2009 Continental Congress AOCS Silver Round

MintAOCS Mint (Frisco, TX)

IssuerWe The People Foundation for Constitutional Education (Queensbury, NY)

DistributorWe The People Foundation for Constitutional Education (Queensbury, NY)

CollectionAmerican Open Currency Standard - AOCS

Depicts the torch and raised hand of the Statue of Liberty overlaying the opening lines of the U.S. Constitution beginning "We the People." The legend "TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" arches around the design.

The legend "CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009" arches across the top, above a quotation from the First Amendment's petition clause: "...to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Below appear "GIVEMELIBERTY.ORG," the denomination "FIFTY," "ONE OUNCE .999 FINE SILVER," and "AOCS APPROVED · © 2009 WTP."

2009 Continental Congress AOCS Silver Round Overview

The 2009 Continental Congress AOCS Silver Round is a privately issued .999 fine silver round released by the We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education to help fund the Continental Congress 2009 gathering. Struck to a proof-like finish, the round overlays the torch and hand of the Statue of Liberty on the text of the Constitution’s preamble on its obverse, and carries a First Amendment petition-clause quotation on its reverse alongside the AOCS Approved acceptance mark.

Bob Schulz, Chairman of the We The People Foundation, organized the Continental Congress 2009 as a two-week national assembly of state delegates convened to debate government adherence to the Constitution. Donors who contributed $100 toward the event received one of these rounds as a commemorative token, distributed directly through the Foundation’s givemeliberty.org store rather than through a separate dealer network.

The Mint field on this catalog page points to AOCS Mint (Frisco, TX), the umbrella entry this site uses for the American Open Currency Standard’s contract-manufactured output. AOCS, founded in 2007 by Robert Gray as a Texas-registered nonprofit based in Dallas, worked with multiple physical minting facilities over the years rather than striking coins itself, and the specific contract mint responsible for this 2009 issue is not separately identified on the piece. The AOCS Approved mark struck into the reverse legend is treated as this catalog’s mint-mark field value, consistent with the site’s standard that a spelled-out maker or certifying identification in the design legend counts as the mint mark rather than a discrete monogram alone.

The denomination “FIFTY” struck on the reverse follows AOCS’s face-value convention rather than a literal dollar figure, representing fifty units of trade under the standard’s silver-backed barter system rather than a legal-tender claim.

2009 Continental Congress AOCS Attribution

Mint: AOCS Mint (Frisco, TX)
Issuer: We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education
Designer/Engraver: Unknown — no monogram or engraver credit visible on either face

Issuer is credited to the We The People Foundation, whose copyright claim — dated 2009 and abbreviated “WTP” — appears on the reverse beneath the AOCS Approved line. The Foundation does not carry an independent Texas lineage of its own; its connection to this catalog rests on the AOCS Approved mark and the Texas-registered origin of the American Open Currency Standard organization that certified the round — the same basis already established for this site’s 2009 John Galt AOCS Approved Silver Round entry.

2009 Continental Congress AOCS Notes

• No designer or engraver mark is present on either face.
• Mintage figure not documented; distribution was tied to individual $100 donations rather than a fixed production run, so no total should be inferred from fundraising figures.
• Struck to a proof-like finish rather than a standard bullion finish.
• The event this round commemorates ran November 2009 at Pheasant Run in St. Charles, Illinois; several of the Foundation’s 2009 prep-tour stops passed through Texas (San Antonio, Dallas, McQueeney), though this is organizational touring history rather than a design-level Texas connection.

2009 Continental Congress AOCS References

• Archived givemeliberty.org/store/CC2009Rounds.htm (Wayback Machine, Nov. 3, 2009)
• Archived givemeliberty.org/store/ (Wayback Machine, Nov. 18, 2009)
• Archived cc2009.us
• Archived wethepeoplefoundation.org
• AOCS Mint (Frisco, TX) — Texas Stacker mint page
• Documented example examined (this entry)
• Texas Stacker Archives

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