Gold Coin Jacqueline Kennedy First Spouse 2015 Proof

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Series First Spouse Gold coin - Jacqueline Lee Bouvier-Kennedy-Onassis

An exclusive gold coin issued by the U.S. Mint West Point in 2015 and struck in the finest 99.99% purest 1/2 Oz gold in premium proof quality as the third coin in the First Spouse series this year, this coin is dedicated to Jacqueline Kennedy.

The coin features a precise portrait on its reverse of Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States from 1961-1963. Inscriptions on the coin: "JACQUELINE KENNEDY", "IN GOD WE TRUST", "LIBERTY 2015", 35th 1961-1963", the initials of the authors "SG", "PH" and the mint mark "W". The obverse depicts a magnolia flower, against a map of the continents, its petals connecting the points of some of its most important diplomatic visits. Mrs. Kennedy had the magnolia planted in the White House garden and near the eternal flame at her husband's grave in Arlington National Cemetery. The motif is surrounded by the inscriptions "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," "E PLURIBUS UNUM," purity, weight, face value, and the authors' initials "BS", "JL".

The coin comes in a deluxe wooden box with a certificate of authenticity in a limited edition of only 30,000 pieces worldwide.

Jacqueline Kennedy

Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Bouvier-Kennedy-Onassis was born in 1929 in New York City to the wealthy family of Janet Lee and John V. "Jack" Bouvier III. Despite the economic crisis of the time, they lived in luxury with servants. Jackie was very smart and talented, graduated from the elite Vassar College, then traveled Europe for a year and upon her return studied at George Washington University in Washington, DC. From 1952 she worked at the Washington Times-Herald as a photojournalist. She earned a reputation as a social journalist and was sent to London to cover the coronation celebrations of Elizabeth II.Her profession led her to meet J. F. Kennedy, whom she married in September 1953 in Newport, Rhode Island. The spectacular wedding was blessed by the Pope, and both spouses were Catholics. The Kennedys had two daughters and two sons. After their wedding, they lived in the prestigious Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Jackie attended US history seminars at Georgetown University, and her knowledge of foreign languages enabled her to translate political texts from French and Spanish for her husband. In 1961, JFK became president. She mainly took care of the children, rebuilt the White House, managed to convince Congress to declare the White House a National Historic Landmark. Jackie organized a public fundraiser for the renovation, had a guidebook written and a documentary made about the White House to promote it. Washington became a cultural center, with musicians and Hollywood actors invited to the President's mansion. She set fashion trends with her dress style.

After her husband's assassination, she moved to New York to give her children a quieter life. Politicians at the time considered her as a future vice-president, senator or ambassador to France, but she turned down all offers. She only cared about her children and her husband's legacy to future generations. She later married the Greek multimillionaire Aristotle Onassis (wedding on 20 October 1968). The marriage was not very happy. She sent him large bills for fashionable clothes, he continued to date other women. Onassis' relatives called her a gold-digger. After her husband's death, she worked as an editor at Viking Press. In 1977, she was an acquisitions editor at Doubleday Publishing. She was committed to the preservation of historic buildings, had little social conscience, and at times subtly leaned toward feminism. Since 1985, she lived with diamond dealer Maurice Tempelman. In January 1994, she was diagnosed with lymph gland cancer, from which she died at 10:15 p.m. local time on May 19 of that year in her Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan. Her funeral, although private, was televised worldwide. She is buried next to her husband, J. F. Kennedy, in Arlington Cemetery.