Liberty Bell
Commemorative 3D Coin

The main side has the United States Liberty Bell with an Eagle on it. Its wings are outstretched 
and its wings span are the colours of the american flag

It has the words "Liberty Bell" and 1776 around the outside is the famous quote by John F. Kennedy
 " We dare not to forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution"

The back has a snake wrapped around an anchor with the classic marine corps slogan " Dont Tread on Me " and " Liberty or Death"

Amazing detail, you can proudly to showcase. This enduring motto, which traces its origins to America's Revolutionary War, still serves as an emblem of the strength of the world's most powerful military force. This coin honors our forefathers, who risk their lives to secure our country's freedom. 

The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence. 
The inscription on the bell reads:Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof Lev.

The coin is 40mm in diameter and 3 mm thick , it weighs about 1 oz.

This coin is mad of antique bronze

Comes in air-tight acrylic coin holder

In Excellent Condition

Would make an Excellent Gift or Collectable Keepsake Souvenir


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National symbols of the United States are the symbols used to represent the United States of America.

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Symbol    Name    Image    References
Flag    Flag of the United States    Flag of the United States.svg    [1]
Seal    Great Seal of the United States    Great Seal of the United States (obverse).svg (obverse)
Great Seal of the United States (reverse).svg (reverse)    [2]
National bird    Bald eagle    Bald Eagle Portrait.jpg    [3]
National mammal    North American bison    American bison k5680-1.jpg    [4][5][6]
National anthem    "The Star-Spangled Banner"   

"The Star-Spangled Banner"    [7]
National motto
(official)    "In God We Trust"        [8]
National motto
(unofficial, appears on coinage)    E pluribus unum        [9]
National floral emblem    Rose    Rosa rubiginosa 1.jpg    [10]
National march    "The Stars and Stripes Forever"   

"The Stars and Stripes Forever"    [11]
National tree    Oak tree (Quercus)    Eiche bei Schönderling, 2.jpg    [12]
See also
flag    United States portal
Lists of United States state symbols
References
 4 U.S.C. § 1 ("The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field."); § 2 ("On the admission of a new State into the Union one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission.").
 4 U.S.C. § 41 ("The seal heretofore used by the United States in Congress assembled is declared to be the seal of the United States.").
 A modified version of Charles Thomson's proposal for the Great Seal of the United States on June 20, 1782, with a bald eagle in the center, was adopted by the Continental Congress on June 20, 1782. Bruce E. Beans, Eagle's Plume: The Struggle to Preserve the Life and Haunts of America's Bald Eagle (University of Nebraska Press 1997), p. 59.
 National Bison Legacy Act, Pub. L. 114-152, 130 Stat. 373 (approved May 9, 2016), § 3(a) ("The mammal commonly known as the 'North American bison' is adopted as the national mammal of the United States.")
 "15 Facts About Our National Mammal: The American Bison". United States Department of the Interior. May 9, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
 Harris, Gardiner (May 9, 2016). "Obama Signs Law Making Bison the First National Mammal". The New York Times. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
 36 U.S.C. § 301(a) ("The composition consisting of the words and music known as the Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem.").
 36 U.S.C. § 302 ("'In God we trust' is the national motto.").
 Frank S. Ravitch, Boris I. Bittker & Scott C. Idleman, Religion and the State in American Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 136 ("The nation's first unofficial motto was 'E pluribus unum' ('Out of many, one'), which was proposed in 1776, adopted in 1782, and to this day is part of the Great Seal of the United States. E plurbius unum first appeared in coinage in 1795 and in 1873 was required on all U.S. coinage...").
 36 U.S.C. § 303 ("The flower commonly known as the rose is the national floral emblem.").
 36 U.S.C. § 304 ("The composition by John Philip Sousa entitled 'The Stars and Stripes Forever' is the national march.").
 36 U.S.C. § 305 ("The tree genus Quercus, commonly known as the oak tree, is the national tree.").
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Americana

Apple pie, baseball and the United States flag are three well-known American cultural icons.

Liberty Enlightening the World: the famous New York landmark illustrated in a print by Currier and Ives
Americana is a collective term for artifacts related to the history, geography, folklore and cultural heritage of the United States of America. It is generally defined as any collection of materials and things concerning or characteristic of the United States or of the American people; in its broadest sense, Americana is representative or even stereotypical of American culture as a whole.[1][2]

What is and is not considered Americana is heavily influenced by national identity, historical context, patriotism and nostalgia. The ethos or guiding beliefs or ideals which have come to characterize America, such as The American Dream, are central to the idea. American historian Hampton Sides wrote in Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier:

The United States of America is such a glorious mess of contradiction, such a crazy quilt of competing themes, such a fecund mishmash of people and ideas, that defining us is pretty much pointless. There is, of course, a kind of faded notion of "Americana", one that concerns Route 66, diners, freak rock formations, and the like—but even in its halcyon days this "roadside attraction" version of America was never an accurate or nuanced distillation of our massively complicated culture.

There are scenes and places, wattages and personages, that belong—inextricably, unmistakably—to this country alone. There is an American quality, a tone, an energy ... instantly recognizable ..."[3][page needed]

Many kinds of cultural artifacts fall within the definition of Americana: the things involved need not be old, but are usually associated with some quintessential element of the American experience. Each period of United States history is reflected by the advertising and marketing of the time, and the various types of antiques, collectibles, memorabilia and vintage items from these time periods are typical of what is popularly considered Americana. The Atlantic described the term as "slang for the comforting, middle-class ephemera at your average antique store—things like needle-pointed pillows, Civil War daguerreotypes, and engraved silverware sets".[4] Americana encompasses not only material objects but also people, places, concepts and historical eras which are popularly identified with American culture.

The name "Americana" also refers to Americana music, a genre of contemporary music which incorporates elements of various American music styles, including country, roots-rock, folk, bluegrass and blues, resulting in a distinctive roots-oriented sound.[5][6]

Americana as nostalgia
From the mid to late 20th century, Americana was largely conceptualized as a nostalgia for an idealized life in small towns and cities in the United States around the turn of the century, roughly in the period between 1880 and the First World War, popularly considered "The Good Old Days".[7] It was believed that much of the structure of 20th-century American life and culture had been cemented in that time and place. American author Henry Seidel Canby wrote:

"It is the small town, the small city, that is our heritage. We have made twentieth-century America from it, and some account of these communities as they were ... we owe our children and grandchildren."[8]

The nostalgia for this period was based on a remembrance of confidence in American life that had emerged during the period due to such factors as a sense that the frontier had finally been "conquered", with the U.S. Census Bureau's declaration that it was "closed" in 1890, as well as the recent victory in the Spanish–American War.[7] By 1912, the contiguous United States was at last fully politically incorporated, and the idea of the nation as a single, solid unity could begin to take hold.

As Canby put it,

Americans at this time "really believed all they heard on the Fourth of July or read in school readers. They set on one plane of time, and that the present, the Declaration of Independence, the manifest destiny of America, the new plumbing, the growth of the factory system, the morning paper, and the church sociable. It was all there at once, better than elsewhere, their own, and permanent. ... They had just the country they wanted...and they believed it would be the same, except for more bathtubs and faster trains, forever ... for the last time in living memory everyone knew exactly what it meant to be an American."[8]

On growing up Italian-American, novelist Don DeLillo stated:

"It’s no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. America was and is the immigrant's dream, and as the son of two immigrants I was attracted by the sense of possibility that had drawn my grandparents and parents." (from Conversations With Don DeLillo)[9]

The zeitgeist of this idealized period is captured in the Disneyland theme park's Main Street, U.S.A. section (which was inspired by both Walt Disney's hometown of Marceline, Missouri and Harper Goff's childhood home of Fort Collins, Colorado),[10] as well as the musical and movie The Music Man and Thornton Wilder's stage play Our Town.[7] Especially revered in nostalgic Americana are small-town institutions like the barber shop,[11] drug store, soda fountain and ice cream parlor;[12] some of these were eventually resurrected by mid-twentieth century nostalgia for the time period in businesses like the Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour chain, with its 1890s theme.[13]

Examples

U.S. Route 66 sign

This Coca-Cola advertisement from 1943 is still displayed in Minden, Louisiana

By the middle of the 1940s, three-quarters of the records produced in America went into jukeboxes
Columbia, a personification of the United States
Uncle Sam, a popular personification of the U.S. federal government or of American military might
Star-Spangled Banner, the original garrison flag that inspired the U.S. national anthem
American flag
Old Glory
Liberty, a concept considered fundamental to the popular American identity
Baseball, often called America's national pastime
Apple pie
Hot dog
U.S. Route 66
Jukebox
Classical Hollywood cinema
Drive-in theater
Diner
Ice cream parlor
Hot rod
White picket fence[14]
Brand names
Chevrolet
Harley-Davidson[a]
Coca-Cola[16][17]
Jeep
John Deere
McDonald's
Burger King
Ford
Texaco
The Walt Disney Company
Marlboro
Levi's blue jeans, especially Levi's 501s[17][18]
Zippo lighters[19]
Pan Am
Ray-Ban
Delta Air Lines
Jack Daniel's
Jim Beam
Budweiser
Gulf Oil
C.F. Martin & Company
Marvel Comics
DC Comics

Columbia of Carrick, mural of the personification of America, located in Pittsburgh, PA
Eras and periods
American Revolution
Civil War
Wild West
Industrial Revolution
Gilded Age
Roaring Twenties
Great Depression
Golden Age of Capitalism
Beat Generation
Music
Rock and roll
Jazz
Country and western
Blues
Disco
Hip hop
"Yankee Doodle" (song)
Star-Spangled Banner
CBGB
Studio 54
Religion
Camp meeting[20]
Tent revival[20]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Film
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Giant (1956)
The Music Man (1962)
Easy Rider (1969)
Nashville (1975)
Television
Little House on the Prairie
Happy Days
M*A*S*H
The Twilight Zone
All in the Family
Dallas
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show
The Simpsons
Cultural icons

George Washington on the 1928 dollar bill
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Mark Twain
Henry Ford
Walt Disney
Frank Sinatra
Elvis Presley
Woody Guthrie
Michael Jackson
Marilyn Monroe
Andy Warhol
John F. Kennedy
Hunter S. Thompson
Babe Ruth
Muhammad Ali
Hulk Hogan
Norman Rockwell
Michael Jordan
Tom Petty
Barack Obama
See also
History of immigration to the United States
Culture of the United States
History of the United States
American studies
Transcendentalism
Romanticism
Black Americana
Similar concepts in other nations
Australiana, for cultural artifacts from Australia
Canadiana, for cultural artifacts from Canada
Hawaiiana, Native Hawaiian cultural artifacts from the U.S. state of Hawaii.
Kiwiana, for cultural artifacts from New Zealand (Kiwi bring a nickname for New Zealanders).
Notes
 "At the soul of every Harley-Davidson is something hard to explain. But easy to understand once you're on one. It's a strong attraction that has to do with pride, style and a powerful piece of Americana." (from a 1987 Harley-Davidson advertisement)[15]
References
 "Americana".
 "Americana". Dictionary.com.
 Sides, Hampton (2007). Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 1400033551.
 Giovanni Russonello. "Why Is a Music Genre Called 'Americana' So Overwhelmingly White and Male?". The Atlantic.
 Shriver, Jerry (31 August 2009). "Grammys will be putting Americana on the map". USA Today.
 "2011 Grammy Category Descriptions" (PDF). Retrieved 18 December 2012.
 Sears, Stephen (1975). Hometown U.S.A. New York: American Heritage. pp. 6–9. ISBN 0-671-22079-9.
 Canby, Henry Seidel (1934). The Age of Confidence: Life in the Nineties. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. ASIN B000857UVO.
 DeLillo, Don (January 13, 2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo. University Press of Mississippi. p. 88. ISBN 1578067049.
 "Local History Archive Larimer Legends - Old Town & Disneyland - City of Fort Collins, Colorado". Library.ci.fort-collins.co.us. Archived from the original on 2009-01-25. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
 Sears, Stephen (1975). Hometown U.S.A. New York: American Heritage. pp. 12–13, 29. ISBN 0-671-22079-9.
 Sears, Stephen (1975). Hometown U.S.A. New York: American Heritage. pp. 12–13, 20. ISBN 0-671-22079-9.
 "Farrell's looks to restart growth Owner outlines expansion plans for iconic ice cream chain". Nation's Restaurant News. August 31, 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
 Xiong, Nzong (2008-03-03). "White picket fences appease homeowners". TuscaloosaNews.com. McClatchy-Tribune News Service. Archived from the original on 2015-09-02. Americana aside, people like white picket fences for a couple of practical reasons.
 Field and Stream. March 1987.
 Melvin, Don. "Coca-cola A Sip Of Americana Things Have Been Going Better With Coke Since 1886." Florida Sun-Sentinel. 7 October 1990
 Day, Sherri and Stuart Elliot. "Coca-Cola Goes Back to Its 'Real' Past." New York Times. 10 January 2003
 Babcock, Gregory. "10 American Menswear Essentials That Will Literally Never Go Out of Style." Complex. 9 April 2015
 "The Short Story About The American Icon - The Legendary Zippo Lighter". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
 Stoutland, Frederick A. (2006). Landscapes of Christianity. FAS Publishing. p. 361. ISBN 9780977234103.
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The Liberty Bell bears a timeless message: "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof"

Go beyond the iconic crack to learn how this State House bell was transformed into an extraordinary symbol. Abolitionists, women's suffrage advocates and Civil Rights leaders took inspiration from the inscription on this bell. Plan your visit to the Liberty Bell Center to allow time to view the exhibits, see the film, and gaze upon the famous cracked bell. No tickets are required and hours vary seasonally.
 

From Signal to Symbol
The State House bell, now known as the Liberty Bell, rang in the tower of the Pennsylvania State House. Today, we call that building Independence Hall. Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris first ordered a bell for the bell tower in 1751 from the Whitechapel Foundry in London. That bell cracked on the first test ring. Local metalworkers John Pass and John Stow melted down that bell and cast a new one right here in Philadelphia. It's this bell that would ring to call lawmakers to their meetings and the townspeople together to hear the reading of the news. Benjamin Franklin wrote to Catherine Ray in 1755, "Adieu, the Bell rings, and I must go among the Grave ones and talk Politicks." It's not until the 1830's that the old State House bell would begin to take on significance as a symbol of liberty.
 

The Crack
No one recorded when or why the Liberty Bell first cracked, but the most likely explanation is that a narrow split developed in the early 1840's after nearly 90 years of hard use. In 1846, when the city decided to repair the bell prior to George Washington's birthday holiday (February 23), metal workers widened the thin crack to prevent its farther spread and restore the tone of the bell using a technique called "stop drilling". The wide "crack" in the Liberty Bell is actually the repair job! Look carefully and you'll see over 40 drill bit marks in that wide "crack". But, the repair was not successful. The Public Ledger newspaper reported that the repair failed when another fissure developed. This second crack, running from the abbreviation for "Philadelphia" up through the word "Liberty", silenced the bell forever. No one living today has heard the bell ring freely with its clapper, but computer modeling provides some clues into the sound of the Liberty Bell.
 

The Inscription
The Liberty Bell's inscription is from the Bible (King James version): "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof." This verse refers to the "Jubilee", or the instructions to the Israelites to return property and free slaves every 50 years. Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris chose this inscription for the State House bell in 1751, possibly to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William Penn's 1701 Charter of Privileges which granted religious liberties and political self-government to the people of Pennsylvania. The inscription of liberty on the State House bell (now known as the Liberty Bell) went unnoticed during the Revolutionary War. After the war, abolitionists seeking to end slavery in America were inspired by the bell's message.
 

The Meaning
The State House bell became a herald of liberty in the 19th century. "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof," the bell's inscription, provided a rallying cry for abolitionists wishing to end slavery. The Anti-Slavery Record, an abolitionist publication, first referred to the bell as the Liberty Bell in 1835, but that name was not widely adopted until years later. Millions of Americans became familiar with the bell in popular culture through George Lippard's 1847 fictional story "Ring, Grandfather, Ring", when the bell came to symbolize pride in a new nation. Beginning in the late 1800s, the Liberty Bell traveled across the country for display at expositions and fairs, stopping in towns small and large along the way. For a nation recovering from wounds of the Civil War, the bell served to remind Americans of a time when they fought together for independence. Movements from Women's Suffrage to Civil Rights embraced the Liberty Bell for both protest and celebration. Pennsylvania suffragists commissioned a replica of the Liberty Bell. Their "Justice Bell" traveled across Pennsylvania in 1915 to encourage support for women's voting rights legislation. It then sat chained in silence until the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Now a worldwide symbol, the bell's message of liberty remains just as relevant and powerful today: "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof"
 

Bell Facts
The two lines of text around the top of the bell include the inscription of liberty, and information about who ordered the bell (Pennsylvania Assembly) and why (to go in their State House):

Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV X
By Order of the ASSEMBLY of the Province of PENSYLVANIA [sic] for the State House in Philada

The information on the face of the bell tells us who cast the bell (John Pass and John Stow), where (Philadelphia) and when (1753):
Pass and Stow
Philada
MDCCLIII

The bell weighed 2,080 lbs. at order. It is made of bronze. It's 70% copper, 25% tin and contains small amounts of lead, gold, arsenic, silver, and zinc. The bell's wooden yoke is American elm, but there is no proof that it is the original yoke for this bell. While there is evidence that the bell rang to mark the Stamp Act tax and its repeal, there is no evidence that the bell rang on July 4 or 8, 1776.

 

Additional Information

Lesson plans about the Liberty Bell are available on the park's "For Teachers" page. "The Liberty Bell: From Obscurity to Icon", a Teaching with Historic Places lesson plan, is also available on the web.

There are two other bells in the park today, in addition to the Liberty Bell. The Centennial Bell, made for the nation's 100th birthday in 1876, still rings every hour in the tower of Independence Hall. It weighs 13,000 lbs. - a thousand pounds for each original state. The Bicentennial Bell was a gift to the people of the United States from the people of Great Britain in 1976. That bell is currently in storage.