The sixteenth release from the “POTUS” series memorializes the United States of America’s 16th President, “Abraham Lincoln” (1809-1865). The coin is engraved with a partial quote from President Lincoln.
“Any people have the right to shake off the existing government.” The entire quote follows:
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable,---a most sacred right---a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. Such minority, was precisely the case, of the stories of our own revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines, or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.”
- Abraham Lincoln Speech in United States House of Representatives: January 12, 1848
COA's #324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333 available
Total Mintage 779