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JIM: Mark Twain, a Grandson of the Shire Two commemorative coins will be struck by U.S. Mint in his honor By JIM Early in 2016, the US Mint will recognize Adair County's favorite Grandson of the Shire by striking two commemorative coins in his honor. The coins, scheduled to be offered for sale by the Mint beginning in mid-January, will consist of a one-dollar face value silver piece struck to the same size, weight, and fineness specifications as the large "cartwheel" dollars minted through the mid-1930s along with a five-dollar face value gold coin. For those who have been in The Shire too short a time to attend and be graduated from the Adair Assimilation Academy, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the birth name of Mark Twain, was the son of John Marshall Clemens, a young lawyer from Virginia, and Jane Lampton, a native of Adair County and the granddaughter of pioneer settler Colonel William Casey, a Revolutionary war soldier and early settler in the area. John Marshall and Jane became husband and wife "in the quiet old town of Columbia" in the spring of 1823. Not long afterward, the young couple removed to Tennessee, first to near Gainesboro and later to Fentress County, where they remained until the forepart of 1835. At that time, they and their four children pulled up stakes and moved to Missouri, with a stop of several days in Adair County for Jane to visit kith and kin. A few months later, on the last day of November, Sam Clemens made his advent, born, no doubt, as Adair County's Dr. U.L. Taylor said of Melvin White, "at a very early age." In "Mark Twain, a Biography," A.B. Paine quoted the author as saying, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" The Almighty obliged, and Twain met with no disappointment in this matter. Among the "findings" section of the federal legislation authorizing the minting of the coins, these three (of many) points in particular speak with eloquence of Twain's accomplishments: "(1) Samuel Clemens--better known to the world as Mark Twain--was a unique American voice whose literary work has had a lasting effect on our Nation's history and culture.The silver coin to be struck in commemoration of his life will on the front bear his effigy and a wisp of smoke drifting up from his pipe. In the background appear small silhouette images of Huck and Jim on their river voyage, the tobacco smoke forming the "water" for their raft. On the reverse, several of Twain's well known characters spring forth from the pages of an opened book: a bullfrog taking a mighty leap; a charger at full gallop, carrying a knight and his lance toward an unknown fate; and Huck fishing from the river bank with Jim pointing toward an unseen object somewhere in the general direction of the distant far bank. The gold five dollar piece (about the size of a nickel), features a different likeness of Twain on the front. The reverse depicts a paddle-wheeler plying the water, a nod to his days as a riverboat captain and the nom de plume he derived therefrom. Images of the coins may be viewed here: Mark Twain commemorative coin designs feature the from the celebrated jumping frog of calveras county The website of the US Mint may be viewed here: US Mint.gov , but little information about the Twain coins will appear there until the new year. Three (somewhat) related ColumbiaMagazine links:
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