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1892-1938
BY
DAVID M. BULLOWA
NEW YORK
1938
NUMISMATIC
NUMBER 83
PUBLICATION COMMITTEE
STEPHEN H. P. PELL
THOMAS O. MABBOTT
EDITORIAL STAFF
SHVTTOCI XLIII
OIIOVd WWVNVd
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PREFACE
of the text.
Howland Wood.
the author.
ii PREFACE
DAVID M. BULLOWA
BY DAVID M. BULLOWA
during the past few years has taken first place in the
of collectors.
were contemplated.
#2 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
4 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
toes.
6 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
publications.
8 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
10 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
therefor.
12 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
follows:
authorized to be issued.
March 3, 1893.
14 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
proof condition.
century.
beaded border.
der.
Lettering. Roman.
(which was the one selected) and the other with the
16 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
border.
Lettering. Roman.
[ExTRACT FROM]
18 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
French Republic.
Paris.
beaded border.
border.
20 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Lettering. Roman.
below.
of the 9 in 1900.
and 9 of 1900.
D. Obv. Same as C.
long leaves, and the last leaf falls over the 1 of 1900.
[ExTRACT FROM]
22 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
had not been struck since 1889 and for many years
pieces.
beaded border.
beaded border.
Lettering. Roman.
McKinley to left.
24 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
tively.
officials.
GOLD DOLLARS
ana Territory.
reads as follows:
[ExTRACT FROM]
26 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Lettering. Roman.
COINAGES
with California.
commemorative pieces.
reads:
28 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
said coins to begin not later than the day of the opening
position.)
30 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
mint-mark, S.
Lettering. Roman.
Diameter 44 mm.
Lettering. Gothic.
32 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
1915.
mint-mark S.
Lettering. Roman.
piece of work.
as their quarter-eagle.
ters.
assay pieces.
34 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
eagle, two dollars for the gold dollar and one dollar
celebration.
many.
GOLD DOLLARS
United States.
36 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
date.
at lower border.
Lettering. Roman.
Exposition.
HALF-DOLLAR
history.
reads as follows:
38 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
in Roman lettering.
HALF-DOLLAR
40 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
approved as follows:
exhausted.
TRUST A
Lettering. Gothic.
I direct.
HALF-DOLLARS
42 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
one dollar each and bear the dates, 1920 and 1921.
the vessel's flying jib, a sail which had not come into
Lettering. Gothic.
44 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
half-dollar.
HALF-DOLLARS
in the State for one dollar each. The profit from the
were struck.
46 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
LGF
Lettering. Gothic.
the obverse.
HALF-DOLLARS
reads as follows:
48 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
New York.
Lettering. Gothic.
50 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
coinage.
52 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
gold dollar.
Star.
mottoes.
N of GRANT.
WE TRUST
Lettering. Gothic.
54 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
were struck.
pieces.
56 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
CENTENNIAL HALF-DOLLAR
as follows:
58 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Lettering. Gothic.
THE HUGUENOT-WALLOON
TERCENTENARY HALF-DOLLAR
60 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Treasury.
LAND
Lettering. Gothic.
the coinage.
HALF-DOLLAR
62 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
work began.
was begun.
face value.
64 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
ance in May.
difficult.
66 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
work.
recently.
Lettering. Roman.
THE LEXINGTON-CONCORD
SESQUICENTENNIAL HALF-DOLLAR
68 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
formed army.
celebration.
70 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Lettering. Gothic.
JUBILEE HALF-DOLLAR
Vermont.
Number 47.
72 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
page 51.)
the obverse.
Lettering. Roman.
each other.
CENTENNIAL HALF-DOLLAR
74 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
unsold.
bear no mint-mark.
Lettering. Gothic.
76 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
THE SESQUICENTENNIAL
EXPOSITION COINAGES
souvenir coins.
follows:
pendence . . .
78 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
each.
stands: L I B E R T Y
Lettering. Roman.
80 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
the rim.
HALF DOLLAR
PHILADA
MDCCLIII
Lettering. Roman.
type of relief.
82 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
ized under the laws of the State of New York, page 63.)
coins.
84 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
therefore omitted.
Issue
leased in 1933)
eslgners 1n relie #F
86 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Lettering. Gothic.
SESQUICENTENNIAL HALF-DOLLAR
dated accordingly.
88 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
brokers.
OF VERMONT
Lettering. Roman.
SESQUICENTENNIAL HALF-DOLLAR
United States.
follows:
page 77.)
90 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
possibility.
border.
Lettering. Ornamental.
19291932
92 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
previous abuses.
The final point written into the new Acts was the
HALF-DOLLARS
94 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Texas.
Memorial Museum.
follows:
96 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Issue
issue.
ference of a half-dollar.
HALF DOLLAR 4
Lettering. Roman.
98 COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
HALF-DOLLAR
with:
mission.
Commission projects.
Lettering. Gothic.
HALF-DOLLARS
borough, in 1778.
pieces600,000.
issue.
separately.
expenses.
national shrines.
Issue
Issue
1 $12.40 the set (P, S & D); $7.25 the pair (P & D).
HALF DOLLAR
numerals: 1934
Lettering. Gothic.
sun, 1935.
mint-mark.)
mark.)
mark.)
HALF-DOLLARS
of such coins.
1934.
of such Act of May 14, 1934, except that not less than
this Act.
dating clause in the Act, the coins, for the first time,
distinctive.
are as follows:
Issue
(Robinson)
follows:
Lettering. Gothic.
initial: K
original issue.
HALF-DOLLAR
New York.
Lettering. Gothic.
respectively.
99.
memorative issues.
Lettering. Gothic.
righteous.
HALF-DOLLAR
at El Paso.
issue is as follows:
Paso Museum.)
the Mint.
HALF-DOLLARS
follows:
and 1936.
99.
national projects.
in relief: RA
Lettering. Roman.
1936D issue.
HALF-DOLLARS
on page 117.
York.
1936:
Lettering. Gothic.
HALF-DOLLARS -
the site was selected for the State capital had de-
Congress.
Carolina.
CO111S.
Lettering. Gothic.
1936.
as a musical center.
page 63.)
Denver 5,005.
coined.
AMERICA
Lettering. Gothic.
mint-mark S.
in small letters.
HALF-DOLLAR
New York.
ment by him of the par value of such coins, but not less
any one time and no such coins shall be issued after the
99.
Dutch colonists.
/ TERCENTENARY e
Lettering. Gothic.
disappeared.
HALF-DOLLAR
Cleveland, Ohio.
Exposition.
the United States for the past one hundred years, there
99.
York.
Lettering. Roman.
not crowded.
were coined.
CENTENNIAL HALF-DOLLAR
99.
York.
state of Wisconsin.
missions.
HALF-DOLLAR
Barnum.
follows:
city.
99.
Congress?
work.
Lettering. Gothic.
other issue.
HALF-DOLLAR
Virginia, in 1786.
of Lynchburg, Virginia.
York.
Lettering. Roman.
HALF-DOLLAR
this coinage.
page 140.)
99.
followed them.
Memorial.
of New York.
melting.
TR
HALF-DOLLAR
coined in 1936.
York.
99).
25,013 pieces.
Lettering. Roman.
is microscopic.
99.
relief.
Lettering. Gothic.
HALF-DOLLAR
99.
the designs.
County seal.
MAINE
THE DELAWARE-SWEDISH
TERCENTENARY HALF-DOLLAR
99. -
DOLLAR
Lettering. Gothic.
type.
HALF-DOLLAR
the coin.
REUNION &
TYSBURG :
Lettering. Roman.
HALF-DOLLAR
--e
99.)
scallop shells.
Lettering. Roman.
this coinage.
- - ion 4,
or the
obvious.
in relief: GKL
DOLLAR
Lettering. Roman.
99.
cents each.
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circumference, in 1
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Lettering. Roman.
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Barber, C. E. 25c AW
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st Grant 50c AR
4 4 Bennington 50c AR
44 Lynchburg 50c AR
44 Bridgeport 50c AR
44 Arkansas (Robinson)
(reverse) 50c AR
Albany 50c AR
(and C. E.
181
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pendm
Inoi
50C
* Round. f Octagonal.
PIECES MINTED A
Authorization
ieces
f inted
Act o
* August, *052,10s
**
** 35,041
** 1,509
- 10,017
** 25,034
** 60,030
** 10,014
** *6,014
* , *00,oss
** *0,000
** 3,000
* figures given #e as Of Jl
# #:
I P3s.
r Yalue.
ES 183
LTED
ND PIECES ME
Net"
Melted, of
Returne 950,000
1 550,405
2,501,700 24,214
,809
15 35,008
0,025
'. 041
*15,250
15,003 1
25,000
1,017
855
3,251
866
*023
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18S
Ses 162,0.
*0,034 * 1. sses
** '%006 * O. oes
* 9,006 S. oes
9,006 *-oos
(t %006 *Ooes
*t 600s *Oos
3. "iced
186
COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Issue
Texas 1934
1935
1935 S
1935 D
1936
1936 S
1936 D
1937
1937 S
1937 D
1938
1938 S
1938 D
Maryland 1934
Arkansas 1935
44
1935 S
1935 D
1936
1936 S
1936 D
1937
1937 S
tion
50c
50c
50C
50c
50c
50c
50C
50c
50c
50C
50C
50C
50c
50c
50C
50c
50C
50C
50c
50c
50c
50c
Denomina-
Year of
Coinage
1934
1935
1935
1935
1936
1936
1936
1937
1937
1937
1938
1938
1938
1934
1935
1935
1935
C-I-
= M-4 /
- tect
- ' o."
- : to."
- ,007 1o,0 *
|- 10,008 o'a
10,008 * 10 00
|| *
|- 10,007 71 6.0%
4. 8,005 7s,oo
- 5,506 5.5 OG
| - 5,505 5.5 O5
- 10,010 1 O,O_1,O
44 10,012 1 O, O. 12
- 10,010 1.O.O. 1 O
44 5,505 5, 5 O 5
- 5,506 5, 5 O G
Aut:#ion # *::::::::
4.4 6,006
6,006
6,005
44 10,010
5,005
5,005
44 2,004
2,003
12,012
5,006
5,005
15,010 5, 2 O'CP
5,006 2,5 OO
7,506 5, O.O.O.
10,008
20,013
15,011
15,01O
44
44
2 May, 1935
Issue Denomina-
tion
4 4 1936 S 50C
44 1936 D 50c
44 1936 S 50c
Year of
Coinage
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
19367
1937
1937
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
1937
1937
1936
1936
1937
1937
Year of
Release
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
1937
1937
1936
1936
1936
1936
1936
1937
1937
1936
1936
1937
Q-lis
191
OF THE UNITED ST
** 8,007 #
** 8,009 6/Z%
*t 5,006 2.47
** 5,005 5,0
STANDARD WEIGHTS
is as is 11->~ws:
GoP - - Grains |
S C Dollars. . . . . . . . 1290.99
2 >< Dollars. . . . . . . 64 - 50
1 Dollar. . . . . . . . . 25 - 80
.S$2xxez-:
1 Dollar. . . . . . . . . 4 12.50
5 O Cents. . . . . . . . . 192.90
25 Cents. . . . . . . . . 96 - 4.5
- 9 O C Q thousandths) fine.
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reID-e-tition.
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U. S. COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE
Vi-
PLATE IX