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    The five PanamaPacific commemorative coins were produced in connection with the 1915 PanamaPacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Struck...
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  • States: Commemorative Coins of the United States (Page 18)". PCGS. Retrieved 2019-07-03. "J1967/P2034". uspatterns.com. Retrieved 2019-07-11. "1915 Panama Pacific...
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    five commemorative coins. Said coins were the 1915-S silver Panama-Pacific half dollar and four gold coins. The denominations of the gold coins were $1...
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  • has minted numerous commemorative coins to commemorate persons, places, events, and institutions since 1848. Many of these coins are not intended for...
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    half dollar coins depicting President Roosevelt. Sculptor Robert Aitken, creator of other commemorative coins including the $50 Panama-Pacific issue, was...
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    Robert Ingersoll Aitken (category American coin designers)
    success as a designer of coins and medals. He sculpted the $50 gold commemorative (round and octagonal) for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915, as well...
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    Although the vast majority of coins are round, coins are made in a variety of other shapes, including squares, diamonds, hexagons, heptagons, octagons...
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    Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    World's Columbian Exposition and the PanamaPacific Exposition, had procured the issuance of commemorative coins as a fundraiser, organizers sought a...
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    dedicated solely to the United States Marines. Below the statue is a commemorative plaque with a large Eagle, Globe, and Anchor. The plaque includes a...
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    Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollar (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    the coin program, as the coins would be minted for several years at all three mints. Sculptor Charles Keck, who had previously designed the Panama Pacific...
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    Louisiana Purchase Exposition gold dollar (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    Louisiana Purchase Exposition gold dollar is a commemorative coin issue dated 1903. Struck in two varieties, the coins were designed by United States Bureau of...
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    appeared on modern coins, as she did on the ancient Athenian drachma. Her head appears on the $50 1915-S Panama-Pacific commemorative coin. Pallas and the...
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    Quarter eagle (category United States gold coins)
    Two of the early United States commemorative coins are quarter eagles. The 1915-S was produced for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The...
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    Illinois Centennial half dollar (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    citing instances of prior commemorative issues (the Louisiana Purchase Exposition dollar and the Panama-Pacific commemorative coins). Ashbrook intervened...
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    Mercury dime (category Goddess of Liberty on coins)
    producing the Panama-Pacific commemorative coin issue, and immediate action was not taken. In October, Barber was summoned to Washington to discuss coin designs...
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    Standing Liberty quarter (category Eagles on coins)
    producing the Panama-Pacific commemorative coin issue, and immediate action was not taken. In October, Barber was summoned to Washington to discuss coin designs...
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    bullion coin 2017–present United States commemorative coins—special issue coins, among these: $50.00 (Half Union) minted for the Panama-Pacific International...
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    San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge half dollar (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    and—making it the first commemorative coin to be sold on a drive-in basis—from booths at the Bay Bridge's approaches. The coins were taken off sale in...
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    United States Sesquicentennial coinage (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    The United States Sesquicentennial coin issue consisted of a commemorative half dollar and quarter eagle (gold $2.50 piece) struck in 1926 at the Philadelphia...
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    of commemorative coins, some in partnership with assistant engraver George T. Morgan. For the popular Columbian half dollar, and the Panama-Pacific half...
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    Half union (redirect from 50 dollar coin)
    reside in the Smithsonian. In 1915, a gold commemorative coin was issued in $50 denomination, the PanamaPacific half union. It was minted in round and octagonal...
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    Walking Liberty half dollar (category Eagles on coins)
    producing the Panama-Pacific commemorative coin issue, and immediate action was not taken. In October, Barber was summoned to Washington to discuss coin designs...
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    Building (1935) U.S. coins designed $50 PanamaPacific commemorative coin (1915) Missouri Centennial half dollar (1921) California Pacific International Exposition...
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    California Diamond Jubilee half dollar (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    the Act of February 24, 1925, authorizing all three coins. This was the first time commemorative coin legislation covered more than one issue. A total of...
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    McKinley Birthplace Memorial gold dollar (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    legislation in the classic commemorative coin series (through 1954) that specified the place of striking (the PanamaPacific issue of 1915 had to be struck...
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  • issuing its own coins, which continue to circulate alongside Australian coins. Tuvalu continues to use Australian banknotes. Tuvaluan coins are not legal...
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    Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    Anthony Swiatek in his 2012 volume on commemorative coins, "the Confederacy receives prominent recognition on this coin". Amid the debate over the removal...
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    Adolph Alexander Weinman (category Coin designers)
    larger works, such as Descending Night, originally commissioned for the PanamaPacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Weinman was a member...
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    commemorative and collector coins pegged to the New Zealand dollar.)  Tokelau (also issues its own non-circulating commemorative and collector coins pegged...
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    Missouri Centennial half dollar (category Early United States commemorative coins)
    design, the coins did not sell as well as hoped, and almost 60 percent were returned to the Philadelphia Mint for melting. There are fewer coins with 2★4...
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