CHILDREN OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS

[dutchtoga]

Got any in site on this meddle? Found it today in a jar of foreign coins at a second hand store. I liked it so I bought the jar for $16. Took out about $8 in US and Canadian coins and this meddle.

 

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[scott9050]

Commems Collection: 1925 Stone Mountain "Cousin" - Coin Community Forum

Stone Mountain Children's Founders Roll Medal | eBay

You did well.

 

[treasurehound]

Your medal is a Stone Mountain Commemorative. Here is what I found about it:

In 1915 the United Daughters of the Confederacy invited the renowned sculptor and fellow Klansmen, Mr. Gutzon Borglum, to see the mountain and take measurements. The United Daughters of the Confederacy originally wanted Borglum to carve a single figure of Robert E. Lee into the side of the mountain, but after taking measurements, Borglum instigated that the single carving would make Lee’s head look like a “stamp on a barnyard door.” Borglum then sent the U.D.C. a plan to incorporate Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson as a central focus, with numerous other soldiers in the back drop. In all, the original number of figures to be carved was 800 to 1200. The size of General Lee was to be eight times larger than any other sculpted figure in America.

Not only was the size of the project enormous, but the cost to fund the project took help from a number of different sources. The U.D.C. and the Ku Klux Klan helped initially fund the estimated $5,000,000 dollar project, but support also came from other sources. First the Founders Roll Plan required a subscription of no less than $1,000 payable in equal installments over 5 years. Second, the Children’s Founders Roll plan allowed any person between 1 and 18 to submit their names in the Book of Memory in the name of a Confederate soldier or woman of the Confederacy for $1.00. Finally, the U.S. mint issued a Memorial Half Dollar which was sold at a profit to help fund the process. The Act minted 5,000,000 coins, designed by Gutzon Borglum. The profit from the coins produced were in hopes to account for half of the expenses the work of Stone Mountain would demand.

The initial effort to raise funds for the Memorial through the selling of a numismatic item was the issuance of a bronze Children's Founders Roll medal. The medal was designed by Gutzon Borglum and sold from 1924 to 1925. The central device on the obverse features Borglum's proposed depiction of the figures of Lee, Jackson and Davis. His name appears in -script on the lower obverse field. The reverse carries the legend "Children's Founders Roll - Commemorating the Heroism of the People of the Confederacy". These were sold for $1.00 to children under 19 in honor of the memory of some person who served the Confederacy during the Civil War. In addition to receiving a medal, the child's and honoree's names were inscribed in a Book of Memory to be housed in a proposed Memorial Hall to be carved into the base of the mountain below the carving. The medals were struck by Whitehead-Hoag, as were all the medals described below. The manufacturer's name appears on the lower reverse.