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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;leeg, post: 3436270, member: 17073&quot;]<img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Monroe%20Doctrine/LA%20Times%20June%2029%201923_2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Image courtesy of the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, June 29, 1923.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; “Meet Miss North America and Miss South America! Catherine Kaestner and Marye Daniels, art’s models, are here to take part in the exposition pageantry and display the same curves Chester Beach, sculptor and coin designer, immortalized with the half-dollar minted at San Francisco in commemoration of the exposition.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Miss Kaestner, a dashing brunette, posed for South America, and Miss Daniels, a radiant blonde, for North America. In the adaptation of the map of the western world on the reverse side of the Monroe Centennial coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; In the posing Mr. Beach depicts the era of good-feeling and understanding which has prevailed between North and South America since the adoption of the Monroe Doctrine a hundred years ago. North America, bearing a chaplet in her left hand, reaches down her other hand to South America, carrying a horn of plenty, in cordial greeting.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Miss Daniels and Miss Kaestner are from Chicago, and since their arrival here have been making their rounds of office buildings with centennial coins and many a greenback has come willingly from the hiding-place in response to their appeal for exposition assistance.”<b>7</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; “Purchases must be made this week; Leftovers to be Returned to Mint. Resembling some of the Liberty Bond sales, in that the preponderance of buying came in the last days of the campaign, the sale of the souvenir half-dollars coined by the government in commemoration of the Monroe Doctrine Centennial is assuming large ‘closing’ proportions. At first rather slow to get the idea of the thing, the people of Los Angeles are suddenly discovering that this is the only coin ever made by a government, using the actual name of the city wherein the celebration took place. The name ‘Los Angeles’ being prominently stamped on this now famous coin has given the recognition of the government to Los Angeles and its stellar place in the world of citizens.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The result has been a tremendously augmented sale of the coins by the local banks, merchants, and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. This week closes the exposition and the government has notified the city officials and the exposition committees that any souvenir coins remaining unsold on the evening of August 4 will be collected and sent to the mint at San Francisco for remelting.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>7 <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, Plead For Exposition Aid, Misses North and South America Doing Their Best to Make Centennial Fete a Success, June 29, 1923.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Therefore, it is urged that every citizen and visitor buy some of the coins today. The Chamber of Commerce announces that a quantity of the coins will be placed on sale at the chamber beginning today. All banks and department stores will have a fresh supply.”<b>8</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>8 <i>The Los Angeles Times</i>, Centennial Coins Go On Final Sale, July 30, 1923.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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