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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;leeg, post: 3510916, member: 17073&quot;]<b>1914</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; “Senator S. Thomas, of Colorado, an advocate of free silver, on July 28, offered a bill for the unlimited coinage of twenty-five cent pieces during the year 1915 to commemorate the opening of the Panama Pacific Exposition and the centenary of peace between English speaking peoples. The bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare designs for such coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; A similar bill was introduced recently by Senator Root, except that Mr. Root’s bill did not provide for unlimited coinage at the ratio of 20 to 1. – <i>N.Y. Herald</i>.”<b>4</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>4<i>The Numismatist</i>, To Coin Commemorative 25-Cent Pieces, September, 1914, p. 451.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1922</b></p><p><br /></p><p>“Editorial Comment – Numismatic News</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The daily press of the country carried a dispatch from Washington about September 10 to the effect that the Senate had passed a bill introduced by Senator Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, authorizing the coinage of 100,000 half dollars commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes at Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1922.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>The Numismatist</i>, No Hayes Commemorative Half Dollars to be issued, October 1922, pg. 508-509.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1925</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; “It appears that bills for other proposed issues of commemorative coins failed of passage. Press reports state that proposed issues for the following celebrations were not successful:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; One hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; One hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the town of Stoughton, Mass.”</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>The Numismatist,</i> New United States Commemorative Coins. April, 1925, p. 145.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1926</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; “Miss O’REILLY (US Mint). Those that are pending are the Bunker Hill, the Yorktown, the Stoughton, California, the Vancouver, the Bennington, which is before us. The Bunker Hill is before the Library Committee, I think; tied up to that is the authorization for a celebration of some kind, the coinage is merely tacked on.”</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>The Numismatist</i>, Commemorative half dollars pending, June 1926, p. 385.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1929</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; &quot;Announcement is made that collectors will probably be able to add this year another half dollar to the extensive list of commemoratives now in their cabinets. The coin will be known as the Gadsden Purchase half dollar and will commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of that event.</p><p><br /></p><p>The information comes to us from L.W. Hoffecker, of El Paso, Texas, a member of the ANA, and Chairman of the Gadsden Purchase Commission, who designed the coin and will have charge of its sale.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Commems%20Proposed%20but%20Failed/Gadsden%20Purchase.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>The Gadsden Purchase (shown in yellow with present-day state boundaries and cities) Northeastern boundary was the disputed U.S.-Mexico boundary; line shown is the unratified Bartlett-Conde compromise proposal which was preempted by the Gadsden Purchase.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>The Numismatist</i>, Gadsden Purchase Half Dollar, Editorial by Frank Duffield. April 1929, pg. 236-237.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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