August 18, 2009

The 1979 Susan B. Anthony proof dollar was struck in 2 varieties: The filled "S" and the clear "S". The filled "S" and clear "S" variety refers to the mint mark located just to the left of Susan B. Anthony. For the filled "S", the mint mark appears to be inflated to the point where it almost looks like the numeral "8" and is called ' type 1 '. The clear "S" is a perfect "S" and is called ' type 2 '. These proof coins were only minted at San Francisco which is shown as 1979-S in this list. Proof coins are not intended for circulation so values are shown only for the uncirculated grades in the following list:

Uncirculated Deep Cameo Grades........1979-S type 1............1979-S type 2

MS63........................................................$8...............................$72

MS64........................................................$8...............................$77

MS65........................................................$8...............................$82

MS66........................................................$8...............................$90

MS67........................................................$10.............................$95

MS68........................................................$17.............................$100

MS69........................................................$40.............................$150

MS70........................................................$300...........................$1150

Susan B. Anthony Was Arrested for Voting.

1. society put her face on a 1 dollar coin in honer of her 50 year fight for women's right
2. gave 75-100 speeches in 45 years
3. her last public words were to all the women of America - failure is impossible

After fifteen years as a schoolteacher, Anthony immersed herself in the temperence movement. In the late 1840s, after her family had settled in Rochester, she became involved with the Daughters of Temperance, a group that called attention to the plight of women whose husbands were alcoholics. After a male temperence group refused to let her speak at a convention in Albany, Anthony founded the Women's State Temperance Society of New York.

2. She had a powerful ally

Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851 and joined her at a women's rights convention in Syracuse the following year. Stanton was already a leader in the burgeoning women's rights movement, and for the next five decades the Anthony and Stanton worked together on suffrage, equal rights, temperence and anti-slavery issues. Stanton was known as the more philosophical of the pair, writing numerous pamphlets and broadsheets, while Anthony was considered the organizer and rally leader.

3. She was put on trial for voting

In 1872 Anthony and several other women entered a voter registration office in Rochester and demanded that they be allowed to register to vote. When elections officials denied them, Anthony threatened to call her lawyer and sue them all. After much debate, the men allowed the women to register to vote, and four days later they cast ballots in the presidential election. Anthony was arrested and charged with illegal voting. She used her trial as a platform for suffrage awareness, but in the end she was found guilty and fined $100, which she refused to pay. Later she had records of the trial proceedings printed and distributed in support of her cause.

4. Her dollar was a landmark

The Susan B. Anthony dollar represented the first time a real woman -- instead of a symbolic woman, like Lady Liberty -- appeared on circulating U.S. currency. It was released in 1979.

5. She never saw the final victory she fought for

The Nineteenth Amendment, which forbade gender discrimination in voting, was ratified in August 1920 -- 14 years after Anthony's death in March 1906.
. she went to her dads school.

.She got arrested for voting and not paying the $100 fine.

. She made 75-100 speeches a year.

.Her last public words to all the women of American was "failure is impossible"

.She was a Quaker and was against people drinking Ashil.