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Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 07:32:24 JST Evan Prodromou

What is your US Bicentennial story?
#July4 #bicentennial #usa

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  Colin Dean (colindean@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 07:46:13 JST Colin Dean
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  @evan I was a twinkle in my parents' eyes but it would take almost a decade for that twinkle to materialize as me
  
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 07:46:13 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @colindean have you ever seen a Bicentennial quarter?
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    United States Bicentennial coinage
    
    The United States Bicentennial coinage is a set of circulating commemorative coins, consisting of a quarter, half dollar and dollar struck by the United States Mint in 1975 and 1976. Regardless of when struck, each coin bears the double date 1776–1976 on the normal obverses for the Washington quarter, Kennedy half dollar and Eisenhower dollar. No coins dated 1975 of any of the three denominations were minted. Given past abuses in the system, the Mint advocated against the issuance of commemorative coins starting in the 1950s. Beginning in 1971, members of Congress introduced bills to authorize coins to honor the United States Bicentennial, which would occur in 1976. The Mint, through its director, Mary Brooks, initially opposed such proposals, but later supported them, and Congress passed legislation requiring the temporary redesign of the reverse of the quarter, half dollar and dollar. A nationwide competition resulted in designs of a Colonial drummer for the quarter, Independence Hall for the half dollar and the Liberty Bell superimposed against the Moon for the dollar. All three coins remain common today due to the...
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  Maj - 🇨🇦 (maj@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 08:30:33 JST Maj - 🇨🇦
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  @evan I got born.
  
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 10:54:53 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @maj Thank you!
  
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 11:02:38 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @colindean @rickscully Ha! In late 1975 I was in Erie, PA, but by July 1976 we had we moved to Garland, TX, and that's where we had our parade. I think my mom turned a little red wagon into a Conestoga pulled by our very patient St. Bernard.
  
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  Colin Dean (colindean@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 11:02:39 JST Colin Dean
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  @rickscully @evan oh hey, another Western Pennsylvanian in the thread, at least perhaps of origin! I grew up in northern Lawrence County.
  
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  scully (rickscully@heads.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 11:02:40 JST scully
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  @evan I was 10 and spent much of that summer in Sharon, PA right on the border of Ohio. The town painted all the manhole covers and fire hydrants in red white and blue with the hydrants made to look like minutemen. I believe we may have gone to Colonial Williamsburg that summer too. Lots of photos of my cousins and I wearing tricornes.
  
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