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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 25665338, member: 104064&quot;]I had not seen this commemorative before! But there are so many from that era. I like the design, but I was perplexed by the dates on it - what exactly is it commemorating? 263 years since what? It turns out that it was commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Elgin, IL in 1835, but it wasn&#039;t coined until 1936, and 1673 is the year that explorers Jolliet and Marquette first entered what is now Illinois. Seems like an odd choice for both years on it. To top it all off, the coin was issued to fund local sculptor Trygve Rovelstad&#039;s memorial that he hoped to build in Elgin. He couldn&#039;t get enough funding and died in 1990 without seeing his dream fulfilled. It was finally completed and dedicated in 2001, 65 years later. What a strange story. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin,_Illinois,_Centennial_half_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin,_Illinois,_Centennial_half_dollar" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin,_Illinois,_Centennial_half_dollar</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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