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2008 W FIRST SPOUSE JACKSONS LIBERTY

First Spouse gold coin Jacksons Liberty is probably the most beautiful of the first spouse gold coins, this coin has the old image of liberty on the front as Jackson did not have a first spouse while in office. Graded perfect by NGC MS70

Louisa Adams Proof

First Spouse Louisa Adams our 6th first lady in the white house here from the US Mint in Proof condition. Very nice coin

Louisa Adams First Spouse $10 Gold Coin
First Lady, 1825–1829

The only first lady to be born outside the U.S., Louisa Catherine Johnson was born in 1775 in London to an American father and British mother.  The family moved to France when she was three, where she completed her education.  She met John Quincy Adams while he was serving in a diplomatic post in London and they married in 1797.  Her first time on American soil came in 1801 when John Quincy was called back from diplomatic service by President Jefferson.  She finally met her in-laws, former president John Adams and the formidable Abigail Adams, at that time.

Louisa Adams was an accomplished musician whose talents included singing, playing the harp and piano, and composing.  A prolific author, she penned both poetry and drama.  She authored a play titled Suspicion, or Persecuted Innocence while she served as first lady, in which she stressed the strengths of women.  She was the first first lady to write her memoirs, entitled Adventures of a Nobody.

Reverse Design

For nearly six years, from 1809–1815, Louisa and John Quincy Adams lived as American diplomats in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg.  In 1814, John Quincy was summoned to The Hague to participate in peace talks to end the War of 1812.  In 1815, she and her 8-year-old son Charles began an arduous journey across much of Europe to join her husband in Paris.  While alone in Russia, Louisa not only managed the family’s affairs, but her courage and linguistic talents helped the two of them find safe passage through unfamiliar and often dangerous lands.

Louisa Adams First Spouse MS

First Spouse Louisa Adams in Uncirculated conditions, this coin came out from the US mint in 2008 and are to have a max population of 20,000 coins in uncirculated conditions but sales of the coin will determine the final population numbers. Because of the economical crises in 2008 maybe the coin will not sell very well and a lower population number will be the result.