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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1247287, member: 19423&quot;]I think the most interesting part of the Stone Mountain Half Dollar coin is that Congress wouldn&#039;t initially approve a commemorative coin which would basically honor the Confederacy and the soldiers of the South.&nbsp; In order to get Congress to pass the bill authorizing the coin, the bill had to be amended so that the coin would also honor the recently late President Harding who died in office in 1924.&nbsp; Since no one in Congress wanted to be against honoring the late President, the bill was passed.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin would now somehow have to honor both Harding and the soldiers of the South.&nbsp; Accordingly, the original designs of the coin were basically the same as the final design, but also had the inscription &quot;and in memory of Warren G. Harding&quot; on the reverse.&nbsp; When President Coolidge saw the design, he disapproved of the reference to Harding (even though the law mandated it) and the reference was removed before the design was finalized and struck.&nbsp; That itself is quite ironic since Coolidge himself was actually on the obverse of the Sesquicentennial commemorative coin which was released the following year (which was also illegal since it wasn&#039;t legal to portray a living person an a US coin at the time).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are pics of both my Stone Mountain and my Sesquicentennial coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/stonemtnobv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/stonemtnrev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1926sesqiobv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1926sesqirev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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