Celebrate the Century Coin & Stamp Collection

Celebrate each decade of the 20th Century.

This set features stamps commemorating significant events, products and pop-culture from the end of the 20th Century as well as some of the circulating coin designs from each decade. Coins and stamps are presented in a wonderful display folder.

 Each Decade features 5 Coins (Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter and Half Dollar) and 15 Stamps. Stamps in original mint condition and no longer available through the United States Post Office

The sheets

1900s

 Title: Dawn of the Twentieth Century.

Date of issue: 3 February 1998.

Denomination: 32¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

     1st row: Ford Model T; President Theodore Roosevelt; Movie Great Train Robbery; Crayola crayons; St. Louis World's Fair

    2nd row: Pure Food and Drug Act; Wright Flyer; Ashcan School

    3rd row: Ellis Island; John Muir

    4th row: Teddy bear; W. E. B. Du Bois; The Gibson Girl; 1903 World Series; Robie House

 Background image: The Wright brothers stand beside their Flyer II, near Dayton, Ohio.

Intaglio stamp: The Gibson Girl created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson.

 Inspired by the teddy bear stamp on this sheet, the USPS in 2002 issued a set of four teddy bear stamps.

1910s

 Title: America Looks Beyond its Borders.

Date of issue: 3 February 1998.

Denomination: 32¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

  1st row: Charlie Chaplin; Federal Reserve System; George Washington Carver

    2nd row: 1913 Armory Show; Transcontinental telephone line; Panama Canal

    3rd row: Jim Thorpe; Grand Canyon; I Want You; Boy Scouts of America; President Woodrow Wilson;

    4th row: First Crossword puzzle; Jack Dempsey; Erector Set; Child Labor Reform

 Background image: Boy Scouts participate in a patriotic 'Wake Up America' rally on New York City's Fifth Avenue.

Intaglio stamp: Panama Canal.

 The stamp commemorating Carver was the second issued by the US Postal Service, the first stamp had been issued in 1948.

1920s

 Title: The Roaring Twenties.

Date of issue: 28 May 1998.

Denomination: 32¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

   1st row: Babe Ruth; Novel: The Great Gatsby; Prohibition; Toy trains; Women's suffrage

    2nd row: Emily Post; Margaret Mead; John Held, Jr.; Radio; Chrysler Building

    3rd row: Jazz; Notre Dame's Four Horsemen; Charles Lindbergh

    4th row: Automat; Black Thursday

Background image: Members of a dance troupe strike poses from the Charleston on a California beach during a break in the filming of a movie in 1926.

Intaglio stamp: Charles Lindbergh.

1930s

Title: Depression, Dust Bowl, and a New Deal.

Date of issue: 9 October 1998.

Denomination: 32¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

   1st row: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Empire State Building; Life Magazine; Eleanor Roosevelt; New Deal Program

    2nd row: Superman; Household Conveniences; movie: Snow White; novel: Gone with the Wind; Jesse Owens

    3rd row: 20th Century Limited; Golden Gate Bridge; Florence Owens Thompson

    4th row: Bobby Jones; Monopoly

Background image: A farmer and two sons flee a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma in April 1936.

Intaglio stamp: Empire State Building

The Gone with the Wind stamp is the second issued by the USPS, the first was issued on 30 June 1930, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the sale of the book with a 1¢ stamp featuring its author Margaret Mitchell. The photo of Florence Owens Thompson, taken by photographer Dorothea Lange and titled Migrant Mother (1936), is an iconic image of the Great Depression.

1940s

Title: World War II Transforms America.

Date of issue: 18 February 1999.

Denomination: 33¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

  1st row: World War II; Antibiotics; Jackie Robinson

    2nd row: President Harry S. Truman; Women support war effort; Television

    3rd row: Jitterbug; Jackson Pollock; G. I. Bill; Big band; United Nations

    4th row: Baby boom; Slinky; A Streetcar Named Desire; Citizen Kane

Background image: A landing party of United States Marines storm a beach on Saipan, a Japanese stronghold in the Mariana Islands in 1944.

Intaglio stamp: United Nations.

1950s

Title: Family Fun, Suburbia, and Nuclear Threats.

Date of issue: 26 May 1999.

Denomination: 33¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

  1st row: Polio vaccine; Teen Fashion; 1951 National League; Explorer I; Korean War

    2nd row: Desegregating public schools; Car tailfin; The Cat in the Hat

    3rd row: Drive-in theater; New York Yankees vs Brooklyn Dodgers 1949 - 1956

    4th row: Rocky Marciano; I Love Lucy; Rock and roll; Daytona 500; 3-D movies

Background image: Family in front of a television set.

Intaglio stamp: Polio vaccine.

The stamp on Lucille Ball was the first to be issued commemorating the actress. This was soon followed by another stamp on 7 August 2001 which was part of the Legends of Hollywood series.

1960s

 Title: The Rebellious Sixties and Man on the Moon.

Date of issue: 17 September 1999.

Denomination: 33¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

1st row: Martin Luther King; Woodstock Music and Art Fair; Moon landing; Green Bay Packers; Star Trek

    2nd row: Peace Corps; Vietnam War; Ford Mustang; Barbie; Integrated circuit

    3rd row: Laser; AFL-NFL; Peace symbol

    4th row: Roger Maris; The Beatles

Background image: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin sets up seismic equipment to record lunar tremors.

Intaglio stamp: Buzz Aldrin's lunar foot print.

1970s

Title: Bicentennial, Watergate, and Earth Day.

Date of issue: 18 November 1999.

Denomination: 33¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

1st row: Earth Day; All in the Family; Sesame Street

    2nd row: Disco; Pittsburgh Steelers; United States Bicentennial

    3rd row: Secretariat - Horse of the Year; Videocassette recorder, Pioneer 10; Women's Rights Movement by UNIFEM; 1970s fashion

    4th row: ABC's Monday Night Football; Smiley face; Boeing 747; Medical imaging

Background image: Ships gather in New York Harbor under the Statue of Liberty to take part in Bicentennial celebrations, July 4, 1976, marked the 200th birthday of the United States.

Intaglio stamp: Videocassette recorder.

 On the occasion of the unveiling of the Boeing 747 stamp by the USPS, Boeing in 1999 unveiled a 70 square foot replica of the Boeing 747 stamp image installed on the door of their Everett factory.

1980s

Title: Space Shuttle Launched, Berlin Wall Falls.

Date of issue: 12 January 2000.

Denomination: 33¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

   1st row: Space shuttle; Cats an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical; San Francisco 49ers; Iran hostage crisis; Figure skating

    2nd row: Cable TV; Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Compact Disc; Cabbage Patch Kids; The Cosby Show

    3rd row: Fall of the Berlin Wall; Video games; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    4th row: Personal computer; Hip hop culture

Background image: The space shuttle Columbia is launched 27 June 1982 on its fourth mission.

Intaglio stamp: None present.

The Vietnam Veteran Memorial stamp is the second stamp commemorating the Vietnam War, the first one was issued in the 1960s sheet.

1990s

Title: In Final Decade, Cold War Ends, Economy Booms.

Date of issue: 2 May 2000.

Denomination: 33¢

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

  1st row: Major League Baseball; Gulf War; Seinfeld

    2nd row: Extreme sports; Improving education; Computer graphics

    3rd row: Peregrine falcon removed from endangered species list; John Glenn returns to space; 30th anniversary of the Special Olympics; Virtual reality; Jurassic Park

    4th row: Titanic movie; Sport utility vehicle; World Wide Web; Mobile phone

Background image: Image of currency superimposed by a graph of the rising economy.

Intaglio stamp: None present.

The Return to Space stamp commemorating former astronaut and then Senator John Glenn's return to space after a period of 36 years,depicted the Space Shuttle Discovery, and Glenn's Mercury Friendship 7 space craft side by side in space.