Liberty Bell

Well, if it doesn't, there are several hundred million incorrectly designed coins out there!

And they're normally called Bicentennial dollars, not liberty bell dollars.

Bottom line, it's quite intentional. The design was intended to honor both the country's 200th Anniversary (hence the Liberty Bell) and its scientific progress (hence the moon, because the space program was very active in the 1970s)

Coin designs go through lots of planning and "vetting" before release so it's definitely not a mistake.

Although it does have the Liberty Bell on the reverse of the coin, it's a Franklin half dollar. All Franklin half dollars are considered common, if it has any wear, it's valued only for the silver, about $12.00 as of 3-12-11

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Liberty Bell Center on Market Street between 5th & 6th streets.

Private novelty companies place these marks on ordinary coins and sell them as "valuable collectibles." When the buyers try to get the implied profit after a few years, they find that a coin dealer will give them only a fraction of what they paid (if they will even buy them) and the coins get spent. If you have one I haven't seen, I would probably pay a dollar for it. (Sorry, I already have that one.)

In reality, no, because it is heavily guarded day and night and you would be lucky to be able to get within 2 feet of it. But on an episode of How i met your mother, Barney is determined to do something that no-one has ever done before, and to make it a team job, he talks Ted into doing it as well.

The Liberty Bell was ordered for purchase by the colony government,

the Pennsylvania Assembly, in 1751 to be hung in the new constructed State House (Independence Hall).

The Assembly requested their London agent, Robert Charles, to purchase a bell of approximately "two thousand pounds weight".

Charles commissioned the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London to cast the bell.

Robert Charles bill to the Province of Pennsylvania states as follows:

"1752 May To cash for the cost of a Bell

with frt (freight) & Insurance £150.13.8

(150 pounds, 13 shillings and 8 pence.)"

Pass and Stow's bill for the recasting states as follows:

"1753 June For Recasting the State house bell wt 2044 lbs

at 4 pence Sterling pr. lb. £34.1.4; For 37 lb additional wt

at 14 pence per lb. Sterling £2.3.2."

Pass and Stow's bill for the recasting of the Liberty Bell totaled £36.4.6

That's about $225 US dollars!

The yoke, which is the original one, is made of American Elm.

All images of the Liberty Bell on Franklin half dollars (and, indeed, in real life) show a crack in the bell.

To determine its value you have to know the coin's date and whether there's a mint mark letter over the bell. Then please post a new question with that information.

The original bell requested on November 1, 1751, cast by Whitechapel Bellfoundary, and delivered to the U.S. in September 1752, was "test" rung in March of 1753...this is the official first ringing of the first Liberty Bell...and this bell cracked upon the first strike of the bell-clapper.

The Liberty Bell was recast twice by John Pass and John Stowe (Who's names appear on the bell we know today) and is the bell we see today. It was first rung on July 4, 1776 (according to an 1847 short story and historians, but exact date is not officially documented). It hung for years in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (today known as Independence Hall ), and was used to summon lawmakers to legislative sessions and to alert citizens to public meetings and proclamations. Bells were rung to mark the reading of the Declaration on July 8, 1776, and while there is no contemporary account of the Liberty Bell ringing, most historians believe it was one of the bells rung. It is said to have cracked while ringing the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1857, but again there is no official documentation.

Although the inscription "proclaim liberty throughout all the land..." was on the bell at it's original casting (c.1750), the name "Liberty Bell" was popularized by abolitionists almost a hundred years later. The specific liberty must then refer to liberty from slavery.

When the bell was first cracked, the bell was rebuilt by John Pass and John Stow of Philadelphia. Pass and Stow added copper to the composition of the alloy used to cast the bell, the sound of the bell was unsatisfactoy. So Pass and Stow recast the bell again, and this third bell is the one that was hung in the steeple of the state house in 1753. It is not certain when the second crack appeared. The bell was retired shortley after in 1846.

In a town called Normandy.

John pass and john stow casted the liberty bell after it first cracked

It is 6 feet tall according to providenceform.org/libertybell.

The older ones are usually made of a type of metal, though in the modern era larger ones tend to be metal while others can be other materials, such as porcelain or fiberglass.

i learned in 1st that it needed made again because it broke

Yes. The Liberty Bell Forever stamps can be used at the current First Class rate forever... hence the name "Forever stamp". They are worth whatever the current First Class rate is. For example, the rate currently (Dec. 2010) is $0.44. The Forever stamps are worth that amount right now, even if they were purchased at a lower rate before the increase in May 2009. If the rate would happen to increase again, the Forever stamps would be valued at whatever the new rate would be, whether they are purchased before or after the increase.

The Liberty Bell symbolizes America's freedom from Britain. It was named the Liberty Bell because of the freedom it symbolized to our country.

The bell was first called the Liberty Bell in 1835 in a journal published by the New York Anti-Slavery Society. The bell was made in 1753, so it was 82 years old when it was first called the Liberty Bell.

These coins are actually called Franklin Half Dollars.

1958 is not a rare date. In circulated condition, its value will be based on the silver it contains -- about 1/3 the price of an ounce of silver.

A nice uncirculated one may bring 2 or 3 times that much.

The Liberty Bell is located in Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell can be found at the Liberty Bell Center which is on Market Street. The Liberty Bell is known as a national historical park/monument.

Approximately 1,500,000 people visit The Liberty Bell each year.

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Technically there is only one large crack which is held together by the slot of metal able to be seen in any photo of the bell. But, it was broken into that large crevice two different times. Only on George Washington's birthday (the date the second part of the crack ocurred) did they move it from its original place in Independence Hall.

To call the founding fathers to meetings when it rang.