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<p>[QUOTE="leeg, post: 3429008, member: 17073"]“<b>. . .</b> Inquiry as to the purpose of the issue has brought a letter from F. B. Davison, Director-General, as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p> ‘I take pleasure in stating that the object of the proposed issue of Monroe Centennial souvenir half dollars is that we may use same for the purpose of raising funds with which to justify the great cost of reproducing the high lights of American history, which reproduction is to be advised by an historical commission composed of the heads of universities, colleges and secondary educational institutions in the State of California. Upon the presentation of these reproductions a series of educational films may be made as a contribution of civilization to be used in connection with our schools and other education agencies.’</p><p><br /></p><p> The above letter has the following heading: ‘Monroe Doctrine Centennial. First Annual American Historical Revue and Motion Picture Industrial Exposition, Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, June 1, 1823, to June 30, 1923, Under the Direction and Supervision of the Motion Picture Industry.”<b>2</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>2 <i>The Numismatist</i>, Motion-Picture Industry Behind Commemorative Half Dollar, February, 1923, p. 62-63.</b></p><p><br /></p><p> “President Harding’s signature of Senator Hiram Johnson’s bill providing for the coinage of 300,000 half dollars commemorating the Monroe Doctrine Centennial, has removed the last possible obstacle confronting the American Historical Revue and Motion Picture Exposition in obtaining the fullest government co-operation for the motion picture industry’s project of staging a huge international celebration here next summer. The event, lasting a month, will be a great patriotic observance of the Monroe Doctrine’s hundredth anniversary.</p><p><br /></p><p> It is expected that the first of the new half dollars will be in circulation early in March. The design of the new coin will be worked out by the National Commission of Fine Arts in New York [<i>sic</i>]. The dies will be cast in the East, then probably sent to the government mint at San Francisco where the half dollars will be turned out for immediate shipment to Los Angeles. According to the tentative design for the new half dollar, it will bear the heads, in profile, of President James Monroe and his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, on one side; and on the other an outline of North, South and Central America, the territory whose integrity has been protected by the Monroe Doctrine for the past century.</p><p><br /></p><p> President Harding has given his fullest approval to plans for the Revue and Exposition. He is said to be planning a trip to the Pacific coast this summer so he can attend the formal opening of the event.”<b>3</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>3 <i>The American Cinematographer</i>, Official Washington’s Approval Of Exposition Indicated By Signing Of Memorial Coin Bill By President, March, 1923, p. 16.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Monroe%20Doctrine/AN07181081-oz_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Letter to Chester Beach from W.L. Halberstadt, Director of Coin Distribution for the First Annual American Historical Revue and Motion Picture Industrial Exposition making Beach aware that the Monroe coins were available for purchase. Courtesy Stacks/Bowers Galleries.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="leeg, post: 3429008, member: 17073"]“[B]. . .[/B] Inquiry as to the purpose of the issue has brought a letter from F. B. Davison, Director-General, as follows: ‘I take pleasure in stating that the object of the proposed issue of Monroe Centennial souvenir half dollars is that we may use same for the purpose of raising funds with which to justify the great cost of reproducing the high lights of American history, which reproduction is to be advised by an historical commission composed of the heads of universities, colleges and secondary educational institutions in the State of California. Upon the presentation of these reproductions a series of educational films may be made as a contribution of civilization to be used in connection with our schools and other education agencies.’ The above letter has the following heading: ‘Monroe Doctrine Centennial. First Annual American Historical Revue and Motion Picture Industrial Exposition, Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, June 1, 1823, to June 30, 1923, Under the Direction and Supervision of the Motion Picture Industry.”[B]2[/B] [B]2 [I]The Numismatist[/I], Motion-Picture Industry Behind Commemorative Half Dollar, February, 1923, p. 62-63.[/B] “President Harding’s signature of Senator Hiram Johnson’s bill providing for the coinage of 300,000 half dollars commemorating the Monroe Doctrine Centennial, has removed the last possible obstacle confronting the American Historical Revue and Motion Picture Exposition in obtaining the fullest government co-operation for the motion picture industry’s project of staging a huge international celebration here next summer. The event, lasting a month, will be a great patriotic observance of the Monroe Doctrine’s hundredth anniversary. It is expected that the first of the new half dollars will be in circulation early in March. The design of the new coin will be worked out by the National Commission of Fine Arts in New York [[I]sic[/I]]. The dies will be cast in the East, then probably sent to the government mint at San Francisco where the half dollars will be turned out for immediate shipment to Los Angeles. According to the tentative design for the new half dollar, it will bear the heads, in profile, of President James Monroe and his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, on one side; and on the other an outline of North, South and Central America, the territory whose integrity has been protected by the Monroe Doctrine for the past century. President Harding has given his fullest approval to plans for the Revue and Exposition. He is said to be planning a trip to the Pacific coast this summer so he can attend the formal opening of the event.”[B]3[/B] [B]3 [I]The American Cinematographer[/I], Official Washington’s Approval Of Exposition Indicated By Signing Of Memorial Coin Bill By President, March, 1923, p. 16.[/B] [IMG]https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Monroe%20Doctrine/AN07181081-oz_1.jpg[/IMG] [B]Letter to Chester Beach from W.L. Halberstadt, Director of Coin Distribution for the First Annual American Historical Revue and Motion Picture Industrial Exposition making Beach aware that the Monroe coins were available for purchase. Courtesy Stacks/Bowers Galleries.[/B][/QUOTE]
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