First USA Visit 64 Beatles Coin in Ed Sullivan Show Mini VIP Ticket Case + FDC

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BEATLES 1964 ED SULLIVAN SHOW
USA FIRST VISIT COIN DISPLAY PLUS FIRST DAY COVER
WELCOME BEATLES FANS!
YOU WILL RECEIVE A BRASS, METAL, 31MM, COIN ISSUED FOR THE BEATLES FIRST USA VISIT. THESE ARE ORIGINAL AND IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.
THE COIN IS STORED IN A 2 3/8 INCH X 3 1/4 INCH PRESENTATION HOLDER WITH COLORFUL, MINIATURE, 1964 ED SULLIVAN SHOW SPECIAL (VIP) TICKET.
You will also receive an Ed Sullivan Show First Day Cover with 8 November, 2009 North Hollywood, California cancel mark. Cover size is 6 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches. The back of the FDC has information about the show and the historic appearances of Elvis and The Beatles.
It is estimated that 73 million Americans were watching that night as the Beatles made their live U.S. television debut. Roughly eight minutes before Fred Kaps took the stage, Sullivan gave his now-famous intro, “Ladies and gentlemen…the Beatles!” and after a few seconds of rapturous cheering from the audience, the band kicked into “All My Lovin’.” Fifty seconds in, the first audience-reaction shot of the performance shows a teenage girl beaming and possibly hyperventilating. Two minutes later, Paul is singing another pretty, mid-tempo number: “Til There Was You,” from the Broadway musical Music Man. There’s screaming at the end of every phrase in the lyrics, of course, but to view the broadcast today, it seems driven more by anticipation than by the relatively low-key performance itself. And then came “She Loves You,” and the place seems to explode. What followed was perhaps the most important two minutes and 16 seconds of music ever broadcast on American television—a sequence that still sends chills down the spine almost half a century later.
The VIP special ticket dated February 9, 1964, was for a select few individuals. An unnumbered ticket stating "CBS Studio 50 Presents the Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964, Admit One", was specially printed to give to important guests and employees, unlike the mail-order tickets usually sent out by request. The story goes that there were over 500,000 ticket requests for this very important broadcast, featuring the debut American appearance of the Beatles, for a theater that seated a little over 700.
This comes with a small, clear plastic display stand. It will be shipped by First Class mail in a padded envelope.