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<p>[QUOTE="leeg, post: 4547641, member: 17073"]“Pitt M. Skipton writes:</p><p><br /></p><p>‘Referring to the New Rochelle half dollar, it may interest you and your readers to learn that our 250th anniversary celebration, June 10 to 19 last, was a huge success and that the profits derived from the sale of the coin fully financed the event.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eight thousand pieces of this coin were returned to the Mint last May, leaving a balance of 17,000 outstanding. A small lot is still available at the distribution price. I might add that this issue has been widely and successfully distributed and that no large lot is in anyone’s hands. One prominent dealer bought 100 coins, and ten orders for 10 coins each went to the same city, and I presume they found their way to the same dealer. This was our largest order. We appreciate and thank you for the cooperation you have given us in our distributions.”<b>8</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>8.</b> <b><i>The Numismatist</i>, Commemorative Coins Melted, August 1938, p. 668.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125771[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Invites president to New Rochelle for 250th Anniversary. Washington, D. C., May 16. Rep. Ralph Gambel of New York, (left) and Walter G. O. Otto, former mayor, today invited President Roosevelt to attend the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of New Rochelle, N.Y. by the Hugenots. The celebration is planned for June 12-18. Courtesy Library of Congress.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The end.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="leeg, post: 4547641, member: 17073"]“Pitt M. Skipton writes: ‘Referring to the New Rochelle half dollar, it may interest you and your readers to learn that our 250th anniversary celebration, June 10 to 19 last, was a huge success and that the profits derived from the sale of the coin fully financed the event. Eight thousand pieces of this coin were returned to the Mint last May, leaving a balance of 17,000 outstanding. A small lot is still available at the distribution price. I might add that this issue has been widely and successfully distributed and that no large lot is in anyone’s hands. One prominent dealer bought 100 coins, and ten orders for 10 coins each went to the same city, and I presume they found their way to the same dealer. This was our largest order. We appreciate and thank you for the cooperation you have given us in our distributions.”[B]8[/B] [B]8.[/B] [B][I]The Numismatist[/I], Commemorative Coins Melted, August 1938, p. 668.[/B] [ATTACH=full]1125771[/ATTACH] [B]Invites president to New Rochelle for 250th Anniversary. Washington, D. C., May 16. Rep. Ralph Gambel of New York, (left) and Walter G. O. Otto, former mayor, today invited President Roosevelt to attend the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of New Rochelle, N.Y. by the Hugenots. The celebration is planned for June 12-18. Courtesy Library of Congress.[/B] The end.[/QUOTE]
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