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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;leeg, post: 3434538, member: 17073&quot;]The history continues:</p><p><br /></p><p>“President Harding was today presented with the first of the Monroe Doctrine centennial silver half dollars just received from the mint. This action is preliminary to the Motion-Picture Exposition celebrating this centennial in Los Angeles from July 2 to August 5. The presentation took place on the south portico of the White House in the presence of Mrs. Harding and a few invited guests.</p><p><br /></p><p>Miss Anna Case, well-known concert singer and motion-picture star, presented to President Harding the coin which was struck by the San Francisco mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Miss Case was designated to present this coin to the President by Walter J. Reynolds, president of the Monroe Doctrine Centennial Motion-Picture Exposition, and was accompanied to the Capitol by Frederick H. Elliott of New York, eastern representative of the exposition and formerly executive secretary of the National Association of the Motion-Picture Industry, Inc.</p><p><br /></p><p>The centennial and exposition has the endorsement of every branch of the motion-picture industry including the important producers and distributors and plans are under way for beginning a big drive by all the companies for making the Los Angeles undertaking the biggest thing of its kind ever presented.</p><p><br /></p><p>The half-dollars are already in great demand and applications have been made for the major part of the allotment. One firm of New York coin dealers has sent in an order for 10,000.”<b>4</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>4 <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, Monroe Exhibit Half Dollar Is Given Harding, June 7, 1923.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Photobucket is down right now so I can&#039;t post President Hardings coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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