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<p>[QUOTE="leeg, post: 3869030, member: 17073"]In February thru April, 1924, 142,080 pieces were coined at the Philadelphia Mint with 80 pieces reserved for annual assay and 87,000 sold for a $1 each to the public. A quantity of 55,000 pieces went back to the Treasury Department, which placed the coins into circulation.<b>3</b> Designed by George T. Morgan chief engraver of the mint, used designs suggested by Dr. John Baer Stoudt. Distributed by The National Huguenot-Walloon New Netherland Commission, Inc., Rev. John Baer Stoudt, director. Associated with the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>3.</b> Cf. p. 29 of <i>Coinage of Commemorative 50-cent pieces</i> (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936) and a letter from Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon to Hon. Randolph Perkins, chairman of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, January 31, 1930, which states that 55,000 were returned to the mint and then placed into circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> “<b>. . .</b> In 1924, from May 17 through 22, Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary celebrations were held in New York City. Among the activities paid for, at least in part, from the profit derived from the sale of the commemorative coins was the dedication of the National Huguenot Memorial Church at Huguenot Park, Staten Island, on the afternoon of May 18th<b>. . .</b> Admiral Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572; who died 52 years before the settlement in question!) and William the Silent (1533-1584; first <b>*stadtholder </b>of the Netherlands, who had also been dead for a long while by the time of the 1624 settlement). Both of these individuals were associated with Protestantism and the Calvinist church, a tenuous historical connection at best with the 1624 landing, although a brochure noted they were ‘champions of the Huguenots.’ Debate raged concerning the appropriateness of these portraits withy the reasonable conclusion that they were irrelevant to the subject being commemorated. The reverse bore a depiction of the ship <i>Nieuq Nederland</i>. Morgan’s models were subject to approval and modification by James Earle Fraser, and this was done.<b>1</b> “<b>2</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>* </b>In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Countries" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Countries" rel="nofollow">Low Countries</a>, stadtholder (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language" rel="nofollow">Dutch</a>: stadhouder, Dutch pronunciation: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Dutch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Dutch" rel="nofollow">[ˈstɑtˌɦʌudər]</a>) was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward_(office)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward_(office)" rel="nofollow">office of steward</a>, designated a medieval official and then a national leader.</p><p><br /></p><p> The title was used for the official tasked with maintaining peace and provincial order in the early <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" rel="nofollow">Dutch Republic</a> and, at times, became de facto <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state" rel="nofollow">head of state</a> of the Dutch Republic during the 16th to 18th centuries, which was an effectively hereditary role. For the last half century of its existence, it became an officially hereditary role and thus a monarchy (though maintaining republican pretence) under Prince <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV,_Prince_of_Orange" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV,_Prince_of_Orange" rel="nofollow">William IV</a>. His son, Prince <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_V,_Prince_of_Orange" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_V,_Prince_of_Orange" rel="nofollow">William V</a>, was the last stadtholder of the republic, whose own son, King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_of_the_Netherlands" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_of_the_Netherlands" rel="nofollow">William I</a>, became the first king of the Netherlands. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_monarchy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_monarchy" rel="nofollow">Dutch monarchy</a> is only distantly related to the first stadtholder of the young Republic, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Silent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Silent" rel="nofollow">William of Orange</a>, the leader of the successful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Revolt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Revolt" rel="nofollow">Dutch Revolt</a> against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire" rel="nofollow">Spanish Empire</a>, his line having died out with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England" rel="nofollow">William III</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p> The title stadtholder is roughly comparable to England's historic title <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant" rel="nofollow">Lord Lieutenant</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1. </b>See Taxay pp. 70-73, pages which also reprint an interesting letter from Fraser to Congressman Vestal, telling of the Mint’s hostile posture toward outside artists.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2 </b><i>Commemorative Coins of the United States; A Complete Encyclopedia</i>, Q. David Bowers. Published by Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., Box 1224, Wolfeboro, NH 03894, 1991, pp. 174.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1022509[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>From a book in my Numismatic Library.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="leeg, post: 3869030, member: 17073"]In February thru April, 1924, 142,080 pieces were coined at the Philadelphia Mint with 80 pieces reserved for annual assay and 87,000 sold for a $1 each to the public. A quantity of 55,000 pieces went back to the Treasury Department, which placed the coins into circulation.[B]3[/B] Designed by George T. Morgan chief engraver of the mint, used designs suggested by Dr. John Baer Stoudt. Distributed by The National Huguenot-Walloon New Netherland Commission, Inc., Rev. John Baer Stoudt, director. Associated with the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. [B]3.[/B] Cf. p. 29 of [I]Coinage of Commemorative 50-cent pieces[/I] (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936) and a letter from Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon to Hon. Randolph Perkins, chairman of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, January 31, 1930, which states that 55,000 were returned to the mint and then placed into circulation. “[B]. . .[/B] In 1924, from May 17 through 22, Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary celebrations were held in New York City. Among the activities paid for, at least in part, from the profit derived from the sale of the commemorative coins was the dedication of the National Huguenot Memorial Church at Huguenot Park, Staten Island, on the afternoon of May 18th[B]. . .[/B] Admiral Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572; who died 52 years before the settlement in question!) and William the Silent (1533-1584; first [B]*stadtholder [/B]of the Netherlands, who had also been dead for a long while by the time of the 1624 settlement). Both of these individuals were associated with Protestantism and the Calvinist church, a tenuous historical connection at best with the 1624 landing, although a brochure noted they were ‘champions of the Huguenots.’ Debate raged concerning the appropriateness of these portraits withy the reasonable conclusion that they were irrelevant to the subject being commemorated. The reverse bore a depiction of the ship [I]Nieuq Nederland[/I]. Morgan’s models were subject to approval and modification by James Earle Fraser, and this was done.[B]1[/B] “[B]2[/B] [B]* [/B]In the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Countries']Low Countries[/URL], stadtholder ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language']Dutch[/URL]: stadhouder, Dutch pronunciation: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Dutch'][ˈstɑtˌɦʌudər][/URL]) was an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward_(office)']office of steward[/URL], designated a medieval official and then a national leader. The title was used for the official tasked with maintaining peace and provincial order in the early [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic']Dutch Republic[/URL] and, at times, became de facto [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state']head of state[/URL] of the Dutch Republic during the 16th to 18th centuries, which was an effectively hereditary role. For the last half century of its existence, it became an officially hereditary role and thus a monarchy (though maintaining republican pretence) under Prince [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV,_Prince_of_Orange']William IV[/URL]. His son, Prince [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_V,_Prince_of_Orange']William V[/URL], was the last stadtholder of the republic, whose own son, King [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_of_the_Netherlands']William I[/URL], became the first king of the Netherlands. The [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_monarchy']Dutch monarchy[/URL] is only distantly related to the first stadtholder of the young Republic, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Silent']William of Orange[/URL], the leader of the successful [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Revolt']Dutch Revolt[/URL] against the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire']Spanish Empire[/URL], his line having died out with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England']William III[/URL]. The title stadtholder is roughly comparable to England's historic title [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant']Lord Lieutenant[/URL]. [B]1. [/B]See Taxay pp. 70-73, pages which also reprint an interesting letter from Fraser to Congressman Vestal, telling of the Mint’s hostile posture toward outside artists. [B]2 [/B][I]Commemorative Coins of the United States; A Complete Encyclopedia[/I], Q. David Bowers. Published by Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., Box 1224, Wolfeboro, NH 03894, 1991, pp. 174. [ATTACH=full]1022509[/ATTACH] From a book in my Numismatic Library.[/QUOTE]
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