1995 Civil War Battlefield Commemorative Three Coin Set including Gold Piece

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1995 Civil War Battlefield Commemorative Three Coin Set including Gold Piece.
This Commemorative Set from the U. S. Mint contains three coins: a clad half dollar, a silver dollar, and a gold half eagle or piece.
The clad half: This coin depicts a drummer on the obverse and a landscape and cannon on the reverse.  The mint mark is San Francisco. These are nice but not extraordinary designs to my eye.
The  silver dollar:  This coin depicts a Civil War soldier giving a drink to a wounded foe on one side, and a landscape of Little Round Top and a long inscription on the reverse.  I like the two soldiers theme on the obverse, but it is a little hard to figure out on first sight.  The reverse does not work for me at all.  The landscape is very difficult to make out, and the inscription is hard to read and too long.  Thumbs down for this design (in my opinion).  This coin is 90 percent silver as are all the commem dollars, and carries an "S" mint mark.  Strangely, the Uncirculated version of the same coin has a Philadelphia mint mark instead of the San Francisco mint mark.  Look it up.
The Five Dollar piece is 90 percent gold and contains .24 troy ounces of gold.  The obverse shows a Civil War bugler on horseback in a classic equestrian pose, and the reverse shows an eagle with a banner.  The eagle is a little confusing due to its small size, but this is a sharp little coin.  The mint mark is "W" for West Point.  Gold at this moment is selling at 63.90 per troy ounce.
Mintages are given separately for the three coins: the half dollar has a mintage of 330,002; the dollar's mintage is 437,114, and the gold coin's mintage is a low 55,246.  Interestingly, the same coins issued in Uncirculated have much lower mintages, which says something about the tastes of the American public, and also predicts a different price trajectory, which is already apparent in the Red Book--the uncirculated coins carry a higher value than the Proofs.
Unlike most Commemorative Proof Sets, which come in a velvet box, this set comes in an ornate, heavily decorated "Union Box" replica.  These boxes were made at the time of the Civil War of shellac and sawdust, and molded into intricate designs.  They were created to hold primitive photographs of loved ones, which the soldiers carried with them.  On the front of this reproduction of the box, there is a gilded reverse design of a gold piece of the times.  The accompanying papers explain all about the box and photos contained in it, in a very nice little descriptive pamphlet.  This pamphlet also serves as the Certificate of Authenticity.
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