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Carver Washington |
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1951 - 1954
The Carver-Washington Commemorative coin
commemorates the lives and accomplishments of George
Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington. Dr. George
Washington Carver, born in 1864 in Diamond, Missouri, gained a
college education and became a leader in the fields of
agricultural and botany. He joined the Tuskegee Institute and
set up an agricultural research facility, finding new ways to
use soybeans, peanuts (he found over 300 uses), sweet
potatoes, and other crops. He died on January 5, 1943.
Washington was born into slavery in Virginia in 1858. After
the civil war he received a formal education and in 1879 he
was an instructor at Hampton Industrial Institure in Virgina.
In 1881, he headed the Tuskegee Institute, a facility for the
education of blacks in Alabama. He received honorary degrees
from Dartmouth and Harvard and wrote an autobiography Up From
Slavery. He died in 1915.
The designer of the coin was Isaac Scott Hathaway. The obverse
shows a picture of Carver (front) and Washington (back). The
reverse shows the United States of America with USA across the
states. AMERICANISM and FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL are
around the edges.
1952 George W.Carver / Booker T.Washington Silver Coin
1952 Carver Washington Commemorative Coin Silver
1952 George w. carver/booker t. washington silver coin
3 coins 1953 SD Washington Carver NGC MS-64
1952 Carver Washington Commemorative Coin Silver
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