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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;touchekidd, post: 229409, member: 4220&quot;]I have been collecting coins for a few years...and as far as the release of commemorative coins, I am not sure, but I do not remember seeing APR releases on such coins....maybe it happens all the time, but I just can&#039;t remember.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today there was a APR release for the Little Rock Dollar.&nbsp; &nbsp; Does anyone know how they going so far and will this article turbo boost its sales?</p><p><br /></p><p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Fifty years ago, nine black students faced down a mob to integrate Little Rock Central High School. Now, they are being honored on a commemorative silver coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The U.S. Mint was to unveil the coin Saturday at the NAACP&#039;s Daisy Bates Education Summit, which pays tribute to the Arkansas NAACP leader who served as adviser to the Little Rock Nine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Six of the nine planned to attend a discussion with current Central High students at the summit, which began Thursday and ends Saturday.</p><p><br /></p><p>Integration at Central High in 1957 was the first major test of the Supreme Court&#039;s ruling, three years earlier, against racial discrimination in public schools.</p><p><br /></p><p>President Eisenhower dispatched the 101st Airborne to enforce the court order after Gov. Orval Faubus tried to prevent black students from enrolling at the school.</p><p><br /></p><p>One side of the $1 coin depicts a group of students being escorted by a soldier. It features the phrase &quot;Desegregation in Education&quot; and contains nine stars. The other side depicts Central High as it looked in 1957.</p><p><br /></p><p>Little Rock plans to mark the 50th anniversary of the integration in September with a series of events, including the dedication of a new Central High School Historic Site visitor center.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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