What I want for Christmas: 12 Days of Cristmas- Day 2

My bestie, silverd510, started a tag which he called #twelvedaysofchristmas, a sort of a Santa’s wish list for stackers. You can read more about this tag and the rules to join in here .

Like him and those who want to join in on this fun article series, I shall be posting a bar, round or coin a day [for 12 days] that I would love to get as a gift.

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For my 12 Days of Christmas Day 2, I wish to be gifted the US Silver Half Dollar pictured below!

1936 Delaware Tercentenary Silver Half Dollar

eBay Listing

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While the coin bears that date, the Mint didn’t receive the models until November, and the coins weren’t actually struck until March of 1937. The Philadelphia Mint produced 25,015 half dollars bearing designs created by the German-born, New York-based sculptor Carl Ludwig Schmitz (1900-1967). Schmitz modeled the coin’s obverse – which features the Old Swedes Church (built 1698-1699) – from a photograph and also used a photograph of a model of Kalmar Nyckel provided by the government of Sweden. His depiction shows her facing westward, the wind propelling the ship towards the New World. Art Deco fonts carry the coin’s inscriptions. The dual date 1638 – 1938 is presented on the coin’s reverse.

About the ship...

The Kalmar Nyckel (Key of Kalmar) – Sweden – 1625 – Late 17th century

America’s first Scandinavian immigrants have the Kalmar Nyckel to thank for their passage to the New World. The nimble three-masted square-rigger was accompanied by the Fogel Grip on its first transatlantic journey in 1637. The Kingdom of Sweden intended to establish a toe-hold in North America by establishing Nya Sverige (New Sweden). The expeditions to the New World were undertaken at a time of relentless competition between the European powers, as each of them sought to translate sea-fairing might into global domination. Sweden was at the height of its empire when it undertook this historic expedition, with Swedish territory including parts of modern Russia, Poland, Latvia, and northern Germany.

Swedish Admiral Clas Fleming (1592-1644), an aristocrat and able naval commander, organized the expedition and hired the Walloon Peter Minuit (1580-1638) to undertake the journey. If the name Peter Minuit sounds familiar, that’s because he was governor of the New Netherlands colony when they “bought” the island of Manhattan from the natives for a small number of trade goods. He was finally relieved of his duties by the Dutch West India Company in 1631/32.

Minuit later teamed up with the Swedes to carve a niche out of some as yet uncolonized North American coastline. Where Minuit and the crew of Kalmar Nyckel disembarked is now known as Wilmington, Delaware. The colony was established in the spring of 1638.

Unfortunately, a long and prosperous future did not await Minuit after this accomplishment. While preparing for a return trip from the Caribbean, Minuit was lost at sea while negotiating the purchase of a shipment of tobacco aboard another vessel. A hurricane unexpectedly hit the region. Kalmar Nyckel survived, however, and returned to Sweden without him to continue its service as a transatlantic ship.

There are no sources that had an exact account of the ship’s demise. She ship made three more trips to the colony between the years 1640-1644. Upon returning to Europe from her fourth trip, Kalmar Nyckel was called into duty as a warship in the latter part of the Thirty Years’ War. She was decommissioned in 1651 and sold to a private citizen.

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This is another listing for the Delaware coin. eBay Listing ^{All landscape photos, selfie, silver and gold are mine and taken using my iphone6.}

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