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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;leeg, post: 3501432, member: 17073&quot;]<img src="https://oi11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Hudson/City_Seal.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Hudson, NY front of city seal. Taxay p. 163.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://oi11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Hudson/Adopted_Obv.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://oi11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Hudson/Adopted_Rev.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Adopted models by Chester Beach. Courtesy of the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA).</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://oi11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Hudson/SUSCC%20CT_Spring_1991-Pg67.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Hudson half dollar Distribution Letter. The files of Walter P. Nichols contain extensive correspondence from virtually every issuer of commemorative half dollars in the 1930s. The above is simply a notice concerning the Hudson sesquicentennial half dollar scheduled for distribution in June 1935. The marginal note indicates that Nichols ordered ten pieces, remitting $10.33 for them. <b><i>An Inside View of the Coin Hobby in the 1930s</i>, Edited by Q. David Bowers, Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., p. 50. A book in my Numismatic Library.</b></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“CITY OF HUDSON, N.Y.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sesquicentennial</p><p><br /></p><p>[About July 1935]</p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Sir:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The bill authorizing the Hudson commemorative half dollars called for an issue not to exceed 10,000 pieces. The demand was so great that our entire 10,000 has been exhausted and there are no more available except through a few dealers who purchased them. The coins were distributed and offered to the public at $1.00 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Reservations for these coins have been accepted since the first part of May. The coins were received from the mint on June 28th, and on July 2nd the supply was depleted.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Very truly yours,</p><p><br /></p><p>John R. Evans</p><p><br /></p><p>For the Committee</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>ROBERT W. CARCABA</p><p><br /></p><p>182 Magnolia Ave.</p><p><br /></p><p>St. Augustine, Florida</p><p><br /></p><p>July 25, 1935</p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Mr. Nichols:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Your kind letter of the 21st received today. I have been fortunate enough to secure some of the Hudson issue but most of them have already been sold. I can supply you with them at the present price of $21.00 each limited to 100 coins. Have a line on 200 more but haven’t as yet received an answer from the holder.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Some of the New York Houses have bought of me at the above price. 100 were being shipped tomorrow to another dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Let me know your wants soon as the present stock won’t last long and prices will be higher on any new ones purchased.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I buy lots of coins when the price is low enough for me to make a margin of profit. Sometime when you have duplicates to dispose of send a package along on approval. Mr. White of Newton will no doubt vouch for my honesty etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Will be glad to hear from you again.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Very truly yours,</p><p><br /></p><p>Hubert W. Carcaba”<b>3</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; “The Hudson (N.Y.) commemorative half dollar, issued in connection with the Sesqui-Centennial celebration of the incorporation of Hudson, is expected to be ready for distribution July 1. This issue is limited to 10,000. The designs are by Chester Beach, sculptor. The obverse shows the ship of Hendrik Hudson, the Half Moon, and the reverse the seal of Hudson, a spouting whale and two great gods of the sea. The coins will be distributed by the Hudson Sesqui-Centennial Committee. The price is $1 each, with postage and registration amounting to 18 cents on one coin and 5 cents addition for each other coin.”<b>4</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>3 <i>An Inside View of the Coin Hobby in the 1930s: The Walter P. Nichols File</i>, Edited by Q. David Bowers, Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., Copyright 1984 by Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., p. 53. </b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>4 <i>The Numismatist</i>, The Hudson (N.Y.) Half Dollar To Be Ready Shortly, July 1935, p. 444.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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