Connecting two continents - The Bosphorus Bridge. âConnecting two continentsâ. Review of The Bosphorus Bridge. The Bosphorus Bridge (1560 m long) connects the European and Asian sides of Istanbul ( from Ortakoy on the European side to Beylerbeyi on the Asian side). Called also First Bosphorus Bridge it is closed for pedestrians.
1897 Morgan Dollar Once considered a rare date, the 1897 Morgan Dollar was released in large numbers during the 1950âs and 1960âs. The mintage of 2,822,000 coins were not often seen during the year of release and even the decades following.
The 1921 Morgan dollar is the most unusual issue in the entire series. After 1904, with national silver bullion supplies all but exhausted, the government suspended coinage of silver dollars altogether. In 1918, under the Pittman Act, more than 270 million silver dollars were melted down for bullion.