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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 25666334, member: 76194&quot;]1936 was a crazy year, something like 21 different commemorative coins struck that year. Some of them were already existing designs, but the majority were brand new designs... and some of them really had dubious excuses as to what they were actually commemorating. I think collectors of the era probably felt the same way, which is why a lot of these commemorative coins had really poor sales in 1936, and some would take many years to sell off, or part of the coins were returned to the mint for remelting credit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Congress had enough and I think only four new designs were approved after that before the program was ended in 1954.</p><p><br /></p><p>At least back then the government had the decency to say this program has gotten out of hand and should be wrapped up. Unlike today&#039;s endless quarter programs, and the really dubious and poorly designed commemorative coins we&#039;ve been pumping out for the last 40+ years (not all of them, but a lot of them).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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