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<p>[QUOTE="leeg, post: 4024776, member: 17073"]I like it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some history on the Texas Commem:</p><p><br /></p><p>304,000 coined, 154,522 melted leaving 149,478 sold. Designed and modeled by Pompeo Coppini. The 1934-37 coins were distributed by the American Legion Texas Centennial Committee, A. Garland Adair, Chairman. The 1938 issue was distributed by the Texas Memorial Museum Centennial Coin Campaign, Buford H. Jester, chairman. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1058291[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Dallas Exposition Centennial Aerial View. Courtesy of <i>Texas Centennial in 1936</i>, it’s your State, it’s your Celebration by Wallace Owen Chariton.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Design:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> A large eagle superimposed on a large five-pointed star, below 1934; to the lower left E. PLURIBUS UNUM; upper right, IN GOD WE TRUST; around border, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HALF DOLLAR.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Seated female figure with drapery and outstretched wings, her left arm thrown protectingly over a miniature representation of the Alamo. Above her head, on a scroll ”Liberty” and the flags of France, Spain and Mexico; at left, medallion portrait of Sam Houston; at right, medallion portrait of Stephen F. Austin; lower right field, 1836-1936; around top border, THE TEXAS INDEPENDENCE CENTENNIAL, bottom REMEMBER THE ALAMO. Coppini signature near the L in CENTENNIAL.</p><p><br /></p><p> “AUSTIN, Tex., Feb 20–(AP)–The questions most frequently asked in communications to the office of the American Legion Texas Centennial committee, are: ‘What about a Texas Centennial exposition in 1936? Is there going to be one?’</p><p><br /></p><p> One citizen recently suggested that if something was not done about it soon ‘we should go in with Arkansas’ and join the people of that state in their centennial exposition. Arkansas’ 100th birthday into the Union will occur in 1936.</p><p><br /></p><p> The American Legion Texas Centennial Committee has constantly given out the information that Texas Legionnaires were primarily interested in the construction by 1936 of a memorial museum devoted to history and to natural history, and appropriately marking all Texas battlefields.</p><p><br /></p><p> The museum, when built, equipped and furnished from the sale of 1,500,000 Texas Centennial silver 50-cent pieces to be minted by the federal government, will be given to the people of Texas. It will be built on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.</p><p><br /></p><p> The half dollars will be sold at $1 each, netting $750,000 for the museum. The Centennial sales are the only means of revenue the committee now has with which to conduct its program, pay for the dies, assure an available fund for shipping the coins when minted, placard the state with centennial posters, conduct essay contests in Texas schools, send out publicity to the 10,000 Legion posts of the U. S. regarding the endeavor and pay for many other things that must be done between now and 1936.</p><p><br /></p><p> The committee contemplates calling together within a few weeks members of all existing centennial commissions and committees in order that the Legion’s program may be explained and an opportunity given to work out a unified, coordinated exposition program.</p><p><br /></p><p> A demand for coins has already begun. Col. E. H. R. Green, formerly of Texas, now of New York, has written that he wanted a large supply of the coins. The Texas Society of Chicago has also given notice of its desire to cooperate.”<b>5</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>5 <i>The Laredo (Tx.) Times</i>, Centennial Is Target For Questions, Tuesday, February 20, 1934.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="leeg, post: 4024776, member: 17073"]I like it. :D Some history on the Texas Commem: 304,000 coined, 154,522 melted leaving 149,478 sold. Designed and modeled by Pompeo Coppini. The 1934-37 coins were distributed by the American Legion Texas Centennial Committee, A. Garland Adair, Chairman. The 1938 issue was distributed by the Texas Memorial Museum Centennial Coin Campaign, Buford H. Jester, chairman.[B] [/B] [ATTACH=full]1058291[/ATTACH] [B]Dallas Exposition Centennial Aerial View. Courtesy of [I]Texas Centennial in 1936[/I], it’s your State, it’s your Celebration by Wallace Owen Chariton.[/B] [B]Design:[/B] [B]Obverse:[/B] A large eagle superimposed on a large five-pointed star, below 1934; to the lower left E. PLURIBUS UNUM; upper right, IN GOD WE TRUST; around border, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HALF DOLLAR. [B]Reverse:[/B] Seated female figure with drapery and outstretched wings, her left arm thrown protectingly over a miniature representation of the Alamo. Above her head, on a scroll ”Liberty” and the flags of France, Spain and Mexico; at left, medallion portrait of Sam Houston; at right, medallion portrait of Stephen F. Austin; lower right field, 1836-1936; around top border, THE TEXAS INDEPENDENCE CENTENNIAL, bottom REMEMBER THE ALAMO. Coppini signature near the L in CENTENNIAL. “AUSTIN, Tex., Feb 20–(AP)–The questions most frequently asked in communications to the office of the American Legion Texas Centennial committee, are: ‘What about a Texas Centennial exposition in 1936? Is there going to be one?’ One citizen recently suggested that if something was not done about it soon ‘we should go in with Arkansas’ and join the people of that state in their centennial exposition. Arkansas’ 100th birthday into the Union will occur in 1936. The American Legion Texas Centennial Committee has constantly given out the information that Texas Legionnaires were primarily interested in the construction by 1936 of a memorial museum devoted to history and to natural history, and appropriately marking all Texas battlefields. The museum, when built, equipped and furnished from the sale of 1,500,000 Texas Centennial silver 50-cent pieces to be minted by the federal government, will be given to the people of Texas. It will be built on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The half dollars will be sold at $1 each, netting $750,000 for the museum. The Centennial sales are the only means of revenue the committee now has with which to conduct its program, pay for the dies, assure an available fund for shipping the coins when minted, placard the state with centennial posters, conduct essay contests in Texas schools, send out publicity to the 10,000 Legion posts of the U. S. regarding the endeavor and pay for many other things that must be done between now and 1936. The committee contemplates calling together within a few weeks members of all existing centennial commissions and committees in order that the Legion’s program may be explained and an opportunity given to work out a unified, coordinated exposition program. A demand for coins has already begun. Col. E. H. R. Green, formerly of Texas, now of New York, has written that he wanted a large supply of the coins. The Texas Society of Chicago has also given notice of its desire to cooperate.”[B]5[/B] [B]5 [I]The Laredo (Tx.) Times[/I], Centennial Is Target For Questions, Tuesday, February 20, 1934.[/B][/QUOTE]
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