes internet sensation
Many sensed "something" being signaled. Something wonderful, something "dark". It was for all intents and purposes an "omen" prefiguring the Underworld opening its mouth in the "Black Land" (Egypt originally kemet meaning "black land"). Venus was the timing aspect of the "prophecy"; Ophiuchus was there to provide spatial information through an orbital "mirror"...

...through Orion, exactly on the opposite side from Ophiuchus, signifying a hidden path to the Egyptian Underworld.
The Duat
In ancient Egypt they called their underworld the "Duat". It was ruled by Osiris the god of the dead identified with Orion whose "Belt Stars" are memorialized in the arrangement of the Giza pyramids ("Orion Correlation Theory") standing right next to Cairo or Revolution ground zero...

- Pyramids are "tombs" analogous to the underworld
- Giza once called "Rostau", originally referring to the deepest section of the Duat
- The Duat traditionally denoted by a circumscribed 5-pointed star i.e. a "pentagram" or "pentacle"



It all came together in Egypt. The country's "pentagrammic rebirth" was perfectly timed to mirror Venus-Lucifer making its way out of the galactic "womb" aka the Dark Rift (Xibalba).
Behold, Osiris has risen through fire...
Phoenix
The phoenix represents the essence of Osiris - all about resurrection. Osiris = Orion = Giza pyramids... which are in essence extensions of the "Benben Stone," the archetypal/original capstone, closely linked to the "Bennu" bird (bennu and benben stemming from the same root) which is simply the Egyptian phoenix.
Fiery Planet
NASA's "Phoenix" (successfully landing on Mars in 2008)...

...was built and operated (scientific portions) by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory based in Tucson, Arizona, the same city where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords - a NASA "astronaut's wife" - was shot, and for a short time thought killed, by a disturbed young man Jared Lee Loughner. She is now making a miraculous "beast"-like recovery - or "resurrection" - from her "beast"-like head injury (Revelation 13). That was back on January 8th, 2011, making it the event that pentachronometrically paved the way for Egypt's Rebirth.

Mars was in the mix to put the icing on the multicontextual cake or the capstone on the pyramid. Because...
The Egyptian capital Cairo derives its name from al Qahir, ("the victorious") referring to Mars - a fiery planet we saw "burning"; intensely with the Sun during the Revolution in the "Martian city" Cairo... also burning.

Then out of the Martian ashes rose...


...a New Dawn.

Which is so bright, it just might wake up Atlantis...

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Vindicated by History: The 1893 Queen Isabella Commemorative Quarter
1893 Queen Isabella Commemorative Quarter. (Image via me)
A few things I’ve picked up from researching early commemorative coins:
- The people behind them always hope they can raise a ton of money for a pet project or monument or expo. They rarely do.
- The designs usually get denigrated by the numismatic press – oftentimes with a venom critics reserve for Limp Bizkit albums or Michael Bay movies.
- The mint melts down the excess/unsold coins. As a result, the ones that did sell end up becoming valuable decades later – screwing over collectors on a budget like yours truly.
Those issues were all in play for the 1893 Isabella Quarter.
The Queen Isabella commemorative quarter traces its beginnings to the World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. Congress had already authorized the minting of a commemorative half dollar featuring Christopher Columbus, but a group of women, led by Bertha Palmer, whose husband, Potter, owned the famed Palmer House hotel in Chicago, thought they could do better.
Spearheaded by renowned women’s rights activist, and future $1 coin subject, Susan B. Anthony, the Board of Lady Managers had been awarded $10,000 in federal funds to help manage the Columbian Expo. In early 1893, the Board went before the House Appropriations Committee to ask that the $10,000 could be paid to them in the form of 40,000 specially designed commemorative quarters, which they could then sell at a profit. Congress obliged and the Board set about becoming “the authors of the first really beautiful and artistic coin that has ever been issued by the government of the United States.”
Obviously, the Board wanted a female on the obverse and decided on Queen Isabella I of Castile, who had provided vital financial support for Columbus’s voyages. Putting a foreign monarch on U.S. currency was unprecedented (indeed, there had a been a revolution over it), but according to Coin Week, the main source of conflict was over design.
Caroline Peddle, a former student of famed artist and coin designer Augustus Saint-Gaudens, was hired by the Board to design the coin. However, her sketches, which included a seated Isabella on the obverse and the inscription “Commemorative coin issued for the Board of Lady Managers of the World’s Columbian Exposition by Act of Congress, 1492–1892” on the reverse, were deemed to look too token-like and rejected. Rather than be allowed to redesign the coin, the Mint took away the reverse side and gave it to one of their in-house artists, Charles Barber, to design.
After some more back-and-forth and additional restrictions imposed by the Mint, Peddle resigned. The Mint then cobbled together some portraits of Isabella and ultimately produced an image of a young Isabella wearing a crown on her head for the obverse. On the reverse, the Mint went with an image of a woman kneeling while holding a distaff and spindle- symbolizing her industry. The Board had suggested an image of the Woman’s Building at the Expo, and Palmer later stated that the Board disliked the Mint’s reverse image because “we did not consider [it] typical of the woman of the present day.” However, the Mint made the final decision and approved the coin design.
To say that the reception for the commemorative quarter was not warm is a bit like saying that the American public didn’t embrace Apple’s Newton. The American Journal of Numsimatics was particularly brutal:
[W]e do not know who designed it, but in this instance, as in the half dollar, the contrast between examples of the numismatic art of the nation, as displayed on the Columbian coins, on the one hand, and the spirited and admirable work of the architects of the buildings, for instance, on the other, is painful. If these coins really represent the highest achievements of our medalist and our mints, under the inspiration of an opportunity without restrictions, the like of which has never been presented hitherto in the history of our national coinage, we might as well despair of its future…
The American Journal of Numismatics in October 1893, quoted by PCGS.
The Journal also drew a “mournful” comparison between the reverse design of the kneeling woman holding the distaff and spindle and the well-known “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?” anti-slavery Hard Times Token. Surely, the Board felt vindicated by that line – although there’s no evidence Palmer or anyone else affiliated with them ever wrote to the Mint to say: “See? I told you we should gone with the building on the reverse.”
 1838 HT-81 “Am I Not A Woman & A Sister?” (Image via me)
Sales figures, meanwhile, were disappointing. Of the 40,000 coins minted, a little more than half (21,180) ended up selling. According to NGC, the quarter’s sales were cannibalized by the Columbian Expo half dollar, which sold for the same price and was more widely available at the fair (5 million Columbian Expo half dollars were minted – 125 times as many compared to the Isabella quarter). While it didn’t come close to selling out, Coin Week points out that the quarters, which sold for $1 each, ended up being profitable for the Board. A $20,000-plus stream of revenue may not have been much, but it was double the original federal appropriation awarded to the Board. Of the remaining 19,000-plus quarters, approximately 15,000 went back to the Mint for melting.
 1893 Columbian Expo Half Dollar. (Image via me)
In recent years, the coin’s reputation has been rehabilitated and has become a highly sought-after collector’s item. Contemporary reviewers have praised its quaint design and its uniqueness among U.S. commemorative coins (until the modern commemoratives came around, it held the distinction as the only commemorative quarter in U.S. history – as well as the only one to depict a foreign monarch). Even the reverse of the coin has been somewhat vindicated. Art historian Cornelius Vermeule argued that the design wasn’t necessarily evocative of the anti-slavery token and even traced elements of it back to antiquities. “[S]ome details of drapery to a servant girl from the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, work of about 460 B.C. with additions and revisions in the first or second centuries A.D.,” he wrote.
I love the design and how it distinguishes this coin from other early commemoratives. Too many coins from that era have a generic male bust on the obverse and either an eagle or state symbol on the reverse. Because of the relative scarcity of this coin, buying one wasn’t cheap (this one had been cleaned, which lowered its value, but it still ended up costing over $100). The price tag was worth it, as this has become one of my favorite coins.
So I guess the lesson here is that I should buy more modern commemoratives – even those that I think are ugly. After all, maybe they’ll skyrocket in value in 100 years…
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