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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 972093, member: 66&quot;]Well it was issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of an event that never occurred&nbsp; (Cincinnati did have a music festival, but it&#039;s fifty year anniversary&nbsp; was 13 years earlier and since it was only held in odd numbered years there wasn&#039;t even a festival in 1936.).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was issued on behalf of the Cincinnati Musical Center, an organization that did not exist, or rather existed on paper only and was created for the sole purpose of selling the half dollars.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It pictures Steven Foster &quot;America&#039;s Troubadour&quot;, but Foster&#039;s only connection to the city was he worked there as a bookkeeper for two years and left long before he began writing music.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was sold by reservation, no more than one set per person, unless you happened to have friends on the committee in which case you could get many more reservation slips (See The Walter P Nichols Files by Q David Bowers.)&nbsp; The sets were priced at $7.75 each, much higher than any other set had been sold for.&nbsp; But all the reservations were returned because the issue was &quot;oversubscribed&quot;.&nbsp; However members of the commission did just happen to have some sets that could be had for $45 a set, later $75 a set.&nbsp; The only people who managed to get any sets for $7.75 were those people who had friends on the committee.&nbsp; The people who were given multiple &quot;one per person reservation slips&quot;.&nbsp; Every one else paid through the nose and the committee members kept the money (after paying the government fifty cents apiece for the coins.)&nbsp; After all there was no organization to pay the profits to.&nbsp; This coin was issued solely to enrich a small handful of Cincinnati coin collectors and dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>(How do I get rid of my memory?&nbsp; I could use the sex, and just how far behind is it?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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