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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;leeg, post: 3435262, member: 17073&quot;]<img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Monroe%20Doctrine/Hardings%20Coin%20-%20first%20minted.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>First Monroe Doctrine coin presented to President Harding came in a plush box made by Tiffany &amp; Co. of purple leather lined with gray silk (box location unknown). Image courtesy of the Ohio Historical Society, #H156.98.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>“Plans are being worked out here to present the second of the Monroe coins issued to Gov. Richardson and the third to Mayor Cryer. Prominent motion-picture stars will be chosen to present the coins to these officials. Other coins will be presented to notables in official, civic and film circles.”<b>5</b></p><p><br /></p><p>“The Monroe Doctrine Centennial and Motion Picture Exposition which opens in Los Angeles July 2 presents both an opportunity and a responsibility.</p><p><br /></p><p>And this responsibility lies equally upon the city of Los Angeles and upon the motion-picture industry.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a very great significance to the fact that the United States government has issued special coins –half dollars– to commemorate this event: its significance lies in this: that it is the first recognition of the importance and prestige of this enormous and unique industrial art. This significance goes the deeper in that it is a coupling of motion pictures with the celebration of a historical event which is the very foundation of the life of this nation.</p><p><br /></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><br /></p><p><b>5 <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, Monroe Exhibit Half Dollar Is Given To Harding, June 7, 1923.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Times has the utmost faith in the motion-picture industry and in the men who are behind that industry. It is our experience and, based upon that experience, it our settled conviction that no modern industry is there a more sincere desire to look forward and to look upward. Motion pictures are, of a necessity, made for profit, but in the minds of the vast majority of producers there is an honest and faithful ambition to make good pictures for the sake of making good pictures and to serve the public in its better moods.</p><p><br /></p><p>This exposition is the greatest opportunity that has ever come to the motion-picture people to put themselves before the world in the light in which we of Los Angeles have come to know them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It should be an epochal event in the history of a great and growing institution.”<b>6</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>6 <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, The Exposition, June 24, 1923.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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